I really missed the boat on doing a top ten list this year. And that’s really not a very big deal to me.
For the most part I enjoyed 2009 at the movies.
Here’s Ten Good Flicks that I liked hard in no particular order.
Taken, Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America, Tyson, Drag Me to Hell/Up, Tony Manero, Inglourious Basterds, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, A Serious Man, Avatar, and err Knowing.
Other Gems included –
Land of the Lost, The Hurt Locker, Two Lovers, Adventureland, The Hangover, Star Trek, Taxidermia, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Bronson, Gentleman Broncos, Tulpan, The Box, the first half of 2012, AntiChrist and err Crank: High Voltage, 12 Rounds, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Public Enemies, The Box
Here were the worst –
Watchmen, Observe and Report, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator: Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Flame & Citroen, Year One
These movies were overrated –
Moon, District 9
The best movies I saw for the first time ever –
Come and See, Blue Collar, Maidstone, Cockfighter, Dutch, Freddie Got Fingered, When Harry Met Sally, Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Troll 2, Glen or Glenda, Cat People, Bigger than Life, Fat City, Carbon Copy, Bride of Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, Envy, Miami Blues, Master of the Flying Guillotine
Best Theater Experiences –
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (midnight at the sunshine), Maidstone (Anthology Film Archives), Riot in Cell Block 11/Escape from Alcatraz (Film Forum), The Hangover (Cantor Screening with Todd Philips and Zach Galifinakis), Blue Collar (Lincoln Center), The Invisible Man (Film Forum), It’s a Wonderful Life (IFC Center)
Well I got that out of the way.
Seeing as we have now entered the second glorious decade of the 21st Century, I’ve decided to put together something important and a bit more grand than a top ten films of the ‘00s. Over the next few days, I’ll unleash the top 100 trailers of the ‘00s.
