Temporal Top Ten – 2009

Number of movies seen from this year – 144
Number of movies reviewed –  155 (including 20 Encore Reviews)

2009 was a fun year for movies.

This was the first year where the Oscar Best Picture list was expanded from just 5 movies.

4 of the 9 nominees make this list (The actual BP winner The Hurt Locker has an IMDB release date of 2008, so it wasn’t eligible for this list)  I actually believe that the other 4 nominees aren’t as strong – Precious, The Blind Side, A Serious Man and District 9 despite being good movies.

As you can see by the list, this year was heavily populated by great small budget movies that blew me and lots of other people away by the way those movies were presented.

My #1 is probably not on anyone else’s top ten list but that’s probably because most people haven’t seen or even heard of this gem.

#2 restored my faith in remakes (sorta) 🙂

My Top Ten

10. Adventureland

9. Moon

8. Inglorious Basterds

7. Up In the Air

6. Watchmen

5. Crazy Heart

4. Up

3. Avatar

2. Star Trek

1. Taking Chance

 

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 2009

1. 9
2. 2012
3. (500) Days of Summer
4. Adventureland
5. Agora
6. Ajami
7. All About Steve
8. Amelia
9. An Education
10. Angels & Demons
11. Answer Man, The
12. Avatar   Encore Review
13. Away We Go
14. Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
15. Blind Side, The
16. Bride Wars
17. Brooklyn’s Finest
18. Brothers
19. Calvin Marshall
20. Capitalism: A Love Story
21. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
22. Coraline
23. Couples Retreat
24. Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, The
25. Cove, The
26. Crazy Heart  Encore Review  Encore Review 2  Encore Review 3
27. Crossing Over
28. Dead Snow
29. District 9
30. Dogtooth
31. Don’t You Forget About Me
32. Down Terrace
33. Drag Me to Hell
34. Duplicity
35. Echelon Conspiracy
36. Everyman’s War
37. Exam
38. Fame
39. Fanboys
40. Fantastic Mr. Fox
41. Fast & Furious
42. Final Destination, The
43. Fish Tank
44. Frame of Mind
45. Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
46. Friday the 13th
47. Funny People
48. G.I. Joe: Resolute
49. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
50. Get Low
51. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
52. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
53. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The
54. Girl Who Played With Fire, The
55. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The
56. Girlfriend Experience, The
57. Green Lantern: First Flight    Encore Review
58. Hachi: A Dog’s Tale
59. Hangover, The   Encore Review
60. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
61. He’s Just Not That into You
62. Horsemen
63. Hulk Vs.
64. Hurricane Season
65. I Hate Valentine’s Day
66. I Love You, Beth Cooper
67. I Love You, Man
68. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
69. In the Electric Mist
70. In the Loop
71. Inglourious Basterds
72. International, The
73. Into the Storm
74. Invention of Lying, The
75. Invictus
76. It’s Complicated
77. Jennifer’s Body
78. Julie & Julia
79. King of Thorn
80. Knowing
81. Land of the Lost
82. Landslide: A Portrait of President Herbert Hoover
83. Last Station, The
84. Law Abiding Citizen
85. Lego Star Wars: The Quest for R2-D2
86. Lovely Bones, The
87. Loving Leah
88. Matter of Size, A
89. Messenger, The
90. Moon         Encore Review
91. Moonshot
92. Most Dangerous Man in America, The: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
93. Mother and Child
94. Mr. Nobody
95. My Sister’s Keeper
96. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
97. Nine
98. Old Dogs
99. Pandorum
100. Paper Man
101. Paul Blart: Mall Cop
102. Perfect Game, The
103. Perfect Getaway, A
104. Phobidilia
105. Pirate Radio
106. Post Grad
107. Precious
108. Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The
109. Proposal, The
110. Public Enemies
111. Race to Witch Mountain
112. Rebound, The (coming soon)
113. Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story
114. Road, The
115. Serious Man, A
116. Sherlock Holmes
117. Single Man, A
118. Solitary Man
119. Star Trek  Encore Review  Encore Review 2 Encore Review 3  Encore Review 4  5
120. State of Play
121. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies      Encore Review
122. Surrogates Encore Review
123. Table for Three
124. Taking Chance  Encore Review  Encore Review 2
125. Taking of Pelham 123, The
126. Tenderness
127. Terminator Salvation
128. Time Traveler’s Wife, The
129. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
130. Twilight Saga: New Moon
131. Ugly Truth, The
132. Up    Encore Review
133. Up in the Air  Encore Review
134. Vicious Kind, The
135. Waking Sleeping Beauty
136. Watchmen    Encore Review
137. Where the Wild Things Are
138. White Ribbon, The
139. Whiteout
140. Wonder Woman
141. World’s Greatest Dad
142. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
143. Young Victoria, The
144. Zombieland   Encore Review