50 Movies in 2009

[clemsonfan]

The divorce was 10 years ago. I thought It's Complicated was fantastic. Don't listen to Butter, he just doesn't like romantic movies in general. I think it's in my top 5 movies of the year, in fact.

[c-lando]

The divorce was 10 years ago. I thought It's Complicated was fantastic. Don't listen to Butter, he just doesn't like romantic movies in general. I think it's in my top 5 movies of the year, in fact.

I'll stick with you on the girl bandwagon and say I would totally recommend it to anyone who loves romantic comedies.

[Butter]

It's not so much a romcom as it is a sex farce.  Though it did have Alec Baldwin blowing pot smoke into John Krasinski's mouth, so it was worth it just for that.

[c-lando]

It's not so much a romcom as it is a sex farce.  Though it did have Alec Baldwin blowing pot smoke into John Krasinski's mouth, so it was worth it just for that.

That scene was AMAZING! Straight to the lady spank-bank.

[clemsonfan]

I laughed so hard at that scene that I cried!

[va_vacious]

1. The Iron Giant
2.  Chicken Run (Sorry, Lando!)
3. Swing Time
4. Coraline
5. He's Just Not That In to You
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Kiki's Delivery Service
8. Two Weeks Notice
9. Music and Lyrics
10. Confessions of a Shopaholic
11. The Dark Crystal
12. Watchmen
13. Coraline
14. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
15. I Love You, Man
16. Mostly Martha
17. 17 Again
18. Pillow Talk
19. X- Men: Origins WOLVERINE
20. Under the Greenwood Tree
21. Ghosts of Girfriends Past
22. Up
23. Twilight Samurai
24. The Reduced Shakespeare Company Presents the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)
25. Some Kind of Wonderful
26. The Proposal
27. Definitely, Maybe
28. My Sister's Keeper
29. New In Town
30. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
31. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
32. Julie and Julia
33. Dr. Who: Planet of the Dead
34.(500) Days of Summer
35. Fame
36. Nine
37. Fever Pitch (2005)
38. Mad Hot Ballroom
39.Fever Pitch (Colin Firth version)
40. Zombieland
41. Whip It
42. Cry Baby
43. Cowboy Bebop
44. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
45. Greenfingers
46. The Triplets of Belleville
47. The Librarian

48. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic!

49. The Sound of Music
For the 8,000th time, and I still get anxious about whether or not the family will escape the Nazis.

50. Pretty in Pink

I know I've seen some others, but I can't remember what they are. But I hit 50 before the end of the year! This has taken longer than in the past two years. I've been watching alot of tv!

[Cockney Rebel]

Movies watched for the v.first time in Bold

1 • Step Brothers
2 • 24 Hour Party People
3 • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
4 • O Homem Do Ano (The Man of the Year)
5 • Righteous Kill
6 • Tropic Thunder
7 • Eagle Eye
8 • Crimes & Misdemeanors
9 • Wall-E
10 • RockNRolla
11 • Everything's Gone Green
12 • Lakeview Terrace
13 • (The) Savages
14 • Gangster No. 1
15 • Goldfinger
16 • Moonraker
17 • Idiocracy
18 • Octopussy
19 • Religulous
20 • The Man with the Golden Gun
21 • From Russia with Love
22 • W.
23 • Lions for Lambs
24 • Toi et Moi
25 • Mamma Mia!
26 • Schindler's List
27 • Flash of Genius
28 • Nights in Rodanthe
29 • The Day the Earth Stood Still
30 • Role Models
31 • Bottle Shock
32 • Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
33 • Happy-Go-Lucky
34 • Zack & Miri Make a Porno
35 • Body of Lies
36 • Thunderball
37 • Life of Brian
38 • You Only Live Twice
39 • Margaret
40 • Diamonds are Forever
41 • Fargo
42 • A View to a Kill
43 • Cadillac Records
44 • Rachel Getting Married
45 • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
46 • On a Clear Day
47 • The Women
48 • The Bourne Identity
49 • Notorious
50 • The Game
51 • Fast Food Nation
52 • I've Loved You So Long
53 • Frost/Nixon
54 • Yes Man
55 • The Reader
56 • Milk
57 • Standing in the Shadows of Motown
58 • Star Trek
59 • The Hangover
60 • The Wrestler
61 • 9½ Weeks
62 • Transporter 3
63 • Angels & Demons
64 • Valkyrie
65 • The Love Guru
66 • Last Chance Harvey
67 • The Final Season
68 • The Nugget
69 • Sleepers
70 • Home
71 • Frequency
72 • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
73 • Sleuth (2007)
74 • 2010
75 • Into the Blue
76 • The International
77 • Red Eye
78 • Man on Wire
79 • Mon Oncle
80 • The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
81 • Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
82 • Gran Torino
83 • New in Town
84 • Defiance
85 • 21
86 • Dragonball: Evolution
87 • He's Just Not That Into You
88 • Know1ng
89 • Sex & Death 101
90 • Fanboys
91 • Woodstock: Now & Then
92 • The Great Escape
93 • Coraline
94 • Baby Mama
95 • The Incredible Hulk
96 • A Guide to Recognising Your Saints
97 • Midnight Express
98 • In Like Flint
99 • Inglourious Basterds
100 • The Waiting Room
101 • Fast & Furious
102 • Duplicity
103 • I Love You, Man
104 • Vicki Cristina Barcelona
105 • Sex Drive
106 • Bikini Beach
107 • In Bruges
108 • Adventureland
109 • Smart People
110 • Sunshine Cleaning
111 • Crank 2 - High Voltage
112 • The Man with One Red Shoe
113 • Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten
114 • Ca$h
115 • Oh, God!
116 • An Englishman in New York
117 • Thunderbirds Are Go
118 • The Proposal
119 • Anvil! The Story of Anvil
120 • Food, Inc.
121 • The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
122 • A Clockwork Orange
123 • Garage
124 • Enemy of the State
125 • Natural Born Killers
126 • The Man Who Fell to Earth
127 • Up
128 • Fool's Gold
129 • Used Cars
130 • Watchmen
131 • Flakes
132 • Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
133 • Monterey Pop
134 • What Would Jesus Buy?
135 • Gangs of New York
136 • Julie & Julia
137 • A Dirty Shame
138 • Pindemonium
139 • A Skin Too Few - The Days of Nick Drake
140 • A Christmas Story

141 • Up in the Air
A tremendously well-written and snappy script underscores fabulous performances in a film that is a VERY rare offering from Hollywood... something for grown-ups. Let's have more like this please!
142 • An Englishman in New York
2nd time this year. Shown to our British visitor
143 • Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
Welcome reviewing of this fascinating little documentary

[va_vacious]

49. Please Don't Eat the Daisies- Cute Doris Day and David Niven. This was okay.  Nothing great, nothing awful.  I really dug the jokes about keeping the baby in an upside down crib because he was prone to escape.  Does that bode badly for me as a new mom, that I liked them keeping the baby in a cage?  Eh, oh well.

Not crazy at all! At my museum, we have an actually "baby cage" in the collection. It's a playpen with a lockable lid made of chicken wire.  It was used on a nearby farm 80-90 years ago.  The baby was caged on the porch so that it wouldn't crawl away and get eaten, drown, burned, or otherwise harmed. I think it's awesome, though my coworkers are horrified by it!

[Juliana]

1. Saving Silverman
2. Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 version)
3. Murderball
4. Back to the Future
5. Back to the Future Part II
6. Back to the Future Part III
7. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
8. Hell Boy II: The Golden Army
9. The Last King of Scotland
10. Zodiac
11. Taken
12. Apollo 13
13. The Jacksons: An American Dream
14. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
15. Transformers
16. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
17.  Who Killed the Electric Car?  
18. Star Trek
19. The Flock- Pretty intense thriller with Richard Gere and Claire Danes
20. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer- Flame on, flame on...Worse than the 1st, which doesn't seem possible
21. The Greatest Show on Earth- I love this movie.  My mom intro'd us to it a long time ago and it still holds up for me.  I don't care what critics say about it being the worst "Best Picture" winner ever.  Jerks.
22. Strike Up the Band-  It was Judy Garland day on TCM
23. For Me And My Gal- Another Judy Garland movie
24. Viva Las Vegas- Elvis Day on TCM
25. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini-  One of those beach movies with Annette and Frankie.  Cutsey stuff.
26. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House- Cary Grant & Myrna Loy.  Can't go wrong.  Watching these old movies makes me really sad that they just don't make them like this anymore.
27. I Never Sang For My Father- Gene Hackman day on TCM. This movie was a depressing look at a man and his emotionally distant father
28. Five Steps To Danger- Sterling Hayden day on TCM.  Got sucked intot his while feeding the baby.  Interesting low key (by today's standards) espionage movie
29. American Psycho- Um...Can somebody explain this to Kwyj & I.  We liked it, we just didn't get the ending.  
30. The Trouble With Girls- DVR'd on Elvis day.  Awful movie, though there was some interesting camera work, believe it or not.
31. The Barretts of Wimpole Street- Jennifer Jones day.  
32. The Harvey Girls- Angela Lansbury day. Silly little MGM musical.  Not the best, not the worst.  If you've never seen Angela Lansbury from when she was young...holy crap.  Angela Lansbury, circa 1947
33. Hairspray- The 2007 version.  I liked this a lot actually.  The songs were catchy, the acting was pretty decent.  Loved Christopher Walken as Mr. Turnblat.  Zac Effron was surprisingly good.  I wouldn't mind owning the soundtrack.
34. Mary of Scotland- Fredric March day.  I think I picked the wrong movie in the lineup for this day.  It just didn't keep my attention.  Sadly the sound was really off in this one.  That was part of why it was so hard to pay attention.
35. The Devil Wears Prada.  This was okay.  Meryl Streep pretty much made it worth watching.
36. Mama Mia.  I watched this earlier in the summer, while feeding the baby.  I liked it.  It was silly, and it was Abba, but it filled a couple of hours.  Meryl Streep can literally do anything.  She's amazing.
37. Women's Prison-  Jan Starling or Ida Lupino day I think.  Not very good.  
38. Marooned- Gene Hackman day I think.  This was kind of boring at first, but started to pick up as the astronauts faced the liklihood that they weren't going to make it home  
39. The King and I
40. Lord of the Rings...Uh, the 3rd one.  
41. The Pianist- I can see why Adrian Brody won an Oscar for this.  It was a very good movie.  Hard to watch though.  The soldiers were so casual about what they were doing, killing, hurting, destroying everything.  
42. Anchors Aweigh- leftover from Frank Sinatra day.  
43. The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer.
44. The Confederate States of America- This was a REALLY interesting look at what the US would be if the South would have won.  It was presented as a British Documentary of the slavery in present day America.  Throughout the "bbc presentation" they had commercials for american products, awful racist stuff.  The cool thing was at the end they showed all these present day products that you don't think of (Aunt Jemimia's, Uncle Ben's to name two).  This whole thing really made me think.
45. On the Town- Better than Anchors Aweigh.  Same vein.  Lots of really great dancing.  Man, Gene Kelly........
46. Phffft- Jack Lemon.  Cute movie about a couple that gets a divorce.  No, really, it was cute and funny...
47. Transformers 2- Sucked.  I liked the first for what it was, but this was just too much.  WAAAAY too long.  2 and a half hours.  Ugh.
48. Sunday in New York- 60s romantic comedy with Jane Fonda.  Really cute.
49. Please Don't Eat the Daisies- Cute Doris Day and David Niven. This was okay.  Nothing great, nothing awful.  I really dug the jokes about keeping the baby in an upside down crib because he was prone to escape.  Does that bode badly for me as a new mom, that I liked them keeping the baby in a cage?  Eh, oh well.
50. American Graffiti- Liked it, but it was slow paced to be sure.  Took us 3 nights to finish it.  
51. The Odd Couple- Good stuff.  The two english gals, the "Coo-Coo Pigeon Sisters" were a trip.
52. Singing in the Rain- Really good song and dance movie.  I think after this year I'm a little in love with Gene Kelly.  Too bad I hear he was kind of a jerkface in real life.
53. Love Actually- The annual viewing.  As someone I work with called it, "the ultimate chick flick"
54. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story- Holy crap this was funny.  Stupid but really funny. John C. Riley was REALLY good in this.
55. The Hangover
56. The Story of Seabiscut-  Shirley Temple version from 1949.  It's funny, because Shirley was totally the weak link.  She did this awful Irish accent.  Terrible.  Oh, and apparently the Tobey Maguire version had it all wrong.  
57. Up- Holy crap, this was so good, and so sad.  I knew what was coming at the beginning, but jeez.  Had me much more teary-eyed than any kids movie should in the first 14 minutes.  The whole thing was just so sweet.
58. Elf
59. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince- Good Lord they cut out most of the book.  Seriously, it was waaaay too much on the blossoming teenage romances.  Ugh.  Barely even mentioned the stuff with the Half Blood Prince. 
60. The Prestige- Way better than the other "magic" movie that came out the same time.  The Illusion?  Illusionist?  The lame one with Ed Norton.  This one was good. Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale and Michael Caine, all good. 
61. Rosemary's Baby- Man, Mia Farrow was good in this.  Glad I didn't watch this while I was pregnant.  Would have freaked me out.
62. No Deposit, No Return- Silly 70s era Disney flick.  2 kids, 2 minor league crooks, hijinks ensue.

63. Three Amigos-  Hehe, "son of a motherless goat"  I had forgotten about that one.
64. Away We Go- Maybe it's because of the baby, but I really dug this movie.  It was funny and sweet.

I love that about the baby cage VaV!  Take a picture!!!

[Kwyjibo]

1. Saving Silverman
2. Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 version)
3. Murderball
4. Back to the Future
5. Back to the Future Part II
6. Back to the Future Part III
7. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
8. Hell Boy II: The Golden Army
9. The Last King of Scotland
10. Zodiac
11. Taken
12. Apollo 13
13. The Jacksons: An American Dream
14. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
15. Transformers
16. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
17.  Who Killed the Electric Car?  
18. Star Trek
19. Held Up
20. The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
21. Paranormal Activity
22. The Confederate States of America
23. American Psycho
24. The Pianist
25. Ghostbusters
26. Monsters vs. Aliens - Loved it.
27. Transformers: Rise of the Fallen
28. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
29. Empire Records
30. GI Joe: Rise of Cobra
31. Please Don't Eat the Daisies
32. Planet 51
33. The Odd Couple
34. American Graffiti
35. Coneheads
36. Love Actually
37. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
38. The Hangover
39. Up
40. Elf
41. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
42. The Prestige
43. Cars
44. Rosemary's Baby
45. No Deposit, No Return

46. Three Amigos - Another classic that I'd never seen before.  Loved it.

47. Away We Go - Wacky and sweet.  All of the people they visited gave amazing performances, but Allison Janney was hilarious, she completely stole the show.  I'm glad they left dumb ol' Jim Gaffigan kind of in the background.  Loved Maggie Gyllenhal, her character was so creepy, she played it well.  The brother was heartbreaking.  Not long on plot, but so much story... really great movie.  Oh, and John Krasinski should never grow a beard again.

[va_vacious]

1. The Iron Giant
2.  Chicken Run (Sorry, Lando!)
3. Swing Time
4. Coraline
5. He's Just Not That In to You
6. Slumdog Millionaire
7. Kiki's Delivery Service
8. Two Weeks Notice
9. Music and Lyrics
10. Confessions of a Shopaholic
11. The Dark Crystal
12. Watchmen
13. Coraline
14. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
15. I Love You, Man
16. Mostly Martha
17. 17 Again
18. Pillow Talk
19. X- Men: Origins WOLVERINE
20. Under the Greenwood Tree
21. Ghosts of Girfriends Past
22. Up
23. Twilight Samurai
24. The Reduced Shakespeare Company Presents the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)
25. Some Kind of Wonderful
26. The Proposal
27. Definitely, Maybe
28. My Sister's Keeper
29. New In Town
30. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
31. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
32. Julie and Julia
33. Dr. Who: Planet of the Dead
34.(500) Days of Summer
35. Fame
36. Nine
37. Fever Pitch (2005)
38. Mad Hot Ballroom
39.Fever Pitch (Colin Firth version)
40. Zombieland
41. Whip It
42. Cry Baby
43. Cowboy Bebop
44. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
45. Greenfingers
46. The Triplets of Belleville
47. The Librarian
48. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
49. The Sound of Music
50. Pretty in Pink

51. It's Complicated
I really enjoyed this one. Very funny, and I think Meryl should do more comedy. And John K. (yeah, I'm not spelling that) is awesome!

Juliana- I'll get a pic for you!

[c-lando]

76. THE GAME PLAN - 11/14/09 - ABC Family - 1 out of  5
77. ALWAYS & FOREVER - 11/16/09 - Hallmark Channel - 1 out of 5
78. IRA & ABBY - 11/17/09 - DVD - 2.5 out of 5
79. FLOWER GIRL - 11/17/09 - Hallmark Channel - 3.5 out of 5
80. 2012 - 11/18/09 - AMC Parkway Point - 3 out of 5
81. NEW IN TOWN - 11/19/09 - RedBox DVD - 1 out of 5
82. THE RUINS - 11/20/09 - DVD - 3 out of 5 - Totally had plant nightmares
83. THE BLIND SIDE - 11/21/09 - AMC Parkway Point - 3 out of 5
84. THE NANNY EXPRESS - 11/22/09 - Hallmark Channel - 1 out of 5
85. MARRIED LIFE - 11/23/09 - Encore OnDemand - 2 out of 5
86. PRECIOUS - 11/28/09 - AMC Barrett Commons 24 - 2 out of 5
87. KING ARTHUR - 11/29/09 - DVD - 2.5 out of 5
88. NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM - 11/30/09 - FOX - 3 out of 5
89. UNTRACEABLE - 11/30/09 - Encore - 2 out of 5
90. PS: I LOVE YOU - 12/4/09 - DVD - 2 out of 5
91. THE BROTHERS SOLOMON - 12/5/09 - Encore - 1 out of 5
92. A DOG NAMED CHRISTMAS - 12/6/09 - CBS Hallmark Movie - 4 out of 5
93. INVICTUS - 12/11/09 - AMC Parkway Point - 3 out of 5
94. DANNY DECKCHAIR - 12/14/09 - DVD - 3.5 out of 5
95. BROTHERS - 12/18/09 - AMC Parkway Point - 3.5 out of 5
96. THE UGLY TRUTH - 12/19/09 - RedBox DVD - 1 out of 5
97. AVATAR - 12/20/09 - AMC Parkway Point in 3D - 4 out of 5 - everything was SO pretty!!!!
98. THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND - 12/22/09 - RedBox DVD - .5 out of 5
99. IT'S COMPLICATED - 12/27/09 - AMC Parkway Point - 3.5 out of 5
100. THE SOLOIST - 12/27/09 - DVD - 3 out of 5

101. THE HURT LOCKER - 12/30/09 - AMC Barrett Parkway - 3 out of 5 - "He keeps bomb parts under his bed." - I'm just going to be lazy and post part of the Alan Sepinwall review that made me finally get off my butt and take The Greg to go see this one.

Among the many things that are cool about it - Jeremy Renner's performance (I can't believe ABC had this guy under contract for a show and let him go), the various action set pieces expertly set up by director Kathryn Bigelow, all the effective cameos - I may be most impressed with how Bigelow and writer Mark Boal managed to make a 100% non-political Iraq War movie. "The Hurt Locker" never asks why we're there; it just accepts that we are, and then goes to show you what that experience is like (terrifying, but also thrilling, mostly) for one specific unit that's there.

[Hell Toupee]

1. Eagle Eye
2. Frost/Nixon
3. I.O.U.S.A.
4. Traitor
5. The Wrestler
6. 21
7. Man On Wire
8. W
9. Religulous
10. The International
11. The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor
12. The Visitor
13. Bottle Shock
14. Jesus Camp
15. No End In Sight
16. Sicko
17. Watchmen
18. Once
19. Milk
20. Flash Of Genius
21. Duplicity
22. Quantum of Solace
23. X Files: I Want To Believe
24. Bolt
25. Twilight
26. Across The Universe
27. Cleaner
28. Tell No One
29. Fast and Furious
30. Bedtime Stories
31. Doubt
32. In Bruges
33. Choke
34. Synecdoche, NY
35. Marley and Me
36. 2001
37. Notorious
38. Dear Zachary
39. JCVD
40. Star Trek
41. The Day The Earth Stood Still
42. Wendy and Lucy
43. Last Chance Harvey
44. Angels and Demons
45. Valkyrie
46. Terminator Salvation
47. Yes Man
48. Night at the Museum: Battle/Smithsonian
49. Spaceballs
50. Henry Poole Is Here
51. Up
52. Revolutionary Road
53. Passengers
54. Waltz With Bashir
55. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
56. The Code
57. The House Bunny
58. Crossing Over
59. Push
60. Bruno
61. Moon
62. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
63. 12
64. Lust, Caution
65. Knowing
66. Pineapple Express
67. The Great Buck Howard
68. Coraline
69. Lakeview Terrace
70. The Soloist
71. GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra
72. Horsemen
73. The Hurt Locker
74. Gigantic
75. District 9
76. I Love You Man
77. Race To Witch Mountain
78. Frozen River
79. 2010
80. Big Man Japan
81. Domino
82. State of Play
83. Sugar
84. Tyson
85. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
86. Hellboy II
87. Sunshine Cleaning
88. Outrage
89. Capitalism: A Love Story
90. Lifeforce
91. Paranormal Activity
92. Full Battle Rattle
93. Tokyo!
94. Where The Wild Things Are
95. The Class
96. Away We Go
97. Taking of Pelham 123
98. London To Brighton
99. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
100. The Blind Side
101. The Men Who Stare At Goats
102. Land of the Lost
103. The Proposal
104. The Yes Men
105. Ink
106. Public Enemies
107. Orphan
108. Inglorious Basterds
109. Up In The Air
110. Avatar
111. (500) Days Of Summer

And the last film of '09 for moi...

112. A Perfect Getaway - er... not so much, but better than I thought it would be.

Onto 2010.

[Cockney Rebel]

Movies watched for the v.first time in Bold

1 • Step Brothers
2 • 24 Hour Party People
3 • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
4 • O Homem Do Ano (The Man of the Year)
5 • Righteous Kill
6 • Tropic Thunder
7 • Eagle Eye
8 • Crimes & Misdemeanors
9 • Wall-E
10 • RockNRolla
11 • Everything's Gone Green
12 • Lakeview Terrace
13 • (The) Savages
14 • Gangster No. 1
15 • Goldfinger
16 • Moonraker
17 • Idiocracy
18 • Octopussy
19 • Religulous
20 • The Man with the Golden Gun
21 • From Russia with Love
22 • W.
23 • Lions for Lambs
24 • Toi et Moi
25 • Mamma Mia!
26 • Schindler's List
27 • Flash of Genius
28 • Nights in Rodanthe
29 • The Day the Earth Stood Still
30 • Role Models
31 • Bottle Shock
32 • Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
33 • Happy-Go-Lucky
34 • Zack & Miri Make a Porno
35 • Body of Lies
36 • Thunderball
37 • Life of Brian
38 • You Only Live Twice
39 • Margaret
40 • Diamonds are Forever
41 • Fargo
42 • A View to a Kill
43 • Cadillac Records
44 • Rachel Getting Married
45 • On Her Majesty's Secret Service
46 • On a Clear Day
47 • The Women
48 • The Bourne Identity
49 • Notorious
50 • The Game
51 • Fast Food Nation
52 • I've Loved You So Long
53 • Frost/Nixon
54 • Yes Man
55 • The Reader
56 • Milk
57 • Standing in the Shadows of Motown
58 • Star Trek
59 • The Hangover
60 • The Wrestler
61 • 9½ Weeks
62 • Transporter 3
63 • Angels & Demons
64 • Valkyrie
65 • The Love Guru
66 • Last Chance Harvey
67 • The Final Season
68 • The Nugget
69 • Sleepers
70 • Home
71 • Frequency
72 • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
73 • Sleuth (2007)
74 • 2010
75 • Into the Blue
76 • The International
77 • Red Eye
78 • Man on Wire
79 • Mon Oncle
80 • The Mummy - Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
81 • Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
82 • Gran Torino
83 • New in Town
84 • Defiance
85 • 21
86 • Dragonball: Evolution
87 • He's Just Not That Into You
88 • Know1ng
89 • Sex & Death 101
90 • Fanboys
91 • Woodstock: Now & Then
92 • The Great Escape
93 • Coraline
94 • Baby Mama
95 • The Incredible Hulk
96 • A Guide to Recognising Your Saints
97 • Midnight Express
98 • In Like Flint
99 • Inglourious Basterds
100 • The Waiting Room
101 • Fast & Furious
102 • Duplicity
103 • I Love You, Man
104 • Vicki Cristina Barcelona
105 • Sex Drive
106 • Bikini Beach
107 • In Bruges
108 • Adventureland
109 • Smart People
110 • Sunshine Cleaning
111 • Crank 2 - High Voltage
112 • The Man with One Red Shoe
113 • Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten
114 • Ca$h
115 • Oh, God!
116 • An Englishman in New York
117 • Thunderbirds Are Go
118 • The Proposal
119 • Anvil! The Story of Anvil
120 • Food, Inc.
121 • The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
122 • A Clockwork Orange
123 • Garage
124 • Enemy of the State
125 • Natural Born Killers
126 • The Man Who Fell to Earth
127 • Up
128 • Fool's Gold
129 • Used Cars
130 • Watchmen
131 • Flakes
132 • Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
133 • Monterey Pop
134 • What Would Jesus Buy?
135 • Gangs of New York
136 • Julie & Julia
137 • A Dirty Shame
138 • Pindemonium
139 • A Skin Too Few - The Days of Nick Drake
140 • A Christmas Story
141 • Up in the Air
142 • An Englishman in New York
143 • Stanley Kubrick's Boxes

144 • Taking Woodstock
What an utter unexpected delight to end 2009 on! Ang Lee's gentle but beautifully observed movie about how Max Yasgur's farm came to be used for 1969's festival of love and peace turned out to be a marvellous and hugely enjoyable surprise. Script and performances to die for (who would have thought Demetri Martin could act?) with dozens of clever nods to extracts from the original Woodstock film. Recommended all the way.

So, 144 movies eh? Can't say I will be waching as many next year if recent trends continue. I think I have abandoned more films in 2009 than all previous years combined. From hugely anticipated flicks like "Precinct 9", "Away We Go" and "Public Enemies" through to schlocky rubbish I have mistakenly rented to pass the odd couple of hours or two. Give me films like "Taking Woodstock" or "Up in the Air" and I might even start going back to the cinema again as well. Scarily just 3 of my 144 were in front of a big screen at the local AMC. Here's to a better 2010!

[dirk]

1) Wrong Turn 2
2) Clerks 2
3) Elizabethtown
4) Max Payne
5) In Bruges
6) Teeth
7) Dazed and Confused
8 ) Home Room
9) Crazy Love
10) The Apple
11) Repo: The Genetic Opera
12) Rising Son: The Legend of Christian Hosoi
13) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
14) The Mist
15) Murder Party
16) Clerks
17) Wonder Woman
18) Watchmen
19) The Life Before Her Eyes
20) Rachel Getting Married
21) Zack and Miri Make a Porno
22) Captivity
23) Vantage Point
24) Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
25) The Game
26) Forgetting Sarah Marshall
27) Fanboys
28) Star Trek
29) Wristcutters
30) Reefer Madness
31) Kevin Smith: Sold Out - A Threevening with Kevin Smith
32) Halloween
33) Ninja Cheerleaders
34) Elizabethtown
35) Live Free or Die Hard
36) Almost Famous
37) Get Smart
38) The Ten
39) Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
40) Home Room
41) Deception
42) Empire Records
43) Pump Up The Volume
44) Juno
45) Macbeth
46) Hamlet 2
47) Smokey and the Bandit
48) Green Lantern: First Flight
49) Miss March
50) (500) Days of Summer
51) Surveillance
52) The Strangers
53) I Am Legend
54) Rules of Attraction
55) The Alphabet Killer
56) Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
57) One Week
58) Ink
59) The Thirteenth Floor
60) Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father
61) Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
62) (500) Days of Summer

63) Saw 6

Wow, that was bad.  I wasn't expecting much from this, and was still greatly disappointed.  At this point, they have completely thrown out everything that made the first one so great and went for straight torture porn.  I think the guys making the current movies haven't even seen the original or read a summary of it they are so far off the mark on Jigsaw.