2009 - best movie of the year

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  • Star Trek and Avatar. EEK! I'm a geek!
  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    81 wrote:
    of the 2009 movies i've seen ranked in order from best to worst

    Inglourious Basterds - best movie in several years
    Terminator Salvation - best sequel
    Zombieland - best cameo award
    Star Trek - biggest suprised that wasn't so bad award
    Moon - need to watch stoned award
    X-Men Origins: Wolverine - weak sauce award
    District 9 - biggest disappointment award
    Watchmen - biggest waste of time award
    wow you would put terminator salvation before district 9 and moon??
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,184
    haffajappa wrote:
    81 wrote:
    of the 2009 movies i've seen ranked in order from best to worst

    Inglourious Basterds - best movie in several years
    Terminator Salvation - best sequel
    Zombieland - best cameo award
    Star Trek - biggest suprised that wasn't so bad award
    Moon - need to watch stoned award
    X-Men Origins: Wolverine - weak sauce award
    District 9 - biggest disappointment award
    Watchmen - biggest waste of time award
    wow you would put terminator salvation before district 9 and moon??

    District 9 totally sucked but maybe i was under the influence. It just seemed to be a shit movie that made no sense to me.

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  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    Up in The Air
    500 Days of Summer
    Star Trek are my top 3...
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    I missed so many good movies :(
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  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    Fuck, i have to see Moon. I love Sam Rockwell...

    My nominee's in no particular order:
    Precious - disturbing but excellent movie
    Avatar - though I hate to go with hype, this was worth the 2 hour wait in line. Plus I love the messages in it.
    District 9 - Surprisingly awesome, great messages in it as well.
    Star Trek - great even for someone like me who doesnt' know anything about the franchise
    Inglorious Bastards - takes liberties with history but loved it regardless
    Sherlock Holmes - RDJ could be in anything and I'll still love it.
    UP - Soooo awesome... that dog makes my life.
    I Love You, Man - I actually liked this one better than the Hangover
    Away We Go - cute film, really enjoyable I thought
    Pirate Radio - again, found this really enjoyable
    The Cove - I don't come from Taiji!!

    Disappointments for me:
    Terminator: Salvation
    Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
    9
    The Soloist (an exception to the RDJ rule)

    Ones I really need to see still:
    Moon
    The Lovely Bones (Although I think that one's released date has changed to 2010, at least in Canada)
    the Hurt Locker
    The Stoning of Soroya M
    The Informant!
    Where the Wild Things Are
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  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    g under p wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:

    wow you would put terminator salvation before district 9 and moon??

    District 9 totally sucked but maybe i was under the influence. It just seemed to be a shit movie that made no sense to me.

    Peace
    When I saw it I didn't know anything about it... I saw a few posters at bus stops which were interesting but other than that never looked into it. It was unusual for me to see a movie without seeing the trailer or knowing nothing about it. Maybe it works? I loved it for some reason..
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    haffajappa wrote:
    81 wrote:
    of the 2009 movies i've seen ranked in order from best to worst

    Inglourious Basterds - best movie in several years
    Terminator Salvation - best sequel
    Zombieland - best cameo award
    Star Trek - biggest suprised that wasn't so bad award
    Moon - need to watch stoned award
    X-Men Origins: Wolverine - weak sauce award
    District 9 - biggest disappointment award
    Watchmen - biggest waste of time award
    wow you would put terminator salvation before district 9 and moon??


    absolutly. District 9 had no character development, very little action, very predictable story. I was really looking forward to it and was completly disapointed.

    Moon wasn't bad. It was a neat movie. Very different. enjoyable, but it could have been better

    I'm aslo a terminator junkie, so that plays a role into it as well.
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    g under p wrote:

    District 9 totally sucked but maybe i was under the influence. It just seemed to be a shit movie that made no sense to me.

    Peace

    D9 made sense, and was easy to follow, it just was lacking. the gf kept using partide to describe it. it's too big a word for me. :lol:
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  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    haffajappa wrote:
    Peace
    I saw a few posters at bus stops which were interesting but other than that never looked into it. It was unusual for me to see a movie without seeing the trailer or knowing nothing about it. ..[/quote] i prefer to not know a lot going into a movie. i just need to a very high level summary. ie Zombieland...it;s a zombie movie. that's enough for me.
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  • itsevobaby wrote:
    Hangover was possibly the worst movie.
    THANK YOU

    that was the single most uncreative comedy i have ever seen... COMEDIC SPOONFEEDING! its like they got a panel of frat guys together to write the damn thing... zachs one of the funniest standups around and even he couldnt save it... hell, bradley coopers basically the leading man and isnt funny AT ALL... just a linear series of non related mishaps and one liners that tried WAY too hard

    sorry... just sick of hearing about it :x

    ANYWAY
    best movie of '09 goes to the basterds

    avatar sucked too - looked awesome... sucked as a movie
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  • haffajappa wrote:
    Sherlock Holmes - RDJ could be in anything and I'll still love it.
    UP - Soooo awesome... that dog makes my life.
    I Love You, Man - I actually liked this one better than the Hangover
    all good choices too!
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    movies i still need to see-
    precious
    moon
    500 days of summer
    hurt locker
    up in the air
    sherlock holmes

    I'll see either up in the air or sherlock holmes tonight.

    Of the movies i've seen so far none really jump out at me as being "the best" I really wanted "The Road" to be more then what it was. It was good, but not as good as I wanted it to be.
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  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    itsevobaby wrote:
    Hangover was possibly the worst movie.
    THANK YOU

    that was the single most uncreative comedy i have ever seen... COMEDIC SPOONFEEDING! its like they got a panel of frat guys together to write the damn thing... zachs one of the funniest standups around and even he couldnt save it... hell, bradley coopers basically the leading man and isnt funny AT ALL... just a linear series of non related mishaps and one liners that tried WAY too hard

    sorry... just sick of hearing about it :x

    ANYWAY
    best movie of '09 goes to the basterds

    avatar sucked too - looked awesome... sucked as a movie
    thank god i'm not the only one who found it overrated.
    thought i was going crazy!
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    haffajappa wrote:
    The Cove - I don't come from Taiji!!

    fuck ... i damm near broke down when ric talks about flipper in his arms ...
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    Where The Wild Things Are
  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Posts: 1,069
    Twice, I've tried watching District 9 and both times I end up being more interested with what's on the internet than I am in the movie. I'm going to try once more this evening to watch it, but so far I'd have to say I'm not impressed.

    For me, best movie of the year, by far, is Inglourious Basterds. Tarantino scores once again.
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  • The Hurt Locker gets my vote- just so tense and ive never seen a film where you know exactly how these guys are feeling. Its just amazing
  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    polaris_x wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    The Cove - I don't come from Taiji!!

    fuck ... i damm near broke down when ric talks about flipper in his arms ...
    it makes me feel bad because being japanse we eat a lot of fish at home.

    i dont eat whale meat though, so i know i'm not eating any dolphins
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    I saw up in the air last night and i really liked it.

    I thought it fell a little short of being a great movie but it was really cool.
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 48,630
    up in the air. not even close.
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  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Posts: 16,991
    up in the air. not even close.

    AGREED. Saw this on Saturday - awe....some.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    haffajappa wrote:
    i dont eat whale meat though, so i know i'm not eating any dolphins

    i eat a lot of fish too - i try to eat the sustainable kinds ... having said that - what they are doing in taiji is brutal - it's literally a mass slaughter - and the mayor wanting to put it into the national food system is even more troubling ...
  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    polaris_x wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    i dont eat whale meat though, so i know i'm not eating any dolphins

    i eat a lot of fish too - i try to eat the sustainable kinds ... having said that - what they are doing in taiji is brutal - it's literally a mass slaughter - and the mayor wanting to put it into the national food system is even more troubling ...

    yeah, i'm on a david suzuki mailing list and the organization sent out a seafood guide so i try to eat from that. my father is a professional sushi chef though so its hard to pass up some things.

    i hung out with my daddy the other night, he made sushi... how can i turn down tuna nigiri and the canucks game? :D i'm sorry ocean!!!! :(
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  • tcaporaletcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Easily Inglorious Basterds.
  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    looks like Moon and the Hurt Locker will come out on Tuesday on dvd...
    I'll def. be watching them tomorrow night and we'll see if my list changes! :D
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  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Posts: 16,991
    Anybody see this Crazy Heart movie yet? I wanna see that.
  • mr.pinkmr.pink Posts: 362
    Inglorious Basterds

    (haven't seen moon, avatar and star trek yet)

    Didn't see that many, a few sucked. Didn't see anything that was Great. Inglorious Basterds was the best.

    I liked "Taken", saw that a couple times.
    Twenty-ten watch it go to fire!!!
  • haffajappahaffajappa Posts: 5,955
    Friend and I just watched (500) Days of Summer... it was awesome!!!!!!!!
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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Tonight, me and the gal watched a few of the movies people are talking about in this thread ...

    District 9 - Horribly predictable. I thought it was well acted, but the script was a hunk of shit. Just annoying. And yeah, the fiance loved it so, we now own it ... :roll:

    Hurt Locker - meh. Had it's moments, the desert sniper scene was great. But, I found myself yawning quite a few times. Someone above wrote, "The Hurt Locker gets my vote- just so tense and ive never seen a film where you know exactly how these guys are feeling. Its just amazing" ... really? Did you serve? That's the thing that I wanted to know ... from the point of view of a vet, was this realistic? I mean, some of the scenes, I can see ... but, the main character kept "going rouge" ... that seemed a bit overdone.

    James Cameron stating that this may be the Platoon of the Iraqi War made wonder if he bumped his head ... because that's ridiculous.

    Few more comments.

    The Hangover - Saw it in the theatre, got a lot of great laughs. But, once the surprise is over, it loses something. Tried wathcing it again a few weeks ago and it wasn't even close to the same movie. Ken Jeong is one funny fucker though.

    Where The Wild Things Are - wow, disappointment.

    Inglourious Basterds - Fantastic from start to finish. I hope Christoph Waltz wins everything he's nominated for because he was outstanding.

    That is all.
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