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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2009?

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HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2009? 25 votes

Inglorious Bastards
44%
BennyBeaverMad_SonAtomicDawgYouKnowItchuckdfleabiak1GrundleStiltzkinLaocoönNeighbor2972Joey 11 votes
District 9
4%
RoadDawg55 1 vote
Get an Avatar, you fucking savages
0%
Star Trek
4%
RaceBannon 1 vote
The Hangover
20%
greenblooddncBad_MotherDuckerhuskyhooliganYellowSnow 5 votes
Fantastic Mr. Fox
0%
The Blind Side
20%
DerekJohnsonFire_Marshall_Billalumni94PurpleThrobberHuskyInAZ 5 votes
The Secret In Their Eyes
0%
Watchmen
4%
Swaye 1 vote
F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
4%
1to392831weretaken 1 vote
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,318 Founders Club
    The Hangover
    Hangover and it's not really close.


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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Inglorious Bastards
    Strong year. Inglorious Basterds got better & better for me over tim. Hangover is a triumph. Love Mr. Fox. Star Trek was very good as reboots go. And I love Blind Side, treaclely as it may be. Avatar fucking sucks tho.

    Not listed, Moon. Tremendous movie. Watch it.

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,318 Founders Club
    The Hangover
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Strong year. Inglorious Basterds got better & better for me over tim. Hangover is a triumph. Love Mr. Fox. Star Trek was very good as reboots go. And I love Blind Side, treaclely as it may be. Avatar fucking sucks tho.

    Not listed, Moon. Tremendous movie. Watch it.

    Bastards is probably QT's best work outside of Pulp in my estimation. For whatever reason, the absurdity of the plot and gratuitous violence just works better in this film than most. Brad Pitt nailed it and Waltz does a villainous Nazi better than anyone in the history of cinema.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Inglorious Bastards
    TYFYS fixing the poster. Up belongs in convo too, imo.
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    Inglorious Bastards
    Carving a swastika in the forehead of a Nazi shitbird is going to score some points with an audience like me.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    My favorite three movies from this year were Moon, Ink, and The Road.

    Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.

    It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.

    Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.

    For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    edited March 2021
    Inglorious Bastards
    1to392831weretaken said:

    My favorite three movies from this year were Moon, Ink, and The Road.

    Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.

    It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.

    Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.

    For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.

    The Road is my wheelhouse, dystopian sci-fi. However, I have a real hard tim with kid-in-peril stuff so I've deliberately never seen. Maybe one day.

    Funny, I never once noticed the lack of low G effects in Moon. I love that movie.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,318 Founders Club
    The Hangover
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    My favorite three movies from this year were Moon, Ink, and The Road.

    Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.

    It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.

    Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.

    For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.

    The Road is my wheelhouse, dystopian sci-fi. However, I have a real hard tim with kid-in-peril stuff so I've deliberately never seen. Maybe one day.
    I read the book. I don't do well with kids in peril stuff either. 2020 was enough of heartbroken yoots for me.
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,956 Swaye's Wigwam
    The Hangover
    Normally I'd go Harry Potter on your soc peter puffing lanky ass but Half Blood Prince may be my least favorite of the genre, and left more questions than answers.

    Other movies not listed:

    Sherlock Holmes
    Up (I'm not crying you're crying)
    Taken
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Zombieland

    Avatar might have been the most overhyped movie I've ever seen.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Inglorious Bastards
    It’s a little baggy at times but one of my favorite Tarantino movies.

    Hangover- might have been the hardest I’d ever laughed at a movie.

    I’m a huge Wes Anderson honk and FMF is one of his best.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Inglorious Bastards
    BennyBeaver said:

    It’s a little baggy at times but one of my favorite Tarantino movies.

    Hangover- might have been the hardest I’d ever laughed at a movie.

    I’m a huge Wes Anderson honk and FMF is one of his best.

    #MeToo, I prevented others from enjoying the movie fully.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    My favorite three movies from this year were Moon, Ink, and The Road.

    Scary movies do nothing for me, but, man, I had a hard time sleeping after watching The Road. It's so stark and fucked up. It succeeded in invoking a response from me, so points for that.

    It's a shame Moon didn't have ten times the budget. Really cool movie, really great acting, and if they could have afforded to simulate low-g in the station, it would have been perfect.

    Ink is an interesting movie. Everything about it gives you the impression of a film school project: The acting is downright terrible at times, the dialog writing is sometimes a little wooden, the directing isn't great, and the whole look of the movie is a little... fake. Yet I couldn't help but really, really like it. It's an original concept, really entertaining story, and I've wanted to watch it again ever since watching it that first time.

    For mainstream movies, sure, Hangover. It was awesome. I've seen surprisingly few of the rest of the movies in the above collage.

    The Road is my wheelhouse, dystopian sci-fi. However, I have a real hard tim with kid-in-peril stuff so I've deliberately never seen. Maybe one day.

    Funny, I never once noticed the lack of low G effects in Moon. I love that movie.
    That's what I mean with The Road. It was really, really disturbing in a way that was believable, unlike run of the mill horror or most suspense.

    The writer/director of Moon even talked about the lack of low-G effects in interviews after the movie's release. There's an unfortunate Hollywood convention that if there's an atmosphere, there's also gravity. In the past, it was probably just an oversight, but I think it keeps being done largely for how difficulty it is to film zero/low-g indoor scenes--and how impossible it is to do it cheaply. The makers of Moon decided early on that they were just going to ignore it. It actually confused me on first viewing, so I looked up whether I was missing something or what. Nope, just an intentional oversight for budgetary reasons. For those same reasons, they shot with models instead of CGI, and they even reused a set from a different movie for the main living quarters to save money.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    Pumpydoubleshitpost:

    Seriously, though, watch The Road. You're right, it's a tough watch. It just occurred to me that it was a lot like watching Manchester By the Sea. There's nothing "fun" about watching either of them. You finish the movie, and it's like, "Well... that was fucked up." But they were both so well done that it was worth watching. Have zero intention of watching either a second time.

    I mean, Schindler's List is totally fucked up and awful, and I'm not going to watch it again, but I'm really glad I saw it once.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    edited March 2021
    Inglorious Bastards
    The Road book was enough, I tried the movie but it didn't grip me like the book did. I know that sounds like the old book > movie cliche, but it was true for me in this case.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    Inglorious Bastards
    I would have voted for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She gave me major wood.

    Pretty shit year for me, mainly because I must have quit watching movies that year. I've only seen two from the list.
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,871
    The Blind Side
    chuck said:

    I would have voted for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She gave me major wood.

    Pretty shit year for me, mainly because I must have quit watching movies that year. I've only seen two from the list.

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is like Seven to me. Hard to watch.


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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    huskyhooligan said:

    Normally I'd go Harry Potter on your soc peter puffing lanky ass but Half Blood Prince may be my least favorite of the genre, and left more questions than answers.

    Other movies not listed:

    Sherlock Holmes
    Up (I'm not crying you're crying)
    Taken
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Zombieland

    Avatar might have been the most overhyped movie I've ever seen.

    Good call on Up. Another rare animated kids movie that I had no problem watching (AND watching AND watching AND watching...) with my kids when they were little. And Zombieland is my favorite zombie movie/show by far. Never seen a zombie movie that isn't a comedy that I like.

    Taken was a great action flick. Know what my favorite part was? The end, where he knows his daughter is on the boat, and he's trying to catch up to the boat in a car. The whole time I'm watching that scene, I'm thinking, "That car is jumping onto that boat. There's no way that's not happening." And then it didn't. That they didn't take that low hanging ridiculous fruit was pretty impressive to me.

    Never seen the others.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    Inglorious Bastards
    Up and A Serious Man...Good chit.

    Avatar was a cool visual experience, but like we say, No.

    The Blind Side cuz I want to give Sandy all 3 inches of my thunder.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    So there's a Swedish version of Dragon Tattoo Girl that came out in 2009 and there's a U.S. version that came out in 2011. Which is better if I were going to watch one?
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,683 Swaye's Wigwam
    Inglorious Bastards
    alumni94 said:

    chuck said:

    I would have voted for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. She gave me major wood.

    Pretty shit year for me, mainly because I must have quit watching movies that year. I've only seen two from the list.

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is like Seven to me. Hard to watch.


    Yeah it's a dark, dirty feeling movie. Good comparison.
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  • Mad_Son
    Mad_Son Member Posts: 10,194
    Inglorious Bastards
    Liked a lot of these (rewatchable). Never would have guessed 2009 was such a good movie year.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    The Hangover
    I’m a little surprised Zombieland didn’t make this list. It’s actually a very good movie.
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
    Watchmen
    huskyhooligan said:

    Normally I'd go Harry Potter on your soc peter puffing lanky ass but Half Blood Prince may be my least favorite of the genre, and left more questions than answers.

    Other movies not listed:

    Sherlock Holmes
    Up (I'm not crying you're crying)
    Taken
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Zombieland

    Avatar might have been the most overhyped movie I've ever seen.

    Surprisingly good year. I knew I'd be the only Watchmen vote, but that's only because you idiots don't get it. Hangover is a top 5 comedy all tim for me. Zombieland is great fun, and Dragon Tattoo is excellent. Good year.


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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...
    So I take it the original Swedish Dragon Tattoo is the one to see, then?
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,144
    District 9
    greenblood said:

    Avatar was/is a gigantic overrated POS

    I saw it twice in the theater. I hated it the first time I saw it. Liked it a little better the 2nd but still didn’t think it was great. I’ll never watch it again and I doubt I watch the sequels.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,144
    District 9
    I should have voted The Hangover, but District 9 is a great movie. I don’t even typically like Sci-Fi either.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,116 Standard Supporter
    The Blind Side
    Blonde Sandra Bullock is saucy.
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