So here’s the years round up. I’ll be posting my scores, my new scores for the film and the scores for films I didn’t review. Then do my top three films of the year! So lets get going.
Bronson – * * * * *
New score- * * *
Comment- Interesting film which probably no one saw. Think Chopper meets
Clockwork
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Curious Case of Benjamin Button - * * * *
New score- * *
Comment- A film about a guy who gets younger every day. Starts of well but looses it’s magic about half way.
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Drag Me To Hell - * * * * *
New score- * * * * *
Comment- Sam Raimi returns to horror since Bruce Campbell vs The Army or Darkness. This film was so good you can sign my up for Evil Dead 4.
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Låt Den Rätte Komma In - * * * * *
New score- * * * * *
Comment- Swedish vampire film which isn’t about sex unlike most vampire films. The writer of the Twilight Saga needs to watch this and see what a real vampire looks like.
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Inglorious Basterds - * * * * *
New score- * * * *
Comment- Tarantino’s back for a good shoot out but still feel a TV show would have been better.
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Milk - * * * * *
New score- * * * *
Comment- Gus van Sant’s great indie film about a subject which obviously meant a lot to him. Great performances from Sena Penn and Josh Brolin.
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Slumdog Millionaire - * * * * *
New score- * * *
Comment- Danny Boyle’s interesting film about child slavery, poverty and heart break which was hailed as the heart warming film of the year.
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Star Trek - * * * *
New score- * * *
Comment- Good but I wasn’t a Trekkie so went over my head. Still better then expected.
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Synecdoche
New score- *
Comment- Rubbish next… ok ok so this film shows Charily Kaufman needs and editor and someone to chain him down.
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Transformers: Raise of the Fallen - * *
New score- *
Comment- Worse the Synecdoche New York, next.
Watchmen - * * * *
New score- * * *
Comment- Great comic. Good adaptation. Better then expected.
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The Wrestler - * * * * *
New score- * * * *
Comment- Mickey Rourke steps back in the ring for a heart warming story about the road to self victory.
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Films I didn’t review
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(500) Days of Summer - * * *
Comment- Got me loving The Smiths and Joseph Gordon Levitt, enough said.
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Antichrist - * * * * *
Comment- Lars von Trier’s disturbing flick shows audience that cinema can be engaging, challenging and truly disturbing.
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Avatar- * * * * *
Comment- James Cameron’s ten year brain child was worth the wait. It’s smurfs meet Furngully, in a good way.
Funny People - * * *
Comment- disappointment from Judd Apatow but still worth watching.
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Halloween 2 - * *
Comment- I feel the first of the Rob Zombie Halloween films was in some ways better then the original however this is one of horrors darkest days and not in a good way. Good thing Zombie isn’t making H3.
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus - * * *
Comment- Terry Gilliam is back and with a vengeance. Still felt the end could have had five minutes cut off but still Tom Waits redeemed it all.
Last House on the Left - * * *
Comment- The original was on of the grittiest films in history. But did it constitute for a remake? Probably not. However this films a more cleaned up on which I enjoyed to the end.
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Paranormal Activities - * * *
Comment- Scary film which kept me up all night.
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Moon - * * * * *
Comment- Duncan Jones’s first film shoots straight into my top five sci-fi films. Need I say more?
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Comment- An Canadian zombie horror where the virus isn’t transmitted by bites but by words.
Zombieland - * * *
Comment- Pretty funny zombie flick with twenty minutes without any zombies. And NOT as good as Shaun of the Dead.
And now that that’s out of the way its time for my top five film of 2009!
Top 5 movies of 2009
5. Inglorious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
4. Avatar – James Cameron
3. Antichrist – Lars von Trier
2. Moon – Duncan Jones
1. Drag me to Hell – Sam Raimi
So what do you think? Do you agree? What was your top films of 2009? Please comment below.
Well I hoped you liked it. There it is. Now onto the bigger picture. Top films of the decade!
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P.S. I saw this video on YouTube recently and thought I had to add it in it is truley incredible. I also had a little of a change around of my list but the #1 stayed the same!
Oliver Hunt
I thought Inglorious bastards and avatar are at the forefront along with slumdog, i wouldnt personally go far as to saying drag me to hell as no 1 though. but hey! personal oppinion :)
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