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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #590 on: January 27, 2010, 01:46:56 PM »
So is Dear Zachary Filmspot eligible/a 2009 film or not?

It's eligible, yes.

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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #591 on: January 27, 2010, 01:47:50 PM »
I'll count it as 2009 then and sub it out for Paul Blart.

EDIT: Sub it in, FLY, sub it in.

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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #592 on: January 28, 2010, 12:03:51 AM »
+6

A+Where the Wild Things Are
AA Serious Man
AAvatar
AInglourious Basterds
A-The Brothers Bloom
A-The Cove
A-Il Divo
A-Love Exposure
A-Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea
A-Thirst
B+(500) Days of Summer
B+District 9
B+Goodbye Solo
B+The Hurt Locker
B+Moon
B+Tokyo Sonata
B+The White Ribbon
BCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
BDrag Me To Hell
BIn The Loop
BStar Trek
BSummer Hours
BUp
BUp in the Air
BWorld's Greatest Dad
B-2012
B-Adventureland
B-Coraline
B-Food Inc.
B-Paranormal Activity
B-Zombieland
C+17 Again
C+Anvil! The Story of Anvil
C+The Girlfriend Experience
C+Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
C+The Road
C+State of Play
C+Treeless Mountain
C+Two Lovers
C+Watchmen
CKnowing
C-Jennifer's Body
C-Terminator Salvation
DG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
D-Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
D-X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #593 on: January 28, 2010, 10:21:09 PM »
1.   Moon
2.   The White Ribbon
3.   Broken Embraces
4.   Where the Wild Things Are
5.   A Serious Man
6.   Big Fan
7.   Inglourious Basterds
8.    (500) Days of Summer
9.   Up in the Air
10.   Sugar
11.   Goodbye Solo
12.   Whatever Works
13.   Black Dynamite
14.   The Hurt Locker
15.   District 9
16.   Avatar
17.   The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
18.   Ponyo
19.   The Cove
20.   The Princess and the Frog
21.   World’s Greatest Dad
22.   Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
23.   An Education
24.   Cold Souls
25.   Up
26.   Cheri
27.   A Christmas Carol
28.   Anvil! The Story of Anvil
29.   Sunshine Cleaning
30.   The Brothers Bloom
31.   Crank: High Voltage
32.   Soul Power
33.   Earth
34.   Star Trek
35.   Fantastic Mr. Fox
36.   State of Play
37.   Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
38.   In the Loop
39.   Lion’s Den
40.   Zombieland
41.   Humpday
42.   Sita Sings the Blues
43.   No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
44.   9
45.   The Box
46.   The Informant!
47.   Michael Jackson’s This Is It
48.   Whip It
49.   Funny People
50.   Coraline
51.   The Girlfriend Experience
52.   Chocolate
53.   Beautiful Losers
54.   Lymelife
55.   The Boat That Rocked/Pirate Radio
56.   Extract
57.   The Yes Men Fix the World
58.   Chelsea on the Rocks
59.   Green Lantern: First Flight
60.   I Love You, Man
61.   The Invention of Lying
62.   Public Enemies
63.   It Might Get Loud
64.   The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
65.   Invictus
66.   Observe and Report
67.   Watchmen
68.   Gigantic
69.   The Hangover
70.   Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
71.   Batman/Superman: Public Enemies
72.   Bruno
73.   The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
74.   Adventureland
75.   Monsters vs. Aliens
76.   Planet 51
77.   Tyson
78.   Phoebe in Wonderland
79.   Next Day Air
80.   Paper Heart
81.   Fanboys
82.   G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
83.   Year One
84.   Dead Like Me: Life After Death

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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #594 on: January 28, 2010, 10:24:29 PM »
15.   District 9
Very respectable.  Glad you liked it that much.

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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #596 on: February 06, 2010, 07:53:30 PM »
Forgot Ghosts of Girlfriends Past came out last year.

There is a run of three films somewhere in there that kills me to look at.

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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #597 on: March 10, 2010, 11:30:13 PM »
Perhaps all time Great:
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)

Easily among the best of 2009
The Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)
District Nine (Neill Blomkamp)
The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
Star Trek (JJ Abrams)
The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
A Serious Man (The Coen Brothers)
Anvil: The Story of Anvil ( Sacha Gervasi)
Food Inc. (Robert Kenner)

Pretty Solid
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
(500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
The Hurt Locker (Catherine Biggalo)
It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim)
Earth (Alastair Fothergill)
Up (Pete Docter)

I know what I hate and I didn't hate these:
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Avatar (James Cameron)
I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
Extract (Mike Judge)
Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Phil Lord)
The Invention of Lying (Ricky Gervais)
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer)

I expected very little and it lived up to expectations:
The Time Traveler's Wife  (Robert Schwentke)
The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock)
Hotel For Dogs (Thor Freudenthal)
The Soloist (Joe Wright)
Couples Retreat (Peter Billingsley)
The Ugly Truth (Robert Luketic)
Adam (Max Mayer)
G-Force (Hoyt Yeatmanf)
Invictus (Clint Eastwood)

And the Razzie goes to:
Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
Angels and Demonds (Ron Howard)
World's Greatest Dad (Bobcast Golthwait)
Crazy Heart ( Scott Cooper)
27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher)
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Re: The Year So Far (2009)
« Reply #598 on: September 16, 2011, 04:11:28 PM »
Movies from 2009 I've watched:
(Rankings from 0 to 10)

Inglorious Basterds 8.5
Adventureland 8
Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon) 8
Fish Tank 8
(500) Days of Summer 8
An Education 8
Moon 8
District 9 7.5
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee 7.5
A Single Man 7.5
Bright Star 7.5
The Road 7.5
Star Trek 7.5
The Hangover 7.5
The Cove 7.5
El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes) 7.5
The Informant! 7.5
Till det som är vackert (Pure) 7.5
The Eclipse 7.5
Triangle 7.5
The Secret of Kells 7.5
Up 7
Where the Wild Things Are 7
Watchmen 7
Home 7
I skuggan av värmen (In Your Veins) 7
Orphan 7
World's Greatest Dad 7
Flickan som lekte med elden (The Girl Who Played with Fire) 7
Humpday 7
Up In the Air 7
Partir (Leaving) 7
Avatar 7
I Killed My Mother (J’ai tue ma mere) 7
Splice 7
Fantastic Mr. Fox 7
Crazy Heart 7
In the Loop 7
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 7
Public Enemies 6.5
Un Prophéte (A Prophet) 6.5
Los abrazos rotos (Broken Embraces) 6.5
Precious 6.5
Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) 6.5
The Messenger 6.5
Antichrist 6.5
Zombieland 6.5
Solitary Man 6.5
Drag Me to Hell 6.5
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 6.5
Funny People 6.5
Grey Gardens 6.5
I Love You, Man 6
Duplicity 6
Young Victoria 6
State of Play 6
The Boat That Rocked 6
Flickan (The Girl) 6
Mary & Max 6
Brothers 6
The Girlfriend Experience 6
The Last Station 6
Black Dynamite 6
Capitalism: A Love Story 6
Ondine 6
Terminator Salvation 5.5
Monsters vs Aliens 5.5
The Blind Side 5.5
North Face 5.5
Observe and Report 5.5
Luftslottet som sprängdes (The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) 5.5
Julie & Julia 5.5
Fast & Furious 5.5
Mammoth 5.5
Invictus 5.5
Brüno 5
Valhalla Rising 5
(Untitled) 5
A Serious Man 5
[Rec] 2 5
It's Complicated 5
Shrink 5
Youth in Revolt 5
The Good Guy 5
The Box 5
2012 5
Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel) 5
The Time Traveler's Wife 4.5
Surrogates 4.5
Land of the Lost 4.5
Metropia 4.5
The Greatest 4.5
G.I.Joe: Rise of the Cobra 4
The International 4
Micmacs 4
Simon & Malou 4
Extract 4
Away We Go 4
The Invention of Lying 4
Sherlock Holmes 4
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 4
The Lovely Bones 3.5
Powder Blue 3.5
Dogtooth 3.5
17 Again 3.5
Whatever Works 3
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 3
The Proposal 3
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 3
Mr. Nobody 3
He's Just Not That Into You 3
Io sono l'amore (I Am Love) 3
The Other Woman 3
I Love You, Beth Cooper 3
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past 2.5
Race to Witch Mountain 2.5
All About Steve 2
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