Cheers on the mention of "Crash".  Excellent film, excellent screenplay.  Should get a nod for at least 'best original' come oscar noms.  Otherwise, I have a hard time recalling notable films of this year.  

One of my definite faves was indie "Me and You and Everyone We Know".  I'm dying for Miranda July to do a follow up film.  I'm a huge fan of hers.  While not at all inclined to see it whatsoever, I got the "War of the Worlds" DVD for free and decided to take a look.  I'm truly surprised I made it all the way through because between that and "Volcano", I would take another showing of "Volcano" any day.  I thought "Red Eye" was terrible.  "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was great and so was "Charlie".  Very amusing.  "Walk the Line" was also excellent.

I'm looking forward to Woody Allen's new one.  "Match Point".

My Top 5:

1. King Kong
2. Star Wars Epidsode III:  Revenge of the Sith
3. Munich
4. Domino
5. Doom & Batman Begins

My Worst 5:

1. Son of the Mask & In the Mix
2. Alone in the Dark
3. Dukes of Hazzard
4. Get Rich or Die Tryin'
5. Wolf Creek

Honorable Mention (No particular order):

Crash
Walk the Line
Four Brothers
The 40 Year Old Virgin
War of the Worlds
Hustle and Flow
Assault on Precinct 13

King Kong was a masterpeice. It can be the best movie of all time compared to the recent flicks in 2005.

Best
1) King Kong - All That a Movie Watcher would want.
2) House Of Wax - Best Horror Movie of 2005
3) Sin City
4) Fantastic 4
5) Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Worse
1) Cry_Wolf - I would put in the top 5 if it was stated as a psychological thriller
2) Cursed - you can not put blood and gore in PG-13. It's like saying American Pie is PG.
3) American Pie Presents Band Camp - worse end to the franchise.
4) Boogeyman - not may favorite.
5) Desperate Souls - never heard of because it was straight-to-video.

I watch a new movie just about every day (how sad am I?) So I will list the top ten best, ten worst, and some letdowns and honorable mentions.

TOP TEN
10. Cry_Wolf - Yes, although most people hated it, I liked it for what it was. A good "slasher" flick where no one just runs off and gets high and screws for no reason. I also like the characters.

9. The Skeleton Key - I enjoyed this because it was an original take of the Louisanna Voodoo which Ive seen so much. Good twist also.

8. The Amityville Horror - I know, I know, boo! Remake! I enjoyed this more than the original. Some parts even scared me.

7. Saw II - I was a HUGE fan of Saw. I thought it was very clever and jept me guessing. I was excited to see SII. When I went in, I expected it to be predictable and un original. I'll admit I saw 1 twist coming, but I still loved it and cant wait for Saw III (yes, I looked it up )

6. The 40 Year old Virgin - I liked this one mostly because 70% of comedies these days are PG-13 and the jokes are limited. This didnt hold back and wasnt afraid to be sexually explicit while maintaining humor. American Pie (I think) Lost its humor in the quest for sex so I was pleased (No pun intended) to see this R rated comedy.

5. Crash - This movie actually made me cry. It was so sad and it had a way to make you like all of the characters (something many movies lack these days).

4. Cursed (Unrated) - I liked this because it was an intresting take on the Warewolf film. I liked the "keep you guessing" ending. Movies like that always rank high on my list.

3. The Upside of Anger - This was a good movie although it came in quietly. It was a drama about an angry alcholic mother who's husband left her and she deals by drinking with a guy (Kevin Costner). It reminded me alot of my life (how dramatic).

2. Mind Hunters - This reminded me of Saw but was in no way a cheap copy of it. It was a very good psycological (sp?) thriller. It kept me guessing and did its job with entertainment.

1. Sin City - I can't say for sure what made this the best movie. It is one of those things I cant pin point but whatever it is, it works in all of Quentin Tarentinos other films he directed gimself/co-directed.

THE WORST
10. Christmas With the Cranks - This movie lacked in laughs and over all was just a boring, predictable movie.

9. Fantastic Four - I kind of like it when I first saw it but if it didnt have "certin people" in it I never would have given it the 2 hrs. of my life.

8. Seed Of Chucky - I know it was a cheep slasher but I enjoyed all the other Chucky Films alot and expected so much from this, only to find it was Simply Crap. (bad pun intended)

7. Boogeyman - It was just stupid. Stupid plot, actors, ending... all stupid.

6. Elektra - This movie was just boring.

5. Alone In The Dark - The fact that it needed to explain stuff before the film started was am immediate turn off. It went down hill from there.

4. The Fog - This was really dumb. I cant put my finger on it but it was unbareable. I go a refund when I walked out in the middle of it.

3. The Exorcism Of Emily Rose - You CAN NOT have a good Exorcism film on a PG-13 rating. The posessed will cuss and kill and do wierd things PG-13 wont allow. Yeah... no.

2. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - This was just... undescribably bad. Johnny Depp did good at playing a freak... old news. Over all it was dissapointing. Bad musical parts. The Oompa Loompas werent... it.

1. DOOM - Believe me, I like mindless action films (I am obsessed with Resident Evil films and games) but this was dumb. The Rock and the only guy that survived, the one with the sister, were the only good actors (I thought). The ending was a little surprising but not much. Dont see this movie unless you want to die... of boredom.

Dissapointments :
The Devils Rejects - I loved House of 1000 Corpses! It was number one in my mind for '03. This dissapointed me. It made the Fireflys seem human. I liked in House when they seemed like they were evil enough to rule the world. This movie just didnt create that Firefly fear I liked so much.

White Noise - I expected so much more from this. It just wasnt as good as I though it would be.

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events - I am obsessed with the books. I have the entire series and have read them over and over again. The movie had all the events of the first three (they are kinda short) into one film. Jim Carrey isnt a good Count Olaf. Count Olaf is supposed to be evil, I think of Jim Carrey as funny. Just didnt click well. Also, It was more like a cliffs notes of the first three. You really have to read the first three books the get the full effect.

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire - Same as above. It was so long it was more of a cliffs notes for Harry Potter 4. If you havent read the books you would be confused much of the time.

Honorable Mention:

Darkness(Unrated) - One of the freakist films ive ever seen. Mostly because of the sacraficing of children. Wierd but good.

Into The Blue - Well, the film sucked...

The Jacket - A good thriller. It's a bit of a mind fuck.

Family Guy Present: Stewie Griffin Story - This was a funny movie, but the plot kep changing. It was this reason it didnt make my top ten best.

Thats about it!

Quoted from Old Time Wesley I think they spent too much time in that T Rex fight especially after they fall off the cliff and they add in the comedy bit with Kong playing with its mouth after he's ripped its jaw apart. It seems that he's been on his own long enough that he'd have done this before and yet he does it for us and people in the theatre laughed.

Just caught up to this comment. the reason, I believe, that Kong plays with the jaw of the downed T-Rex in this film is primarily because he does it in the original. Jackson was all about homage to the original 1933 film when he made this movie, and if he could keep a move, he kept it. The sequence in the 33 was one on one, but for 1933, it was really good. They even knocked Fay Wray out of her tree. ok, so a little off topic, but Wes started it.

Maybe because he knew those creatures he did it to be sure it couldn't bite him in the arse when they have a chance.

best
1. Munich Blew my expectations away and made me remember why speilberg is one of the best in the business.
2. Capote
I was really suprised by this one. I believe that phillip seymor hoffman will get an oscar for this one.
3. Good Night and Good luck
The story of how edward murrow and cbs took on senator mccarthy and won came at perfect timing in a day when the media has forgotten it's job at times.
4. Sin City
Don't need to say anything else
5. Layer Cake
Layer Cake is a gem within the ranks of the british crime movies and within the ranks of all gangster flicks.

worst
1. Cry wolf
My buddy who was high at the time predicted the ending.
2. History of violence
everybody in the theater was laughing AT how bad it was. i thought it was boring, predictable, and a very unintelligant look at how people lie. This movie was a mess and introduced characters too late, made me feel no sympathy for viggo's character. Excessive comic violence which did not help the movie's attempt to creating a realistic pyschology thriller made this a stinker.
For the rest I could name countless movies hollywood made this year.

Notable mentions go to king kong and war of the worlds which blew my mind. But they cannot be enjoyed on the small screen. Squid and the whale was also a good film.
3.

o yea wedding crashers and 40 year old virgin are worth mentioning there

Honorable mention:

I forgot to mention THE ISLAND. Very underrated.

I don't see a whole lot of movies above the rating of PG-13, so my list is limited. But here are my top few:

1) King Kong - This movie was an awesome movie. It had awesome story, flawless actors, amazing effects. It's not your sit down and watch at night kind of movie though (when it comes out to DVD.)

2) Chronicles of Narnia - I'm not sure why no one has posted anything about this movie. Anyway, I thought it was an awesome adaption. I love the books, as I did the Lord of the Rings. And I thought that this adaption was just as awesome as that.

3) Batman Begins - I used to be a batman fan back before "Batman and Robin" and "Batman Forever" but when those two came out, it was all kind of boring and stupid. Anyway, this on has sparked the fandom I guess of batman for me. I hope the next ones are just as good.

4) Serinity - This movie didn't do to well because of no advertising, but I thought this was an awesome, original, pure entertainment film. This was a great "Director Debut" film.

5) Revenge of the Sith - I think I like the original trilogy better than this trilogy. This movie had super bad dialog in it, acting wasn't as good as it should have been. Over all, this movie got in this list because I'm a Star Wars fan. Not a watch it more than once film, though.

WORST:

1) Lemony Snickets - I love the books. But this movie was just bad.

2) 40 year old virgin - I can't stand sex based films. It's not real comedy.

3) Harry Potter 4 - I hated this movie, not because I hate the Harry Potter series, but because like the person said above, it was more like cliff notes. They could have adapted it a lot better. I wonder how the next ones going to do, it's longer than this one.

4) Robot's - This movie had a basic storyline, good animation, but over all, this movie was on of the worst animated movies ever made.

5) Because of Winn-Dixie - Wow...umm...boring. I had to watch this one night with my family. What a waste of time.

There were only a few good films in my eyes that came out this past year. I hope some better ones come out this year.

BEST
1. Munich
Finnally a Speilebrg film that three year olds wont be watching.
2. SHaun of The Dead
Was this in 2005?
3. Hostel
Torture season!
4.Saw 2
Another horror that pushes the boundaries.
5. Wedding Crashers
Noyt unlike 40 Year Old Vorgin.

Worst
Now this is the easiest part....
1. Garfiled; The MOvie
Ugh
2Cnat think of anymore.