My last list of the month.

I promise. Actually, that should be 'lists'. Whatever.

As I'm sure I've mentioned, I love movies. I hope that I get to make my own some day, but for now, I'd like to talk about the movies of others, particularly from last year.

If the longer of the lists looks familiar, it is purely by design, and should it ever somehow get back to the guy off of whom I'm ripping the structure, I just want him to know that if I have to be sued by someone in my life, I'm glad it's him.

My top ten favorite movies of 2006:

CARS
CASINO ROYALE
CLERKS 2
(THE) DEPARTED
INSIDE MAN
MONSTER HOUSE
(A) PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
STRANGER THAN FICTION
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
V FOR VENDETTA

Runners-up: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Deja Vu, Flushed Away, An Inconvenient Truth and Little Miss Sunshine

My favorite things in movies - 2006:

The animation of (and Frank Welker’s vocals for) the title character in Curious George

The clip from the “Futurama” episode “Crimes of the Hot” in An Inconvenient Truth

Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (well, just about everything in that movie, but mainly him)

Danny Elfman’s score for Nacho Libre

The disassembled/reassembled car scene in the trailer of The Covenant, one of the coolest things I’ve seen all year

Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee and Stranger Than Fiction

The end credits montage of Cars

The ensemble casts of A Prairie Home Companion and Thank You for Smoking (Note: I really love ensemble casts.)

Everything Randal (Jeff Anderson) says in Clerks II, especially in his conversations with Elias (Trevor Fehrman)

The fight and stunt choreography in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

“God is in the rain.” - a truly gorgeous mix of music, cinematography and acting from V for Vendetta

“Hit me!” - Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

The hotel room brawl in Borat

“I don’t know where he’s not.” - the trailer of Shrek the Third

“Is it time to crash the wedding?” - Date Movie

Mark Wahlberg and Alec Baldwin in The Departed

Michael Caine in The Prestige

Neveldine/Taylor’s direction of Crank

Olive’s routine in Little Miss Sunshine

The one-foot-in-the-present, one-eye-on-the-past car chase in Deja Vu

Russell Gewirtz’s Taking of Pelham One Two Three-like script for Inside Man

Sid meets the mini-sloths in Ice Age: the Meltdown

The strategic voice cameo in X-Men: the Last Stand

That line in Snakes on a Plane (shame on those who have to ask what it is)

Three words: Rebecca...Romijn...naked - X-Men: the Last Stand (I am a very petty man. I know.)

The tour of the Kazakhstani village in Borat

Virtually all of Monster House

“…you can be smart every day.” - 16 Blocks

If nothing else, I managed to achieve one of my resolutions last year by seeing over 30 movies (thirty-five, in case you were wondering). I hope to break that record this year. Now, I just need the overall quality to be better than last year.