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Rotten Tomatoes posts 2009 Golden Tomato Awards

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XiaNaphryz

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Rotten Tomatoes' best reviewed films of the past year. Note that they're not using the Fresh ratings solely for these, but some adjusted Tomatometer score that considers variations in the total amount of reviews. You'll need to mouseover the ranks to see the adjusted score.

We use a weighted formula (Bayesian) to account for variation in the number of reviews per movie. The winners are determined by the rankings, designated as the "adjusted score", after applying said formula:

(R ÷ (R+M) × T + (M ÷ (R+M))) × A

with "R" representing the number of rated reviews, "M" the minimum number of reviews needed for a movie to qualify, "T" the Tomatometer score, and "A" the average Tomatometer of all the qualifying movies.
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Wide Release
Golden Tomato Award - Up
2 - Star Trek
3 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
4 - Drag Me To Hell
5 - District 9
6 - Inglourious Basterds
7 - Coraline
8 - Zombieland
9 - Ponyo
10 - Up in the Air

Limited Release
Golden Tomato Award - The Hurt Locker
2 - Anvil! The Story of Anvil
3 - Afghan Star
4 - The Cove
5 - The Beaches of Agnes
6 - In the Loop
7 - An Education
8 - Food, Inc.
9 - Goodbye Solo
10 - Burma VJ

Top UK
Golden Tomato Award - An Education
2 - The Damned United
3 - Of Time and the City
4 - Moon
5 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Moldy
Golden Tomato Award - Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
2 - Miss March
3 - Old Dogs
4 - Whiteout
5 - All About Steve
6 - The Stepfather
7 - Post Grad
8 - Dragonball: Evolution
9 - My Life in Ruins
10 - Gentlemen Broncos

Top AU
Golden Tomato Award - Samson and Delilah

Top User
Golden Tomato Award - Zombieland
2 - Moon
3 - Up
4 - The Blind Side
5 - Star Trek
6 - The Hangover
7 - 500 Days of Summer
8 - The Hurt Locker
9 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 - Avatar

Action/Adventure
Golden Tomato Award - The Hurt Locker
2 - Inglourious Basterds
3 - Sherlock Holmes
4 - Public Enemies
5 - Watchmen

Animation
Golden Tomato Award - Up
2 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 - Coraline
4 - Ponyo
5 - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Comedy
Golden Tomato Award - In the Loop
2 - A Serious Man
3 - Amreeka
4 - I Love You, Man
5 - World's Greatest Dad

Documentary
Golden Tomato Award - Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2 - The Cove
3 - Food, Inc.
4 - Good Hair
5 - Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

Drama
Golden Tomato Award - An Education
2 - Goodbye Solo
3 - The Damned United
4 - Sugar
5 - Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire

Foreign
Golden Tomato Award - Afghan Star
2 - The Beaches of Agnes
3 - Burma VJ
4 - Revanche
5 - Gomorrah

Horror
Golden Tomato Award - Drag Me To Hell
2 - Zombieland
3 - Paranormal Activity
4 - The House of the Devil
5 - Pontypool

Kids/Family
Golden Tomato Award - Where the Wild Things Are
2 - Hotel for Dogs
3 - Shorts
4 - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
5 - Hannah Montana The Movie

Musical
Golden Tomato Award - Crazy Heart
2 - Bandslam
3 - Pirate Radio
4 - The Soloist
5 - Notorious

Romance
Golden Tomato Award - Adventureland
2 - 500 Days of Summer
3 - Bright Star
4 - Two Lovers
5 - The Young Victoria

Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Golden Tomato Award - Star Trek
2 - District 9
3 - Moon
4 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
5 - Avatar

Thriller
Golden Tomato Award - State of Play
2 - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
3 - The Road
4 - Duplicity
5 - A Perfect Getaway
 
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DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
Wow, I'm surprised by Zombieland.

I thought it was horrible aside from Bill Murray.
 
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Freedom = $1.05

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red shoe paul said:
3 - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Is this a joke?
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It's a joke that you think it's a joke. It's a fantastic film and you're a fool if you think otherwise.

Jason's Ultimatum said:
I thought Drag Me to Hell was AWFUL. The rest I don't mind being on the list.
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It was a great return to form for Raimi. Dunno what film you saw, bro.
 
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DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
Jason's Ultimatum said:
I thought Drag Me to Hell was AWFUL. The rest I don't mind being on the list.
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You don't think that toothless monsters are scary?
 
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tokkun

Member
Freedom = $1.05 said:
It's a joke that you think it's a joke. It's a fantastic film and you're a fool if you think otherwise.
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Guess I'm a fool. I enjoyed it, but thought that it was one of Anderson's weaker films. I don't think that his cinematography worked well with the stop-motion models - particularly those straight-on close-up dialog scenes that normally act as humanizing to Anderson's misanthropic characters but had the exact opposite effect for Mr. Fox.

That said, it was much better than Star Trek.
 
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DMczaf

Member
Hellshadow said:
Was Whiteout that bad?
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Yeah
 
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Defcon

Banned
Up is an AWFUL movie. Everyone always talks about how great the first 10 minutes are because it caused them to choke up a few tears. Give me a break. The rest of the movie was dreadful.
 
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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
Defcon said:
Up is an AWFUL movie. Everyone always talks about how great the first 10 minutes are because it caused them to choke up a few tears. Give me a break. The rest of the movie was dreadful.
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Yeah, no.
 
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Dabookerman

Member
Defcon said:
Up is an AWFUL movie. Everyone always talks about how great the first 10 minutes are because it caused them to choke up a few tears. Give me a break. The rest of the movie was dreadful.
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100% agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself. I think we can all say that Up is the equivalent of Hitler, and everyone who likes it are the gullible Germans.

We are the resistance, the Von Stauffenbergs.
 
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gdt

Member
Dabookerman said:
100% agreed. Couldn't have said it better myself. I think we can all say that Up is the equivalent of Hitler, and everyone who likes it are the gullible Germans.

We are the resistance, the Von Stauffenbergs.
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Well I'm Hugo Stiglitz, about to kill you in yo sleep.
 
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Igo

Member
How did An Education rank above In the Loop on the UK list?

Up was Meh. Same with Wall-e really. I have no plans of rewatching either movie. The intro the UP was great though.
 
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artist

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XiaNaphryz said:
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Golden Tomato Award - Star Trek
2 - District 9
3 - Moon
4 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
5 - Avatar
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This right here shows how broken it actually is. :lol
 
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Darkky

Member
Defcon said:
What do you mean? It's one of the better films of 2009.
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Then please enlighten me - I don't quite understand why the film is so positively acclaimed either.

And I am surprised that AVATAR didn't make it onto the Top 10 list.
 
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avatar299

Banned
Darkky said:
Then please enlighten me - I don't quite understand why the film is so positively acclaimed either.

And I am surprised that AVATAR didn't make it onto the Top 10 list.
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You shouldn't be. This may be a shock but a quality script is still more important than special effects.
 
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grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Great success will always come with backlash. Pixar is just lucky enough that their idiotic backlash is neglected to meaningless internet talk.
 
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msdstc

Incredibly Naive
I have some catching up to do... pretty weak year for movies, but I still love most of the top 10.
 
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msdstc

Incredibly Naive
Yeah I wouldn't use this as a guage of the top movies of the year... hell I never go by percentage anyways. A ton of movies stay up around 100%, the thing that matters most is the average rating.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
msdstc said:
Yeah I wouldn't use this as a guage of the top movies of the year... hell I never go by percentage anyways. A ton of movies stay up around 100%, the thing that matters most is the average rating.
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Again, they don't use the Fresh rating by itself, they're using some weird modified score off of that:

We use a weighted formula (Bayesian) to account for variation in the number of reviews per movie. The winners are determined by the rankings, designated as the "adjusted score", after applying said formula:

(R ÷ (R+M) × T + (M ÷ (R+M))) × A

with "R" representing the number of rated reviews, "M" the minimum number of reviews needed for a movie to qualify, "T" the Tomatometer score, and "A" the average Tomatometer of all the qualifying movies.
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Cohsae

Member
Anvil and Moon were probably my favourite films of 09. Still need to check out Up, and The Hurt Locker, and The Hangover.
 
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JzeroT1437

Member
Do I see the inklings of a Pixar backlash forming? Damn them and their fresh storytelling and lovable characters! I'll wait seven months for the shitty Dreamworks knockoff!

This year has been excellent!
 
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