1. Avatar: This movie made me want to leave behind, not only earth, but also my human body to become one of the Native Na'vi humanoids that inhabit the planet Pandora. These 10 foot blue creatures are agile, beautiful, brave, and have a very special relationship with nature that I wish we had on Earth. The pictures and glowing beauty of Pandora was bliss to my eyes and made me want to jump through the screen and join their world. This movie will be on my top movies of all time list along with James Cameron's other major film Titanic. Thank you James Cameron for sharing your imagination with us! We are very greatful!
2. Blind Side: An extremely touching movie that opened my eyes to what true Christian love and caring looks like through the generosity of one woman and her family and how a worthy young man achieved greatness with supportive encouragement. This story is made even better by being 100% TRUE! :)
3. The Hangover: Hilarious! "We lost Doug..." A great laugh all the way through. Outrageous events and surprises that keeps the audience gasping and laughing out loud! Sequel please!
4. The Proposal: The more I watch this movie the more I love it! The acting by Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is classic and every facial feature and little qiup back and forth is perfect! I could watch this "chick flick" many times and still laugh just as hard, if not harder each time!
5. Harry Potter 6: Each Potter film keeps getting better and better. This film in particular contains many more jokes and laughs than other Potter films which keeps the length bearable and the viewer's heart light. With the main actor's age comes more refined acting and this film proves it. I also enjoyed the romantic triangles and issues that all teenagers must face playing out on the screen. It's about time it got more romantic and less "just friends", haha!
6. Ugly Truth: This movie is great for men and women with its chick flick plot and crass male humor combined! It is hilarious and bluntly true when it comes to male/female relationships. Plus, who can't help but enjoy staring at Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler for a few hours ;)
7. GI Joe: I was impressed by this movie and its plot. It kept me on edge and interested in the character's relatiosnhips and the action-filled plot! Channing Tatum was a treat! his acting was great!
8. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: This movie gave me a new look into the theme of the vampire. I had always thought it was going to be a dark and gross movie but was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed the darkness and was gripped by it! I loved the love story between Sonja, a vampire, and Lucian, a Lycan (werewolf). I disliked all the graphic gore filled fight scenes but loved everything else!
9. New Moon: Loved the books...the movies have been just OK. I mostly enjoy seeing the details from the books come to life on screen! That is what I find entertaining...other than that I have sadly been unimpressed with the acting of Kristen Stewart who plays Bella AND Robert Pattinson who plays Edward. The Vulturi were also a huge upset. they were supposed to be the bad guys but did not even remotely send a shiver up my spine at all. They were fluffy and way too cheerful...they should have been a lot more frightening...even if the book doesn't quite write them as so. The bright lights and acting in this Twilight Saga film were held by Bella's friends at Fork's High School, Jacob Black the steamy native american werewolf friend of Bella's, and the werewolf pack of even more steamy natives ;)
10. Transformers 2: Another great movie after the first. Megan Fox's character "Michaela" always makes me happy because her character's name is my own and each time I hear it on screen I feel like I am in the movie which is a fun little extra for me personally! Other than that the story line is enticing when "Sam" goes off to college and the action is wonderful as well. Another enthralling Transformers film by Micheal Bay!
So there it is! My top movie choices of 2009 out of the movies I saw this year! Some I missed that might have made the list had I seen them are: Sherlock Holmes, Public Enemies, Wolverine, 2012, Up in the Air, and Invictus. (I sure hope I like these when I do see them!)
2. Blind Side: An extremely touching movie that opened my eyes to what true Christian love and caring looks like through the generosity of one woman and her family and how a worthy young man achieved greatness with supportive encouragement. This story is made even better by being 100% TRUE! :)
3. The Hangover: Hilarious! "We lost Doug..." A great laugh all the way through. Outrageous events and surprises that keeps the audience gasping and laughing out loud! Sequel please!
4. The Proposal: The more I watch this movie the more I love it! The acting by Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is classic and every facial feature and little qiup back and forth is perfect! I could watch this "chick flick" many times and still laugh just as hard, if not harder each time!
5. Harry Potter 6: Each Potter film keeps getting better and better. This film in particular contains many more jokes and laughs than other Potter films which keeps the length bearable and the viewer's heart light. With the main actor's age comes more refined acting and this film proves it. I also enjoyed the romantic triangles and issues that all teenagers must face playing out on the screen. It's about time it got more romantic and less "just friends", haha!
6. Ugly Truth: This movie is great for men and women with its chick flick plot and crass male humor combined! It is hilarious and bluntly true when it comes to male/female relationships. Plus, who can't help but enjoy staring at Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler for a few hours ;)
7. GI Joe: I was impressed by this movie and its plot. It kept me on edge and interested in the character's relatiosnhips and the action-filled plot! Channing Tatum was a treat! his acting was great!
8. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans: This movie gave me a new look into the theme of the vampire. I had always thought it was going to be a dark and gross movie but was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed the darkness and was gripped by it! I loved the love story between Sonja, a vampire, and Lucian, a Lycan (werewolf). I disliked all the graphic gore filled fight scenes but loved everything else!
9. New Moon: Loved the books...the movies have been just OK. I mostly enjoy seeing the details from the books come to life on screen! That is what I find entertaining...other than that I have sadly been unimpressed with the acting of Kristen Stewart who plays Bella AND Robert Pattinson who plays Edward. The Vulturi were also a huge upset. they were supposed to be the bad guys but did not even remotely send a shiver up my spine at all. They were fluffy and way too cheerful...they should have been a lot more frightening...even if the book doesn't quite write them as so. The bright lights and acting in this Twilight Saga film were held by Bella's friends at Fork's High School, Jacob Black the steamy native american werewolf friend of Bella's, and the werewolf pack of even more steamy natives ;)
10. Transformers 2: Another great movie after the first. Megan Fox's character "Michaela" always makes me happy because her character's name is my own and each time I hear it on screen I feel like I am in the movie which is a fun little extra for me personally! Other than that the story line is enticing when "Sam" goes off to college and the action is wonderful as well. Another enthralling Transformers film by Micheal Bay!
So there it is! My top movie choices of 2009 out of the movies I saw this year! Some I missed that might have made the list had I seen them are: Sherlock Holmes, Public Enemies, Wolverine, 2012, Up in the Air, and Invictus. (I sure hope I like these when I do see them!)
Happy Earth Day to all you nature lovers out there! I know I'm one! So far today I have been to two classes and then I layed on a grassy hill..."studying", watched some robins pick dry grass for their nest. I also tried to get close to 3 campus cats, who just stared me down and skampered to a safe distance when all I wanted to do was show them some love, haha. All together I had a great time in the sun. 