Best movie of the year?

I thought 2009 was a lame movie year. Sure there was District 9, Inglorious Basterds, star trek and Avatar. All of which are good entertaining movies. All these movies didn't make me ponder and think. Good movies make me think about it for a good long time, dark knight had me watch it three times in the theaters and another three times at home.

This year, I didn't have any favourite or beloved movie. Until today, 31st December, new year's eve. A Japanese anime movie titled 'Summer Wars' has managed to captivate my attention, released August 1st in Japan and August 8th in Korea. It didn't have an international release and a rumour from the internet predicts a DvD subbed release to be in 2010 March. That sucks. So I downloaded it. The quality was crap, the audio synch was fucked. The guys whom released it tried to fix it, but the audio was still out of synch by .5 maybe .2 seconds. Despite it running at a horrendously low resolution I continued to watch. Despite all this shit I sold after the first 10 minutes I was committed to buy the DVD once released. And at the end of the movie, that was 114 minutes, I thought: Damn, that was fucking awesome!

I can't reply explain why I love this movie so much. Words fail to be voiced as to why and how this movie impressed me. Personally my creed for reviewing anything is simple; experience it three times than write about it immediately after the third.

Although I have yet to have time to ponder and think about this movie, all I know is that I sunked two hours of my life watching this but the movie felt really short. Good things feel short, better things feel shorter, bad things drag on. This is the first movie in a long time that I actually felt giddy like a child.

In all honesty its my opinion. Some people may think this movie sucks or that my Anime infested mind is just thirsty for anything mildly good or that I'm simply simple minded. Its my 2 cents and I can throw it however I like.

Movie of the year for me was 'Summer Wars'.

Game of the year 'Uncharted 2'. (this is unrelated but damn, I just love the acronym GOTY)