(Note: this post was made pre-blog days on Facebook.)

I decided to post in a year in summary of my favourite flicks of this year. This in no way means that these were the best films, but rather the ones I enjoyed and had the most fun watching. Only theatrically viewed films qualify.

Fav' 10 Movies of 2006:
1. Children of Men
2. The Departed
3. The Prestige
4. The Hills Have Eyes
5. Slither (if you saw this in the theater, admit it, it was only you in there)
6. United 93
7. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
8. Little Miss Sunshine
9. Borat: Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
10. V for Vendetta

All Theatrical Releases I saw this year (I may have forgotten a few):
Slither, The Hills Have Eyes, Hostel, V for Vendetta, Superman Returns, POTC 2: Deadman's Chest, The Lady in the Water, Who Killed the Electric Car, An Inconvenient Truth, The Prestige, The Black Dahlia, Little Miss Sunshine, Saw 3, Borat: Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Departed, Miami Vice, Scary Movie 4, United 93, World Trade Center, X3: The Last Stand, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, The Proposition, The Fountain, Talladega Nights, Children of Men, Casino Royale

Looking forward to in 2007:
The 300, Spider-Man 3, Grind House, Transformers, TMNT, Stardust, Ghost Rider (please don't suck), Hostel 2, Bourne Ultimatum, The Simpsons: the Movie, POTC 3, 30 Days of Night

Categories: movies , top list

Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.