I still haven’t seen every good movie from 2009 — some haven’t come out on DVD, and some I just haven’t gotten around to.

The IMDB got rid of their PowerSearch feature, which let me trivially make a list of every movie from any year or group of years, and sort them by how much I liiked them, and so forth.  Sigh.  I still rate most every movie I see, and they keep the data, so it’s still useful.  Their new Advanced Title Search is much less useful to me if I can’t weed out all the movies I’ve already seen, though.

Anyway, my big three movies:

• Avatar. Yeah, the storyline is kind of commercial and gutless, but it works, and the visuals are breathtaking, and I dig that in movies.
• District 9. Also a visual treat, despite its (relatively) minimal budget of $30 million.  Thought provoking, and great character development.
• Up. Another great Pixar flick.  The trailers for this made it look like Disney crap, but it exceeded my expectations.

More movies I loved:

• (500) Days of Summer
• Coraline
• Inglorious Basterds
• The Hangover
• Triangle
• Watchmen

Triangle is the obscure one in that list.  Maybe I’ll do a review of it tomorrow.