Best of Summer '06

[permatiltx]

Here are my picks for the best the summer of 2006 had to offer:

BEST SUMMER MOVIE:
The Descent

BEST SUMMER ACTOR:
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

BEST SUMMER ACTRESS:
Shaunu MacDonald, The Descent

BEST SUMMER SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Steve Carrell, Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SUMMER SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine

BEST DIRECTOR:
Neil Marshall, The Descent

BEST SCREENPLAY:
Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SEQUENCE:
The women crossing between the bottomless pit in The Descent. Man, was that edge of your seat.

[Fantasy Box Office]

Was Descent really that good?? I heard it was pretty good, but lately horror hasn't been that great...is this like the shining light, haha?

[spencer101f]

1 Little Miss Sunshine
2 A Prairie Home Companion
3 Clerks II
4 Strangers With Candy
5 World Trade Center

BEST ACTORS:

1 Will Ferrell, Talladega Nights
2 Nicholas Cage, World Trade Center
3 Greg Kinear, Little Miss Sunshine
4 Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion
5 Will Shortz, Wordplay

BEST ACTRESSES:

1 Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
2 Amy Sedaris, Strangers With Candy
3 Camilla Belle, The Quiet
4 Scarlett Johanssen, Scoop
5 Diane Lane, Hollywoodland

BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS:

1 John C. Reilly, Talladega Nights & A Prairie Home Companion
2 Steve Carrell, Little Miss Sunshine
3 Woody Allen, Scoop
4 Jason Mewes, Clerks II
5 Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESSES:

1 Aibigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
2 Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
3 Maggie Gylenhaal, World Trade Center
4 Rosario Dawson, Clerks II
5 Kathy Mixon, The Quiet

BEST DIRECTORS:

1 Jonathan Dayton, Little Miss Sunshine
2 Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion
3 Kevin Smith, Clerks II
4 Paul Dinello, Strangers With Candy
5 Oliver Stone, World Trade Center

BEST SCREENPLAYS:

1 The Quiet
2 Little Miss Sunshine
3 The Illusionist
4 A Prairie Home Companion
5 The Devil Wears Prada

BEST SEQUENCES:

1 Olive's Dance, Little Miss Sunshine
2 Donkey Show, Clerks II
3 Gym Class, Strangers With Candy
4 Franky & Johnnie, A Prairie Home Companion
5 "Can I Shoot You?", Hollywoodland

BEST QUOTES:

1 "You know, if you take the first letter of "Dunkin'" and move it to the end, it becomes Unkind Donuts.", Wordplay
2 "I love you, really. From the bottom of my heart. With all due respect, you're a beautiful person. You're a credit to your race.", Scoop
3 "Man, this burger tastes like piss and flies, don't it?", Clerks II
4 "Everything you have seen here has been an illusion.", The Illusionist
5 "You kept me alive.", World Trade Center
6 "I'm disgusted and repulsed and I can't look away.", Clerks II
7 "Go!", The Devil Wears Prada
8 "You gotta be as blind as Anne Frank not to see that.", Clerks II
9 "The show had been on the air since Jesus was in the 3rd grade.", A Prairie Home Companion
10 "I was taking a piss when I heard the news, congratulations!", Clerks II

BEST DEVIL WEARS PRADA QUOTES:

1 "Go!"
2 "[Nigel, at the "Urban Jungle" fashion shoot, talking to Andy]
Don't make me feed you to one of the models."
3 "Yes, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me."
4 "Bore someone else with your questions."
5 "The details of your incompetence do not interest me."
6 "Find me that piece of paper I had in my hand yesterday morning."
7 "You bet your size 6 ass!"
8 "That's all."
9 "[Andy is on the phone taking a message] Can you spell 'Gabbana'? [person on the other line hangs up] I guess not..."
10 "I don't care if you were pole-dancing, as long as you did it with some integrety!"

BEST STRANGERS WITH CANDY QUOTES:

1 "I'm Jerri Blank, and this is my story. It's called: [reading title card] "Str-str-stranglers w-with ca-ca-ca...I guess we'll never know."
2 "Everybody! Eye's to the back of the room!"
3 "Hello, I'm Jerri Blank and - and I'm an alcoholic. I'm also addicted to amphetamines as well as main line narcotics. Some people say I have a sex addiction, but I think all those years of prostitution was just a means to feed my ravenous hunger for heroin. It's kinda like the chicken or the nugget. The point is, I'm addicted to gambling. Thank you. [meekly] Oh, and... my daddy's in a coma."
4 "Jerri Blank: But my dady's in a coma!
Chuck Noblet: Go tell the grief counselor she's suppose to care."
5 "What's shakin', Red? The carpet match the drapes?"
6 "Jerri Blank: F*g**t.
Chuck Noblet: What did you say?
Jerri Blank: What did you hear?
Chuck Noblet: I'd rather not repeat it.
Jerri Blank: Then I guess we'll never know."
7 "I want your spermies!"
8 "It's like the time you set that boat on fire and watched those Haitians panic. Oh wait, that was me... The point is, you're a racist."
9 "Megawatti Sacarnaput: Are you thinking about entering the science fair?
Jerri Blank: I'm thinkin' about p*s*y. The science fair's for queers."
10 "Are you as real as the Hundred Eyed Demon?"

Whew.