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    Critics Club III: The Greatest Film of 2009 Part One

    We reach the final year of the naughties in our best evers pursuit:

    The Greatest Film of 2009 Part One





    Which of the above films were the best of 2009?
    24
    500 Days of Summer
    0%
    2
    12 Rounds
    0%
    0
    2012
    0%
    0
    9
    0%
    0
    Adam
    0%
    0
    Adventureland
    0%
    0
    After.Life
    0%
    0
    Aliens in the Attic
    0%
    0
    All About Steve
    0%
    0
    Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
    0%
    0
    Amelia
    0%
    0
    American Violet
    0%
    0
    Angels and Demons
    0%
    1
    The Answer Man
    0%
    0
    Arcadia Lost
    0%
    0
    Armoured
    0%
    0
    Assassination of a High School President
    0%
    0
    Astro Boy
    0%
    0
    Avatar
    0%
    3
    Away We go
    0%
    0
    Bad Lieutenant
    0%
    1
    Bandslam
    0%
    0
    Battle for Terra
    0%
    0
    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
    0%
    0
    Big Fan
    0%
    0
    The Blind Side
    0%
    1
    The Boondock Saints II: All Saint's Day
    0%
    1
    The Box
    0%
    0
    Bride Wars
    0%
    0
    Brothers
    0%
    0
    The Brothers Bloom
    0%
    0
    Bruno
    0%
    0
    Carriers
    0%
    0
    Case 39
    0%
    0
    The Chaos Experiment
    0%
    0
    A Christmas Carol
    0%
    0
    Cirque du Freak: A Vampires Assistant
    0%
    0
    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    0%
    1
    Cold Couls
    0%
    0
    The Collector
    0%
    0
    Confessions of a Shopaholic
    0%
    0
    Coraline
    0%
    2
    Couples Retreat
    0%
    0
    The Cove
    0%
    1
    Crank: High Voltage
    0%
    0
    Crazy Heart
    0%
    0
    The Cross
    0%
    0
    Crossing Over
    0%
    0
    Did You Hear About the Morgans?
    0%
    0
    District 9
    0%
    3
    Drag Me to Hell
    0%
    1
    Duplicity
    0%
    0
    Echelon Conspiracy
    0%
    0
    Everybody's Fine
    0%
    0
    Extract
    0%
    0
    Fame
    0%
    0
    Fantastic Mr Fox
    0%
    5
    Fast & Furious
    0%
    2
    Fighting
    0%
    0
    The Final Destination
    0%
    0

    #2
    Coraline is my fave on there. Great story and production. Only film where I really enjoyed the 3D effect in the cinema too.

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      #3
      *see's votes for Avatar*

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        #4
        Originally posted by Atticus View Post
        Coraline is my fave on there. Great story and production. Only film where I really enjoyed the 3D effect in the cinema too.
        Seen this for the first time this month and despite being freaky, my daughter really likes it!
        I thought she'd be terrified, but she's watched it loads.

        Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
        *see's votes for Avatar*
        Avatar gets a lot of hate, but it feels like a lot of people have reappraised it and there's a pack mentality to attack it.

        At the time of seeing it, I thought it was an amazing spectacle and thoroughly enjoyed it and the 3D really added to the event feel of seeing it.

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          #5
          With Avatar I'd say it's at best a very middling film. It doesn't even register on a list of best James Cameron films let alone as a great of cinema. It definitely wouldn't recieve the level of criticism it does if it hadn't made as much as it did so it does get more flaming than it deserves. It's utterly forgettable fluff though from beginning to end, a bit like fanfiction with a budget.

          I can imagine though that whatever former Fox executive that greenlit the insane plan for four sequels is feeling incredibly smug right now that they're no longer attached to those projects.

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            #6
            Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
            Seen this for the first time this month and despite being freaky, my daughter really likes it!
            I thought she'd be terrified, but she's watched it loads.
            That's great. I remember thinking when I saw it it would be scary for kids, but fun scary.

            Avatar gets a lot of hate, but it feels like a lot of people have reappraised it and there's a pack mentality to attack it.

            At the time of seeing it, I thought it was an amazing spectacle and thoroughly enjoyed it and the 3D really added to the event feel of seeing it.
            I was so hyped for Avatar and it totally didn't do it for me. My mate demanded I see it again, and I did ... and it had the same effect. Yes, the story has been done before but I can live with that ... and the kind of not-quite-there Na'vi design I could have lived with too ... but I don't really enjoy being spoon-fed messages designed to prick my conscience ... just felt it was laid on a bit too thick.

            One thing I did love though was the spectacle of all the giant industrial machinery ... only Cameron could have done that.

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              #7
              It's not a perfect film, but it's one that deserved to be seen at the cinema in 3D.
              I just think the hate is a little unnecessary.

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                #8
                Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
                I just think the hate is a little unnecessary.
                Agreed. There's certainly nothing to hate about it.

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                  #9
                  Unobtanium

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
                    Unobtanium

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                      #11
                      Avatar is a rare mis-step by Jim Cameron. As a follow up film from Titanic too it doesn't sit well.
                      Its very well made, no doubt. His direction is spot on and even the script isn't exactly ****. The story itself just falls flat and flavour of the month Sam Worthington is so bland he can't carry the film. I don't know how this film became the biggest film ever and spawned 4 sequels and a disneyland attraction.

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                        #12
                        Immense hype about 3D and a chronic misreading of the films appeals endurability. I think after Titanic his interests had shifted away from storytelling and into a very literal form of film making. Avatar's story is largely loose nonsense to justify the huge amount of tech on display and it uses that tech well but is hollow as a film. That $2bn isn't earnt yet has led to the mistaken thought that it means it's a chance to be his Star Wars, his legacy, which is a shame because his real legacy as a film maker is so much superior.

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