TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2009
Forget the national board of review, golden globes, LA film critics association and all that other nonsense. This is the only movie list that matters. And besides, have you seen what some people are calling “best of the year”? All of the “best of 2009″ movie lists I’ve read so far make me feel like I’m the only one who got out to the movies this year. I’ll be honest, this year was “so-so” overall. 2009 was made up of only a handful of really great movies (The White ribbon, Tyson, Fantastic Mr. fox), mixed with a few pleasant surprises (Bad Lieutenant, Star Trek, Drag Me To Hell), mixed with movies that were just; “eh, ok” (The Road), or movies that were really disappointing (Inglorious Basterds, Limits Of Control, Bruno). There’s also a unique group of movies from 2009 that were disappointing, but still pretty good. What I mean when I say this is that they could have been much better, but were still enjoyable. These are movies like; Watchmen, Big Fan (which kinda ripped off “The King of Comedy” the more I thought about it) and Where the Wild Things Are. In 2009, we saw 2 of the best current actors in the game; John Turturro and Angela Basset waste their time and talent on stupid movies like; Transformers 2 and Notorious. We saw two of greatest directors ever; Francis Ford Coppolla and Werner Herzog make not only 2 of the worst movies of the year, but 2 of their worst movies EVER as well. And once again Tarantino coasted by on his name and previous work with Inglorious Basterds (sorry, but that movie wasn’t good). However, there were some highlights from 2009. James Toback made a great “comeback” movie with Tyson. The White Ribbon lived up to all its hype. Wes Anderson redeemed himself with Fantastic Mr. Fox. Hunger, Revanche and Silent Light FINALLY made it to U.S. theaters. There were some standout performances from Christoph Waltz (IngloriouS) and Christian McKay (Me & Orson Welles), as well as a few great underrated performances from Kevin Corrigan (Big Fan) and Peter Capaldi (In The Loop). Quite frankly, it was kind of a struggle to come up with 10 truly great movies for 2009 (this is evident in the fact that 3 of the movies on my top 10 list were technically released in 2008, but didn’t get to U.S. theaters until this year). Nevertheless, I’m still confident that this top 10 list represents the best of the best in 2009. Oh yeah, before you read any further, here are the movies I didn’t see this year (*note* “Up” and “Loot” are the only movies on this list that I actually wanted to see but never got around to. All the other movies listed I didn’t really care about): Up, Loot, Invictus, Up In The Air, The Informant, Dr. Parnassus, Sherlock Holmes, Nine, 2012, and a few others.
and so the list goes…
TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2009
TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2009
Me & Orson Welles
Revanche
Tyson
Black Dynamite
The White Ribbon
Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Serious Man
All Tomorrows Parties
Hunger
In The Loop
*Other Movies from 2009 worth checking out
35 shots of rum
antichrist
star trek
drag me to hell
Hurt Locker
Bad Lieutenant
Trash Humpers
Mystery Team
The Hangover
Silent Light (made in 2007, but didn’t get to the U.S. until the beginning of 2009).
10 WORST MOVIES OF 2009
Tetro
Precious (yes i saw it)
Notorious
Limits of Control
Inglorious Basterds
Transformers 2
My My Son
Bruno
GI Joe
Life During Wartime
-Marcus