The Ten "Best" Movies of the Decade.

Yeah, yeah. Another List post. Deal with it. But this is a list post where we don't rank the ten best movies of the decade I liked. This is ten movies that deserve recognition for some reason, tangible or otherwise.

Best Fast Zombie Movie: 28 Days Later.
Best Movie With the Worst Title: Sexdrive
Best Bad Ben Affleck Movie: Daredevil/Boiler Room (tie)
Best Depressing Indie Movie That Kind of Confused Me: Where the Truth Lies
Best Shitty Blockbuster: Bruce Almighty (You know it's in the top 100 of all-time box-offices? Yeah. And it has two funny scenes. Two.)
Best Movie With The Worst Ending: I Drink Your Milkshake! I Drink It Up!
Best "So Bad It's Awful" Movie: House of the Dead.
Best Manic Pixie Dream Girl as Porn Star Movie: The Girl Next Door
Best Depressing Indie Movie I Actually Understood: Mullholland Drive
Best Underrated Movie of the Decade: Frailty. Just Frailty.

The Top 10 Movies of 2009...

I know. I feel as if I have left you behind. Three half-baked formspring responses and sweet f-all from the kid. I'm doing some soul searching. So, I will leave you with a top ten list.

I apologize.

But at least I will give you a list about 2009. That's timely right?

And In this list, I will give you my 10 favorite movies of the year...That I've seen. So, no Adventurland. No Taken. And no District 9. There's good odds that two out of the three would make my top ten list. It was kind of a down year.

Anyway... going in reverse order?

10) Extract (Mike Judge is always stronger when he keeps his focus small. This is a story about the lengths people can go to avoid communication. And Ben Affleck is remarkably hilarious here.)
9) Whip It (It was dead solid solid. I know it's a really girly movie. I like sports movies. What?)
8) Watchmen (It's not perfect. Zack Snyder's not a man known for his nuance with musical choices. But damnit. I was enthralled, damnit.)
7) The Informant! (As a satire of the whistleblower movie? It's top notch.)
6) Star Trek (The populist Summer Blockbuster Action Movie A go-go.)
5) A Serious Man (Michael Sthulbarg is the best actor of 2009 for his portrayal of Larry Gopnik. Anybody who says otherwise? Fuck you. Looking at you Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart!)
4) The Hangover (Todd Phillips always knew how to be funny. It's nice to see that he found it again instead of trying to become the next WPT champ.)
3) The Hurt Locker (The indie populist action movie a go-go. Jeremy Renner would win best actor in every other year but this one.)
2) Up (I know I may be tempting controversy of what's next. But while I enjoyed this movie tremendously?)
1) Zombieland (It didn't make me want to watch it three times. This did. Rule of awesome carries the fridge logic of the female characters ending.)

So what say you?

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What would your dream job look like?

Simple? I would design ad campaigns for local news affiliates based on meaningless stuff that looks cool. As an example?

Doppler TEN Thousand. THE FIRST IN FIVE FIGURED WEATHER FORECASTING!

Ask me anything

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If you had the chance to torture Brett Favre, what would you do to him?

Be perfectly honest. I wouldn't. Torture doesn't work. But that doesn't mean I wouldn't let him think I would be torturing him.

I would set him up for a little Marathon man styled torture. Get to the point where I'm about to start drilling. Then retire.

Then I would come back. And get to the point where he's about to get pushed out a window in a chair? Then I would retire.

In short? I would just have fun out there.

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I remember why I left watching the NBA.

It was because the referees had their fingers in the pies of the Conference finals. And I have to say, it was easy. I could keep a more cursory glance on the Bucks and let the basketball knowledge atrophy.

That being said? I came back in full force last season. And it was a fun season to watch. Not so happy the Lakers took it down, but hey. That's okay.

Tonight on the other hand stings a little. I know the Lakers were going to get a call or two along the way. But the Bucks earned a win here that was taken away. Not because of Kobe's buzzer beater. Okay, yes. That was the coup de grace.

However? The referees gave Kobe the opportunity. +19 in free throws. An egregious lane violation. And a call that so enraged the announcers that people are trying to make a meme.

#THATWASNOTABLOCK

Ah well. I found something that makes me feel better.

This just in?

Stephen Colbert is still awesome. I know you still know that. But I feel that it warrants mentioning. Did you see tonight? Then you know.

If not? No spoilers. Watch a rerun.