Your favorite movies of 2009 [Archive]

Triple A

01-18-2010, 08:36 PM

I really liked these movies this year:

Whatever Works
Humpday
Mary and Max
Moon
A Serious Man
Big Fan
I Am So Proud of You (20 min animated short film but the best thing I saw all year)

I liked or kinda liked these movies:

500 Days of Summer
Amreeka
Antichrist
Bruno
Crank 2: High Voltage
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Inglourious Basterds
Where the Wild Things Are
Drag Me to Hell
Food, Inc.
The Hangover
Rachel Getting Married

I hated these movies:

The Hurt Locker
The White Ribbon

Meh:

Up
Coraline

I still want to see these movies from 2009:

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Capitalism: A Love Story
We Live in Public
The Road
The Cove
Precious
(Untitled)
Harmony and Me
Alexander the Last
Hunger
Tetro
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Mammoth
The War on Kids
Trash Humpers
When You're Strange
New York, I Love You
Paranormal Activity
The Girlfriend Experience

The Franchise

01-18-2010, 08:49 PM

Someone else who loved Big Fan :heart:

I haven't watched many movies this year (well I have, just rented a bunch that were made prior to 09) so honestly the only movies I really liked were The Hangover and Big Fan. District 9 was pretty good too.

Hated Inglorious basterds and Bruno was shit compared to Borat.

Droford

01-18-2010, 09:03 PM

Thumbs Up:
Inglorious Basterds
UP
Public Enemies
Crank 2
Coraline
Terminator 4
Adventureland
Taken

Thumbs Down:
GI Joe
Knowing
Samantha Darko
District 9

Fignuts

01-18-2010, 09:43 PM

Dunno. Didn't have a lot of time for the movie scene this year, so I missed a lot of the good but obscure stuff that makes up triple a's list.

From what I saw, I'd say

Watchmen
Chocolate
Observe and Report
Up
Taken
Star Trek

That's pretty much all I saw, besides I guess Transformers 2, the new harry potter, and GI JOE. But I wouldn't group those in the same class as the above mentioned flicks.

Fignuts

01-18-2010, 11:07 PM

Oh did doubt come out in 09? Just saw that on netflix and it was really good.

mitch_h

01-18-2010, 11:39 PM

Really Liked

Goodbye Solo ( The only movie I saw this year that came close to being a masterpeice)
Inglourious Basterds
District 9
Moon
A Serious Man
Antichrist
Big Fan

Some other good stuff.

Up in the Air
The White Ribbon
Star Trek
Paranormal Activity
Up
The Hangover
Revanche

Fignuts

01-18-2010, 11:58 PM

btw, if there is a single tiny part of you that enjoys martial arts movies, you need to see chocolate.

Jeritron

01-19-2010, 05:53 AM

Liked:
Inglourious Basterds
Up
Avatar
Watchmen
Funny People
Paranormal Activity
Drag Me To Hell
The Hangover
Star Trek
I Love You, Man
Zombieland
District 9

Movies I still want to see very soon:
Moon
A Serious Man
Whatever Works
The Men Who Stare At Goats
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Where The Wild Things Are
Adventureland

Fuckin horrible movies I saw in theaters:
Terminator 4, Transformers 2, Wolverine, Halloween 2

Everything else = meh

I was really bad about seeing a lot of movies I wanted to see this year. Probably because I couldn't get out much or do much movie watching for the second part of the year. Couldn't get my "arthouse" on.
Most of what I did get to see in theaters were the first half releases, or the summer blockbusters and comedies.
Really want to get around to seeing the ones I listed as they come out on dvd.

Bad Company

01-19-2010, 06:18 AM

Avatar

ClockShot

01-19-2010, 08:42 AM

Loved:

The Brothers Bloom
The Hurt Locker
Moon
District 9
Sherlock Holmes
Taken
The Soloist
Up
Public Enemies
Law Abiding Citizen

Didn't care for/Hated:

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Star Trek
Inglorious Basterds
Terminator: Salvation
Ninja Assassin
Monsters vs. Aliens
Transformers: RoTF
Angels & Demons
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li
Watchmen
The International

Jeritron

01-19-2010, 04:37 PM

Oh yea, I saw Angels and Demons too. That sucked

Gertner

01-19-2010, 05:06 PM

Precious was pretty damn good. Mo'nique was awesome in her role.

Buzzkill

01-19-2010, 06:25 PM

Didn't really see a lot of new movies this year, but my favorites were probably

Inglourious Basterds
Moon
A Serious Man
Fantastic Mr Fox
I Love You Man

Pretty good:
Star Trek
District 9
The Hangover

I think Moon was probably my favorite in retrospect. While the plot wasn't anything special, the way it all unfolded was brilliant

D Mac

01-20-2010, 02:26 AM

Jennifer's Body :shifty:

Tb1

01-20-2010, 02:59 AM

Inglourious Basterds
Avatar
Watchmen
Star Trek
Taken
I Love You, Man
Zombieland
District 9
Whatever Works
Adventureland
Brothers
The Road
(500) Days of Summer

Yeah, that's about it.

Tb1

01-20-2010, 04:44 AM

I liked it. Not as much as the others, though.

01-21-2010, 07:28 AM

The Hurt Locker was the best movie ive seen.

Corporate CockSnogger

01-21-2010, 11:07 AM

Definitely Up

Blitz

01-21-2010, 04:17 PM

Downloading Big Fan now, wanting to see it for a while.

Top 5 would probably be Gran Torino, District 9, Inglorious Basterds, Where The Wild Things Are, and Watchmen.

Indifferent Clox

01-21-2010, 04:18 PM

i love it when Triple A does this as i pretty much get a download list going.

Champion of Europa

01-23-2010, 10:54 PM

I'm going to attempt a top 10 list:

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Up in the Air
3. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
4. Crazy Heart
5. Moon
6. Observe and Report
7. Star Trek
8. District 9
9. Funny People
10. Watchmen

I always have so much trouble with top 10s. Past top five, I feel like I'm forgetting shit and panic.

Big Fat Mike

01-24-2010, 02:50 PM

I can't find the Big Fan dvd anywhere. I mean to rent anyway. Blockbuster isn't carrying it and I don' have netflix or anything. I could buy it at WalMart for 20 bucks but idk if it's worth a purchase?

Indifferent Clox

01-24-2010, 05:46 PM

download it bfm

Ogen

01-25-2010, 12:34 AM

Yeah I just did based on this thread, pretty good stuff if I say so myself.

Good News Gertie

01-25-2010, 12:10 PM

Liked:
Sunshine Cleaning
Whip It
Shrink
Dorian Gray
(500) Days of Summer
An Education
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Young Victoria
Coco avant Chanel

Meh:
Public Enemies
Up in the Air
Coraline
Jennifer's Body
Up
The Proposal
The Orphan
Planet 51

No, not really:
Paranormal Activity
The Ugly Truth
The Reader
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Invictus

Why?:
Halloween 2 or whatever
17 Again
One Week
The Time Traveler's Wife

Good News Gertie

01-25-2010, 02:02 PM

just watched Adam and it was the best.

Ogen

01-26-2010, 04:43 AM

Good man AAA just followed up Big Fan with Whatever Works, that was insanely good. Like fuck all even happened dunno love Larry David and that was just class.

Penner

01-26-2010, 01:35 PM

Mm-hmm
500 Days Of Summer
Avatar
Up
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Harry Potter
The Hangover
He's Just Not That Into You
Star Trek
Blind Side

Meh/Mm-mm
Twilight: New Moon
District 9
Couples Retreat
Where The Wild Things Are

The Genius

01-27-2010, 12:28 AM

just watched Moon last night and it wins hands down.

Champion of Europa

01-27-2010, 10:45 PM

A so so quality screener of Bad Lieutenant is online, and I highly recommend anyone check it out. It's complete insanity. Nicholas Cage is ridiculously good in it. It's like he's been acting weird all his life for this.

PapaGeorgio

01-27-2010, 11:25 PM

Just watched Mary & Max, completely in love with it. Thanks AAA for recommendation there, some of the movies you've mentioned over these 9 or so years I've been here have become my favorites.

Ogen

01-27-2010, 11:52 PM

Right everyone loving Moon a bit too much really. Watched it and it just never gripped me properly.

Good News Gertie

01-28-2010, 10:34 PM

01-28-2010, 10:36 PM

I just watched The Hurt Locker for a 2nd time and its still my favorite movie.

Champion of Europa

01-29-2010, 05:49 AM

still have to watch, from TIFF:

White Material
Antichrist
Life During Wartime
Hadewijch
The White Ribbon
The Dirty Saints
Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands
I Am Not Your Friend

I also really liked Antichrist. It's insane but it's a really interesting think piece.

I've got White Ribbon waiting on my computer for me to watch when I've finally caught up on Lost.

Triple A

01-29-2010, 05:52 AM

Can't wait for Life During Wartime. Todd Solondz is my fav <3333333 Was gonna see it at the NY Film Festival but it was playing during a Jets game, like 12 PM on a Sunday. Dumb

Sixx

01-29-2010, 09:46 AM

Jura

01-29-2010, 11:43 AM

Zombieland. I like any zombie movie as long as it's not as bad as House of the Dead.
I Love You, Man. The most I laughed in a long while.

Champion of Europa

01-29-2010, 02:29 PM

The 1992 Bad Lieutenant is better.

I've seen them both, and I'm going say that I like Herzog's better. It caters more to my taste for the bizarre and crazy. Port of Call is a fantastic celebration of evil, none of that Catholic guilt stuff.

mitch_h

01-29-2010, 05:40 PM

Can't wait for Life During Wartime. Todd Solondz is my fav <3333333 Was gonna see it at the NY Film Festival but it was playing during a Jets game, like 12 PM on a Sunday. Dumb

I saw it, thought it was a huuuuge dissapointment, you'll probably like it more than me though, cause you're more into Solondz oeuvre(would never use this word in real life)

Requiem

02-07-2010, 02:26 AM

Moon was awesome.

How can anyone dislike Up though? :(

Downunder

02-07-2010, 04:52 AM

I thought Up was terrible

Jeritron

02-08-2010, 08:43 PM

I thought it was really good, but I also didn't think it was anywhere near the top of the Pixar list.

That's something I've noticed. Every Pixar movie that comes out now is automatically considered the greatest thing ever. Pixar is an amazing company with an amazing track record, but it's now become the "in" thing to over-hype every movie.

Toy Story is still the best of them. The Incredibles runs a distant second, and Wall E comes in third. Toy Story 2 is up there too. That's my 2 cents.

Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., Up, Ratatouille are all great. Still, I wouldn't class them with those other 4 I listed.

Somehow I never saw Cars or A Bugs Life. Should get around to that.

Can't wait for Toy Story 3

mitch_h

02-08-2010, 08:58 PM

I thought the first half hour of Up was pretty amazing, but I don't like how Pixar has to load their films with a whole bunch of chase/action scenes, Wall E was the same way. Still good movies though.

Triple A

02-08-2010, 09:03 PM

I thought the first half hour of Up was pretty amazing, but I don't like how Pixar has to load their films down with a whole bunch of chase/action scenes, Wall E was the same way. Still good movies though.

Yeah exactly this.

I mean it is a kid's movie so that is OK but it was annoying because everyone was hyping it up so much for some reason so I thought it would be "different." Was just an average kid's movie other than the beginning which was really good.