This years movies....

[tinkerbell]

Nowhere man does look pretty good.
As does sherlock holmes!
So far Avater and district 9 have been best! Saw avatar in 3D wonderful!

yea I'm not really a scie fi movie watcher

How was your Brithday? Good I hope

Belated Happy Birthdays to you.....

Happy Christmas too

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

I believe the movies that did the best this year were of the "chick flick" persuasion. Stuff like the Twighlight series and romantic comedies and stuff like that. If those weren't your type of movies, then this year looks pretty weak.

 

[Unkindloving]

I believe the movies that did the best this year were of the "chick flick" persuasion. Stuff like the Twighlight series and romantic comedies and stuff like that. If those weren't your type of movies, then this year looks pretty weak.

-_____- The Twilight nonsense did well, but it is by no means good. I don't know what kind of drugs people are on, but that kind of mind altering is in no way healthy or beneficial.
I wish there were more Sci Fi movies floating around. I enjoyed Pandorum and still have to see Moon.

 

[tinkerbell]

I believe the movies that did the best this year were of the "chick flick" persuasion. Stuff like the Twighlight series and romantic comedies and stuff like that. If those weren't your type of movies, then this year looks pretty weak.

Presumably in the middle of an ecconomic depression, stuff like vampires and gohsts become quite population (and the population rises)....

Hmmm weird huh

 

[The Outsider]

Moon
Watchmen
Zombieland
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Public Enemies
The Road
Sherlock Holmes

 

[hokie912]

So you liked The Road? That's one of the rare cases where I love the book too much to see a movie version unless it's really, really amazing. And even then...

The book is just so internal and relies so much on McCarthy's language that I doubt most filmmakers' abilities to translate it to the screen. What's moving about it isn't inherently visual or plot-driven, and I worry from the trailers that it comes off as yet another version of The Stand, or else melodramatic when it could be deeply moving.

 

[The Outsider]

So you liked The Road? That's one of the rare cases where I love the book too much to see a movie version unless it's really, really amazing. And even then...

The book is just so internal and relies so much on McCarthy's language that I doubt most filmmakers' abilities to translate it to the screen. What's moving about it isn't inherently visual or plot-driven, and I worry from the trailers that it comes off as yet another version of The Stand, or else melodramatic when it could be deeply moving.

Well, I understand your fears definitely, The Road is one of my favorite books, and of course the movie can't really compare on the same level. But it is good in its own right. Capturing McCarthy's language isn't really possible, but I'd say it does a good job at capturing the atmosphere.

In any case, I'd say it's definitely worth seeing. I don't see how a movie could in any way destroy an already positive stance on the book.

 

[tinkerbell]

nowher boy was very touching....

There are a good few movies coming up that looks like they will be good... Alice; Shutter Island; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows I, and thats without really looking through....

So from the offing better than last year

 

[hokie912]

Well, I understand your fears definitely, The Road is one of my favorite books, and of course the movie can't really compare on the same level. But it is good in its own right. Capturing McCarthy's language isn't really possible, but I'd say it does a good job at capturing the atmosphere.

In any case, I'd say it's definitely worth seeing. I don't see how a movie could in any way destroy an already positive stance on the book.

Thanks for your opinion. I think I probably will see the movie if it opens in this area. I don't think that seeing a bad movie would destroy my positive stance on a book; the issue is more that I feel very close to the material and it would sadden me to feel that it wasn't done justice.

 

[human101]

inglorious bastards...........anything written by tarantino or woody allen im there

 

[Totenkindly]

It seemed okay. Stand outs for me this year were Avatar and Star Trek, not to mention District 9.

I saw all those.. pretty good.
And... Best Trek Ever (along with WoK).
Any movie I can watch more than once is high-ranked in my book.

I don't go to the theater much, unless the movie calls for it.
And most years don't seem any better or worse than others.

 

[Jeffster]

These are the theater movies I saw in 2009:

Hotel for Dogs
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Monsters vs. Aliens
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Earth
Star Trek
Up
The Hangover
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
G-Force
Shorts
Planet 51
The Princess and the Frog
Avatar

I would give thumbs-up to all of them except for Transformers.

If I had to pick one favorite, it would probably be Up, though Earth would be a close second.

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

If I had to pick one favorite, it would probably be Up, though Earth would be a close second.

Up was the best movie I saw this year. Star Trek needs to be mentioned because it was a lot of fun. I haven't seen Earth. I'll have to check that one out.