2009 Films in Review

Better late than never, right?

• Top 10 Films of 2009 (in Alphabetical Order):

• Avatar

• District 9

• In The Loop

• Inglourious Basterds

• It Might Get Loud

• Star Trek

• The Escapist

• The Hurt Locker

• Where The Wild Things Are

• World’s Greatest Dad

• Bottom 4 films of 2009:

• For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

• Pontypool

• Terminator Salvation

• The Burning Plain

• Best Remake/Reworking: Star Trek

• Most Unnecessary Remake/Reworking: Friday the 13th (2009)

• Best Director: James Cameron in Avatar (Not the best movie of the year, but the direction was clearly tops)

• Best Actress: Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia

• Best Actor: Robin Williams in World’s Greatest Dad

• Best Supporting Actress: Mimi Kennedy in In The Loop

• Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

• Best Ensemble: In The Loop

• Best Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker

• Best Adapted Screenplay: In The Loop

• Best Cinematography: Avatar

• Best Soundtrack: Star Trek

• Most Alarming Cinematic Trend: 3D and Fake IMAX.

• Most Memorable Lines:

• In The Loop

• Malcolm Turner - Fuckity-bye-bye then

• Malcolm Turner - Y’know, I’ve come across a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you. You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I knowyou disapprove of swearing so I’ll sort that out. You are a boring F, star, star, CUNT!

• World’s Greatest Dad

• Kyle: Bruce Hornsby’s a fag.

• Lance Clayton: He’s got kids Kyle.

• Kyle: You have a kid. And you’re a fag.

• Star Trek

• McCoy: Yeah. Well, I got nowhere else to go, the ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I got left is my bones.

• Best Documentary: It Might Get Loud - I now own a guitar and am taking lessons.** **

• Films I feel guilty for missing:

• An Education

• Up in the Air

• A Single Man

• A Prophet

• Films I don’t feel guilty for missing:

• The Blind Side

• The Last Station

• Nine

• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen