2009 in film. A disappointment?

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Originally Posted by jhiggy23

haha you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but saying it has "no business" being ranked higher is a bit harsh.

Doubt's ending reduced the film's value. The Wrestler was a bit one-note. And Elegy had some issues that reduced its value, as well.

For the record, Cruz should have won for Elegy and NOT for Vicky Cristina, although both were among the best supp. actress performances of last year.

i couldn't imagine a different ending. it perfectly reinforced

[Show spoiler] the underyling theme of doubt with regard to the priests guilt that was the main focus of the entire film. not a popular ending perhaps as its open-ended, but as is life and our self-doubt (ie. in 99.999% of cases, we never find out if our actions were correct or not)

. i'd also take doubt, wrestler and gran torino over Revolutionary Road. for whatever reason, the relationship dynamics (gender-wise) in Revoluationary Road were not realisitic for the 1950's, so i couldn't take the movie very seriously.