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The mid point of the Noughties was when we said hello to YouTube, goodbye to Ronnie Barker, and hello again to The Doctor.
A few film picks I enjoyed from 2005, or grown on me since then:
Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
Corpse Bride (Mike Johnson, Tim Burton)
The Descent (Neil Marshall)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Hostel (Eli Roth)
House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
Land of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Lord of War (Andrew Niccol)
Sin City (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez)
S.P.I: Kill Zone (Wilson Yip)
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
Transporter 2 (Louis Letterier)
V for Vendetta (James McTeigue)
Wolf Creek (Gregg McLean)
Glaring Blindspots:
Noroi: The Curse (Kōji Shiraishi), A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon), Jarhead (Sam Mendes), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black), The Proposition (John Hilcoat).
Dada Debaser Notes:
- Critics list Michael Haneke's Caché as one of the greatest films from 2005 - and of the decade, for that matter. It's too insufferably middle class and uppity for me to ever watch again in one sitting and nowhere near as good as watching Paris Hilton's death in the House of Wax remake.
- Comic book movies were already oversaturated by this year; well before Disney's MCU came along. However, film adaptations of alternative comic books (History of Violence, Sin City [peak era Rosario Dawson and Jessica Alba!!!] and V for Vendetta) were a refreshing change and examples of not everything needing to be based on recognisable superheroes.
- The Servants' Cells would feature in both Sin City's trailer and in a scene from The Transporter 2. Fortunately, they're both of the instrumental version and not the one with the horrible singing.
- The passage of time has made me more accepting of Eli Roth's very early work. Additionally, film critic David Edelstein would first coin the term torture porn when referring to Hostel in a New York Magazine article the following year.
- Count me in as one of the few persons on the planet who thinks Land of the Dead is George A. Romero's last great film. Great soundtrack, too:
Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek - To Canada
Land of the Dead (OST) | 2005