Nominees for the best movies of 2011
Each rating is by category and by the fact that only movies seen by Kal Kat or Marx Cards are rated. If we did not see them, they are not rated here.
Best Series Adaptation: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (nee. The Harry Potter series). WINNER HARRY POTTER
Best Novel Adaptation: Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows I and 2, Hugo WINNER HUGO
Best Picture: Hugo, Warrior, Captain America The First Avenger, Rango, 50/50 WINNER HUGO
Best Fantasy Picture: Thor, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, Hugo, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Muppets 2011,Real Steel WINNER THE MUPPETS
Best Action Picture: Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, Rise of the Planet of the Apes Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, Source Code, Real Steel WINNER CAPTAIN AMERICA THE FIRST AVENGER
Best Horror Picture: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2, Hobo with a Shotgun WINNER HARRY POTTER 7, PARTS I AND II
Best Drama Picture: 50/50, Warrior, Hugo WINNER WARRIOR
Best Comedy Picture: Hugo, Real Steel, 50/50/ Hobo with a Shotgun WINNER 50/50
Best Animated Picture: Rango, Kung Fu Panda 2, The Muppets 2011WINNER RANGO
Best Actor: Nick Nolte, Warrior WINNER NICK NOLTE
Supporting Actor: Seth Rogan, 50/50, Ben Kingsley, Hugo WINNER BEN KINGSLEY
Actress: Chloe Grace Moretz, Hugo, Natalie Portman, Thor WINNER CHLOE GRACE MORETZ
Worst of the Year:
Green Lantern, Transformers 3, Hangover II, Red State LOSER GREEN LANTERN
Nominations and awards to be 'mentioned' but not given to anyone really, on New Year's Eve live on the Kal Kat show. THE CLARA AWARDS ARE NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY EVEN BY THE MTV PEOPLE!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Review: 'Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol' is actually tight action thriller
'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol' PG 13
The team that brought the manic and not so hot third Mission Impossible, Bad Robot, team up with a competent action director, Brad Bird, to reboot the idea, and get back to the series roots from which this came, making it not just Tom Cruise Plays Spy, but a team flick, including Tom as the lead. That's what it should have been. When the Kremlin gets blasted apart during a botched mission to steal nuclear secrets, the recently escaped fugitive Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his new team, must clear their names, in a way like the A Team might do. Putting the team out of their element with enemies at every turn, ad really ticked off assassins and Russian secret agents after them, it's a fast paced thriller throughout. The glass building climbing scene is freaking crazy! Knew it was fake but it was filmed so nuts! Well there is one oddity, the creators don't know their geography. At one point in the film they are at this big building in India, the world's tallest one in Dubai, and the next they get on a plane to India, to Mumbai, which was Bombay, and they're surprised at Hunt telling them 'We're going to India'. They were just there! Saudi Arabia is also right next door. But okay.
Review by Adam Browne
The team that brought the manic and not so hot third Mission Impossible, Bad Robot, team up with a competent action director, Brad Bird, to reboot the idea, and get back to the series roots from which this came, making it not just Tom Cruise Plays Spy, but a team flick, including Tom as the lead. That's what it should have been. When the Kremlin gets blasted apart during a botched mission to steal nuclear secrets, the recently escaped fugitive Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his new team, must clear their names, in a way like the A Team might do. Putting the team out of their element with enemies at every turn, ad really ticked off assassins and Russian secret agents after them, it's a fast paced thriller throughout. The glass building climbing scene is freaking crazy! Knew it was fake but it was filmed so nuts! Well there is one oddity, the creators don't know their geography. At one point in the film they are at this big building in India, the world's tallest one in Dubai, and the next they get on a plane to India, to Mumbai, which was Bombay, and they're surprised at Hunt telling them 'We're going to India'. They were just there! Saudi Arabia is also right next door. But okay.
Review by Adam Browne
Review: 'Harold and Kumar 3' is sometimes a holiday treat
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas' R
For some reason, stoner comedies amuse sometimes. They're just the right king of nonsense after a hectic period where it's fun to just watch some total fools acting madly insane for 2 hours on film. The Harold and Kumar series enters into a third installment with what is probably a more solid movie than the second one, where they went to Guantanamo. This time around, the dippy Korean guy has become a mildly successful businessman and is married to a hottie, while his Indian slacker friend is again down on his luck, and the two meet by fate through a mysterious package, that causes both intense comic moments, including the accidental torching of the favorite family Christmas tree. Now since they pay off their stereotypical stoner personae, and their race differences, it is important to mention one is Korean, Harold, and the other Indian, Kumar, because it plahys into the parts where they encounter a dippy white friend and his baby, which does some horrible things that make the Baby's Day Out kid look like Macauley Culkin. They also mock the gay entertainer stereotype in a hilarious cabaret scene, followed by a naughty backstage scene, and they mock Russian gangsters and bad ass Mexicans, and of course, Santa Claus. It is probably not for everyone and most anyone with a mild sense of humor may enjoy, but don't take it too seriously.
Review by Adam Browne
For some reason, stoner comedies amuse sometimes. They're just the right king of nonsense after a hectic period where it's fun to just watch some total fools acting madly insane for 2 hours on film. The Harold and Kumar series enters into a third installment with what is probably a more solid movie than the second one, where they went to Guantanamo. This time around, the dippy Korean guy has become a mildly successful businessman and is married to a hottie, while his Indian slacker friend is again down on his luck, and the two meet by fate through a mysterious package, that causes both intense comic moments, including the accidental torching of the favorite family Christmas tree. Now since they pay off their stereotypical stoner personae, and their race differences, it is important to mention one is Korean, Harold, and the other Indian, Kumar, because it plahys into the parts where they encounter a dippy white friend and his baby, which does some horrible things that make the Baby's Day Out kid look like Macauley Culkin. They also mock the gay entertainer stereotype in a hilarious cabaret scene, followed by a naughty backstage scene, and they mock Russian gangsters and bad ass Mexicans, and of course, Santa Claus. It is probably not for everyone and most anyone with a mild sense of humor may enjoy, but don't take it too seriously.
Review by Adam Browne
Review: 'Hugo' is a clockwork fantasy for all
Hugo G
Martin Scorsese taps into the history of French film and the inner child in this excellent award winning fantasy that if it doesn't get the Oscar in 2011, the Academy is out of it, again. The story is based on the recent 'Invention of Hugo Cabret' picture book novel. Not sure how they got movie rights and did it so fast, and filmed it in 3D also. Reviewed the 2D version. The story has heart and emotion, good characters, and even Ben Kingsley is back in form, as a grumpy old toymaker or shop owner. Young Chloe Grace Moretz (from Kick Ass) should get an Oscar nod at least as Isabelle, and she seems to be one of the few main leads in the story to actually pull of a decent French accent (but maybe she is French). Scorsese again has trouble with accents, as he did in 'Gangs of New York'. It was a little distracting. But despite that, it was quite good. At least they didn't sound like they were from New York. Ha. The plot surrounds the son of a clockmaker who is given an automaton, like a mechanical robot, while living in the walls of this Parisian train station. He meets up with this girl and her grumpy toymaker godfather, and they discover that the old man had been a famous silent film pioneer long ago. The onrush of silent films is a little overlong but the story is great and the characters are expertly played. Did they have to show 'The man on the moon' four times? Really? Anyway. The rest of the stuff will appeal to film buffs more than kids, because it's about silent film. The kid stuff is there with enough action though to keep them attentive.
Review by Adam Browne
Martin Scorsese taps into the history of French film and the inner child in this excellent award winning fantasy that if it doesn't get the Oscar in 2011, the Academy is out of it, again. The story is based on the recent 'Invention of Hugo Cabret' picture book novel. Not sure how they got movie rights and did it so fast, and filmed it in 3D also. Reviewed the 2D version. The story has heart and emotion, good characters, and even Ben Kingsley is back in form, as a grumpy old toymaker or shop owner. Young Chloe Grace Moretz (from Kick Ass) should get an Oscar nod at least as Isabelle, and she seems to be one of the few main leads in the story to actually pull of a decent French accent (but maybe she is French). Scorsese again has trouble with accents, as he did in 'Gangs of New York'. It was a little distracting. But despite that, it was quite good. At least they didn't sound like they were from New York. Ha. The plot surrounds the son of a clockmaker who is given an automaton, like a mechanical robot, while living in the walls of this Parisian train station. He meets up with this girl and her grumpy toymaker godfather, and they discover that the old man had been a famous silent film pioneer long ago. The onrush of silent films is a little overlong but the story is great and the characters are expertly played. Did they have to show 'The man on the moon' four times? Really? Anyway. The rest of the stuff will appeal to film buffs more than kids, because it's about silent film. The kid stuff is there with enough action though to keep them attentive.
Review by Adam Browne
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