The Final 2009 List

The best of the decade list killed my energy. Let's get this over with before the month of January ends.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Red Cliff
3. The Hurt Locker
4. Star Trek
5. Up in the Air
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
7. District 9
8. State of Play
9. Avatar
10. The Hangover
11. Sherlock Holmes
12. Precious
13. Zombieland
14. The Road
15. Public Enemies
16. Watchmen
17. (500) Days of Summer
18. Tyson
19. Drag Me to Hell
20. Extract
21. Brothers
22. Where the Wild Things Are
23. The Men Who Stare at Goats
24. Adventureland
25. The Box
26. The Blind Side
27. Taken
28. Notorious
29. Law Abiding Citizen
30. Angels & Demons
31. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
32. Observe and Report
33. Push
34. The Invention of Lying
35. Pandorum
36. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
37. Terminator Salvation
38. Ninja Assassin
39. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
40. X-Men Origins: Wolverine
41. Jennifer's Body
42. Fast & Furious
43. 2012
44. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
45. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
46. Couples Retreat
47. Whiteout
48. Next Day Air
49. Halloween II
50. Crank: High Voltage

I do think that my inability to finish this could be chalked up to the subpar year that was 2009. It wasn't the worst year I've rated, but I really had to stretch in order to fill out even a top 20. There was way too much mediocre for me to sift through. We are talking damn near half the year circled around 5-7 stars. And most of those 7 star movies I was being generous. On top of that, I don't even feel compelled to see all the nominated movies and performances this time around.

Well, there's always 2010...