11th Annual Golden Tomato Awards
Welcome to RT's 11th Annual Golden Tomato Awards, in which we honor the best-reviewed movies of 2009. From the biggest Hollywood hits to the most provocative indies, we've got the films that made critics sing their praises -- and probably inspired you as well.
It was a huge year for blockbusters, with Avatar, the rebooted Star Trek, and Up thrilling audiences and pundits alike. And as usual, the year saw an exceptional crop of documentaries, independents, and foreign gems, including An Education and Anvil! The Story of Anvil. Which films will take home the coveted Golden Tomato Awards? Where do your favorites rank? And which of these flicks took home the User Tomato award, decided by you, the RT faithful?
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Zombieland was the highest-voted movie by users? ...Really? It was good, but not 95% good.
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a great year for sci-fi/fantasy movies,.... and no Zombieland is not 95% good
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Alejandro P. writes:
on Jan 11 2010 09:07 PM
"and no Zombieland is not 95% good"
Obviously, you're wrong.
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Wasssup with all the cartoon crap! Put that Disney stuff in a category of its own, not with real actors. You want cartoons? Hollywood has been trying to do away with live actors for some time now to save cost. Looks like RT critics have paved the way.
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Animation is a perfectly legitimate format. There's no reason it shouldn't be allowed to compete with live action films, some of which are mostly CGI anyway.
As for me, I agree with most of these choices. Congratulations to the winners!
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Up did more with animation than half of the other films did with live action.
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you have terrible taste for acting like Animation is not a legitimate form of film-making when compared to live action
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You're joking, right?
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I bet you're an old person, stuck in your old ways of thinking, who can't accept of a new form of movie entertainment.
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Wasssup with all the cartoon crap! Put that Disney stuff in a category of its own, not with real actors. You want cartoons? Hollywood has been trying to do away with live actors for some time now to save cost. Looks like RT critics have paved the way.
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Animated movies are in no way lesser than "Live Action" films.
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Oh, my three favorites of 2009 (not that you asked, but whatver) are "Public Enemies", "Star Trek", and "Up". I haven't seen enough good films for a top 10.
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I think it speaks very highly of Disney Pixar that this is its third year in a row in which one of its movies has been the best reviewed film of the year. Animation has become a category that can affect all generations and all walks of life and that is why it constantly recieves so much respect from critics and viewers a like. This is a solid list, with very few big schocks, thank god for nothing twilight.
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I fully agree with "State of Play" being the best thriller for 2009. It's an underrated movie, and it instantly become one of my all-time favorites.
The casting's very solid (thank goodness Brad Pitt and Ed Norton dropped out, and Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck filled in for their respective roles), despite a number of twists, it still holds together very well as political thriller and both tribute and farewell to newspapers.
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A few things, the golden globes give animation their own category and not the academy so you can choose to respect whichever reward you want but I'd rather stick with the academy. Zombieland and Drag Me To Me Hell were dominant horror movies this year, awesome. The Damned United= #3 in drama and best movie no one is America has seen...
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Actually, AAMPAS does have a 'Best Animated Feature' category. The last time an animated film was nominated for Best Picture was BEAUTY AND THE BEAST in 1992. And the last children's film that was nominated was BABE. But, with them expanding their 'Best Picture' category to ten nominations, this all seems a bit silly, especially considering 2009 was a year when films like UP, THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX, and CORALINE are head-and-shoulders above the majority of films to see wide theatrical release.
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Actually, the Academy started the Animation Category so animated movies would get their well deserved Oscars. After that, the Golden Globes created that category as well.
Up was aided by the larger shortlist this year, but hell, it deserves its Best Picture nomination, as well as the Golden Tomato.
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Aside from Ponyo...what a bunch of crap. Looking at the list I was
thinking it was the Cheese-Ball Awards. Utter Crap.
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I agree with a lot of the award choices. :)
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What does "It's not 95% good" even mean? That isn't the average score given by users, that's just the percentage of people that liked it. I personally find it hard to believe that anyone could not like that film - it's really one of the best that came out last year.
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@Jake007:
And even if we ignore Rotten Tomatoes way of rating things with the Tomatometer, I still think the 8.5 average use score is slightly high. Zombieland was decent. I liked it, but it wasn't great. It had an abrupt ending and it meandered at times when it could have been more focused. The special cameo was extremely enjoyable, but I feel that without it the movie might not have been nearly as good.
To put it in terms you can more clearly understand, and a longer explanation that you seem to require, I am surprised other movies that were far, FAR superior to Zombieland didn't receive as many positive ratings compared to negative ones. Especially given the issues that were apparent in Zombieland. So many people on RT seem to pride themselves on being piercing film critics, at least based on the deep, deep analysis of things like Avatar evidenced in the comments on many threads, and why that's such a load of crap. But I guess it's not really that surprising.
At least Zombieland isn't something like Twilight: New Moon, so I can take solace that the RT community isn't as stupid as "The People" as represented in something like The People's Choice Awards. :)
I don't have a problem that people liked Zombieland. I'm just surprised they didn't like other things more.
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Man, most of the #1 choices are just... Poor, to say the least.
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My Picks of Best of 2009:
Best Animated film-Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Horror-Drag Me to Hell
Best Sci-Fi-District 9
Best Blockbuster-Star Trek
Best Comedy-The Hangover
Best 3D film-Toy Story 1 and 2
Best Indie-The Hurt Locker
Best Drama-Up in the Air
Best Romance-500 Days of Summer
Best Movie-District 9
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yes finally someone who has District 9 on number one on their list.
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District 9 is the best sci-fi movie since Blade Runner. The Thing also but I consider that horror. Maybe I'm wrong.
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My five favorite movies of 2000 in order:
District 9
Up
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
(500) Days of Summer
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They came out in 2000? I thought they came out last year.
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I agree District 9 rocks.
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Glad Adventureland topped a list, that film deserves more attention than it gets.
And In the Loop is, in my opinion, the funniest movie I've seen in decades.
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*the funniest movie in decades
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sadly Disney is not now what it was then
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why do they consider zombieland a horror movie more than a comedy. its not frightening its funny
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Best Animated: Up
Best Horror: Drag Me to Hell (It was good but horror has been sucking the last few years...)
Best Sci-Fi: Avatar
Best Action/ Adventure: Inglorious Basterds
Best Comedy: The Hangover
Best Documentary: Capitalism (A Love Story)
Best Drama: The Soloist
Best Foreign: Sin Nombre
Best Kids/ Family: I do not watch many kids movies so I cannot place anything here...
Best Musical: This Is It
Best Romance: 500 Days of Summer
Best Thriller: District 9
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