*Films Seen in 2009 - Final

Submitted by DJ Cmoney on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 12:56
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  1. 1/1: Burn After Reading - Joel & Ethan Coen (2008) B+
  2. 1/1: Son of Rambow - Garth Jennings (2007) A+ [U.K.]
  3. 1/2: Man On Wire - James Marsh (2008) A+
  4. 1/2: The Fall - Tarsem Singh (2006) A- [India]
  5. 1/3: He Got Game - Spike Lee (1998) B
  6. 1/3: Atonement - Joe Wright (2007) A
  7. 1/4: True Romance - Tony Scott (1993) A-
  8. 1/4: Rushmore - Wes Anderson (1998) A-
  9. 1/4: Harsh Times - David Ayer (2005) B+
  10. 1/5: Grandma's Boy - Nicholaus Goossen (2006) B+
  11. 1/5: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly - Julian Schnabel (2007) A+ [France]
  12. 1/6: 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu (2007) A- [Romania]
  13. 1/6: The Wackness - Jonathan Levine (2008) A
  14. 1/6: Death Race - Paul W.S. Anderson (2008) B-
  15. 1/6: Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Nicholas Stoller (2008) A-
  16. 1/7: Sin City - Robert Rodriguez (2005) A+
  17. 1/7: Scent of a Woman - Martin Brest (1992) B+
  18. 1/7: Thunderball - Terence Young (1965) B+
  19. 1/8: The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - Andrew Dominik (2007) A-
  20. 1/9: Traitor - Jeffrey Nachmanoff (2008) B-
  21. 1/10: The Basketball Diaries - Scott Kalvert (1995) B
  22. 1/10: No Country For Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen (2007) A+
  23. 1/11: 30 Days Of Night - David Slade (2007) B+
  24. 1/11: The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner (1987) A-
  25. 1/12: Pineapple Express - David Gordon Green (2008) C+
  26. 1/12: Deliverance - John Boorman (1972) A-
  27. 1/12: In Bruges - Martin McDonagh (2008) A [U.K]
  28. 1/13: Straw Dogs - Sam Peckinpah (1971) A-
  29. 1/13: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Shane Black (2005) A
  30. 1/14: Antibodies - Christian Alvart (2005) A- [Germany]
  31. 1/14: Notting Hill - Roger Michell (1999) B
  32. 1/15: Factotum - Bent Hamer (2005) B
  33. 1/15:Once - John Carney (2006) A [Ireland]
  34. 1/16: The Breakfast Club - John Hughes (1985) B
  35. 1/16: The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky (2008) A-
  36. 1/17: Revolutionary Road - Sam Mendes (2008) A
  37. 1/17: Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar-Wai (1990) B [Hong Kong]
  38. 1/18: In The Mood For Love - Wong Kar-Wai (2000) A- [Hong Kong]
  39. 1/18: Wedding Crashers - David Dobkin (2005) B
  40. 1/18: Ocean's Twelve - Steven Soderbergh (2004) B+
  41. 1/18: Shaun Of The Dead - Edgar Wright (2004) A
  42. 1/19: This Is England - Shane Meadows (2006) A [U.K.]
  43. 1/19: Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood (2008) B+
  44. 1/20: Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967) A-
  45. 1/20: City of God - Fernando Meirelles (2002) A+
  46. 1/21: My Best Friend's Wedding - P.J. Hogan (1997) C-
  47. 1/21: Defiance - Edward Zwick (2008) B+
  48. 1/21: Garden State - Zach Braff (2004) A+
  49. 1/22: 2046 - Wong Kar-Wai (2004) A- [Hong Kong]
  50. 1/24: Funny Games - Michael Haneke (1997) A- [Austria]
  51. 1/26: Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia - Sam Peckinpah (1974) A-
  52. 1/26: Go - Doug Liman (1999) A-
  53. 1/26: Lucky Number Slevin - Paul McGuigan (2006) A-
  54. 1/27: Frost/Nixon - Ron Howard (2008) A-
  55. 1/28: The Orphanage - Juan Antonio Bayona (2007) B+ [Mexico]
  56. 1/30: Funny Games (U.S.) - Michael Haneke (2007) A-
  57. 1/30: Hamlet 2 - Andrew Fleming (2008) B
  58. 1/31: Taken - Pierre Morel (2008) B
  59. 2/1: Before Sunset - Richard Linklater (2004) A-
  60. 2/3: Grosse Point Blank - George Armitage (1997) B-
  61. 2/3: Once Upon A Time In Mexico - Robert Rodriguez (2003) B+
  62. 2/4: Smart People - Noam Murro (2008) B+
  63. 2/4: Lost In Translation - Sofia Coppola (2003) A-
  64. 2/5: The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969) A+
  65. 2/9: Coraline - Henry Selick (2009) B+
  66. 2/10: RockNRolla - Guy Ritchie (2008) A [U.K.]
  67. 2/16: 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957) A
  68. 2/16: He's Just Not That Into You - Ken Kwapis (2009) B
  69. 2/18: Say Anything... - Cameron Crowe (1989) B
  70. 2/22: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Stephen Herek (1989) B
  71. 2/23: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist - Peter Sollett (2008) C+
  72. 2/23: Braveheart - Mel Gibson (1995) A
  73. 2/24: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - Seth Gordon (2007) A
  74. 2/25: The Visitor - Tom McCarthy (2007) A-
  75. 3/1: Superbad - Greg Mottola (2007) A-
  76. 3/1: Burn After Reading - Joel & Ethan Coen (2008) B+
  77. 3/2: Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982) B+
  78. 3/2: Closer - Mike Nichols (2004) B+
  79. 3/2: Inside Man - Spike Lee (2006) B+
  80. 3/8: Son of Rambow - Garth Jennings (2007) A+ [U.K.]
  81. 3/9: Control - Anton Corbijn (2007) A- [U.K.]
  82. 3/11: Burn After Reading - Joel & Ethan Coen (2008) B+
  83. 3/12: Role Models - David Wain (2008) A-
  84. 3/23: Twilight - Catherine Hardwicke (2008) C
  85. 3/25: Role Models - David Wain (2008) A-
  86. 3/27: Salo o 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975) C [Italy]
  87. 3/30: Hitch -Andy Tennant (2005) B-
  88. 4/1: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls - Steve Oedekerk (1995) B
  89. 4/2: Dumb & Dumber - The Farrelly Brothers (1994) B+
  90. 4/3:Atonement - Joe Wright (2007) A
  91. 4/3: Semi-Pro - Kent Alterman (2008) C-
  92. 4/4: An American Crime - Tommy O'Haver (2007) A-
  93. 4/5: I Love You, Man - John Hamburg (2009) A-
  94. 4/7: About A Boy - Paul & Chris Weitz (2002) B+
  95. 4/9: Ferris Bueller's Day Off - John Hughes (1986) B+
  96. 4/11: Saving Silverman - Dennis Dugan (2001) B
  97. 4/12: Old School - Todd Phillips (2003) B
  98. 4/14: Let The Right One In - Tomas Alfredson (2008) A [Sweden]
  99. 4/16: Adventureland - Greg Mottola (2009) A-
  100. 4/16: Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994) A+
  101. 4/18: Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (1992) A
  102. 4/24: Van Wilder - Walt Becker (2002) B
  103. 4/26: The Informers - Gregor Jordan (2009) C+
  104. 4/26: Run Fatboy, Run - David Schwimmer (2007) B+ [U.K.]
  105. 4/26: Juno - Jason Reitman (2007) A
  106. 5/1: The Big Lebowski - Joel & Ethan Coen (1998) A
  107. 5/2: The Rules of Attraction - Roger Avary (2002) B+
  108. 5/9: Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle (2009) A+
  109. 5/13: Shaun Of The Dead - Edgar Wright (2004) A
  110. 5/25: Black Sheep - Penelope Spheeris (1996) C
  111. 5/31: Speed - Jan De Bont (1994) B
  112. 5/31: Redbelt - David Mamet (2008) B
  113. 5/31: Be Kind, Rewind - Michel Gondry (2008) B+
  114. 6/1: 2 Days In Paris - Julie Delpy (2007) C+ [France]
  115. 6/1: Special - Hal Haberman & Jeremy Passamore (2006) B+
  116. 6/2: Bridget Jones's Diary - Sharon Maguire (2001) C+ [U.K.]
  117. 6/2: Fever Pitch - David Evans (1997) B [U.K.]
  118. 6/2: Predator - John McTiernan (1987) B+
  119. 6/3: Henry Poole Is Here - Mark Pellington (2008) B+
  120. 6/3: Cassandra's Dream - Woody Allen (2007) C+
  121. 6/3: Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay - Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg (2008) B
  122. 6/4: Finding Forrester - Gus Van Sant (2000) A-
  123. 6/5: Choke - Clark Gregg (2008) B+
  124. 6/5: You Don't Mess With The Zohan - Dennis Dugan (2008) D
  125. 6/6: The Hangover - Todd Philips (2009) B+
  126. 6/6: Super High Me - Michael Blieden (2007) B
  127. 6/6: The Terminator - James Cameron (1984) A-
  128. 6/8: A Bittersweet Life - Ji-Woon Kim (2005) A- [South Korea]
  129. 6/8: I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry - Dennis Dugan (2007) C+
  130. 6/8: Me, Myself & Irene - The Farrelly Brothers (2000) B
  131. 6/9: Bad Boys - Michael Bay (1995) B
  132. 6/9: DiG! - Ondi Timoner (2004) B+
  133. 6/9: The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci (1970) C+
  134. 6/10: Juno - Jason Reitman (2007) A
  135. 6/10: Sukiyaki Western Django - Takashi Miike (2007) C
  136. 6/10: The Blues Brothers - John Landis (1980) A
  137. 6/11: Death to Smoochy - Danny DeVito (2002) A-
  138. 6/11: The Killing - Stanley Kubrick (1956) A-
  139. 6/11: I'm Reed Fish - Zackary Adler (2006) B
  140. 6/12: Hoosiers - David Anspaugh (1986) B
  141. 6/12: The Darjeeling Limited - Wes Anderson (2007) A-
  142. 6/12: Up - Pete Docter (2009) A-
  143. 6/12: Killshot - John Madden (2008) B-
  144. 6/13: The Flaming Lips: Fearless Freaks - Bradley Beesley (2005) B
  145. 6/14: Brick - Rian Johnson (2005) A
  146. 6/14: Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Nicholas Stoller (2008) A-
  147. 6/14: Out Cold - Brendan & Emmett Malloy (2001) B+
  148. 6/15: Wristcutters: A Love Story - Goran Dukic (2006) A
  149. 6/16: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy - Woody Allen (1982) C
  150. 6/16: Joint Security Area - Park Chan-Wook (2000) A- [South Korea]
  151. 6/17: Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller (2008) B+
  152. 6/17: Super Fly - Gordon Parks Jr. (1972) B-
  153. 6/17: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941) A-
  154. 6/18: Superbad - Greg Mottola (2007) A-
  155. 6/23: Rocky III - Sylvester Stallone (1982) C
  156. 6/23: Men in Black - Barry Sonnenfeld (1997) B
  157. 6/24: Never Been Kissed - Raja Gosnell (1999) B-
  158. 6/25: Hell Ride - Larry Bishop (2008) D
  159. 6/26: Snatch - Guy Ritchie (2000) A+
  160. 6/27: American Pie - Paul Weitz (1999) B+
  161. 6/28: The Great Outdoors - John Hughes (1988) B-
  162. 6/29: Sleeper - Woody Allen (1973) C
  163. 6/30: Bananas - Woody Allen (1971) C
  164. 6/30: Time Of The Wolf - Michael Haneke (2003) B [France]
  165. 6/30: The Midnight Meat Train - Ryuhei Kitamura (2008) B
  166. 7/1: Loser - Amy Heckerling (2000) B-
  167. 7/1: Blood Simple - Joel & Ethan Coen (1984) A-
  168. 7/2: Away We Go - Sam Mendes (2009) A
  169. 7/2: Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis (1993) A-
  170. 7/3: Van Wilder - Walt Becker (2002) B+
  171. 7/5: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 - Quentin Tarantino (2003) A
  172. 7/5: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 - Quentin Tarantino (2004) A+
  173. 7/6: Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino (2007) A-
  174. 7/6: Raising Arizona - Joel & Ethan Coen (1987) A-
  175. 7/7: Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino (1997) A-
  176. 7/7: The Replacements - Howard Deutch (2000) B-
  177. 7/8: Vanishing Point - Richard C. Sarafin (1971) B+
  178. 7/9: The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - Wes Anderson (2004) A-
  179. 7/9: Intolerable Cruelty - Joel & Ethan Coen (2003) B+
  180. 7/12: Dude, Where's My Car? - Danny Leiner (2000) C
  181. 7/14: The Ladykillers - Joel & Ethan Coen (2004) C+
  182. 7/16: Dogma - Kevin Smith (1999) A-
  183. 7/16: The Wackness - Jonathan Levine (2008) A
  184. 7/19: Very Bad Things - Peter Berg (1998) C+
  185. 7/20: Tropic Thunder - Ben Stiller (2008) B+
  186. 7/20: Definitely, Maybe - Adam Brooks (2008) B+
  187. 7/20: Wolf Creek - Greg Mclean (2005) B+ [Australia]
  188. 7/21: Ratatouille - Brad Bird (2007) A-
  189. 7/21: Garden State - Zach Braff (2004) A+
  190. 7/22: Meet The Robinsons - Stephen J. Anderson (2007) B-
  191. 7/22: The Big Lebowski - Joel & Ethan Coen (1998) A
  192. 7/30: Terminator 2: Judgement Day - James Cameron (1991) A-
  193. 7/31: The Dead Girl - Karen Moncrieff (2006) B
  194. 7/31: Ransom - Ron Howard (1996) B
  195. 8/1: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - Jake Kasdan (2007) C
  196. 8/1: Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels - Guy Ritchie (1998) A+ [U.K.]
  197. 8/3: The Rules of Attraction - Rogery Avary (2002) B+
  198. 8/3: Dr. No - Terence Young (1962) B+ [U.K.]
  199. 8/3: All The Boys Love Mandy Lane - Jonathan Levine (2006) B
  200. 8/4: Bloods and Crips: Made in America - Stacy Peralta (2008) B
  201. 8/5: The Fugitive - Andrew Davis (1993) B+
  202. 8/5: Goldeneye - Martin Campbell (1995) B+ [U.K.]
  203. 8/5: Kids - Larry Clark (1995) A-
  204. 8/6: Superbad - Greg Mottola (2007) A-
  205. 8/7: The 40 Year Old Virgin - Judd Apatow (2005) A-
  206. 8/7: Quantum of Solace - Marc Forster (2008) B [U.K.]
  207. 8/8: Heat - Michael Mann (1995) A-
  208. 8/8: I Heart Huckabees - David O. Russell (2004) B+
  209. 8/8: The Girl Next Door - Luke Greenfield (2004) B+
  210. 8/10: 16 Blocks - Richard Donner (2006) B
  211. 8/10: The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson (2001) A
  212. 8/11: I Know What You Did Last Summer - Jim Gillespie (1997) B
  213. 8/11: Joy Ride - John Dahl (2001) B
  214. 8/12: Hot Fuzz - Edgar Wright (2007) A-
  215. 8/12: Collateral - Michael Mann (2004) B+
  216. 8/16: Father Of The Bride - Charles Shyer (1991) C+
  217. 8/17: Dan In Real Life - Peter Hedges (2007) B
  218. 8/17: Brief Encounter - David Lean (1945) A [U.K.]
  219. 8/18: (500) Days Of Summer - Marc Webb (2009) A
  220. 8/19: Dazed And Confused - Richard Linklater (1993) A-
  221. 8/19: Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944) A
  222. 8/19: Super Troopers - Jay Chandrasekhhar (2001) B+
  223. 8/20: No Country For Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen (2007) A+
  224. 8/22: Sunshine - Danny Boyle (2007) A- [U.K.]
  225. 8/23: Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson (1997) A-
  226. 8/24: The Soloist - Joe Wright (2009) B
  227. 8/25: Humpday - Lynn Shelton (2009) B+
  228. 8/25: Watchmen - Zack Snyder (2009) A-
  229. 8/26: Ordinary People - Robert Redford (1980) B+
  230. 8/26: Paper Heart - Nicholas Jasenovec (2009) A-
  231. 8/27: Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino (2009) A+
  232. 8/28: M - Fritz Lang (1931) B+ [Germany]
  233. 9/2: I'm Not There - Todd Haynes (2007) B+
  234. 9/3: JCVD - Mabrouk El Mechri (2008) B+ [Belgium]
  235. 9/9: Lord Of The Flies - Peter Brook (1963) B+
  236. 9/12: Knocked Up - Judd Apatow (2007) B+
  237. 9/16: Hard Eight - Paul Thomas Anderson (1996) B
  238. 9/19: American Psycho - Mary Harron (2000) A-
  239. 9/21: Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1950) B+
  240. 9/28: Secretary - Steven Shainberg (2002) B
  241. 9/28: Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954) A
  242. 10/1: The Incredibles - Brad Bird (2004) A-
  243. 10/11: Adventureland - Greg Mottola (2009) A-
  244. 10/11: Away We Go - Sam Mendes (2009) A
  245. 10/12: PCU - Hart Bochner (1994) B
  246. 10/12: The Big Empty - Steve Anderson (2003) C+
  247. 10/12: Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis (1993) A-
  248. 10/12: Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Nicholas Stoller (2008) A-
  249. 10/12: O - Tim Blake Nelson (2001) B+
  250. 10/19: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill (1969) B+
  251. 10/22: Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze (2009) A-
  252. 11/1: Adventureland - Greg Mottola (2009) A-
  253. 11/5: Heavy Weights - Steven Brill (1995) B
  254. 11/5: Home Alone 2 - Chris Columbus (1992) B
  255. 11/6: I Love You, Man - John Hamburg (2009) A-
  256. 11/16: White Men Can't Jump - Ron Shelton (1992) B+
  257. 11/16: Smokin' Aces - Joe Carnahan (2006) A-
  258. 11/16: Slackers - Dewey Nicks (2002) B+
  259. 11/17: 25th Hour - Spike Lee (2002) A+
  260. 11/17: The 40 Year Old Virgin - Judd Apatow (2005) A-
  261. 11/26: The Wedding Date - Clare Kilner (2005) C+
  262. 11/27: The Brothers Bloom - Rian Johnson (2009) B
  263. 12/11: Shattered Glass - Billy Ray (2003) B+
  264. 12/11: The International - Tom Tykwer (2009) B
  265. 12/21: Adventureland - Greg Mottola (2009) A-
  266. 12/21: Paper Heart - Nicholas Jasenovec (2009) A-
  267. 12/22: The Rocker - Peter Cattaneo (2008) B-
  268. 12/28: (500) Days Of Summer - Marc Webb (2009) A
  269. 12/29: Hackers - Iain Softley (1995) B+
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Summer break = back on my film grind.

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*Films Seen in 2008 - Final
Rushmore01/24/2009

may i offer you some of my thoughts on garden state?

I saw it back in 2004 and was fully expecting to love it, i love quirky films and big fan of scrubs. However though i do like it (and like it more everytime i see it) there are factors i really don't care for. I find the character of sam, on the whole, annoying. The way they had her character trait of lying, it was like the film was saying "hey look , she lies , she's well cool and unpredictable" forcing what they saw as a quirky character to the audience. The second and biggest problem i have with it, is simple. I don't find Zach Braff's character likable. now that might be the point, but even if the character is meant to be a jerk, i think as a viewer you have to like him. Bill Murray has played jerks his whole career but i've liked nearly all his characters. I just found Braff's character too closed off and arrogant.

As i say i like it more each time i see it but those are my main and really only issues with it. it has a killer soundtrack and Peter Sarsgaard was fantastic. Just a few opinions, i really like your film lists as we do agree on a lot (burn after reading, son of rambow, No Country For Old Men) ect. ect.

DJ Cmoney01/24/2009

I can respect that. I can understand how Sam could be annoying but I am truly in love with Natalie Portman, and I found the lying thing kind of awkward and cute.
I agree with you on Zach Braff's character in the fact that he is a jerk but I still like him and end up routing for him in the end.
Like I said in my comments though, I just relate to this film completely.

Rushmore01/25/2009

Thats cool, as i say those issues are becomming less and less of one each time i see it. Also on reflection i guess the sam character doesn't do the lying thing very often and i can speak talking about forcing "quirky" characters, hell i like wes anderson movies ! :D

thx for the response mate

Rushmore01/28/2009

Frost/Nixon sure was a compelling and brilliantly made movie, so glad yo enjoyed it

DJ Cmoney01/29/2009

I agree 100%, the only reason I didn't give it higher was, for me, I like to have some sort of lasting emotional effect. However, from and entertainment and technical standpoint Frost/Nixon was absolutely top class.