Re: Best of 09 So Far....

**silversurfer19** · by **silversurfer19** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:50 pm

Here are my top 10 so far, based on what has been released in NZ:

1. District 9
2. Drag Me To Hell
3. Up
4. Let The Right One In
5. The Reader
6. The Wrestler
7. The Brothers Bloom
8. Dead Snow
9. Watchmen
10. Mother

by W on Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:42 pm

9 ish
District 9
Star Trek
Hangover
Watchmen
Gran Torino
Taken

8 ish
Haunting in Conn.

7 ish
MvA
X-Men: Wolverine

6 ish
Terminator
Underworld

4 ish
Fast and Furious

3 ish
Knowing
Mall Cop
Year One

2 ish
Chun-Li

**silversurfer19** · by **silversurfer19** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:04 pm

It's funny, I know a lot of people have complained about the quality of movies this year. But I don't think its been that bad. My top 10 list consists entirely of movies which I have rated 8/10 or above, and movies such as Star Trek which also received an 8 and Inglorious Basterds which I gave a 7.5 didn't make my top 10. So all in all it hasn't been that bad. Some of the blockbusters have underwhelmed, but its been balanced by some excellent smaller movies.

becs · by becs on Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:07 pm

Drag me to hell at #2? hmm darn i knew i shoulda seen it!

**silversurfer19** · by **silversurfer19** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:09 pm

I'm a massive Raimi fan and this ticked every box of what a classic Raimi movie should be. Absolutely brilliant, hilarious and terrifying throughout.

J-Man · by J-Man on Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:24 pm

silversurfer19 wrote:I'm a massive Raimi fan and this ticked every box of what a classic Raimi movie should be. Absolutely brilliant, hilarious and terrifying throughout.

I agree completely! Such an awesome film. Everybody I mention this film to either haven't heard of it, or just ignored it amongst all the blockbuster hype, until I mention that it's basically Evil Day 4 (as in quality b-grade humour with legitimate scares), then they all want to see it. It's such a great movie, haven't laughed or been jumped like that in a movie in forever (and doing those two things seconds apart only made the movie that much better).

**silversurfer19** · by **silversurfer19** on Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:33 pm

Check out Dead Snow if you can, a Norwegian movie which was played at the NZ International Film Fest . It is definitely in the Raimi genre of comedy horror. The whole audience laughed their asses off all the way through.

NSpan · by NSpan on Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:15 pm

A's
Drag Me To Hell
Watchmen
I Love You, Man
Moon

B's
Up

C's
Tetro
Terminator Salvation
Star Trek
Sunshine Cleaning
Coraline
Tokyo!

D's
The Hangover
Wolverine
Friday the 13th

F's
Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

i'm pretty confident those "A's" will remain in my top 10 for the year even with oscar season coming up... the rest: meh, we'll see

gonna try and catch Basterds and Mystery Team this weekend

**geezer9687** · by **geezer9687** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:49 am

Surfer, you have to take 3 of those films out of consideration when we say that movies this year haven't been that great, because over here they came out last year, so we don't really count them. Just a thought.

BanksIsDaFuture · by BanksIsDaFuture on Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:10 am

1. Up
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. The Hangover
4. District 9
5. Star Trek
6. Harry Potter 6
7. Taken
8. Fast & Furious
9. Monsters vs. Aliens
10. Knowing

**BarcaRulz** · by **BarcaRulz** on Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:44 am

Buscemi wrote:Fanboys was better than I expected. I expected 90 minutes of overused cliches of fanboys but instead it actually was rather funny. The best part was easily William Shatner's cameo.

Just watched it, and I agree with you on both counts. 8.5/10, was really great except for some moments which I assume had something to do with the many re-shoots. The Kevin Smith cameo was awesome as well. Very Happy

transformers2 · by transformers2 on Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:48 am

I think 09 has been good was 08 better yes but 09 has been solid.

**silversurfer19** · by **silversurfer19** on Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:14 pm

geezer9687 wrote:Surfer, you have to take 3 of those films out of consideration when we say that movies this year haven't been that great, because over here they came out last year, so we don't really count them. Just a thought.

I'm not going by US release dates, I'm going by what I have seen in the cinema. In the same respect, I could probably ask a few of you to remove Taken because it was released last year in most countries other than the US.

Even then though, my favourite movies which have been released in the US this year are still a pretty sizeable number. Certainly more than last year anyway. I could add Star Trek, Inglorious Basterds, Broken Embraces, I Love You Man , Sunshine Cleaning and In The Loop without a hesitation, while I fully expect to be blown away by Moon and Ponyo when I get to see them. Not to mention the vast number of movies I am still very excited about which are still to be released this year too.

becs · by becs on Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:47 pm

I would also point out the fact that, the majority of the films we collectively found to be excellent in 2008 came out in the 2nd half of the year. So my opinion is that the year has yet to shake out as far as quality goes.

by W on Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:46 am

becs wrote:I would also point out the fact that, the majority of the films we collectively found to be excellent in 2008 came out in the 2nd half of the year. So my opinion is that the year has yet to shake out as far as quality goes.

I thought the same thing. I looked at my 2008 list again and in my top 12 (10's and 9's rated) there are exactly half (6) that came out in the last third of the year. Of those other six, I caught 4 of them on DVD later... So, at this point last year, the only films that I rated in the 9 or 10 catagory were The Dark Knight and Wall-E. With 6 9-10 rated films so far this year, I think its turning out decent, though I haven't found a 10 yet.