Everyone loves a list; it offers all the information of an actual piece of writing but in individual bite size chunks so you can ignore entire paragraphs that are about things you are uninterested in without taking away from your reading experience. So have a list and feel free to ignore as much as you choose, this one is my best and worst of 2009.
Films
Best – Moon…no Star Trek….no Moon…no District 9…no Definitely Moon…fuck it I give it to Sci Fi.
2009 was actually a strong year for film while also having some huge hulking monster piles of rubbish. Some of my favourite films of the last few years have come out but overall it’s so hard to pick a favourite one but the genre is clear. 2009 was the year that sci fi pulled its head out of its ass and started to make some movies again. In recent years you wouldn’t have been alone in feeling that things like, aliens being done well, space battles being awesome and sci fi plots being intelligent had gone the way of the neo geo. Luckily three films stood out in a year of great sci fi and have shown us the light. Wait what do you mean giving it to 3 films is a cop out? Fine its Moon…or Star Trek…Or District 9…oh fuck it.
Worst – The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio to some)
Until Saturday this would have been the disgrace of a romantic comedy ‘He’s Just Not That Into You’ then Lovefilm sent me this piece of complete tripe. The characters aren’t likeable, the plot is non existent, the jokes aren’t funny, the moral is indecipherable, the music is barely noticeable and this film has nothing but a shiny purple button on its sleeve as the usual heart of a Richard Curtis film is nowhere to be seen. It also has possibly some of the worst characterisation of women I have ever seen in a film; it seems that all women are just easy to bed sex objects with no real opinions or ambition. Avoid this movie!
Games
Best – Modern Warfare 2
Stop scowling and listen to me, I was not drawn in through hype and never played COD 4. I honestly did not have more fun playing a game this year (outside of original L4D) than I did playing MW2 which at the end of the day shouldn’t that be what games are about? Yes I loved Batman but as a game I found it had bigger flaws than those of MW2. I am not going to gush about it but the fact that it is a month later I have completed it twice and I am still playing it and not the multiplayer should stand for something.
Worst – Prototype
This game should have been great but instead provided me with what can only be described as negative fun. There are too many flaws to note in a paragraph and if you check back over my blog here you can probably see them noted elsewhere. So without getting repetitive let me just say – awful, really really awful.
Books
Best/Worst – Every Last Drop
It turns out I only read one book this year…don’t know how that happened! So the award for best and worst book goes to Every Last Drop. It is the fourth book about Joe Pitt a vampire private detective working in New York, treading the lines between the overruling clans.
They don’t sparkle
They do kill people
This is not twilight, this is a dark noirish take on vampires living today mixed with the pulpiest inspired detective stories (for the first two at least).
Biggest Letdown
9
As a film I was left feeling very disappointed, without a doubt this was one of the films I was most looking forward to this year. What’s saddest about the whole thing is that the world they create is fantastic, the creatures are awesome, the voice acting is pot on, the action is the best you will see in animation, the pace of the movie is quick, and the characters are just the right amount of quirky. The plot however is so completely dire, ridiculous, clichéd and full of holes that it is near impossible to leave the film not feeling letdown. You can’t even palm this off with the kids film excuse as some of the settings are so macabre (in the first few minutes you see a dead baby) that this is not for kids. Also it would do to mention that Where The Wild Things are and Up totally kick that excuse in the nuts and send it home with an ice pack.
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