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The best and worst year in movie moments(AP)Updated: 2006-12-19 11:15 LOS ANGELES - Leave the Academy Awards to the important movies in the serious categories. Here are a few bests (and worsts) that, regardless of the quality of the films in which they occurred, are much more fun: Best fight/chase scene: The opening of "Casino Royale." Best car chase: "Deja Vu." Best naked wrestling match: "Borat" Most ill-advised reprise of an iconic role: Tie between Sharon Stone, "Basic Instinct 2," and Sylvester Stallone, "Rocky Balboa." Most incomprehensible Southern drawl: Sean Penn, "All the King's Men." Best cleavage: Penelope Cruz, "Volver." Best kiss: Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson on the playground in "Little Children." Best sex scene: The entire opening sequence of "Shortbus" ¡ª because they're really doing it. Best self-introduction: "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America," from "An Inconvenient Truth." Most needless sequel: Tie between "Big Momma's House 2" and "Jackass 2." Lamest horror remake: Tie between "The Omen" and "When a Stranger Calls." Biggest waste of Scarlett Johansson: "A Good Woman." Best use of Lindsay Lohan: "A Prairie Home Companion." Best actor playing a gay, suicidal Proust scholar: Steve Carell in "Little Miss Sunshine." Most persuasive argument for clean living: Tie between "Thank You For Smoking" and "Fast Food Nation." The life-imitating-art award: Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston in "The Break-Up." Best-dressed man: Andre Benjamin in "Idlewild." Best-dressed woman: Anne Hathaway in "The Devil Wears Prada" (post-makeover, of course). Best dig at a guy who did not win the role of James Bond, agent 007: "Boswell. Nigel Boswell. 006. You know what that means?" asks agent Boswell ( Clive Owen) in "The Pink Panther." "Of course!" answers Inspector Clouseau ( Steve Martin). "It means you are one away from the big time." Best use of Spandex: "Nacho Libre." (Sorry, Superman.) Best excuse for a good cry: "Lassie" Best soundtrack: "Marie Antoinette," a New Wave mix that includes Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Biggest genealogical news: "You are the last living descendant of Jesus Christ!" Tom Hanks to Audrey Tautou in "The Da Vinci Code." Best argument for everybody going down with the ship: "Poseidon." Best withering gaze: Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II in "The Queen." Best performance by an actor playing a decomposing corpse through much of the movie: Jeff Bridges, "Tideland." Guy with the most movies: Hugh Jackman ("X-Men: The Last Stand," "Scoop," "The Prestige," "Flushed Away," "The Fountain," "Happy Feet"). Hairiest actor: Robert Downey Jr. in "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus." Most memorable line: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these (expletive) snakes on this (expletive) plane!" ¡ª Samuel L. Jackson in (you guessed it) "Snakes on a Plane." |
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