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This year we are going to 11! PK’s pick for 2005

Jan 18, 2010 Cool Stuff

Something I would like to mention before I start this post. If you are at an event in the coming weeks where folks are watching the NFL, please don’t complain about people watching football, ok? You don’t even have to pretend to like the game. Just tolerate the maniacs that live vicariously through genetically engineered, drug enhanced armored psychopaths let loose on a concrete field covered in industrial outdoor carpet and enjoy the food and booze. Thank you.
2005 was a really outstanding year in films that were both lauded with praise by critics and films that were cheered by fanboys.
  • SIN CITY: I actually had a nightmare the night after seeing this film about the creepy Hobbit in the glasses. Oh, yeah, Frank Miller, blah, blah, blah….
  • SERENITY: A Sci Fi Western that actually makes some sense! Wow! Well-thought out characters and a thorough mythology (better be considering it was a TV show) are usually a Whedon trademark and the film manages to be a great capping to the show and a great stand alone adventure. The Master of the Macabre himself, Bernie Wrightson, did character designs for the Reapers, so that is a huge thumb’s up in PK’s human skin bound grimoire of opinions.
  • 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN: Steve Carrell really is America’s sweetheart in this wonderfully executed comedy and Catherine Keener is quite charming as his love interest. ProbablyApatow’s best movie.
  • BATMAN BEGINS: Before last year, I would have said, “Best Bat-Movie EVER!”
  • THE DEVIL’S REJECTS: Okay, maybe Sherri Moon-Zombies voice just doesn’t bother me as much as some folks. I really have to give it to her husband on this film, though. It’s a really well-done turn on 70′s revenge thrillers with an amazing ensemble cast! Let’s give credit where credit is due, character acting legend Geoffrey Lewis is great in everything that he’s done and Priscilla Barnes performance is in my opinion, honestly, Oscar worthy. I was really rooting for WilliamForsythe, too!
  • GRIZZLY MAN: Well, if anybody knows crazy it’s Werner Herzog.
  • THE DESCENT: My good friend Damian Maffei said, “When I was sitting in the theater  watching that film, I felt what I think audiences did seeing JAWS in the theater for the first time.” That is a bold statement, but I do agree that Neil Marshall’s foray into what I like to call the “C.H.U.D.” genre is an instant classic! A Horror film where 4 ridiculously hot, and I mean amazingly fine, fine prime young ladies don’t take off their tops and I didn’t notice until Damian mentioned it afterwards?! That is impressive film-making people!
  • CAPOTE: I have mentioned certain actors that have taken on roles of historical figures as if they were their doppelgangers, Philip Seymour Hoffman makes you feel as if Truman Capote is in the room with you. Catherine Keener is wonderful as Harper Lee, author of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD*, as is Chris Cooper, who portrays Alvin Dewey, the investigator of the murders Capote made famous with his seminal work IN COLD BLOOD.
  • WALLACE & GROMIT: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: I was a scared!
  • THE ARISTOCRATS: “Then the dad wraps the guinea pig in duct-tape so it doesn’t explode when he…”
  • A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: Did you really need make-up to give Ed Harris an air of menace? Oh, William Hurt should have won Best Supporting Actor, too.
Boy, is this a GUILTY pleasure!
  • SANTA’S SLAY: For BellMojo’s CHRISTMAS AFTERMATH Burlesque & Music Fest Damian Maffei was asked to provide content for over 100 TV screens at the Pool House Billiards Hall & Pub. This little gem ended up in the pile and nether of us had seen it. In the middle of a RIDICULOUS set of Death Metal byKOROTORY, Damian taps me on the shoulder and points like the Ghost of Christmas Future to a TV screen showing James Caan, Fran Drescher, Rebecca Gayheart and Chris Kattan portraying a good Christian family at the Holiday table who are then brutally slaughtered by pro-wrestler Bill Goldberg in a Santa suit. It also has RobertCulp and he was Trent in DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND**
*If you have never seen this B&W classic for shame.
**Ditto!

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