Best of 2009!

So ends another year. We have not only that change, but the end of the decade and a full moon! The wolves are going to be out tonight!


Anyways, Yahoo! put together their "Most Watched Trailers of 2009". Over at RopeofSilicon was their opinion on the top 25 movies of the year. Im going to give one final post of the decade and rate my favorite trailers, top soundtracks, and my favorite movies.

Trailers of 2009: KEEP IN MIND. IM NOT SAYING THESE WERE ALL GOOD MOVIES. The trailer simply got me more excited than other previews...

12. Inkheart


11. Drag Me To Hell



10. Sunshine Cleaning



9. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince


8. Avatar

7. Nine



6. Watchmen



5. 2012

4. UP

3. Where the Wild Things Are



2. Transformers


1. Star Trek

BEST SOUNDTRACKS OF 2009:

5. Grey Gardens (Rachel Portman)

4. Coraline (Bruno Coulais & other various artists)

3. Star Trek (Michael Giacchino)

2. Up (Michael Giacchino)

1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Nicholas Hooper)


The Ones Buzzing That I Havent Seen Yet that will no doubt change my best movie list.
Single Man
Me and Orson Welles
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Red Cliff
The White Ribbon
A Prophet
Up in the Air
The Hurt Locker
The Lovely Bones

Biggest Disappointments
5. Wolverine (I knew it would suck… but a tiny part of me wished it would have be amazing… something more serious -instead of campy/cartoony)

4. Monsters Vs. Aliens (Dreamworks follow-up to a favorite of mine (‘Kung Fu Panda’)… did not wow, and was just another film that over did the 3D)

3. Inkheart (I loved the Trailer… which tricked me into thinking this would be a great movie)

2. Transformers 2 (No story / just graphics only works for the box office)

1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Stunning cinematography, soundtrack, and graphics could not save a screenplay overly saturated with teen romances and an ending entirely void of emotion and action – notice I said screenplay… not story.)


Best movies (While thinking about this… I really realized how few non-blockbuster movies Ive seen...pathetic)
6. Coraline
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Star Trek
3. An education
2. Inglorious bastards
1. Up

Transformers Box Office

Variety is reporting that "Transformers 2: revenge of the Fallen" has grossed the second highest Wednesday through weekend box office of all time. Coming out on Wednesday at 12:01 am, It pulled in 201.2 million over the next five days. This is second only to "The Dark Knight" (though, DK opened on a friday and raked in 203.8 million - just over the

weekend!)

The other film opening this weekend was Cameron Diaz's "My Sister's Keeper" which fell short in fourth place with approx. 12 million. "The Proposal" came in second with "The Hangover" in third.

The full article can be read here.

Overly Hip Robots and Good/Bad reviews

If you like movies. Want to work on movies. Be in movies. Or just love movies and need a vacation.... Come to LA. There is always a movie coming out and the Arclight movie theatre on Sunset Blvd. really tries rolling out (literally) all the stops, mostly in the form of film props, to get people coming in.

One of the biggest regrets I had was not going to the theatre when they had the batmobile and bat-pod from 'Dark Knight'. I no doubt would have wet myself.

This time around they brought in the truck from 'Transformers'. Optimus, in the movie.

Check out the pictures I took...

'Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen' has hit theaters. In its first opening night of midnight screenings, it earned $16 million. But is it even worth seeing? Most critics at this point say no, as the 14 reviews posted by yahoo rated it at an average of a C-. On the other hand, Yahoo! users have deemed it worthy of an A-. Ive yet to see it, but do not anticipate something miraculous on the screen.

Im not going to lie though, now that the film has been called racist (by some- in regards to the 'jive-talking' robots), it makes me want to see what all the hullabaloo is about.

I'm mainly curious to see if Michael Bay has learned anything from situations like the crows in Disney's 'Dumbo'...

Film Promotion

Since I started writing this page, I began to take more interest in film as a whole. Note: I studied film, so I always have paid attention to film as a whole- but now a different aspect is catching my attention. Trailers are much more elaborate than they were ten years ago, as film posters have quickly followed suit. Just a few years ago we would get a poster or two for a movie. Now there are posters of each character, and multiples of them- at that. Not to mention, they are much more stylized in appearance and simpler than those of the early 2000s and before.

What do you think of this summers choices? Notice any similarities (focus on characters? color schemes? placements?)? Anything you like/dislike?

UP:

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen:

Terminator:Salvation:




Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: