This year was the best year for movies ever.

5. Burn After Reading

I normally don't like the Cohen brothers (I hated No Country For Old Men), but I think they did a great job of making a very strange, yet very amusing dark comedy. This is definitely high on my list of favorite dark comedies. This movie was funny (especially Brad Pitt), smart, and unique in the characters and how they acted. I was very impressed by this movie, but I wasn't "changed".

4. The Wrestler

This movie was the most emotional movie of the year, and definitely one of the best performances of the year by Mickey Rourke. This movie follows a washed up wrestler, and portrays it very well. However, there was something missing from this movie. There were definitely some very teary moments, but it just seems that a lot of it was missing something. I really wanted this movie to be #1 or #2. If the movie was shot a little differently with some things tweeked, this movie would be a masterpiece.

3. Tropic Thunder

This movie struck me to choose one of my favorite actors from now one: Robert Downey Jr. His fantastic performance in this movie blew me away, and he is the only reason this film is on my list. Funniest, yet most realistically played performance of the year. Probably the best acting performance of the year. Other than Robert, This movie had good, but not great, other actors and comical value.

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Every minute of this 3 hour 20 minute film was worth it. This film is written and played so well by all the actors, and the make-up and visual effects used to form Benjamin Button's age was among the best of that field. This movie had so many emotional parts too, and it really shows about life and death and growing and aging and everything. Absolutely spectacular film

1. WALL-E

This is the only film this year that I can call a masterpiece of the modern art of film. I am a huge Pixar fan, and this has to be my favorite. This masterpiece just beautifully screams fables and stories about love and other human emotions, expressed in two robots in an apocalyptic world using an art used at its best: body language.

I love every minutes of this movie. I fell in love with the characters, human and robot, that can only be formed by the one, the only Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo). This movie deserves every Oscar in the book. This is a masterpiece of animation, and exceeded the emotional capabilities ever thought in animation into a living breathing experience. I highly recommend everyone seek this movie and watch it. And love it, your soul damn well needs it.