The Best and Worst Movies of 2006: #6

The Best Movies of 2006: #6

The Last Kiss



Story
When a group of friends hits their 30th birthdays, they realize life is not what they expected it to be and try to change. The Last Kiss is a film about coming-of-age, finding oneself, and the realities of life and love.

Merit
This film, like Braff's previous film Garden State, explores human emotion, no matter how dark. It follows a group of individuals, thus propelling the concepts further from different angles. The acting was superb, especially from veterans Blythe Danner and Tom Wilkinson, who experience their own "midlife crisis".

This film is not one for the faint of heart - it is rough, sometimes depressing, and emotionally unstable. The reason is managed to make my list is it is real, more real than the vast majority of films out today, and for that deserves its spot. Way to go, Zach! Keep making great films!

Possible Oscar Nominations
Best Original Score
Best Supporting Actor, Tom Wilkinson
Best Adapted Screenplay, Paul Haggis


The Worst Movies of 2006: #6

Scary Movie 4



Story
The main heroine of the Scary Movie films Cindy (played by Anna Faris) find that the house she lives in is haunted by a young boy. She ventures to find who killed him, why they killed him, and also stop the giant "Tr-iPods" that are destroying the world. The film parodies such horror films as The Grudge and Saw.

Fault
I have been a fan of previous Scary Movie films as they offer a humorous take on horror films and the acting is surprisingly hilarious, however this installment was not up-to-par with the others. Scary Movie 4 did not offer a complete storyline to follow, but rather a choppy "flashbacklike" series of events simply to mock as many films as possible. It was uncreative and was not thought out. I think Leslie Nielson's influence, since he took over the series after the second film from the Wayans, is detrimental to the series and he should stop messing up something good - immediately.