Top Ten Shots of the Year

Kris Tapley’s Top Ten Shots of the Year has launched with the first five:

10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (who cares shot)
09. The Lovely Bones (field shot)
08. Where the Wild Things Are (beach shot)
07. Up in the Air (Anna Kendrick on the people mover)
06. The Road (a lonely Viggo)

This is a great feature Kris does every year. Tomorrow he’ll put in the top five.

I won’t order mine but I’ll throw out a few memorable shots that stuck with me this year, after the cut.

I guess these may be “moments” rather than shots, but oh well.

Meryl Streep towering over her cooking companions in Julie & Julia
The downing of Home Tree in Avatar – breathtaking.
The shot of Jake wheeling himself down the hallway in Avatar.
Jeremy Renner pulling up the string holding a circle of bombs in The Hurt Locker
The look on Viggo’s face when he comforts his son in The Road (it still kills me)
A nude Colin Firth floating in water in A Single Man
Colin Firth running nude into the ocean in A Single Man
Colin Firth nude. Okay, stopping now. Sorry, sorry.
Shosanna running down the field at the beginning of Inglourious Basterds
Jeremy Renner gazing at the various boxes of cereal in The Hurt Locker
Jake and Neytiri running over trees full of light in Avatar
The little prawn worrying after his father in District 9
The spaceship hanging in the air in District 9
The shot of the prisoners waiting to be freed in Avatar
Shosanna putting on the red lipstick in Inglourious Basterds
Shosanna’s face on the big screen in Inglourious Basterds
The tanning woman in A Serious Man
Jeremy Renner walking through the tear gas bomb he just set off.
Jeremy Renner walking right back into the war zone at the end of The Hurt Locker