Top ten movie favorite from 2009
Joe Jarosz
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Features
5. 500 Days of Summer
This movie is one of the most honest takes on love I remember seeing in a long time. The movie begins with the line, "This is a story of boy meets girl. But you should know upfront, this is not a love story." This is a movie in which we are reminded that when we look back on failed relationships, we have to look at the whole picture, not just joyous parts or the confusing ending.
4. Up
If anyone could make it believable, Pixar are the people that can make you believe a friendship between an angry old man and a plump little kid is possible. The movie is touching, funny, and beautifully colored.
3. Up in the Air
Based on the novel, George Clooney plays a man whose profession is to fire people. This painfully comedic movie shows us how we actually need connections with people from time to time in order to feel human. A film could not be more telling of the current economic climate.
2. Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino's ode to movies (a full-on Western score, a nod to the Dirty Dozen, and a climax in a movie theater) gives the viewer a fresh take on the tired old WWII genre. Brad Pitt plays the head basterd, but the movie belongs to German actor Christoph Waltz, Col. Hans Landa, a man so sadistic that when he rationalizes his nickname of "Jew Hunter" we actually accept it and believe him.
1. Hurt Locker
The word suspenseful doesn't even begin to describe this astounding movie. An Iraq movie that doesn't preach about the war, but shows us that war is like a drug, it is just hard to give up. Jeremy Renner plays Staff Sgt. William James, a bomb defuser new to a squad of men that just lost their Sgt. Is he a reckless, battle junkie? Or does he simply just know what he is doing and no one else is better than him? Check out the film yourself and try and decide.
This movie is one of the most honest takes on love I remember seeing in a long time. The movie begins with the line, "This is a story of boy meets girl. But you should know upfront, this is not a love story." This is a movie in which we are reminded that when we look back on failed relationships, we have to look at the whole picture, not just joyous parts or the confusing ending.
4. Up
If anyone could make it believable, Pixar are the people that can make you believe a friendship between an angry old man and a plump little kid is possible. The movie is touching, funny, and beautifully colored.
3. Up in the Air
Based on the novel, George Clooney plays a man whose profession is to fire people. This painfully comedic movie shows us how we actually need connections with people from time to time in order to feel human. A film could not be more telling of the current economic climate.
2. Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino's ode to movies (a full-on Western score, a nod to the Dirty Dozen, and a climax in a movie theater) gives the viewer a fresh take on the tired old WWII genre. Brad Pitt plays the head basterd, but the movie belongs to German actor Christoph Waltz, Col. Hans Landa, a man so sadistic that when he rationalizes his nickname of "Jew Hunter" we actually accept it and believe him.
1. Hurt Locker
The word suspenseful doesn't even begin to describe this astounding movie. An Iraq movie that doesn't preach about the war, but shows us that war is like a drug, it is just hard to give up. Jeremy Renner plays Staff Sgt. William James, a bomb defuser new to a squad of men that just lost their Sgt. Is he a reckless, battle junkie? Or does he simply just know what he is doing and no one else is better than him? Check out the film yourself and try and decide.
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