Top 5 Movies of 2009

Just 5? I've seen 102 films from 2009.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Coraline
3. District 9
4. The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
5. Zombieland
6. The Hangover
7. I Love You, Man
8. Observe and Report
9. Moon
10. 9
11. Funny People
12. Up
13. Brüno
14. Watchmen
15. Terminator Salvation
16. A Perfect Getaway
17. Land of the Lost
18. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
19. My Bloody Valentine 3D
20. Pandorum
21. The International
22. The Pink Panther 2
23. Dark Country
24. The Maiden Heist
25. (500) Days of Summer
26. Paper Heart
27. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
28. Whatever Works
29. Brothers
30. Public Enemies
31. S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale
32. State of Play
33. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
34. Year One
35. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
36. Knowing
37. Angels & Demons
38. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
39. Away We Go
40. Extract
41. Julie & Julia
42. Surrogates
43. The Last House on the Left
44. The Final Destination
45. Drag Me to Hell
46. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
47. World's Greatest Dad
48. Adventureland
49. He's Just Not That Into You
50. Duplicity
51. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
52. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
53. Monsters vs Aliens
54. Next Day Air
55. The Invention of Lying
56. Imagine That
57. Gamer
58. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
59. Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
60. My Sister's Keeper
61. What Goes Up
62. 17 Again
63. Echelon Conspiracy
64. Push
65. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
66. The Uninvited
67. New in Town
68. The Proposal
69. G-Force
70. Aliens in the Attic
71. The Boat That Rocked (aka Pirate Radio)
72. Antichrist
73. Friday the 13th
74. Race to Witch Mountain
75. Five Minutes of Heaven
76. In the Loop
77. Still Waiting
78. Thick as Thieves
79. The Marc Pease Experience
80. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
81. The Ugly Truth
82. The Hills Run Red
83. Bandslam
84. Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
85. The Haunting in Connecticut
86. The Soloist
87. Obsessed
88. Confessions of a Shopaholic
89. Dead Like Me: Life After Death
90. Feast 3: The Happy Finish
91. Carriers
92. I Hate Valentine's Day
93. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
94. Green Lantern: First Flight
95. Labor Pains
96. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
97. Bride Wars
98. Hulk vs.
99. Wonder Woman
100. Jennifer's Body
101. The Unborn
102. Orphan
 
1. Star Trek
2. The Watchmen
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Pandorum
5. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
6. Taken
7. Up
8. Inglorious Bastards
9. District 9
10. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
11. The Hangover
12. Transformers 2:RotF
13. 2012 - Only the first 30 minutes before I stopped it was that bad.
Still want to see...[hiddenlist]
Sherlock Holmes
Public Enemies
Avatar
Zombieland
The Road[/hiddenlist]
 
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1. Avatar - Despite the story having similarities with Dances with Wolves and being a little cliche, I still enjoyed it a lot. The CG was great, and made me want to believe that the Naavi could be real. It left me wanting a sequel right away, not to mention a Blu-Ray copy >,<

2. Up - This movie caught me off guard, I didn't think it would be so emotional at some points. Pixar's definitive movie? Maybe.

3. Inglorious Basterds - Awesome dialog in this movie. Landa was absolutely mesmerizing and kept me at the edge of my seat. This could've been a low budget film and have the same outcome for me.

4. Star Trek - Great reboot, awesome opening, full of action, and moments that make you say "Wow". It had some comedic moments in there that balanced out the movie.

5. District 9 - There isn't any movie like it. It has a nice story, I loved how the film treats the protagonist and see all the predicaments he gets himself into. Poor guy.

Honorable mentions:

Ponyo - Great movie! Hayao Miyazaki has definitely surpassed Disney in terms of quality recently.

Watchmen - Totally forgot this was released this year. Good movie, just didn't leave a lasting impression on me, but I still liked it.

Drag Me to Hell - More Sam Raimi horror films please.

Up in the Air

Brothers

Hurts Locker
 
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You have to take my list with a grain of salt because there's a bunch of movies I missed this year (ie The Road, The Hangover, Inglourious Basterds, etc) but from what I've seen I enjoyed these the most:

Watchmen
District 9
Star Trek
Taken
Pandorum

By far the worst movie I've seen this year is A Haunting in Connecticut.
 
Lots of the same movies...mine in no particular order:

Star Trek
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
The Hangover
Up

Have yet to see Avatar, The Hurt Locker or Up in the Air but hear great things about each.
 
[quote name='MisterModest']Just 5? I've seen 102 films from 2009.[/quote]

Is that something to brag about? Especially that you actually sat through nos. 92 and 95?
 
[quote name='dinovelvet']Is that something to brag about? Especially that you actually sat through nos. 92 and 95?[/QUOTE]
No, it's nothing to brag about. And I have a wife with some bad taste in movies, so that explains #92, I Hate Valentine's Day, and I'll watch any piece of crap with Lindsay Lohan in it, (#95, Labor Pains).

Lohan's next film will be Machete, I'm sure more people will watch that, than Lohan's last few films.

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Release date: April 16th.
 
5. Precious
4. Inglorious Basterds
3. A Serious Man
2. Up In The Air
1. The Hurt Locker

I still haven't seen some big oscar-friendly movies (An Education, A Single Man, Crazy Heart) but I'm hoping to see most (or all) of the oscar noms before the show.
The Hurt Locker is probably in my top 3 for the decade.
Up in the Air is a beautiful capsule of life in the 2000s.
A Serious Man is another masterpiece from the Coens, and I liked it more than No Country, and ranks behind Fargo and Barton Fink as my 3rd favourite Coen film.
Inglorious was an epic Tarantino adventure, complete with one of the great performances of the year from Chirstoph Waltz.
Precious was absolutely heartbreaking, and featured the most powerful perfomance of the year from Mo'nique (never expected to say that).

Up, District 9, The Hangover, Watchmen and Knowing (seriously!) would probably round out my top 10.
 
Best Movies:
1) Up
2) Where the Wild Things Are
3) (500) Days of Summer
4) The Hurt Locker
5) Moon

That's my best Oscar-ish list. Sadly, I haven't seen any of the indie darlings that might actually win best picture. I did see The Road, and I don't think it belongs anywhere near that list.

And hell, if we're counting movies we actually got to see in 2009, let's get Mickey Rourke that Oscar.

Best Blockbusters:
1) Avatar
2) Inglourious Basterds
3) Star Trek
4) Watchmen
5) District 9

That list isn't necessarily mutually exclusive with the first list, but it is this year.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the worst movie I saw in the theater this year.
 
1. The Hangover
2. The Road
3. Star Trek
4. District 9
5. Watchmen

Avatar, Up, Coraline, and Julie and Julia would round off some sort of 'top' list for 2009. I still need to see Up In The Air, Public Enemies, and The Hurt Locker.
 
Ah, I take my previous list back. The movie 3 Idiots is my 4th favorite movie of the year. Its a Indian movie about the pressures of college in India. If you liked Slumdog Millionaire, you might like this movie as well.

1. Up
2. Drag Me to Hell
3. Star Trek
4. 3 Idiots
5. District 9
 
1. District 9
2. Avatar
3. Inglourious Basterds

After that, it's hard to choose from Ponyo, The Hangover, Coraline, Up, Anvil, The Hurt Locker, and possibly a few I'm forgetting. Also, while I'm pretty sure I saw Gran Torino in 2009, I would consider it a 2008 film. I saw The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire in 2009 (when they were released here), but those are both 2008 films, so I can't see why Gran Torino would be any different.
 
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