Your Top Ten Favorite Movies Of 2009

[lost-spartan]

With another year gone by once again it's time to list what blew up your skirt from hollywierd and elsewhere this year. I know the years not over just yet, but Avatar is out and the only real heavy hitters left are The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Sherlock Holmes, so update if you really have to. So let's see 'em!

The list of 2009 releases (http://www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2009.php?option=showall)

1.The Hurt Locker
2.Star Trek
3.Up
4.The Hangover
5.Inglorious Basterds
6.Moon
7.Watchmen
8.Zombieland
9.Taken
10.Men Who Stare At Goats

[kae_ae]

ima just go with what I thought was the best surprise this year, at least for me: star trek. Star trek was badass and I never thought I'd describe anything ST as badass.

[ScottEwen]

Up
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Zombieland
Funny People
Taken
Bruno
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Coraline 3D
Watchmen


But y'know, I didn't see a ton of movies this year. There are only three movies I saw this year that aren't on the list: Wolverine, Terminator, and Paranormal Activity.

[Huerta]

1. Inglorious Basterds
2. Star Trek
3. Taken
4. Revolutionary Road
5. I Love You, Man
6. Fast & Furious 4
7. Observe and Report
8. District 9
9. Taking Woodstock
10. Law Abiding Citizen

I think I like Inglorious Basterds and Law Abiding Citizen the most. Theyre both over the top and they have a lot of crazy moments.

[Ra Havok]

This is a provisional list, because I haven't seen a great deal of movies yet that were released post september. Also, I saw a buttload of foreign movies, but I didn't list them for obvious reasons.
A good year for movies, I'd say.


Revolutionary road
(500) Days of Summer
Watchmen
Duplicity
Adventureland
State of play
the hurt locker
Brüno
Tyson
Public Enemies

[KRAZYRICKY1]

1-UP
2-Fast n Furious
3-Zombieland
4-Blind Side
5-Hangover
6-Proposal
7-Star Trek
8-District 9
9-17 Again
10-Transformers 2 (This one will also be on my top 10 worst movies of the year)

[PureSilhouette]

Not in any particular order:

1. Wolverine
2. Underworld Rise of the Lycans
3. Taken
4. Coraline
5. Terminator 4
6. Up
7. The Proposal
8. Transformers 2
9. Public Enemies
10. GI Joe (if it's not compared to the original series or comics)

[NickRocks]

the only movie i cared to see this year was ninja assassin, and it didnt disappoint. also, star trek was surprisingly awesome

[Pep]

I really wish I went to the movies a lot more....

[Pepito]

1 avatar
2 district 9
3 Star Trek

i still have to see a couple that were mentioned by others on here
before i get any farther.

[Bozzilla]

1. Up
2. Watchmen
2. Harry Brown
3. District 9
4. Coraline
5. Das weiße Band (the white ribbon)
6. The Cove
7. Zombieland
8. Paranormal Activity
9. Black Dynamite
10. Star Trek

I haven't seen Avatar and Where the wild things are yet but I'm sure they will make their way into my top 10

EDIT: I forgot to put Myazakis Ponyo in my list. definitely belongs in everyones top 10!!

[kman]

Erg, all of a sudden I feel like I haven't seen enough movies this year. Anyway, here's my list:

1. Avatar
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Mystery Team
4. Star Trek
5. Zombieland
6. District 9
7. Coraline
8. The Informant!
9. Funny People
10. House of the Devil

I will say, however, that there were a few movies I wanted to see but didn't, namely, The Hurt Locker, Big Fan, and Moon. I'm sure there's a chance that any of those could have made it into my list.

[Dash Martin]

1) Star Trek
2) Pandorum
3) District 9
4) ZombieLand
5) Observe and Report
6) The Hangover
7) Moon
8) Drag Me to Hell
9) My Bloody Valentine 3D
10) The Last House on the Left

[Mase]

I don't see enough to make a top 10...my top 5:

1) Avatar
2) Star Trek
3) Watchmen
4) Taken
5) District 9

Looking back, this was a pretty big year for sci-fi franchises. I expect sequels from 1, 2 and 5.

[Manji]

1. Twilight New Moon
2. Twilight New Moon
3. Twilight New Moon
4. Twilight New Moon
5. Twilight New Moon
6. Twilight New Moon
7. Twilight New Moon
8. Twilight New Moon
9. Twilight New Moon
10. Twilight New Moon

[Bathill8]

Manji, if I thought you were serious I'd set you up with my gay cousin.

1. Inglorius Bastards
2. Taken
3. Ip Man
4. Hangover
5. Watchmen

[Geekboy]

Since I've been spending a lot of time reading up on Star Trek Online, let me just say how nice it is to see a group of people admit that ST 2009 was awesome.

As a Trekkie, I hate Trekkies.

I'll do a top 5 since I don't think I could really do a top 10 list justice.

1. Up
2. Star Trek
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Inglorious Basterds
5. Watchmen

[Spooko]

1. Twilight New Moon
2. Twilight New Moon
3. Twilight New Moon
4. Twilight New Moon
5. Twilight New Moon
6. Twilight New Moon
7. Twilight New Moon
8. Twilight New Moon
9. Twilight New Moon
10. Twilight New Moon

NAILED IT!

[pigeonmilk]

1.DogHouse
2.Inglorius Basterds
3.Star Trek
4.Pandorum
5.Astro Boy
6.Zombieland--shame on me for not posting this movie!

[Terminator X]

There is still a whole love I plan to see that came out in 2009 that I haven't yet, but of what I did see:

1. Zombieland
2. Funny People
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Trick R Treat
5. Dead Snow
6. Stak Trek
7. I Love You, Man
8. Adventureland
9. My Bloody Valentine remake
10. Friday the 13th remake

Still want to see: Terminator, Drag Me to Hell, Up, GI Joe, 500Days of Summer, Paperheart, Wrong Turn 3...and a bunch others I can't think of.

2009 was a good movie year.

[NickRocks]

1. Twilight New Moon
2. Twilight New Moon
3. Twilight New Moon
4. Twilight New Moon
5. Twilight New Moon
6. Twilight New Moon
7. Twilight New Moon
8. Twilight New Moon
9. Twilight New Moon
10. Twilight New Moon


NAILED IT!

this is the correct answer

[pigeonmilk]

I have yet to see Twlight moon and for that matter, I haven't even seen the first one...

Lord I am a slacker

[Toxic Monkey]

The Hangover
Inglorious Basterds
The Princess and The Frog
Star Trek
Moon
Zombieland
Taken
I Love You, Man
Tyson
A Perfect Getaway

There are some that I haven't seen yet that would probably bump a couple of these.

[KRAZYRICKY1]

I have yet to see Twlight moon and for that matter, I haven't even seen the first one...

Lord I am a slacker

It's not worth it, unless you're a teenager are a fan of the books.

[Huerta]

Twilight is written for women/girls. The fact that some nerds go out to watch this because it has "werewolves" and "vampires" is amazing to me.

[Carter]

I don't know if I've even gone to the movies ten times this year, but I'm glad that so many people are putting Moon in their list. That movie was freaking great, but nobody saw it! So I'm going to try to make a list, I guess?

1. Up
2. Avatar
3. District 9
4. Zombieland
5. Star Trek
6. Ponyo
7. Moon
8. Evangelion 1.0. Even though it's a nearly scene for scene rehash of the series, I just can't get enough Eva.
9.

??? Uh... I'm not putting Transformers or GI Joe or Inglorious Basterds anywhere on my top ten list, so I guess I'll leave it at that.

[pigeonmilk]

That was my inital thought, it was a love story but with all vagina's in it.....

[TheMayor]

Hm..
Up
Up in the Air
Treeless Mountain
Moon
Summer Hours
The Maid
Crazy Heart
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man

Or something. I don't know. Too many movies.

Edit: I forgot Coraline came out this year. That's up there somewhere too. Whatever.

[Lingling]

Twilight is written for women/girls.

Not this one. :x

I can kinda see the appeal to an obscenely uncritical reader (the "mature boyfriend" fantasy) but man I tried to read it and it's just terrible. The first movie is actually almost up to par for a Canadian TV movie, because they had the sense to cut out the bad prose and most of the blatant offensiveness. It's still insanely awkward and illogical.

Anyway yeah I think Star Trek is my favourite this year.
District 9 is a close second; Star Trek was more fun but maaan.
Coraline was great.
Watchmen was a fine adaptation; I actually wish they'd pushed it further from the book and I still want to see the Black Freighter thing.
Monsters vs. Aliens was a fine kids' movie but not my thing.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn't as bad as all that but it wasn't good. Except for the 2 minutes with Deadpool talking and killing people at the beginning.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the same as all the other Harry Potter movies, except based on The Half Blood Prince. So.

And that's all I saw for new movies. I can't even fill out a top 10 counting ones I didn't like. Oh and Torchwood: Children of Earth was just amazing and I don't care it wasn't a movie. It was great!

[dmario]

Not in any particular order:

1. Wolverine
8. Transformers 2


what are you, a girl?

[RavioliDog]

1. Up
2. Moon
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. The Hangover
6. Hurt Locker
7. Coraline

I also saw Star Trek but I hated it, so it's not going on my list.

[nachochip]

i seen more movies this year, but of the ones i saw only these i care to get on dvd after watching..

taken
coraline 3d
Up
Watchmen
I love you, man
star trek
the hangover
the ugly truth
funny people
9
observe and report

there are other is am sure i would have on my list (zombieland, where the wild things are..) except i have not 'seen' them yet so i cant say for sure.

[Stark Raving]

1) Inglorious Basterds
2) District 9
3) Coraline
4) The Hurt Locker
5) Up
6) Zombieland
7) The Hangover
8) Star Trek
9) Watchmen
10) Where The Wild Things Are

[NickRocks]

ah i forgot about MOON.

[Johnny Blaque]

You guys watch alot of new movies. I think I only went to the movies twice this year. The Hangover was the only one worth mentioning of the two. I've just been watching whatever is avalible on Netflicks Watch Instantly and my regular queue is filled with slightly new movies and older ones I never got around to seeing before. So I've seen a ton of movies this year but not much that came out in 09. lol

[Ugga Bugga]

Inglorious Basterds
Inglorious Basterds
Inglorious Basterds.

Did I mention Inglorious Basterds.

[Jel]

Inglorious Basterds
District 9
Gran Torino
Up
Les Herbes Folles
Vincere
Ponyo
Un Prophète
Kinatay
Tetro
Where The Wild Things Are

I have yet to see The Road, Avatar, Zombieland which I heard great things about. Moon didn't come out over here yet.

[sdowner]

OK, this list is actually all the 2009 movies I've seen this year listed in order of preference:

#10: Fast and Furious
BLAH. Why did I even go to this? I should have known better.
#9: I Love You, Man
This movie wasn't really all that funny, but Lou Ferrigno was in it and that counts for a lot.
#8: The Princess And The Frog
It's nice to see some 2D animation again, but apart from a kickass villain it's forgettable.
#7: The Hangover
Straight-up hilarious, but I'm enough of a square that I probably won't watch it again.
#6: Sherlock Holmes
This movie kicked all kinds of Victorian ass, but it had a few dull moments and some needless revisions of the source material.
#5: Black Dynamite
Quote of the year: "Your knowledge of scientific and biological transmogrification is outmatched only by your zest for KUNG FU TREACHERY!"
#4: Star Trek
Aww yeah.
#3: District 9
Aww hells yeah.
#2: Zombieland
AWW HELLS YEAH MOTHER****ER
#1: Up
Up is easily my favorite Pixar film. An exceptional story even by their high standards, it grabbed me from the first shot of Carl in the theater and didn't let go until the old man and the boy were sitting on the curb, counting cars.
Each twist and turn of the story surprised me, transitioning effortlessly from childhood innocence, to deep romance and loss, to heartbreak and loneliness. On the first pass, Russell, Kevin and the dogs seemed like shallow, one-trick comic relief characters thrown in to keep kids' eyes on the screen, but they each serve a crucial purpose in the story.

The crux of the story (as I saw it) is premised upon the idea of being faithful to your word.
The dual stories of Charles Muntz and Carl Fredricksen demonstrate the truth that keeping your word for the sake of your pride will result in obsession and madness, poisoning those closest to you. On the other hand, keeping a promise at the expense of your own desires, embracing responsibility and even giving up your dream for the right reasons is what's truly satisfying.
Up is a fantastic tale that really struck a chord with me, and the highest compliment I can give is this: It's exactly the kind of story I dream of being able to tell.

[MC Fumunda]

The only part that is off for me in UP is the dogs flying planes. I was COMPLETELY on board for the entire rest of the flick, but that part really sucked me out. Granted, that's only a moment in the film, but compared to the rest which I hold at such high regard, it really stood out. The rest seemed semi-plausable, just not the airplane flying dogs.

I think I've read Inkthinker echoing the same sentiment.