2009 in Films

So as award season gets underway with the Golden Globes later tonight and the Oscars in a month and a half, I felt it necessary to throw my two cents your way. These are my favorites, not the ones I think will win, though if it were up to me they would. I didn't see all the movies out last year so if you feel something else should be on here let me know and maybe I'll make my way to add it to my Netflix queue.

Top Movies

1. The Hurt Locker
2. Invictus
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Best Actor

1. Morgan Freeman (Invictus)

2. Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds)

3. Jamie Foxx (The Soloist)

4. Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

5. George Clooney (Up In The Air)

Bonus: Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen)

Best Actress

1. Diane Kruger (Inglorious Basterds)

2. Rachel Weisz (Brothers Bloom)

3. Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)

4. Maya Rudolph (Away We Go)

5. Emily Blunt (Sunshine Cleaning)

Best Animated

1. Fantastic Mr. Fox (sorry for the repeat but it's amazing)

2. Coraline

3. Up

4. Monsters vs. Aliens

Other Great Movies (in basic order of release)
Taken
Coraline
Fanboys

Watchmen

Sunshine Cleaning

I Love You, Man

Monsters vs. Aliens

The Soloist

Star Trek

Brothers Bloom

Drag Me To Hell

Up

The Hangover

Land of the Lost

Away We Go

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

District 9

Halloween II

Paranormal Activity

Zombieland

Law Abiding Citizen

Where The Wild Things Are

Boondock Saints II: All Saint's Day

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Up In The Air

Avatar

Sherlock Holmes

50 Favorite Movies

Here is an unorganized list of my 50 Favorite Movies. Feel free to mock and chastise or praise and herald as you wish.


Big Fish
Independence Day
Brothers Bloom
Armageddon
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
Gladiator
The Matrix
Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Rushmore
Night Watch
Across The Universe
Full Metal Jacket
The Nightmare Before Christmas
A Very Long Engagement
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
The Devil's Advocate
Dogma
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Guys And Dolls
Amadeus
Inglorious Basterds
Forrest Gump
About A Boy
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Sunshine
The Patriot
Rent
Stranger Than Fiction
The Lion King
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Men Of Honor
Boondock Saints
Rock Star
Apollo 13
Garden State
Let The Right One In
Gone Baby Gone
Finding Neverland
The Crow
Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Step Brothers
Amazing Grace
October Sky
Shaun Of The Dead
Constantine
The Usual Suspects
The Assassination Of Jessie James By The Coward Robert Ford
Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father

2009 a good year for movies?

So I've been totally behind on writing on this thing but here goes.

2009 has been one of the better years for movies in the past decade or so. Mind you, last year we had Iron Man and The Dark Knight. However, the year on a whole wasn't spectacular.

Here's my evidence as I see it. (Skipping the bad ones of course)

Movies that have been released:

Taken
Watchmen
Sunshine Cleaning
I Love You, Man
The Soloist
Star Trek
The Brothers Bloom
Drag Me To Hell
The Hangover
Land of the Lost
Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen
Bruno

Movies I'm Looking Forward to Seeing In Theaters:
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
District 9
Inglorious Basterds
Halloween 2
9
Whiteout
Shutter Island
Funny People
Where The Wild Things Are
Saw 6
2012
Brothers
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Sherlock Holmes

Movies That Came Out or Are Coming Out That I Want to See on DVD:
The Unborn
Phoebe In Wonderland
The Last House On The Left
The Great Buck Howard
State of Play
Management
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Terminator Salvation
Away We Go
Moon
The Hurt Locker
500 Days of Summer
The Time Traveler's Wife
Surrogates
Couples Retreat
Antichrist
Planet 51

Disappointments This Year:
Knowing
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Angels & Demons
Up
Public Enemies

I Know I'll get some flack for the disappointments, except for Knowing....it was just that bad. But remember these are just my opinions. Official thoughts on some of the films I've seen this year will be coming shortly.

Podcast #3

A Week Late, But Not Sweating It

This is our third podcast. We discuss lots of random things. Enjoy!

Intro Song is "Painted By Numbers" by The Sounds

Beer Pong Table Pictures Link...

Saddest Picture Ever Link...

Follow both of us around the net....

Grant
http://buddygrant21.blogspot.com
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Will
http://ptownsuperman.blogspot.com/
http://twitter.com/ptownsuperman

Podcast #2

Throwing Darts For Burgers

This is our second cast. We discuss our Oscar picks. Enjoy!

Oscar Link...

Intro Music is "Made For TV Movie" by Incubus

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Grant
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Garden State Outtakes....by Will Green

This was the outtakes from Will's Garden State project. Random and totally late....but here it is.

I'll link to the actual video when he gets it on his blog.

Podcast #1

So Will and I finally got done with our first podcast. Being as it is too difficult for someone with as little web knowledge as I have to actually get the podcast up on iTunes, the podcast will be showing up on each of our blogger accounts. This is our first cast, so it's a little rough around the edges, but we're hoping for improvement soon. Enjoy!

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