Best movies of the year

[Steve Howland]

Originally Posted by team222badbrad

I did not vote on the best movie of the year yet, but the worst movie of the year is Life Aquatic w/ Steve Zissou.

It was a waste of time and money to see.

The cover looked cool when I rented it but, it was so boring and impossible to watch.

Anyone else agree?

I'm afraid I have to disagree - it's actually my favorite on that list. Granted, I only saw about 6 of those so I'm not really qualified to say that The Life Aquatic is the best movie on the list, but still I'll put up a small defense for it.

My friend owns the movie and convinced me and my other friend to watch it. About halfway through I was so bored that I fell asleep, while my other friends stayed awake. The next day they were quoting it left and right, even though we all agreed that watching the movie was a bit painful the first time around. So I watched it again in its entirety and found myself quoting it as well, all of the time in fact. The cast is great at producing its subtle humor throughout the movie so that while there are only a few laugh-out-loud moments in the movie, the same lines become extremely funny afterwords.

I agree that if I tried to watch it alone, I would turn it off and return it and be very frustrated. But if you watch it with friends and watch it all the way through, you may also find yourself using lines from the movie in everyday conversation.

Sin City and The Island were also very good but I must say that Life Aquatic is the one that I actually think of and significantly remember on a daily basis.