BEST 15 IN FILM, BEST 15 IN MUSIC
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BEST 15 IN FILM: 15 Crazy Heart (director: Scott Cooper) - 14 Public Enemies (Michael Mann) - 13 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (Werner Herzog) - 12 Gomorra (Matteo Garrone) - 11 Good Hair (Jeff Stilson) - 10 The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh) - 09 Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze) - 08 In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) - 07 Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar) - 06 The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh) - 05 Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) - 04 Passing Strange (Spike Lee) - 03 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog) - 02 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) - 01 A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
WORST 1 IN FILM: District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
BEST 15 IN MUSIC: 15 Time to Die (artist: Dodos) - 14 BLACKsummers'night (Maxwell) - 13 Devil's Halo (Meshell Ndegeocello) - 12 Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free (Akron/Family) - 11 Royal Family-Divorce (Storsveit Nix Nolte) - 10 Femina (John Zorn) - 09 Merriweather Post Pavilion / Fall Be Kind EP (Animal Collective) - 08 Travail, Transformation and Flow (Steve Lehman Octet) - 07 Actor (St. Vincent) - 06 Beacons of Ancestorship (Tortoise) - 05 Bitte Orca (Dirty Projectors) - 04 Dethalbum II (Dethklok) - 03 The Visitor (Jim O'Rourke) - 02 A/Rhythmia (Alarm Will Sound) - 01 Manafon (David Sylvian)
BEST 2 OTHERWISE UNREPRESENTED SINGLES: "All Over the World" (Pet Shop Boys) - "Echo" (R. Kelly)
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Comments (4)
#1 in movies is my #1 as well.
Yes. It's only fair!
I don't understand, District 9 is the worst what in film? I just saw it and loved it. Surely there were worse than this. I can't judge the others, because sadly I have not seen them, but I know the dierctors and many are my favorites. I thought District 9 was a refreshing take on the alien movies, and like a film like Das Boot, you are able to sympathize with "the enemy". Plus there were just some pretty fun sci-fi gadgets as well.
Actually, mostly it's just me being reactionary to the quite astonishing amount of positivity and praise the film received, although I did hate it on its own rights too. To me it was full of unlikable, unsympathetic people AND aliens, and it didn't have any decent reasons for making me watch them. The documentary conceit was absurd and poorly thought out; the last act takes a sharp, ill-advised turn into the worst parts of Iron Man; the "political" business was both weak and heavy-handed; the lead was a shell of empty characterization; etc., etc. It wasted all my good will in the first 10, maybe 15 minutes. Just a deeply displeasing movie. I've yet to be convinced that it had any redeeming qualities, and that's even after hearing Quentin Tarantino (director of my #2 on the list) gush with praise over it.
Perhaps most importantly, it just amuses me to call out what I thought was the worst movie I saw in any given year, because compared to, say, the Squeakquel, I'm sure District 9 is a masterpiece; I just don't usually manage to see the Squeakquels of the world. (Although, just for one last twist of the knife, I did see several mainstream turkeys this year that I thought, for all their garish flaws, held their own better than District 9.)