this Jew bitch would pick Inglourious Basterds for every category! Hello whore, there was some blacks in the movies also you racist c**t!

H4R: Aside from the fact that I had to edit your c-word (nice language and class, dude), you need to get your racism straight. “Inglourious Basterds” has a Black guy as one of its heroes. He gives his life to murder Nazis. DS

Hater4real on December 16, 2009 at 8:39 am

Zombieland was better viewing if you considered the zombies as liberals, best movie ever.

Pile On Hollywood on December 16, 2009 at 9:13 am

Hater4real: here’s a penny. Now go try to buy yourself some class. Or better yet, disappear.

Richard on December 16, 2009 at 9:15 am

to Hater 4real: what Richard said!

MOMinMINNESOTA on December 16, 2009 at 11:11 am

Hater4real, your name definitely fits. You really need to slow your roll, especially calling someone a bith and a whore. Don’t you see the irony of hatin’ while accusing someone else of hate??? As a Black woman, I’m trying to figure out why you’re making someone’s movie choices a racial issue and using derogatory language while doing it??? People like what they like and that’s that.

Ms. Teek on December 16, 2009 at 11:28 am

Great list Debbie and I agree, I really enjoyed Inglourious Basterds. I did however enjoy Defiance more.

While Inglourious Basterds seemed more like an entertaining comic book movie, Defiance seemed more realistic.

JP: “Defiance” was released last year, and I did vote for it last year. DS

jimmyPx on December 16, 2009 at 11:48 am

Seeing the Drag Me to Hell nominations reminds me how criminally overlooked movie this was.

It was a hoot, especially the part about her cat.

I hope Alison Lohman, who was very good, wins something for this gem.

Jeff_W on December 16, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Wow. Out here in cow country we don’t put up with boys who talk like Hater4Real.

C’mon out to Wyoming, boy. We got a lesson or two in manners waiting for you. (of course you won’t. you’re hunched over your laptop in somebody’s basement in your skiivies, cruising the internet for animal porn)

Alison Lohman, Inglorious Basterds straight across the board and Liam Neeson.

Edouard Coneho on December 16, 2009 at 12:14 pm

Hater4Real is just a troll. Probably Muslim. Uneducated and unemployed. Pays no taxes. On the dole. I ignore he/she/it.

lexi on December 16, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Great picks,Debbie-this HAS been a good year for movies!
I’m aboard the Alison Lohman bandwagon-she made “Drag” work; I would love to see her win tied with Melanie Laurent, who deserves to be in the ‘leading’ and not ‘supporting’ actress category.
Star trek was absolutely great-why so few nominations? Because “SCI FI” isn’t pretentious enough Cin-e-ma?
I have no interest in Jim Cameron’s “Avatar” cartoon. I want to see real actors acting. Inglorious Basterds is my top pick for acting, direction, writing…I picked up the Bluray yesterday, and it is solid.
Bring on 2010!

Douglas Q on December 16, 2009 at 1:14 pm

“Avatar” should be on every “Best Movie of the Year” list. Just like the “Lord of the Rings” movies and “Jurassic Park” should have been on every “Best Movie of the Year” list when they came out. The above movies were the most creative and imaginative even though you might disagree with their themes.

ramjordan on December 16, 2009 at 1:15 pm

I’m not going to see any movie that gives me motion sickness.

lexi on December 16, 2009 at 1:51 pm

“The Stoning of Soriya M” is MUST viewing for every feminist who dares to make nice or march with Taliban/al-Qaeda/Hamas/Hezo/etc types…..no, make that every feminist (girl AND boy) who have a hate-on for Western Civilization period (as many do). Chain ’em to their seats and make ’em watch…It’s time WE did some re-educating.

N: I agree. My review is linked in this post. DS

Not Ovenready on December 16, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Wow, I thought that Eddie Rabbit was from New Jersey. Who new?

Douglas Q- Just from the previews Avatar looks like a rip off of Halo.

pinandpuller on December 17, 2009 at 3:03 am

Gotta give Matt Damon credit on his acting; too bad he’s such a doofus on politics/national policy. Agree with several posters on Alison Lohman in “Drag Me to Hell” – she made the movie; normally like Justin Long, but he was horribly mis-cast in this one; reminded me a lot of “Thinner,” based on the Stephen King novella, with the “evil-eye,” curse-casting Gypsies, et al.

Some good ones in 2009 (“Drag Me,” “Inglorious B’s,” and “The Stoning),” but one hopes 2010 will be better, indeed . . .

jc15 on December 17, 2009 at 5:13 pm

Excellent choices on your part (as expected)! I really liked your unorthodox “genre” nominations (Taken and Drag Me to Hell)–especially Raimi’s sly horror. Happy that you eschewed Avatar–no amount of “movie magic” special effects could overcome Cameron’s amateurish and vindictive attack of American conservatism.

Here were my own conservative choices (there are a couple of differences between us, but a lot of similarities, too):

2009 movies

4 star (loved)
Antichrist, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Where the Wild Things Are

3 1/2 stars (very good stuff!)
Moon, Coraline, A Serious Man, The Young Victoria, The Hurt Locker, The Bad Lieutenant, Precious, Searching for Beethoven, 500 Days of Summer, Peter and Vandy, Ponyo, 9 (animated), Extract, Brothers, The Stoning of Soraya M

3 stars (enjoyed a lot!)
Year One, The Goods:Live Hard, Sell Hard, Dance Flick, The Last House on the Left, Killshot, Jennifer’s Body, Zombieland, A Perfect Getaway, Pandorum, The Invention of Lying, Baader Meinhoff Complex, Art and Copy, Departures, The Hangover, Pirate Radio, The Collector, Outlander, Drag Me to Hell, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, An Education

2 1/2 Stars (enjoyed a fair amount)
Cirque de Freak, Taking Woodstock, Invictus, The Princess and the Frog, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Taken, Ninja Assassin, This is Steve, Gamer, Sorority Row, The Informant, Capitalism: A Love Story, Paranormal Activity, GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra, District 9, September Issue, The
Stoning of Soraya M, The Girl from Monaco, Orphan, Adam, Funny People, Star Trek, Angels and Demons, Up, Adventureland, 17 Again, Crank: High Voltage, Tyson, Knowing, Inglourious Basterds, Inkheart, Donkey Punch, Duplicity, A Single Man

2 stars (liked okay)
Up in the Air, Nine (musical), Imagine That, The Chipmunks Squeakquel, From Mexico With Love, New York I Love You, The Watchmen, The Taking of Pelham 123, It’s Complicated, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, The Box, The Fourth Kind, The Men Who Stare at Goats, 2012, Broken Embraces, Couples Retreat, Me and Orson Welles, Michael Jackson’s This Is It, Whiteout, I Can Be Bad All By Myself, Bright Star, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Fame, Julie and Julia, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Aliens in the Attic, Whatever Works, The Proposal, Cheri, Terminator Salvation, Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian, State of Play, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Whip It, Avatar

1 1/2 stars (glad I saw even though flawed)
Good Hair, Law Abiding Citizen, , Monsters vs. Aliens, New In Town, The Haunting in Connecticut, Everybody’s Fine, Transylmania, Planet 51, Twilight Saga: The New Moon, The Road, Surrogates, Love Happens, My One and Only, Shorts, Halloween II, Final Destination, I Love You Beth Cooper, The Ugly Truth, G Force, My Sister’s Keeper, Sunshine Cleaning, Our City Dreams, The Pink Panther II,

1 star (didn’t like that much)
Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Boondock Saints II, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, The Blind Side, Old Dogs, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Land of the Lost, Amelia, Public Enemies, Fast and Furious, Race to Witch Mountain, X Men
Origins: Wolverine, Armored, Play the Game: Legend of Chun Li, the Mutant Chronicles, Bruno

1/2 star (annoying)
Astro Boy, Crossing Over, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Stepfather, Saw VI, Baby on Board

Burke on December 28, 2009 at 12:52 pm

A search doesn’t turn up a review of “Lovely Bones.” Me and my sister were wondering if the movie had the same storyline as the book that we HATED. Question for you, Debbie:

In the book, the dead girl would rather experience sex, a la “Ghost” through inhabiting a friends body, than have or help her murderer get caught redhanded with her dead body, and therefore, stop him from being able to kill again. Did the movie go there?

FeFe on January 13, 2010 at 11:46 am