I know I did a quick thank you earlier for Solstice/Cephalopodmas gifts, but I feel I should be a little more specific. Thanks to Gordon Duke (
So, as this is the final day of the year, I feel obligated to do some sort of "in review" list. At breakfast, Spooky and I sat trying to think of good things about 2005, and it was almost impossible. From where I stand, this year is best forgotten entirely. Too much misfortune and evil rests between its first day and its last, and it should be sealed in lead and shot into the sun. It should be struck from off the calendars, so that history proceeds from 2004 directly to 2006. Well, okay, there were some good movies. I'll list those. My favourite movies of 2005, which is not to say these are in some objective sense the "best" movies of the year. It's just that I loved them, and they should be commended for helping to bring the slimmest silver lining to an otherwise reprehensible year:
1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. The War of the Worlds
3. King Kong
4. MirrorMask
5. Memoirs of a Geisha
6. Serenity
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
It's a short list, and in no particular order, but there you go. Seven films that made me smile during a year with very damn few smiles. Perhaps 2006 will be better, and I hope with ever stingy scrap of optimism I possess that it shall. I'm keeping all my digits crossed that Tropical Storm Zeta is not a taste of what's to come.
Okay. Cue music. Close curtain. Someone get the lights. Let's sweep this hateful bitch out the door.
Yeah, you. 2005. Go! Now! And don't come back!