50 Movies in 2009

[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
47. Away We Go

48. That Thing You Do

49. The Muppet Movie

50. Angels and Demons

WooHoo!

[Nate]

1. Religulous (I'm not all that religious, and this movie kept pissing me off.  Bill Maher's snark and condescension doesn't work well here.)
2. The Wrestler (Mother of God, even if you don't like professional wrestling, I think most people will dig this movie.  Perfect ending.)
3. Diner
4. Revolutionary Road (I suggest seeing this with your significant other for loads of fun on the car ride home!  :/ )
5. The Reader (Another Kate Winslet film.  I don't know why she's up for best actress for this one, unless the academy is valuing T & A now as its #1 priority.)
6.  Slumdog Millionaire (I think if the Oscar goes to this film, it will become the new 'Crash.'  It's decent, and I know it's an audience favorite because of the power of love, kid rises from nothing to be a somebody, etc., but it's not earthshattering or anything if you've seen any other movie with the same sort of plotline like this in the last 30 years.  I was really let down by this one after hearing and reading everyone's sparkling reviews.)
7. Inland Empire - Normally, these types of movies are way too artsy for me, not to mention a large chunk of this three-hour film is shot on a hand-held digital camera, but this was allright.  I love how Lynch is able to make scenes with a whole lot of light just as scary as the ones where the character is looking down a pitch-black hallway or door opening.
8. The Devil & Daniel Johnston - Never ride in a plane with the guy.  Yeesh.
9. Live Forever - Documentary about the 90s Britpop scene.  Not bad.
10. Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who
11. No One Said It Would Be Easy
12. Mirror Noir
13. The Mayor Of The Sunset Strip
14. I Love You, Man
15. Star Trek
16. Dead Alive (Wow.  Just...wow)
17. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil
18. The Hangover.  Awesome flick. 
19. Bruno
20. We Jam Econo:  The Story Of The Minutemen
21. The Watchmen (Director's Cut)
22. Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen
23. Old Boy
24. Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
25. Almost Famous (Director's Cut)
26. Pontypool
27. The Last Waltz
28. Radiohead - The Most Lying Gigantic Mouth Of All Time
29. Classic Albums Discussion - Hysteria by Def Leppard
30. District 9
31. Zombieland
32. Inglourious Bastards
33. Up
34. True Romance
35. Welcome To Macintosh
36. Terminator 4 (I forget the real title)
37. Taken
38. Observe And Report

39. Bad Santa
40. Avatar - 3D
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Shoot. 

[MissKitty]

1. Wall-E
2. Lakeview Terrace
3. (The) Savages
4. Idiocracy
5. Religulous
6. Mamma Mia!
7. Schindler's List
8. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
9. Happy-Go-Lucky
10. Margaret
11. Fargo
12. Cadillac Records
13. Notorious
14. The Game
15. Fast Food Nation
16. I've Loved You So Long
17. Frost/Nixon
18. The Reader
19. Milk
20. Standing in the Shadow of Motown: The Funk Brothers Documentary
21. The Hangover
22. Valkyrie
23. Last Chance Harvey
24. The Final Season
25. Home
26. Man on Wire
27. Mon Oncle
28. Gran Turino
29. Defiance
30. Fanboys
31. Woodstock: Now & Then
32. The Great Escape
33. Coraline
34. Fast & Furious
35. Sex Drive
36. Bikini Beach
37. In Bruges
38. Adventureland
39. Sunshine Cleaning
40. Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
41. Oh, God!
42. An Englishman in New York
43. Thunderbirds Are Go!
44. Anvil: The Story of Anvil
45. Food, Inc.
46. The Taking of Pelham 123 (the new, crappy one)
47. A Clockwork Orange
48. The Man Who Fell to Earth
49. Up
50. Used Cars
51. Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
52. Monterey Pop
53. A Skin too Few: The Nick Drake Story
54. A Christmas Story

55. Taking Woodstock

The last movie I saw in 2009 was also the best movie I saw all year.

[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.

65. Angels & Demons-  Better book than DaVinci Code, better movie than DaVinci Code, better hairstyle for Tom Hanks than DaVinci Code

[Dan]

Movies seen in 2009 (new movies in bold):
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2.  Frost/Nixon
3. The Golden Compass
4. Hitman
5. Death Race 2000
6. Jumper
7. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
8. The Mask
9. Stardust
10. The Bucket List
11. The Big Lebowski
12. Fanboys
13. Kickboxer
14. Push
15. Desperado
16. There Will Be Blood
17. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
18. Watchmen
19. Swingers
20. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
21. The Bourne Identity
22. The Godfather Part II
23. Queen of the Damned
24. The Bourne Ultimatum
25. Legally Blonde
26. August Rush
27. Semi-Pro
28. Double Jeopardy
29. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
30. Independence Day
31. The Chronicles of Riddick
32. Star Trek
33. Predator
34. Escape from New York
35. The Magnificent Seven Ride!
36. Night at the Museum
37. Get Smart
38. Kung-Fu Panda
39. The Hammer
40. Fanboys
41. The Dark Knight
42. Into The Wild
43. Up
44. The Hangover
45. Major League
46. The Wrestler
47. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
48. Starsky and Hutch
49. The X-Files: I Want To Believe
50. Titan A.E.
51. Total Recall
52. Teen Wolf
53. M:I 2
54. Eagle Eye
55. Casino
56. Serendipity
57. Juno
58. Shrek
59. Dragonheart
60. Public Enemies
61. V for Vendetta
62. American Gangster
63. Dave
64. Babylon A.D.
65. Sin City
66. Ironman
67. Definitely, Maybe
68. The Matrix
69. Big
70. Ratatouille
71. Tomorrow Never Dies
72. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
73. Red Dawn
74. Basic Instinct
75. District 9
76. The Matrix: Reloaded
77. Fanboys
78. City of Ember
79. (500) Days of Summer
80. Men In Black II
81. Highlander
82. Caddyshack
83. Beastmaster
84. Dude, Where's My Car?
85. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
86. Tank Girl
87. Lethal Weapon 2
88. The Usual Suspects
89. The Dirty Dozen
90. Ghostbusters
91. Wanted
92. Goodfellas
93. Dazed and Confused
94. American History X
95. The Natural
96. Clue
97. The Shawshank Redemption
98. Ocean's Eleven
99. The Spirit
100. The Matrix Revolutions
101. The Big Lebowski
102. Semi-Pro
103. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
104. PCU
105. Law Abiding Citizen
106. Serenity
107. Ninja Assassin
108. The Bourne Supremacy
109. Platoon
110. Wild Things
111. Hitch
112. Brothers
113. The Rocker
114. Leatherheads
115. Super Troopers
116. The Hangover
117. Elektra
118. Avatar
119. The Prestige
120. Surrogates
121. Whiteout

Those last three were all seen on a plane. The Prestige is a very well done flick that I recommend. Surrogates was pretty lame. Whiteout...well, I expected it to be completely awful and it clocked in at a rating much higher than that. I won't go on to say it was "good" but it wasn't as bad as the previews suggest.

Total movies = 121.
New movies = 62.

So pretty much split down the middle.

[Wherle]

Random: Both Surrogates and Whiteout are based on comic books.

[c-lando]

55 • The Reader
A film about reading and fucking eventually turns into one merely about reading

Now that I've finally seen this movie, I have to say how AWESDOME this review was! I can't really tell if you liked the film or not...but, that's not important. This review is HILARIOUS.


Edited to add my one pet peeve about this movie: Why the fuck is it embarrassing to tell the world that you can't read but it's perfectly OK to say that you were a guard at Auschwitz?

[trixi]

55 • The Reader
A film about reading and fucking eventually turns into one merely about reading

Now that I've finally seen this movie, I have to say how AWESDOME this review was! I can't really tell if you liked the film or not...but, that's not important. This review is HILARIOUS.


Edited to add my one pet peeve about this movie: Why the fuck is it embarrassing to tell the world that you can't read but it's perfectly OK to say that you were a guard at Auschwitz?

The book doesn't quite make it as simple as they did in the movie.  Basically, she's a proud woman and was led astray by the factory she worked in when the war broke out.  In her mind, she only did what she was told to do, plus the fact that while she worked in the camp, having the prisoners read to her actually kept them alive longer.  Because of her illiteracy, she became the scapegoat.

[c-lando]

55 • The Reader
A film about reading and fucking eventually turns into one merely about reading

Now that I've finally seen this movie, I have to say how AWESDOME this review was! I can't really tell if you liked the film or not...but, that's not important. This review is HILARIOUS.


Edited to add my one pet peeve about this movie: Why the fuck is it embarrassing to tell the world that you can't read but it's perfectly OK to say that you were a guard at Auschwitz?

The book doesn't quite make it as simple as they did in the movie.  Basically, she's a proud woman and was led astray by the factory she worked in when the war broke out.  In her mind, she only did what she was told to do, plus the fact that while she worked in the camp, having the prisoners read to her actually kept them alive longer.  Because of her illiteracy, she became the scapegoat.

I basically gathered all of that from the movie. But, she allowed herself to remain the scapegoat when she admitted to writing the report instead of just telling the court that she couldn't read or write. Pride. Hers was misplaced.

[Kwyjibo]

Are we ever going to get our badges for this?

[c-lando]

Are we ever going to get our badges for this?

No more badges. Except for the ones we make in our own hearts.

[Kwyjibo]

Boo!