You lucky devils.
Here are Griff's top 10 movies for 2009! Please feel free to comment and disagree and cause a ruckus. I love that.
And also keep in mind taht I missed A LOT of movie this year due to lack of funds and transportation so don't go throwing "The Hurt Locker" in my face just yet :)
Without further ado...
10. Drag Me to HellNot many people will agree with this.
Screw. You.
This is daddy's list.
Drag Me to Hell is fun. Fun to a degree that will make you retarded for about an hour after watching it. Oh to be retard happy every day! It's Looney Tunes packaged beside Texas Chainsaw Massacre in a Peterbilt driven by Sam Rami.
Now that's a ride!
My only beef with it is it relied a bit much on CGI but it's forgivable because I got to see an anvil fall on someone's head in a mainstream Hollywood feature!
You don't have to drag me to Hell. I'm ready whenever you are!
You buy the popcorn.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wowwwwwwww. This movie purdy. And funny. AND smart. AND AND AND...hell. It's just good! Great story by Roald Dahl with a even greater execution by Wes Anderson this simple tale works AMAZINGLY well with Wes Anderson's subtle illustrative style of storytelling. I really hope that this isn't the the last stop motion venture that Anderson walks on because it is simply his best movie to date. Now, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums come close and he will be getting movie ticket money from me next time no matter what he throws up on that big silver God, but this film is just too good not to expound upon.
I REALLY wish he was doing a stop motion Alice in Wonderland, but I know that won't happen...even tough it would be...Fantastic.
CoralineDear Mr. Gaiman,
I love you sir. I wish to have your babies.
Bests,
griff “THE EMPIRE” smith
I love this story. I love the world that is created. I love the visuals, the themes, the allusions. The inside of my brain looks and plays like this movie.
I have devoted much of my life to a love of children's literature and it's obvious that the makers of this film “get it”. This movie bears the burden of CENTURIES of thematic elements and is as faithful and poetic with them to a degree that the Brothers Grimm would put down their cheddar wurst and say, “Aus es güd, ya!”
Ya! It's very güd!
Star Trek
This movie SHOULD NOT be as awesome as it is, but dammit it is awesome. Freekin awesome. I hope George Lucas stopped counting his ill-gotten gains long enough to watch this movie and have it shrink his manhood a little.
This movie made Star Trek cool.
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT IS!?!?
Now, I've been a Trek fan for just about as long as I can remember and I understand what comes along with that (not a lot of sex) but this movie boldly went went where no Trek film has gone before.
This movie went cool.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go clean my tricorder...dammit.
The Hangover
This is one of the funniest movies in recorded history. One of my top ten favorite comedies of all time. Maybe top five and before you can say that it's just a raunchy sophomoric comedic brain killer you need to put down the coloring book and listen.
The BRILLIANCE of this movie is that it allows your imagination to fill in the gaps. It hides the monster from the movie. You only see glimpses into the the night that holds the core of the comedy. Whatever you can imagine is FAR funnier than what would actually come into play. This makes the film a very personalized experience for whomever watches it. It's a really smart way to approach the ridiculous humor that completely spackles it.
And no Mom, you're still not allowed to watch it.
Paranormal ActivityHo. Lee. Shit.
This movie is scary. Mean scary. Not nice scary like Rob Zombie's Halloween starring Griffin Smith. Mean scary. Rosemary's Baby scary. Having problems sleeping scary.
Goooooooooood movie.
Watch it alone, at night and get mad at me for telling you too.
If you get too scared, just ask and snuggles will be provided...not by me...I'm no snuggle slut, but Zsa Zsa is always down.
Inglorious Basterds“Actually, Werner, we're all tickled to here you say that. Frankly, watchin' Donny beat Nazis to death is is the closest we ever get to goin' to the movies.”
And it's some of the most fun you can have at the movies.
Tarantino does it again and again and again in this shit-kicker of a movie.
This movie works. The characters, the actors, the story, the cinematography are all home runs and if Christoph Waltz doesn't get a best supporting nomination for this movie then everything must die. He acts so well that it'll make you throw a shoe at the movie screen.
Trust me. I did.
AvatarIt's been a good year for smart Sci Fi. Avatar is an experience. James Cameron once again proves that he can sequence action better than anyone out there and wrap the whole package up in a 162 minute eye-orgasm just because he thinks we've been good.
Thank You, Daddy.
Oh and the story is amazing as well. Preachy in a lot of areas but not in a bad way. Yes it's a total Pocahontas story but in a way that will make you're third-eye cry. Not in a sad indian on the side of the road kinda way...
I sense my metaphors are growing wild.
Let me wrangle them up by saying, if you haven't seen Avatar, get off your ass and see it TODAY! Don't deprive yourself of the greatest 3d experience to date. If you wait till the dvd release you WILL regret it and imagine how ashamed you'll be when your grandkids ask if you saw it in 3d and you gotta say, “Nooooo, Pappy was a loser.”
Don't suck.
Go see Avatar.
District 9District 9 isn't for everyone. You have to be susceptible to emotional shifts. You have to be smart. You have to like robots and aliens. You have to “Get it”.
Now that I have laid the “Emperor's New Clothes” framework around this review, District 9 kicks ass! A film that manages to make such character shifts and sociological intricacies and still puts a guy in a mech with a gravity gun makes my nerd bits tickle.
Beyond stunning effects and action, District 9 made me think. District 9 made me a better person because it showed me how not to look at things and people by blatantly rubbing my nose in how I currently look at them.
Thank you District 9 for your dirty comedy, political commentary and bloody action. District 9 is an instant cult classic. So if you have a brain, a heart and hard-on for nerdiness then I'm sure we're seeing eye to eye on D9.
If not, then hit the bricks Dorothy. Go watch Transformers 2 and eat some glue.
1. UpUp is a dream.
100% deadly imagination, saturated in everything that is good. I can't think of any part of this movie that is less than wonderful. If you don't feel, at least, the PULL to cry in this movie then you have no soul.
You might want to write whatever God you prescribe to and ask for another.
Maybe I'm just a mushy assed romantic but this film magically captures life, love, and loss in a world that is very different from our own. It's genius lies in using our base human emotion to completely wrap us in a world where dogs talk, snipe exist, and adventure is just a couple of balloons away.
I can watch this movie and feel alive and life, after all, is but a dream.
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I already know how you're going to respond to this, but I gotta admit I'm fairly cool on Up.
The first 10 minute were brilliant and heartbreaking, but the rest of the movie was... amusing fun. Not bad by any means. Just pretty good. And while I fully admit it is an unfair standard, "pretty good" just doesn't cut it for a Pixar movie.
With that said I completely agree with all of your other choices (except Mr. Fox and Paranormal Activity which I still need to see). Especially Drag Me to Hell. We watched that one together and when it was over we looked at each other and both said "THAT WAS AWESOME!" then laughed for 5 minutes about how deliriously happy that movie had made us.
Also I don't tend to put together top 10 lists because my opinions and feelings on films are fluid and change depending on the weather, time of day, state of mind, and a million other factors, but my favorite film from last year would probably be either District 9 or Inglorious Basterds.
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