The top 45 films of 2009 (as of 8/22)
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’ve only seen three 2009 movies this month. That’s rather pitiful, I must admit, but I deal with it. Really only feel like I need to see District 9 and then I’ve gotten my quota of stuff worth seeing from 2009 out of the way except for the stuff I have no way to see at the moment, like Whatever Works. My order’s changed a little, and Inglourious Basterds and Julie & Julia aimed to commit some gangbusters on this list. After jump, you know what to do.
1. Adventureland dir. Greg Motolla
2. The Brothers Bloom dir. Rian Johnson
3. Moon dir. Duncan Jones
4. (500) Days of Summer dir. Marc Webb
5. Watchmen dir. Zack Snyder
6. Inglourious Basterds dir. Quentin Tarantino
7. Up dir. Pete Docter
8. Funny People dir. Judd Apatow
9. The Soloist dir. Joe Wright
10. Ponyo on a Cliff By the Sea dir. Hayao Miyazaki
11. Fanboys dir. Ryan Newman
12. Observe and Report dir. Jody Hill
13. The Girlfriend Experience dir. Steven Soderbergh
14. The Limits of Control dir. Jim Jarmusch
15. Drag Me to Hell dir. Sam Raimi
16. Julie & Julia dir. Nora Ephron
17. Broken Embraces dir. Pedro Almodovar
18. The Hangover dir. Todd Phillips
19. I Love You, Man dir. John Hamburg
20. The Hurt Locker dir. Kathyrn Bigelow
21. In the Loop dir. Armondo Iannucci
22. Phoebe in Wonderland dir. Daniel Barnz
23. Antichrist dir. Lars von Trier
24. Star Trek dir. J.J. Abrams
25. Public Enemies dir. Michael Mann
26. Bruno dir. Larry Charles
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Rotten:
27. Orphan Jaume Collet-Serra
28. Whip It! dir. Drew Barrymore
29. Terminator Salvation dir. Joseph McGinty
30. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince dir. That Goddamn Sucker Fucker David Yates
31. Confessions of a Shopaholic dir. P.J. Hogan
32. Taken dir. Pierre Morel
33. Powder Blue dir. Timothy Linh Bui
34. The Obama Deception dir. Alex Jones
35. Obsessed dir. Steve Shill
36. The Pink Panther 2 dir. Harald Zwart
37. X-Men Origins: Wolverine dir. Gavin Hood
38. Bride Wars dir. Gary Winick
39. My Sister’s Keeper dir. Nick Cassavetes
40. Paul Blart: Mall Cop dir. Steve Carr
41. The Unborn dir. David S. Goyer
42. The Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience dir. Bruce Hendricks
43. Dragonball Evolution dir. James Wong
44. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen dir. Michael Bay
45. He’s Just Not That Into You dir. Ken Kwapis
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August 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Watchmen in the top ten = instant loss of credibility.
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Watchmen is beautiful. I’m assuming if you had seen The Last House on the Left, you would have it in the “rotten” category? I also love your new logo for Post Avant. That was my favorite scene of Inglourious Basterds.
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:07 pm
You thought the acting was terrible, it wasn’t.
The film is really only good because the source material is so great, and unlike most Alan Moore spectacles, it didn’t completely fail as an adaptation, meaning it was great by default. I still hate the shit out of Zack Snyder.
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
If you’re talking to me about thinking the acting was terrible, I did. Only with Monica Potter. And I just have a disgust for remakes. “Re-Imaginings” or “Re-adapting” a book or graphic novel because the originals sucked is fine with me.
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I’m talking to sir Cameron.
I’m boycotting Last House on the Left so Steven can worry himself into a stupor.
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
You changed up a lot of rankings. You said Fanboys would have been one of the 5 best movies of 2008 if it had been released then, but it has already fallen to #11 of 2009 after only 45 movies. I’m also kind of surprised The Brother’s Bloom fell from #1. I finally got to see Adventureland a few weeks ago, very good.
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
2009 has been a good year. 2008 had a few really fantastic movies that 2009 has yet to even scratch at the door of, but the rest was pretty piss poor. Repo! The Genetic Opera has creeped to my top 10 for fuck’s sake.