Best/Worst of 2009

2009 YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2009:

1.         Inglourious Basterds

2.         Martyrs

3.         Paranormal Activity

4.         Drag Me To Hell

5.         Trick ‘R Treat

6.         The Princess and the Frog

7.         The Children

8.         Carriers

9.         Grace

10.       Surveillance

Runners-up:  Knowing; Sin Nombre; Adventureland; Monsters vs. Aliens; Coraline; Dead Snow; The Haunting in Connecticut; Waltz with Bashir; Lake Tahoe

Worst of 2009:

1.         Watchmen

2.         Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

3.         Fast & Furious

4.         Sand Serpents

5.         Obsessed

6.         Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

7.         Bruno

8.         The Promotion

9.         The Taking of Pelham 123

10.       G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra

Almost made it:  The Grudge 3

Commentary:  Adventureland, Coraline and The Haunting in Connecticut should be in the top ten instead of runners-up.  Definitely Coraline.  Trick ‘R Treat should be up higher.  Orphan would at least be on the runners-up list; knowing the twist beforehand makes it a much darker movie.  Watchmen was the worst movie I’ve ever seen from what I remember; I fell asleep more than once and grasped nothing when I actually was awake.  Only one runner-up for worst?  Must not have seen too many bad movies that year.  1/29/2017

Best of the Decade (2000-2009):

Adventureland

Bubble

Cabin Fever

Calvaire

Clerks II

Coraline*

Dead Silence

The Devil’s Rejects

Donnie Darko

Drag Me to Hell

Duck Season

Final Destination

Finding Nemo

High Tension*

The Host

Identity

Inside

Jeepers Creepers

Let the Right One In*

May

The Mist*

Monster House

Mulholland Drive

Orphan

The Others

Pieces of April

Prey (2007)

Rogue

Sweeney Todd

Trick ‘r Treat*

Zombieland

*---standout titles

---Sean O.