Muzman on 15/12/2009 at 15:03
I haven't seen any of these movies...
Oh wait; Star Trek and Taken. Big year for me.
(wasn't Taken, like, last year for most of the world? Or very early this year? Pirated to hell and back too while wending a vague release path to the 'states, from memory. Still made 100m bucks.)
And Star Trek farken rocks. Even the lens flares. It's a parody, its a homage, it's a re-boot all in one!
Matthew on 15/12/2009 at 16:42
Quote Posted by The_Raven
As someone I who grew up watching Star Trek in its many forms, this saddens me greatly. I great the plot summary on wikipedia and the whole thing just sounded awful.
As someone who grew up watching Star Trek in its many forms, I recommend that you give it a chance. It may just surprise you with how decent it actually is.
OnionBob on 15/12/2009 at 16:45
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
MoonThis was a nice atmospheric piece that doesn’t develop its central twist enough to leave anything to take away from it.
what
scarykitties on 15/12/2009 at 17:13
Quote Posted by henke
Great / Future favourite:Inglorious Basterds
Best night at the movies I've ever had. Expecting the DVD for christmas. :)
I have to admit, my stomach was turned by that film. It's only on reflection that I really like it.
I think that my "most fun I've had this year at a movie" goes to
Zombieland
Come on, people. You'd take a dark revenge flick, satisfying as it may be, over an equally satisfying but also lighthearted and humorous zombie-slaying play?
st.patrick on 15/12/2009 at 17:17
The only 09 movies I saw in a theater were Brüno, Public Enemies and Harry Potter & THBP, neither of which could possibly qualify as the best of anything.
So I have to nominate Up. Mostly for the melancholic photoslide at the very beginning because the rest was painfully predictable. And I hated how amorphous the little boy was.
quinch on 15/12/2009 at 18:51
God I have seen so few films this year. I liked The Wrestler the best out of the handful I did see. Oh such warmth and Marissa Tomei!
I thought that Up struggled a bit after the unbelievably good first half-hour but the film is worth it just for that one sequence alone.
The new Star Trek was okay. I was hoping it might be a bit less OCD-in-space than previous incarnations but it was just as sterile. I can't really remember what happened in it maybe because the bald baddie melted it into all the other bald baddie films. It won't stop me from seeing the sequels though as I liked most of the characters.
bukary on 15/12/2009 at 20:03
I'm surprised that such medicore movies as The Hangover are being listed in The Best Of 2009 thread. I remember at least one much, much better movie that hasn't been mentioned yet: (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/) Pandorum. As far as I remember, Pandorum, District 9 and Moon were the most interesting sci-fi movies this year. Star Trek was rather meh for me.
Let's hope Avatar is even better.
And the prize for the worst movie of 2009 definitely goes to... Modern Warfare 2. :p
rachel on 15/12/2009 at 21:04
Films I've seen this year, in Wikipedia order of release.
I Love You, Man
Fast & Furious
State of Play
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
The Hangover
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Public Enemies
District 9
Amelia
2012
Until I made that list I didn't realize how shit my taste has been in 2009. There are some pretty bad titles in there... :(
Scots Taffer on 16/12/2009 at 00:30
Quote Posted by OnionBob
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
MoonThis was a nice atmospheric piece that doesn't develop its central twist enough to leave anything to take away from it.
what
no speaky english?
The central twist (if you didn't read anything about the movie or get too much exposure via trailers or what have you) is
he's a clone, surprise! After they reveal this midway through the movie, very little is done with it - I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting to be done with or what I would've liked to see, but it just didn't feel complete to me. I think there was a ton of very nice touches and it was stylishly handled but was ultimately very empty.
OnionBob on 16/12/2009 at 00:44
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
no speaky english?
The central twist (if you didn't read anything about the movie or get too much exposure via trailers or what have you) is
he's a clone, surprise! After they reveal this midway through the movie, very little is done with it - I'm not exactly sure what I was expecting to be done with or what I would've liked to see, but it just didn't feel complete to me. I think there was a ton of very nice touches and it was stylishly handled but was ultimately very empty.
Sorry, could you explain again how that relates to the sentence that I highlighted?
"...doesn’t develop its central twist enough to leave anything to take away from it".
What does that mean?
