Ten-Years-Later Match Cut Consensus - 2009

[Peng]

I was searching for something and stumbled upon the Ten-Years-Later Match Cut things for 2007 and 2008, and see that we missed last year for 2009. I think they're fascinating look-back exercises and want to keep the tradition going. I am not sure if our pool is deep enough for the full Awards voting one though, so I'm gonna go with Spinal's easier Consensus first. Edited from his thread:

Let's also do a countdown of your favorite films from the year. Post a top 10 (IMDb dates) below. I'll count up the votes and give you a top 20-25 (depending on the statistical significance of the results).

Points will be counted using a weighted system:

1. - 10 pts
2. - 8 pts
3. - 7 pts
4. - 6 pts
5. - 5 pts
6. - 4.5 pts
7. - 4 pts
8. - 3.5 pts
9. - 3 pts
10. - 2.5 pts

(Weighted system used to give top films a boost, and to minimize the distinction between second tier films.)

[Peng]

1. Inglorious Basterds
2. A Serious Man
3. Mary and Max
4. Fantastic Mr. Fox
5. Dogtooth
6. Castaway on the Moon
7. Up
8. About Elly
9. Avatar
10. Moon

[Yxklyx]

1. Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
2. Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
3. El secreto de sus ojos (Juan José Campanella)
4. World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait)
5. The Hangover (Todd Phillips)
6. Daddy Longlegs (Ben Safdie & Joshua Safdie)
7. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)
8. Humpday (Lynn Shelton)
9.The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
10. Amer (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)

not...one...match - almost for Everyone Else.

[MadMan]

Not sure this is a good list, but it is a list:

1. A Serious Man (Coen Brothers)
2. In The Loop (Iannucci)
3. (500) Days of Summer (Webb)
4. Antichrist (von Trier)
5. Up (Peterson and Docter)
6. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Herzog)
7. Inglourious Basterds (Tarentino)
8. District 9 (Blomkamp)
9. The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)
10. Up In The Air (Reitman)

[Stay Puft]

1. Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto)
2. Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
3. Mundane History (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
4. White Material (Claire Denis)
5. Coraline (Henry Selick)
6. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
7. Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
8. A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar)
9. A Serious Man (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen)
10. Redline (Takeshi Koike)

[Peng]

Oh I forgot Dogtooth, which was in my 2010 list. Edited.


MadMan, The Hurt Locker was 2008 on imdb (and was also among the last edition's thread).

[Ezee E]

Been to MN many a times, and never heard of the hotdish.

They do claim to like sauerkraut on pizza, which is insane... but that may be more Wisconsin.

[Ezee E]

1. Inglorious Basterds
2. A Prophet
3. The Hurt Locker
3. The Hangover
4. The Road
5. Observe and Report
6. Fish Tank
7. Enter the Void
8. A Serious Man
9. Mother
10. District 9

[Dukefrukem]

1. Antichrist
2. Enter the Void
3. Moon
4. Up
5. District 9
6. Drag Me to Hell
7. The House of the Devil
8. (500) Days of Summer
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. fantastic mr fox

In fairness, Dogtooth would probably be my #1 if I had seen it.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The White Ribbon
2. Bright Star
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Enter the Void
5. A Serious Man
6. In the Loop
7. The Exploding Girl
8. Mother
9. Moon
10. Son of Babylon

[Skitch]

18 star trek
17 sherlock holmes
16 avatar
15 enter the void
14 astro boy
13 coraline
12 district 9
11 ponyo
--------------------------
10 house of the devil
9 pandorum
8 cloudy with a chance of meatballs
7 ben button
6 moon
5 observe and report
4 watchmen
3 inglorious basterds
2 fantastic mr fox
1 the box

[Dukefrukem]

Thanks for reminding me about fantastic mr fox. Left it off my list but I've edited it above.

[Grouchy]

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. The White Ribbon
3. A Prophet
4. Where the Wild Things Are
5. Mother
6. A Serious Man
7. Moon
8. District 9
9. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
10. Thirst

HM: Broken Embraces, The Informant!, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Drag Me to Hell

[Skitch]

Whats the ruling on Imaginarium? I've seen different release dates. This matters to me because that would make my top 10.

[Dukefrukem]

We go by first USA release dates here. October 2009 (Chicago International Film Festival)

[Skitch]

We go by first USA release dates here. October 2009 (Chicago International Film Festival)

Updated

19 star trek
18 sherlock holmes
17 avatar
16 enter the void
15 astro boy
14 coraline
13 district 9
12 ponyo
11 house of the devil
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10 pandorum
9 cloudy with a chance of meatballs
8 ben button
7 moon
6 observe and report
5 watchmen
4 inglorious basterds
3 fantastic mr fox
2 imaginarium of dr parnassus
1 the box

[Pop Trash]

We go by first USA release dates here. October 2009 (Chicago International Film Festival)

Wait ... what? Spinal did imdb (per his comment in the first post). Are we changing to USA dates? Only matters for my placement of Dogtooth. Might be easier to follow imdb / letterboxd (which uses the imdb system of first public showing / streaming eg. a film festival) since I never remember when exactly movies came out.

[Pop Trash]

1. Adventureland
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. Fantastic Mr. Fox
4. Where the Wild Things Are
5. Dogtooth (if it counts)
6. Bright Star (if it counts)
7. The House of the Devil (if it counts)
8. Drag Me to Hell
9. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (if it counts)
10. Mother (if it counts)


You can see how annoying it is to look up the USA release dates for all these.

[Dukefrukem]

We've always done this since day 1 across the site. It's how we determined what section to put the voting thread in.

I didn't read Spinal's original post. I just assumed we did this across the site to never make it confusing. Oh well.

[Peng]

My opinion, separate of this thread's voting and its imdb rules from Spinal, is that the more general release date/US release date is apt when it's new films (within 1-2 years) because of the availability issue, so as not to have any new (and often smaller) film fall by wayside when making/voting list like this. If it's some time removed, such as our decade lookback, it's enough distance to revert back to imdb date. (There will be a rare case like The Hurt Locker though, in which it both crosses a year and then becomes insanely high-profile to the point of Oscars, that I'm personally ambivalent about sticking to imdb dates since its year of wide release etches itself in film history. But since it appears in both 2008 Ten-Years-Later threads of Consensus and Awards throughout, that easily clears up the matter for the purpose of this thread.)

[Pop Trash]

Agree w/ Peng. I get it with a new consensus, but I sure as hell can't remember when a foreign film or indie film came out 10 years ago.

[Dukefrukem]

I'm ok with whatever decision we make. No real preference.

BTW, anyone know what happened to Spinal and what set him off on his last post?

[Grouchy]

I'm OK with either as well but Duke is right, it was always by US release date in the old days.

EDIT: I prefer IMDb, though.

[Lazlo]

I think Peng's right, US release works to make sense of the currently in-progress conversation around a movie year, but ten years removed it becomes much simpler to stick to IMDb.

1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Up
3. Adventureland
4. Bright Star
5. Where the Wild Things Are
6. Avatar
7. Fish Tank
8. Un Prophète
9. The Road
10. A Single Man

[Ezee E]

I'll need to remove Hurt Locker