In 2009, we spent so much time putting together our retrospective of the last decade (click here for our "Best of the 2000s" series) that we almost forgot about all the memorable things that happened this year. Well, 2010 ain't here yet, so we're spending the last week looking back at all our favorite stuff, including albums, movies, girls, video games, sports moments, books, style trends, and websites.
By now, we figured the recession would have d-bag directors and their sniffling starlets reeling, eating butter sandwiches on the unemployment line. Alas, in 2009, Hollywood made more than $10 billion at North American box offices, so they're still living it up, distracting us from our effed up reality with their professional endeavors and personal fuckery. Fortunately, many of the movies that came out this year were legitimately worth lightening our pockets to fatten theirs (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, we are NOT looking at you). As the year comes to a close, Complex revisits the reel to reel (and keeps it real) with our top 25 movies of 2009...
#25:Notorious
DIRECTOR: George Tillman Jr.
STARS: Jamal Woolard, Derek Luke, Angela Bassett, Marc John Jefferies, Naturi Naughton, Anthony Mackie
PLOT: The story of legendary Brooklyn rapper Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace (Woolard), from his childhood to his Life After Death.
THE COMPLEX CO-SIGN: As the rapper Gravy, Woolard can get the meatloaf, but as an actor portraying Biggie, he proves that he really should quit his day job (way less people get shot in the ass on movie sets—with bullets, at least). We can't co-sign the head-scratching decisions to cast Jefferies as Lil' Cease and Mackie as Tupac, but Luke nails the Puffy dance, and we can forgive oft-naked Naughton for having considerably more, um, talent up top than pre-surgery Lil' Kim. Suspension of disbelief, people!
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• Complex's Best of 2009: The Top 25 Albums
• Complex's Top 100 Movies of the Decade!
