Favourites Movies in 2006, 25 Most Memorable Performances and Quotes
Top 20 FAVOURITE Movies in 2006 ( in order of preference )
20. Good Night, and Good Luck.
19. Match Point
18. Walk the Line
17. North Country
16. In Her Shoes
15. The Departed
14. Jarhead
13. Blood Diamond
12. Superman Returns
11. Memoirs Of A Geisha
10. The Queen
9. Munich
8. The Da Vinci Code
7. The Prestige
6. An Inconvenient Truth
5. Cars
4. Transamerica
3. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
2. The Nativity Story
1. Little Miss Sunshine
Screening on Monday, January 01, 2007
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25 Most Memorable Lines in 2006 ( not in order of preference)
(lifted from us.imdb.com)
1. In Her Shoes
Maggie Feller: The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem... f... filled... with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. Even losing you... the joking voice, a gesture I love... I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not.too hard to master though'it may look like... Write it!... like disaster.
2. Match Point
Christopher "Chris" Wilton: The man who said "I'd rather be lucky than good" saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a litte luck, it goes forward, and you win. Or maybe it doesn't, and you lose.
3. North Country
Bill White: What are you supposed to do when the ones with all the power are hurting those with none? Well for starters, you stand up. Stand up and tell the truth. You stand up for your friends. You stand up even when you're all alone. You stand up.
4. Jarhead
Anthony 'Swoff' Swofford: Suggestive techniques for the marine to use in the avoidance of boredom and loneliness. Masturbation. Re-reading of letters from unfaithful wives and girlfriends. Cleaning your rifle. Further masturbation. Re-wiring Walkman. Arguing about religion and meaning of life. Discussing in detail, every women the marine has ever fucked. Debating differences, such as Cupban VS Mexican, Harleys VS Hondas, left VS right-handed masturbation. Further cleaning of rifle. Studying the mail order bride catalogue. Further masturbation. Planning a marine's first meal on return home. Imagining what a marine's girlfriend and her man Joey are doing in the alley or in a hotel bed.
5. Brokeback Mountain
Jack Twist: Tell you what, we coulda had a good life together! Fuckin' real good life! Had us a place of our own. But you didn't want it, Ennis! So what we got now is Brokeback Mountain! Everything's built on that! That's all we got, boy, fuckin' all. So I hope you know that, even if you don't never know the rest! You count the damn few times we have been together in nearly twenty years and you measure the short fucking leash you keep me on - and then you ask me about Mexico and tell me you'll kill me for needing somethin' I don't hardly never get. You have no idea how bad it gets! I'm not you... I can't make it on a coupla high-altitude fucks once or twice a year! You are too much for me Ennis, you sonofawhoreson bitch! I wish I knew how to quit you.
6. Munich
Golda Meir: Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
7. Transamerica
Bree Osbourne: My body may be a work-in-progress, but there is nothing wrong with my soul.
8. Capote
Truman Capote: It's as if Perry and I grew up in the same house. And one day he went out the back door and I went out the front.
9. Good Night, and Good Luck.
Edward R. Murrow: To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. Good night, and good luck.
10. The Da Vinci Code
Robert Langdon: What really matters is what you believe.
11. Superman Returns
Jimmy Olsen: Look up in the sky, see?
[Points at a small figure of Superman in the picture]
Lois Lane: It's a bird
Perry White: It's a plane
Jimmy Olsen: No, it's...
[Is interrupted by the entrance of Clark]
Clark Kent: You wanted to see me?
12. Little Miss Sunshine
Grandpa: Losers are people who are so afraid of not winning, they don't even try.
13. Little Miss Sunshine
Dwayne: You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and ffck the rest
14. Little Miss Sunshine
Olive: Grandpa, am I pretty?
Grandpa: You are the most beautiful girl in the world.
Olive: You're just saying that.
Grandpa: No! I'm madly in love with you and it's not because of your brains or your personality.
15. Little Miss Sunshine
Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all of this, high school, everything.
Frank: [explains about how Proust believed your suffering makes you who you are] So if you go to sleep until you're 18...? Think of all the suffering you're gonna miss! High school's your prime suffering years! You don't get better suffering than that!
16. Hustle & Flow
Shug: I get like this because I'm pregnant and everything... but, you know, letting me sing on the... on the demo and everything like you do... well, it just... it made me feel real. Real special. And... I mean, I know y'all gonna be moving on and moving up... and y'all gonna get real good people to sing, you know, back up for you and everything... but I just... D, I need you to know it meant the world to me.
17. Hustle & Flow
DJay: See... man ain't like a dog. And when I say "man," I'm talking about man as in mankind, not man as in men. Because men, well, we a lot like a dog. You know, we like to piss on things. Sniff a bitch when we can. Even get a little pink hard-on the way they do. We territorial as shit, you know, we gonna protect our own. But man, he know about death. Got him a sense of history. Got religion. See... a dog, man, a dog don't know shit about no birthdays or Christmas or Easter bunny, none of that shit. And one day God gonna come calling, so you know, they going through life carefree. But people like you and me, man, we always guessing. Wondering, "What if?" You know what I mean? So when you say to me, "Hey, I don't think we should be doing this," I gotta say, baby, I don't think we should be doing this neither, but we ain't gonna get no move on in this world, lying around in the sun, licking our ass all day. I mean, we man. I mean, you a woman and all, but we man. So with this said, you tell me what it is you wanna do with your life.
18. An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore: [quoting Upton Sinclair] "You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it."
19. An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore: [quoting Mark Twain] "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
20. The Prestige
Cutter: Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first act is called "The Pledge"; The magician shows you something ordinary, but of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn"; The magician makes his ordinary some thing do something extraordinary. Now if you're looking for the secret... you won't find it, that's why there's a third act called, "The Prestige"; this is the part with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before.
21. Casino Royale
Bartender: Shaken or stirred?
James Bond: Do I look like I give a damn?
22. Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley: I finally came to the conclusion that he maybe he was right maybe there are no such things as heroes maybe there are just people like my dad, I finally came to understand why they were so uncomfortable being called heroes. Heroes are something we create, something we need. It's a way for us to understand what is almost incomprehensible, how people could sacrifice so much for us, but for my dad and these men the risks they took, the wounds they suffered, they did that for their buddies, they may have fought for there country but they died for there friends. For the man in front for the man beside him, and if we wish to truly honor these men we should remember them the way they really were the way my dad remembered them.
23. Stranger than Fiction
Kay Eiffel: [narrating] Little did he know it would lead to his imminent death.
Harold Crick: What? Why?
24. Stranger than Fiction
Therapist: You have a voice speaking to you.
Harold Crick: About me. Accurately... and with a better vocabulary.
25. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Borat: [singing the Kazakhi national anthem to the tune of the American national anthem] Kazakstan, greatest country in the world/all other countries are run by little girls/Kazakhstan is number-one exporter of potassium/Other Central Asian countries have inferior potassium/Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world/all other countries is run by the gays...
Monday, January 01, 2007 12:13:00 AM
1.Gong Li(Memoirs of a Geisha)
2.Zhang Ziyi(Memoirs of a Geisha)
3.Cameron Diaz(In Her Shoes)
4.Frances McDormand(North Country)
5.Heath Ledger(Brokeback Mountain)
6.Michelle Williams(Brokeback Mountain)
7.Reese Witherspoon(Walk the Line)
8.Joaquin Phoenix(Walk the Line)
9.Felicity Huffman(Transamerica)
10.Philip Seymour Hoffman(Capote)
11.David Strathairn(Good Night, and Good Luck.)
12.Ken Takakura(Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles)
13.Brandon Routh(Superman Returns)
14.Paul Dano(Little Miss Sunshine)
15.Abigail Breslin(Little Miss Sunshine)
16.Taraji P. Henson(Hustle & Flow)
17. Emily Blunt(My Summer of Love)
18.Leonardo DiCaprio(The Departed)
19.Jack Nicholson(The Departed)
20.Daniel Craig(Casino Royale)
21.Adam Beach(Flags of Our Fathers)
22.Ng King-to (After This Our Exile)
23.Chow Yun-Fat(Curse of the Golden Flower)
24.Sacha Baron Cohen(Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)
25.Helen Mirren(The Queen)
Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:12:00 AM
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