Your Favorite Movies of 2009

37. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Another mediocre comic book movie with no real idea what it could be. It makes me sad.

36. The Year One
It really wasn't that funny. Especially considering who was in it, but it had it's moments. And the girls were hot especially that Juno something chick. Damn.

35. Where the Wild Things Are
Meh. A lot of this movie annoyed me, but it was a okay. I didn't see the hype.

34. I Love You, Man
It was a pretty plain comedy. Not what I expect after seeing them in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

33. State of Play
Decent movie starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, and Rachael McAdams. I enjoyed, but it's one of those movies, that you seen once and than never again.

32. Funny People
I am undecided where to rank this compared to his other movies. I want to say I liked it better since but that is not saying much since I was never a big fan.

31. The Men Who Stare At Goats
Not as funny as I was expecting. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it but none the less it was average, which is disappointing with the cast involved.

30. Terminator Salvation
Let me get this out of the way. I am not a fan of the Terminator franchise. I really was liking it until the horrible ending.

29. Ninja Assassin
This was watching a videogame. The story wasn't very original and it was very cliche, but I really liked the effects and fight scenes.

28. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
I enjoy this movies despite how stupid they actually are. Some moments were a little too ridiculous and plot holes big enough for Prime to drive through, but I want to watch robots beating the **** out of each other and Megan Fox.

27. Friday the 13th
A beside a couple tired slasher cliches this seems to try and make a new film while still staying true to the originals. I really liked this new type of Jason.

26. The Informant
The first half of the movie was incredibly boring except for the main characters random thoughts. The second half of the movie however was fantastic.

25. Drag Me To Hell
I have always wanted to see the Evil Dead series and has yet too. But this movie from what I hear is in the same vein. I've never seen horror and comedy combined like this. It was great.

24. Jennifer's Body
Pretty much what I expected. I love the fact that Diablo Cody follows up the successful movie like Juno with this. But it didn't seem to be creepy enough, funny enough, scary enough, corky enough to really be something great.

23. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
It's about as good as the others. They really should of started with this one from the get go.

22. The Invention of Lying
It really shows you how second nature it is for people to lie.

21. 9
A pretty interesting idea for a post apocalyptic movie. It really needed a lot more detail to the story, but the animation was brilliant.

20. Saw VI
I will continute to watch these as they continute to be entertaining and coherent. Tobin Bell is really the highlight of the movies.

19. Away We Go
I really like the movie sorely because I really liked the main characters. They were entertaining to watch.

18. Adventureland
I like the new sting of teen romantic comedies that seem more realistic with the awkwardness of dating. This one was average, but I enjoyed it. Kristen Stewart is nice looking.

17. Watchmen
It was very brilliant in some parts and really really terrible at others. The overall narrative seemed to suffer, especially for the ones not familiar with the source material. I was happy to see Rorschach played so well.

16. The Hangover
Another comedy starring people I really have never heard of and it was hilarious. Makes me want to go to Vegas and get wasted

15. Bruno
Possibly more insane then Borat but not as funny. I still really enjoyed it, some parts I hoped was staged so I don't completely lose faith in the human race.

14. Fired Up
It was actually really funny. References to the classic Bring It On, hell they even watched it in the movie. It was like Wedding Crashers meets Bring It On.

13. Angels & Demons
I may be in the minority, but I loved this movies. I love mysteries and religious based stories.

12. Whip It
I always love watching Ellen Page and despite the pretty predictable plot, but overall it was a great movie.

11. Crank 2: High Voltage
I don't even know where to begin. This was the most offensive, over the top, insane thing I ever seen. I loved every minute.

10. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
I love all the Harry Potter movies for good or bad. People complain about them not comparing to the books, well duh. But this suffers a bit from the pacing problem 4 had.

9. Sunshine Cleaning
Amy Adams is becoming one of my favorite actresses and she is so beautful. This was a wonderful family movie and I want to start my own biohazard remove business.

8. The Brothers Bloom
Fantastic cast and really one of the best endings to a movie I have seen in awhile.

7. The Time Traveller's Wife
This is getting a lot of bad reviews and I'm not sure why. I thought the story was original, Bana and McAdams were great.

6. District 9
This was nothing like I expected. I love the documentary idea and I would love to see some kind of sequel.

5. Up
Almost as good as Wall-E. It was pretty wonderful. I didn't watch too many trailers, so I didn't really know anything about it.

4. Star Trek
One of the best Summer blockbuster/Sci-Fi movies I ever seen. Great cast, action, and humor. I never cared for Star Trek at all and now it is cooler than Star Wars.

3. Zombieland
Probably the most fun I had watching a film since Tropic Thunder. Great cast and I think am now a converted zombie fan.

2. Coraline
Gaiman movies are 3 for 3 in my book. The voice acting and stop animation was perfect. I also seen the Bluray 3D and it was probably the first time I watched a 3D movie and loved it.

1. Inglourious Basterds
The best Taratino movie ever and the best WW2 movie ever.
 
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
This was surprisingly entertaining. It's not a great movie but it's worth seeing just for Gerard Butler's performance. This guy can be a great actor. He needs to do less romantic comedies and more roles like this. He was like The Punisher. I thought the story was quite unpredictable, which was good. There seems to be a lot of hate because of how it ended... but I thought it worked.
 
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

**** me! I'm only 20 minutes into the movie and it's already the funniest movie I've seen all year. Boobs...Jeremy Piven...foul mouth babies...a woman who wants to sleep with a 10 year old boy in a grown man's body...karaoke...and Alan ****ING Thicke!
 
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A

- Coraline
- District 9
- Every Little Step
- Inglourious Basterds
- Ponyo
- A Serious Man
- Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3D
- Up

A-

- Away We Go
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Drag Me To Hell
- The Hangover
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Observe and Report
- Star Trek
- Up in the Air

B+

- Adam
- The Great Buck Howard
- Knowing
- Taken
- Zombieland

B

- Alien Trespass
- Funny People
- The Girlfriend Experience
- I Love You, Man
- Inkheart
- The Men Who Stare At Goats
- Thirst
- Tyson

B-

- Adventureland
- Brüno
- Confessions of a Shopaholic
- New York, I Love You
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Watchmen
- Where the Wild Things Are

C+

- Monsters vs. Aliens
- Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian
- Paul Blart Mall Cop
- Race to Witch Mountain

C

- Land of the Lost
- Paranormal Activity
- The Soloist

C-

- G-FORCE
- Jennifer's Body
- Push
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine

D+

(no films yet)

D

(no films yet)

D-

(no films yet)

F

(no films yet)
 
J. Agamemnon said:
He just seems so...pretentious. I just can't get around the fact that he's so full of himself. I blame Old School. But his celebrity life doesn't help much either.
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ultimatedjf said:
I ****ing hate Jeremy Piven. And there are very few actors that I hate.
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So long as Jeremy Piven keeps playing characters like Ari Gold....he'll have my support.
 
Alan Thicke himself would have to come to my apartment and bring the movie with him and watch it with me in order for me to see that movie.
 
New G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Blood: The Last Vampire

  • Star trek 4.9/5
  • Wonder Woman 4.9/5
  • Coraline 4.8/5
  • Turtles forever 4.8/5
  • Night at the Museum 4.8/5
  • Watchmen 4.7/5
  • Monsters Vs Aliens 4.7/5
  • The wrestler 4.7 / 5
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 4.6/5
  • Wolverine 4.6 / 5
  • Superman/Batman: Public Enemies 4.6/5
  • Lesbian Vampire Killers 4.6 /5
  • Blood: The Last Vampire 4.5/5
  • Hulk Vs 4.5 / 5
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 4/5
  • G-force 4/5
  • Dragonball Evolution 3/5
  • Race to Witch Mountain 2.7/5
  • Bolt 2.5 / 5
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 2/5
  • Adventureland 1/5
  • Terminator Salvation 0.5 / 5
  • Street Fighter - The Legend Of Chun-Li 0/10
 
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J. Agamemnon said:
Alan Thicke himself would have to come to my apartment and bring the movie with him and watch it with me in order for me to see that movie.
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It'd be worth it.

Ving Rhames character was awesome too!

"You know I've never made love to a woman? I mean yeah, I've had golden showers...silver showers...diamond showers...and even platinum showers. I've 69d...84d...114d...done it all!" :lol:
 
Added G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Blood: The Last Vampire
 
Watchmen - Pretty good. Not how I would've done it, but they put so much effort into how they did it that it payed off. A book-accurate Ozymandias might've made it a whole point higher. It's basically in the same category of b-t-f adaptations as the Potter films - no match for the book, but very cool to see for fans of it. And once in a while, sheer magic. 8.5/10.

Taken - Exciting, straight-forward, cool. Neeson is cool. 6/10.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine - I enjoyed this, but basically, they just weren't making a good movie. So they just pumped up what they had as best as they could, and it turned out okay. It also just felt kind of dated.... seenitamilliontimes.... know what I mean? 6/10

Star Trek - First movie I can remember seeing in a while where the special effects actually impressed me. A great, fun action-adventure with a cast that completely sells it. I want more emotion and depth in a film, but this was the rare "great" movie that still manages without it. I hope it's there in the sequels, though. 8.5/10.

Terminator: Salvation - Pointless, dry, completely unengaging. Anton Yelchin was awesome, and Sam Worthington, for some reason, just really has something. I look forward to seeing more of both of them. But Conner was flat and the plot went absolutely nowhere. I'm disappointed in Bale for being so involved with this. And that stupid alternate ending they wanted to use.... damn.... 5/10

Outlander - This was pretty cool. A humanoid alien crash-lands in Viking-Era Norway. I like Jim Caviziel a lot and overall thought this was done pretty well. 8/10.

UP - The best, most touching thing I've seen from Pixar in years. I still wanted more, but as it was there wasn't really anything wrong with it. 9/10.

Tranformers: Revenge Of The Fallen - SFX porn with a likeable cast, especially Sam and his parents. I don't think this one felt as epic as the first, but it was good. 7/10.

Knowing - Stunning. Why isn't Shyamalan capable of this kind of thing anymore? Refreshing, creative, very suspenseful, amazing disaster sequences.... not to overhype it, but maybe the most I've enjoyed a movie this year. They clearly believed in the film they were making, which is more than I can say for a lot of films. 9/10

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince - Probably the best one yet, and certainly the most unique, beautiful, and magical to me. The problems that all the films have had still apply, but even those not as much. I loved it. 9/10.

Push - Fun, fast, good effects and well-directed action sequences.... the plot was extremely confusing in brief spurts, but I was pretty satisfied by it. A lot of the stuff that made Heroes good in the first place works here. 7.5/10

Horsemen - Detective movie about serial killers patterning themselves after the biblical four horsemen of the apocalypse. Good premise, only okay execution. Clearly made by people who really love Se7en, but aren't in the same leage. Patrick Fugit, the kid from Almost Famous, was the best part. 6/10

Funny People - Has lots of flaws and lots of good stuff. Sandler truly carries the picture, but everyone in it is good. A different and very personal step from Apatow. Odd for a director's third film, it feels more like a tenth. I guess that's the case for Sandler, though. What would really be interesting is if he stops making the type of movies they spoof in the film. 7.75/10

The Great Buck Howard - Swell. Colin Hanks is good here, but I'd really like to see him do a much less reserved, really emotional role soon. The movie is a must-see for any John Malkovich fan and overall was just really sweet and well-done. 7.5/10

I Love You, Man - I'm not usually big on the whole "bromance" thing, but this was awesome. It was really funny first and foremost, but the Segel-Rudd relationship is so much damn fun and steals the show, even when it's not being funny but just plain honest and raw. The whole cast is great and the film is enhanced by the fact that I love Rush. The extended concert scene on the DVD was a ****ing blast. 8/10

District 9 - A completely enthralling, edge-of-your-seat film experience, the most unique in ages. I feel like the whole "documentary/shaky-cam/handicam" thing a lot of them have been trying to use recently to make it feel more like you're actually there was finally perfected by this, with the perfect blend it uses. For the first time since I think 2007..... it's a solid 10/10.

Inglourious Basterds - Sometimes in all the hype and fanfare and his behind-the-scenes persona I forget just what a rich, superb film-maker Tarantino is. So suspenseful, so satisfying, amazing acting and direction and dialouge.... I will be riding high on this movie for quite a while. For the first time since last week...... 10/10.

The Final Destination - You can't really rate this the way you would a normal movie because it's not designed to be a good film, just a really fun, amusement-park-ride type experience. With friends, in the well-utilized 3D, this was very entertaining, and the climax was excellent. 7.5/10.[/COLOR] The lead guy was also really good and I hope he gets a good career. The girl too for that matter.

State Of Play - Russell Crowe is awesome, so was the plot and concept, and the direction, and everyone else. Especially Jason Bateman. "Political Thrillers" usually require me to make an effort to get interested. Not this time. Again, Crowe.... his performance has stuck with me. I'm also glad to see Ben Affleck has really turned into a completely respectable actor who is a pleasure to watch, although I really want to see him direct something again. Gone Baby Gone was terrific and I would've picked him to direct Watchmen based off of it. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed this. 8.5/10

9 - Cool concept that ultimately went absolutely nowhere. The "stichpunks"(name according to Acker) were literally just completely normal, functional people and 9 was the least dimensional character of them all, which is saying a lot. There was a lot of really cool stuff and the director obviously had a vision, but the story needed about another year or two's work and was literally just to get them from one action sequence to the next. The very ending was really good too, but overall it fell miles short of how good it potentially looked from that first trailer. 6.5/10.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - A triumph. Funniest movie of the year, one of the most exciting too. Loved it from start to finish. See it. 9.5/10

Surrogates - The concept is excellent but it only touches upon doing it justice. Bruce Willis is great though and it's a worthwhile film. 7/10.

Zombieland - Pretty much just as good as it looked. Filled with laughs and characters you latch on to immeadiately. I really hope there's a sequel. 9/10.

Year One - It had it's moments but overall was just an incredibly crude and lazy film. Notable for the DVD including one of the most extensive and expensive alternate endings I've ever seen. It was kind of better than the "real" ending too. 4/10

The Brothers Bloom - I'm not that big into caper movies, but this looked like it could be a lot of fun. What I didn't expect, though, was for it to be about me. Probably the best screenplay of the year and I intend to buy it and do repeat viewings, which could easily make my raiting even higher. 9.5/10

Law Abiding Citizen - This kicked ***. My theater was laughing and cheering all the way through and Gerard Butler was terrific. Jamie Foxx was great too and I will definitely watch this again with other friends when it comes out on DVD. With an extra .5 for Butler's performance sticking with me, 8.5/10.

The Proposal - Blech. I'm not a big Sandra Bullock fan outside of Speed and Miss Congeniality, and Ryan Reynolds bores me at best and pisses me off at worst. This was no exception. Retarded story, one or two unbearable scenes, and a predictably cringe-worthy ending. It's scary to think anyone could consider these two characters to be legtimately in love. Oscar from The Office was good though. 4/10

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Eh, this was all right but not exactly the result of much effort. There were a few hilarious moments, when they tried. 5.5/10.

The Maiden Heist - This should've been publicized more. Christopher Walken in his first and best leading role in ages with Morgan Freeman and William H. Macy right behind him. Holy ****! It was very enjoyable and stuck with me. Love that Walken. 7.5/10.

Angels and Demons - The ingredients are too good for it to be anything but. Howard, Hanks and Hans Zimmer are a great team and it was really cool seeing all the stuff go down in the Vatican after having been there last year. On top of that, Armin Mueller-Stahl totally makes the film. Like The Da Vinci Code, an easy 8/10.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard - It definitely had the right idea and I laughed throughout. I would've liked to see them taken it even farther, more and more over-the-top and feel-good as the movie went on, but it was still pretty damn fun. 7.5/10.

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Very funny and well-made. Wes Anderson was so right for this. 9/10
 
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