Top 10 Of 2009

Aside from having yet to see "The Road" and "Red Cliff Part II" I figure the end of the year is a few days away and it's time for my feeble attempt at a best of list.

Here goes nothing:

1.) "Up in the Air"
2.) Inglorious Basterds
3.) Black Dynamite
4.) District 9
5.) Star Trek
6.) The Informant!
7.) Red Cliff
8.) The Men Who Stare At Goats
9.) Taken
10.) Observe and Report

I imagine once I see it "Red Cliff: Part 2" will occupy a top 5 spot as the first part (a 2008 release) was better than most of the films on my list. The international cut is worth seeing, simply for the spectacle on the screen and the amazement that a 140 and 130 minute pair of films were edited to one coherent 150 minute package.

Worst of 2009: The Marine 2. Straight to DVD and still not set for release until next Tuesday, but more awful than you can imagine, even for a straight to DVD sequel of a crappy movie, featuring a mid-card wrestler as the star.

Question About Game Updates...

Hello,
I am taking my 360 to with me on a trip for the weekend and there will not be any internet connection. When I am at home I often get a message that says "this game requires an update before you can play". I assume that if I don't have an internet connection it won't know that there is an update for the game thus I will be able to play without any problems. I just don't want to get stuck with a system thinking it needs an update but doesn't have the ability to do the update.

Is my assumption correct?

Moon

Hello,
I saw this one a while back - it is science fiction movie that was directed by Duncan Jones (David Bowie's kid), a first-time director. It stars Sam Rockwell as a worker manning a station on the moon where Lunar Industries harvests the newest form of energy for the earth. He's at the end of a 3 year contract and ready to go back home to his wife and daughter. He has an accident while out on patrol. He wakes up at the moon base with no memory of getting there and he meets another version of "himself" who claims to be there on the same 3 year contract. The movie is basically Sam trying to figure out what is going on with the other Sam.

This movie was surprisingly good. There is not much of a cast - Sam Rockwell really carries it (Kevin Spacey is the voice of the computer). It is an intelligent sci-fi movie that is much more an intellectual and ethical story than anything else. I'd give this one a B+.