Saw Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes at the weekend. It was everything I expected from a Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes film. A loud, obnoxious, inane, pointless mess. It had even less plot than the first part of RTD's Dr. Who swansong, and that's a real achievement. RDJr was good, but that goes without saying. Other than that, save yourself the cost of the ticket... just close your eyes and imagine what a Sherlock Holmes film directed by Guy Ritchie would be like. There. You've got it in one.
Still, as dull as that was... it wasn't half as rubbish as this little lot...
The Worst Films Of The Year
5. Surrogates
4. Terminator: Salvation
3. 2012
2. Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen
1. The Boat That Rocked
No list of Films Of The Year can ever be definitive. Not unless you've seen them all. I mean, consider these...
Films I Haven't Seen That Might Have Made The List If I Had
Where The Wild Things Are (Chev's Film Of The Year)
The Hurt Locker
Zombieland
Avatar (no, really, I don't care what anybody says - not even the Midnight Movie Club of Lee and Dan - I refuse to believe Cameron's Smurf movie can be any good...can it?)
(500) Days Of Summer (Ryan's film of the year)
But enough of what might have been... What about what was? Links to full reviews where I've written them.
My Films Of The Year
15. Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Though I saw Mesrine Part Un at the cinema, I didn't review it at the time because I wanted to wait till I'd seen part deux before commenting. I'm still waiting. The DVD's out in January though.
The first movie was shaping up to be one of the best gangster films I've seen in a while, with a cracking performance by Vincent Cassel... even though I can't help but confuse him with Tricky Dicky from Eastenders. (And no, I don't watch Eastenders. Is Tricky Dicky still in it?)
14. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
No review to link to as I only saw this on DVD. I'm a huge Fincher fan, but I was scared away by the Forrest Gump comparisons some reviewers were (unjustly) flinging at this film. It's certainly flawed - in much the same way that Watchmen was - and yet, I can't deny that it had a huge impact on me in its final half hour. It's also the only movie this year to make me sob, so for that reason alone it deserves a place in this list.
13. Drag Me To Hell
12. The Damned United
11. In The Loop
10. Moon
Another one I missed at the cinema, Dylan Jones's debut is a tightly scripted sci-fi that's far more enjoyable the more the less you know about it. So I won't say anything. 
9. The Wrestler
One more I only caught on DVD, Mickey Rourke's comeback does more than just get me excited about Iron Man 2. Painfully tragic but with a wonderfully uplifting (sort of) ending. Plus, it's got a free Bruce song on the soundtrack. Lovely stuff.
8. Gran Torino
7. The Reader
6. A Serious Man
5. Let The Right One In
4. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Paranormal Activity
2. Star Trek
1. Inglourious Basterds 
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I have a secret Da Vinci code to find out if a movie is going to be horrible: Jude Law.
Bought the wife Inglorious for Christmas as we never made it to the cinema to see it... good to know we have a treat waiting for us. Nice to see Mickey Rourke in a class movie again - Angel Heart is still one of my favourites.
You obviously didn't get dragged to New Moon, did you? Otherwise that obviously would have been on your list, and I think we all know which list would have been...a new one titled Best Ab-Monkey movies! Man, the dialogue in that turkey sucked.
Glad someone saw all the awesome movies I missed out on this year. Moon and A Serious Man will be mine come the dvd season, I swear. Happy new year, and have some great resolutions.
The first half of Twilight was enough to convince me I never want to see any of its sequels.
good one..
Excellent list.
Moon alone was such a surprise and delight due to its pure quality.
The Basterds whilst not making my top five was easily in the top ten and frankly I probably would have a hard time explaining why it wasn't there.
I actually enjoyed Sherlock Holmes though but I note that people are divided on the film.
PS Avatar is awesome :P
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