It's New Years!
So yeah, 2009 is coming to an end. A year that began with some of the best moments of my life, but contained some of the absolute worst. It's been bizarre, to say the least, and I'm happy to be rid of it.
It's been a good year for entertainment-type stuff as well, though I haven't kept up with the music industry as I usually do. There will be no best album of 2009 from me. I don't think I bought a single album released this year. Closest thing was Rise Against's "Appeal to Reason" from 2008 and Opeth's "Watershed" from the same year. Fa!
...I give it to Opeth.
Best film of the year? This is a staggeringly close category, as Avatar did so many things to me as a movie-goer that I absolutely cherish. However, it loses points for a bit of a lack of originality, despite the incredible setting in which it takes place. But come on, Unobtainium? Really? Last time I heard that was in "The Core". Vomit.
So best film for this year goes to the Q-man's Inglourious Basterds. It played around so well with the idea of a typical WWII film and turned all of my preconceptions about good and evil in the war on their heads. Beyond that, it gave us some of the finest characters -ever- created by Tarantino, specifically Col. Hans Landa of the SS. The infamous "Jew Hunter". Fantastic timing in this film lead me to react just the way I was supposed to at every little turn. (I still cringe at "poke the bullet in the leg")
Best Game of the year is a tough one for me to really name, because I left current gaming just before EB were rid of me. So I missed out on things like Assassin's Creed 2 and Modern Warfare 2. All in all, I give my game of the year award to Uncharted 2, with Dragon's Age: Origins in a close second.
Book of the year - I read a lot this year, not all of it -from- this year, as this year has seen my illustrious return to the world of reading like a milk-fed gimp. It's a very difficult thing for me to pick, as two titles really stood out to me. Joe Abercombie's "Best Served Cold" and Patrick Rothfuss' "The Name of the Wind". Both are highly recommended, and both are wonderful examples of writers fucking with the concept of "heroic fantasy"; a genre I used to pass by quite regularly. Best Served Cold will likely get the award, simply because it's a complete volume. Name of the Wind is the first in a trilogy, so I have no closure...yeeeet. Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon" gets a special mention for being hardcore, brutal, sexy fun.
Comic series of the year goes to Grant Morrison's "Batman & Robin". Absolutely dynamite. With Bruce Wayne dead, Dick Grayson takes up the cape and cowl and Damian Wayne becomes the new Robin. I love seeing these faces in unfamiliar masks, as it makes Batman something of a beginner again, though the crime hasn't stopped for them. Wonderful stuff.
Anyways, that's all my inane rambling and pointless grading done. See you all next year, and have an awesome night everybody!
-D
It's been a good year for entertainment-type stuff as well, though I haven't kept up with the music industry as I usually do. There will be no best album of 2009 from me. I don't think I bought a single album released this year. Closest thing was Rise Against's "Appeal to Reason" from 2008 and Opeth's "Watershed" from the same year. Fa!
...I give it to Opeth.
Best film of the year? This is a staggeringly close category, as Avatar did so many things to me as a movie-goer that I absolutely cherish. However, it loses points for a bit of a lack of originality, despite the incredible setting in which it takes place. But come on, Unobtainium? Really? Last time I heard that was in "The Core". Vomit.
So best film for this year goes to the Q-man's Inglourious Basterds. It played around so well with the idea of a typical WWII film and turned all of my preconceptions about good and evil in the war on their heads. Beyond that, it gave us some of the finest characters -ever- created by Tarantino, specifically Col. Hans Landa of the SS. The infamous "Jew Hunter". Fantastic timing in this film lead me to react just the way I was supposed to at every little turn. (I still cringe at "poke the bullet in the leg")
Best Game of the year is a tough one for me to really name, because I left current gaming just before EB were rid of me. So I missed out on things like Assassin's Creed 2 and Modern Warfare 2. All in all, I give my game of the year award to Uncharted 2, with Dragon's Age: Origins in a close second.
Book of the year - I read a lot this year, not all of it -from- this year, as this year has seen my illustrious return to the world of reading like a milk-fed gimp. It's a very difficult thing for me to pick, as two titles really stood out to me. Joe Abercombie's "Best Served Cold" and Patrick Rothfuss' "The Name of the Wind". Both are highly recommended, and both are wonderful examples of writers fucking with the concept of "heroic fantasy"; a genre I used to pass by quite regularly. Best Served Cold will likely get the award, simply because it's a complete volume. Name of the Wind is the first in a trilogy, so I have no closure...yeeeet. Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon" gets a special mention for being hardcore, brutal, sexy fun.
Comic series of the year goes to Grant Morrison's "Batman & Robin". Absolutely dynamite. With Bruce Wayne dead, Dick Grayson takes up the cape and cowl and Damian Wayne becomes the new Robin. I love seeing these faces in unfamiliar masks, as it makes Batman something of a beginner again, though the crime hasn't stopped for them. Wonderful stuff.
Anyways, that's all my inane rambling and pointless grading done. See you all next year, and have an awesome night everybody!
-D