top 15

1. Watchmen
2. The Hangover
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
4. Terminator Salvation
5. The Spirit
6. Dorian Gray
7. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
8. New Moon
9. The Proposal
10. Knowing
11. Public Enemies
12. The Ugly Truth
13. Inglourious Basterds
14. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
15. The Haunting in Connecticut

I'm quite confused at how movies like The Spirit, Transformers, G-Force, Land of the Lost, and Knowing ended up on these lists! I was getting ready to make a gag list for this thread and did a search for "Worst movies of 2009" and these were all constantly on those lists.

How does G-Force rate higher than UP?
How does Inglourious Basterds merit a listing far below New Moon?

I am baffled!

Personal preference, darling. Plus, Brad Pitt was fucking awful in Inglourious Basterds.

Not enough good films in 2009 to make a Top 15.

I agree!

I was hoping it was an OF ALL TIME thread.

it can be i just copied and pasted it off my myspace
lets do it!!!
peace

You guys have awful taste in movies. You should be ashamed to be making Best Movies of the Year lists with taste this bad. This thread is horrible.

Also, Moon and Goodbye Solo were the best movies of the year. I didn't see anything else that even came close to how thoroughly great those two movies were. District 9, The Hurt Locker, The Limits of Control, Inglourious Basterds, 9, (500) Days of Summer and Paper Heart round out the Top 9. I'll throw in either Star Trek or The Hangover just to round it out to 10. Everything else that I can remember seeing was meh.

I really don't get the hype with Moon. I thought it was pretty standard really.

I'd take the time to discuss the merits of Moon with you but you've got New Moon and Transformers 2 on your favorite movies of the year list, which means you're a lost cause...

Don't get mad, just start watching better movies.

Hey, 99% of the time I have impeccable taste in movies. 2009 was just a bad year!

Although, embarrassingly, I did shed a tear at New Moon.

I've gotten near-teary eyed at lots of movies, but the only times I've ever gone full-blown weepy are: Bambi (at 5 or 6 years old), Lion King (at 11 or 12 years old), and Once (like 2 years ago).

I think I was one of the few kids which didn't actually like Lion King very much.

Didn't you cry when Macaulay Culkin died in My Girl?

SPOILER

SPOILER

SPOILER

YOU PIECE OF SHIT

Also this year I discovered I don't care much for movies but top movie characters of 2009 for me were definitely the whiny dude from District 9 and the goat from Where the Wild Things Are.

Oh, and I loved Whip It. No shame. Bawled like a child at the end. I just loved it. But I am willing to admit it wasn't really that good a movie.

fookin prawns!

no ones got an top of all time?

OK dickcheeseburger, here is how your list breaks down:

Inglourious Basterds! - OK, you started off fine. Can't argue this one.

AVATAR. - Really? Last of the Mohicans 2: Giant Cats on Planet Day-Glo was your second favorite movie of the year?

Drag Me To Hell - Campy bullshit starring shit actors and directed by a shitty director.

Funny People - Didn't see it, but it was a 2 and a half hour comedy. Good luck with that...

Public Enemies - The script was blah and I can't imagine Michael Mann's shitty digital video did it any favors.

District 9 - Great movie. No arguments with this one on the list.

500 Days Of Summer - Good movie, much better than I anticipated. Makes me think Spiderman 4 with Joseph Gordon-Levitt is going to be ok.

Where The Wild Things Are - Never saw it, but I expect it to be awesome.

Youth In Revolt - Had little interest in seeing it, even less when I heard it was meh by everyone whose opinions on movies I trust.

The Hangover - Surprisingly good movie, mostly based on the quality of the script. Very clever to make it a mystery instead of just a bottom feeder comedy.

Sherlock Holmes - Looks stylish and fun, but not enough of either to get me to go see it. I wish Robert Downey Jr. would go back to being a good actor, not just Robert Downey Jr. as Robert Downey Jr. in [insert movie title here].

G~Force - Animated spy guinea pigs. Quality stuff right there...

Up - Never saw it, but heard its great.

The Boat That Rocked - Never saw it, but it looks better than half the shit on your list.

Land Of The Lost - Will Farrell playing a goofy fuckup? How did I miss this one...

i don't think i saw 15 good movies in 2009 so this list'll be kind of short. and i haven't seen moon yet so i can't weigh in on that. also i never saw watchmen.

1. where the wild things are
2. inglourious basterds
3. 9
4. distract 9
5. coraline
6. avatar
7. zombieland
8. the hangover
9. up
10. paper heart

crap:
the road: siiiiiggggghhhhh...
smokin aces 2: fucking SIIIIIGGGGGGHHHHHH...
transformers 2: i didn't actually see this one but no way is it better than part 1 and part 1 is one of the worst movies of all time.
extract: boring and unfunny.
gamer: ugh. good excuse for a nap.

public enemies was ok but i think i would have enjoyed it more without the digital filming. it made the movie odd.

Did Adventureland come out in 2009? Or was that 2008? Because I liked that one pretty ok. I wanted to see Zombieland but I never got around to it.

my friend said adventureland tried too hard to be like superbad and the only funny parts were from bill hader. i think that's his name.

I really don't think Adventureland effected me the way it was supposed to. I ended up depressed. I also didn't like Up In the Air as much as I wanted to, either.

Zombieland; I love anything with zombies. Don't really care if it's good or not. Plus, ya can't go wrong with Woody Harrelson.

Dead Snow; (See first part of above)

An Education; I love Peter Sarsgaard

District 9; I love the way it was filmed. I honestly walked out of the theatre checking for Prawns.

Up; The opening little short seriously broke my heart.

Watchmen; Mostly just cause of Rorschach, I found the rest disappointing...

Moon, I have yet to see.

9 was disappointing. Terminator was only good due to the fact that Christian Bale and Sam Worthington are really fucking easy on the eyes...Most of the horror was crap. Avatar, not even worth watching, and I still haven't. Same goes for Twilight.

Bleck. 2009 was a depressing year for the movie fan.

get stoned and watch 9. then it's like a completely different movie.

9 was pretty awesome but mostly from a visual standpoint. I really dig that style, what they deemed as "stitchpunk", as kind of an offshoot of steampunk.

Also, Terminator wasn't bad until the last 10 minutes, then it was awful.

Watchmen was so much better than I imagined it'd be, but no where near as good as it could've been. Rorschach was by far the best part of the movie.

I never saw Superbad so I couldn't compare them, but most of Adventureland was ok bordering on good, but yeah, Bill Hader stole the movie.

random stranger, make a list of top 15 of 2009, and you cant use any of my movies, then since ya such a big movie fella.
we will see the greatest movie list ever.

moon was that great it was just good.
they could of made it like sam rockwell was the last clone of like 12345
would of made it better

If he was the last clone, the movie wouldn't have been nearly as poignant. The only change I think they needed to make was:

MARKET IT AND SUBMIT IT TO ACADEMY VOTERS.

LETS do something new
TOP 5
Martin Scorsese films.

I couldn't even name 5 Scorsese films I really like.

You got me there.

Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed were all really good. Goodfellas is overrated but still pretty good. Gangs of New York was shit outside of Daniel Day Lewis. I haven't watched No Direction Home, but it looks really good. The Aviator looks meh. Never saw Cape Fear. That's about all I can think of right now. So I could give you a Top 4 list if it'll shut you the fuck up.

You two should have your own movie review show. Cassun and MumblyJoe go to the movies.

now.
Paul Thomas Anderson.
top five

It's kinda hard to pick a top five when the guy only has like, two good movies, and that's definitely pushing it.

Punch Drunk Love, There Will Be Blood

Magnolia.

I haven't watched Avatar either, but I'm not going to pretend I know whether it's worth my time or not.

I like how someone said basically the same thing a couple posts ago, but yet, if it's me its pretentious...

Anyways, I watched the first Twilight, and since the books are written by the same person, as are the movies, chances are if I thought the premise of the first one was ridiculous, anything built upon said premise is going to be equally ridiculous, no?

I thought it was a safe assumption to make.

And as far as Avatar is concerned, the premise doesn't interest me and I'm not a giant fan of James Cameron (edit), so no, to me, it is not worth watching.

Touche, sir. Forgot about that one.

Oh! Look! You're doing that thing you do, yet again!

I didn't say you were pretentious. I haven't read through the rest of this thread very carefully, because I was taken aback by what you'd posted.

What did Peter Jackson have to do with Avatar?

Could you please enlighten me then, as to what I should have inferred from your statement?

bleg, I worked all night. Cameron, Jackson, same still applies.