Best Movie of 2009

[Aradhus]

Star trek is the worst movie I wathced last year. I couldn't even start to criticise it because I'd be here for hours. No originality, realism, I can't even continue, some people are way too easily pleased. Probably the same type of people who liked that godawful Superman disaster.

[THORNHEART]

I am still wondering how no one is recommending

Hurt locker or brothers

did you guys just not see these?

[spurgistan]

I laughed my ass of during the Italian scene. Other than that, I didn't find anything funny…

Oh, you disappoint me, young skywalker. Basterds was terrific, loved it in theaters, seen it twice more on DVD and loved it even more. Christoph Waltz is so goddamn good it's creepy.

Argh, I just don't see what was supposed to be funny.

Well, it's not like it's supposed to be a laugh a minute comedy. The laugh moments (like Hans pulling out his ludicrously oversized pipe during the first scene, or earlier in said scene when he uses flawless French to explain that he'd reached the end of his knowledge of the French language and could they please switch to English) tend to come as releases during almost unbearably tense scenes (which are the movie's true hallmark, anyone who hated the whole sequence in the tavern missed the point of the movie and probably rapes goats in their spare time).

I will freely acknowledge that part of my love for the movie comes from the fact that I've always been a big Tarantino fan (though not an unreserved one, Death Proof was terrible), and it was in fact Tarantino who first showed me that horrific violence could be funny (I saw Pulp Fiction at an impressionable age, and felt guilty for laughing when Travolta shot Marvin in the face). There's a lot of Tarantino-ish shit going on (in fact, one of the movie's rare missteps came when he repeated a song he'd used during the build-up to the house of blue leaves fight in Kill Bill), and part of the fun comes in seeing how many movie references he can pack into what's ostensibly a WWII revenge fantasy.

It occurs to me that this post would have been better with footnotes to replace the discursive parentheticals. Ah, well.

Also, another thing... when we see the Nazi brass laugh at a propaganda movie celebrating the massacre of people not too dissimilar from them, it really destroys the revenge film genre, for me at least. The rare movie that is willing to openly mock the very genre it purports to follow. Brilliant.

[nagerous]

Me and MeDeFe had an interesting argument about the film in the cinemaddicts usergroup, you should join it if you are interested in films.

[jonesthecurl]

Best movie of 2009 - State of Play

[Snorri1234]

Star trek is the worst movie I wathced last year. I couldn't even start to criticise it because I'd be here for hours. No originality, realism, I can't even continue, some people are way too easily pleased. Probably the same type of people who liked that godawful Superman disaster.

What? I fucking loved Star Trek.

[jonesthecurl]

The curlson summed it up well:

I have no idea what was going on but the fights were good

[Aradhus]

Star trek is the worst movie I wathced last year. I couldn't even start to criticise it because I'd be here for hours. No originality, realism, I can't even continue, some people are way too easily pleased. Probably the same type of people who liked that godawful Superman disaster.

What? I fucking loved Star Trek.

Why? IT was dull, had no originality, lots of nice big stupid pointless effects, lots of shortcuts, predictability, poor dialogue, god awful plot. Such a bad movie. I'd have to watch it again to really cut it down to bite size pieces of awful.

What was good about it?

[Snorri1234]

Star trek is the worst movie I wathced last year. I couldn't even start to criticise it because I'd be here for hours. No originality, realism, I can't even continue, some people are way too easily pleased. Probably the same type of people who liked that godawful Superman disaster.

What? I fucking loved Star Trek.

Why? IT was dull, had no originality, lots of nice big stupid pointless effects, lots of shortcuts, predictability, poor dialogue, god awful plot. Such a bad movie. I'd have to watch it again to really cut it down to bite size pieces of awful.

What was good about it?

It was fun. Much like Die Hard 4. Boom explosions and running around and shooting at things and stuff like that.

[pimpdave]

Snorri, a lot of the people posting in this thread are probably going through that stage where they fail to see any enjoyment in things unless they are deeply profound or something.

I'm with you, man. If it's entertaining, that's really all I need. Art house movies have their place and I enjoy them.

People who define the world around them by all of the things they dislike are really miserable and unlikeable people. Hopefully they'll grow up, but if not, whatever. Let them go through life not enjoying things.

[Aradhus]

Woah, take a step back, gringo, I have no problem watching movies with little 'substance', Die Hard is one of my favourite movies. Star Trek was just shite, felt horribly contrived, poorly thought out, and wasn't entertaining. Entertaining is more than just bang bang boom boom. Whatever floats your boat. Star Trek was shite with too many flaws, devoid of nuance, and horrifically predictable.

[Snorri1234]

Woah, take a step back, gringo, I have no problem watching movies with little 'substance', Die Hard is one of my favourite movies. Star Trek was just shite, felt horribly contrived, poorly thought out, and wasn't entertaining. Entertaining is more than just bang bang boom boom. Whatever floats your boat. Star Trek was shite with too many flaws, devoid of nuance, and horrifically predictable.

Die Hard 4 wasn't much more than bang bang boom boom. Sure Star Trek had a bunch of flaws but in the end I thought it was nicely done.

[Aradhus]

I was actually talking about die hard 1, but lets just agree to disagree. You liked Star Wreck, I thought it wasn't a patch on some of the originals.

[thegreekdog]

I thought Star Trek was okay. I was a little disappointed, but I had high standards.

I really enjoyed Hurt Locker; it was not what I anticipated, but it was extremely well done. The acting was especially good. Anyway, I highly recommend it.

[jonesthecurl]

Two movies I was surprised to enjoy were

Mr Fox - took the curlette for a treat. Enjoyed it hugely.

Julie and Julia - saw this on a plane, again liked it far more than I expected. I'd wondered why it ran for about 6 weeks in the local cinema...

[nietzsche]

Obviously The Hurt Locker

On a side note, Guy Ritchie did it again with a couple of characters in Sherlock Holmes. I haven't watched Avatar and won't watch it until all the fuss calms down.

[jonesthecurl]

Sherlock Holmes - kudos for acting (and I suppose casting therefore) - very convincing to a long-time Sherlock fan.

Plot, um, oh dear.

And as for the "How did the villain do that mysterious thing" solution - really? What, really? gimmeabreak.

[thegreekdog]

I was excited about Sherlock Holmes when the cast was set.

I was much less excited when I saw the first trailer (although, I suppose they needed some sort of over-the-top action to lure audiences).

[denominator]

I knew Robert Downey Jr would play a great Holmes and he certainly did, but I was surprised and impressed by how well Jude Law did as Watson. In my opinion, he made that movie as much as Downey Jr did.

The plot was, well, pathetic. Hopefully in the sequels they're obviously going to do, they do better. The best parts of the movie were the early scenes in which they let Downey Jr go on little narratives and explain things in his own quirky way.

[nietzsche]

Totally agree with you on Downey's acting. He's most of the times pretty good, some times superb.

Really, the movie was Holmes character, or most of it. Yes the plot was not very good, but everything else kind of payed for the ticket.

There was a bad movie I don't recall the name in which Downey plays a african-american who has to play the role of a white man or something like that. I remember being very impressed by his acting there too.

Good thing we have him back. We can always go to the movie theater with confidence when an actor like him is in the cast. The same with Ritchie, we can always have fine expectations about his next job.

[THORNHEART]

so anyways i decided to view district 9 and was disgusted. frankly this is how we humans would handle a situation like that. but what appalled me more was the fact that this is what a majority of africa lives in now and they are humans...very sad


in short one of the best movies ive seen....im deffinitly rooting that he makes it 3 years. cause something tells me alien dude keeps his word.