The Clara Awards come in on Christmas Day with some familiar ranting and very little drama, at least in movies.
The worst is first. It seems that even though we haven't seen "After Earth", it's a shoe in for worst science fiction film of the year. It actually can't be called a film really, more like a Smith vanity piece.
The most horrid comedy of the year, and possibly movie also, is "Movie 43", a train wreck of a sketch movie that makes "Kentucky Fried Movie" look like "Gone with the Wind". It is truly, truly awe inspiring bad.
The best comedy of the year is a toss up between "Bad Grandpa" and "Anchorman 2".
A slew of action pictures are making the best category busy, and very few other movies have even been seen this year.
We mention the two White House disaster movies, "White House Down" and "Olympus has Fallen", which were not viewed.
We also mention three end of days type movies, most notably "World's End" and "This Is The End". Both were decent comedies but lacked jokes often, and came off as just okay in the end.
Although we did not see "Jobs" we find this movie odd for deliberately excluding Wozniak, who did most of the work at Apple.
Despite the bad press about Orson Card, "Ender's Game", was one of several just okay science fiction flicks, from "Oblivion" to "Elysium".
Action adventure had a few dives, like "A Good Day To Die Hard" and "GI Joe Retaliation" and "Jack the Giant Slayer". And although "Man of Steel" was better than "Superman Returns", it was still not "Superman".
The best action of the year appears to be a toss up between "The Hobbt 2", "Star Trek Into Darkness", "Iron Man 3" and "Thor 2". The Star Trek movie was not really Trek, and the Hobbit movie was a little better than last time, but the Mandarin was deliberately not right in the Iron Man movie.
"Hunger Games Catching Fire" will get a mention.
Although we didn't both see the horror movies, "The Conjuring", gets high marks. "Mama" was also good.
Drama will probably be handed to "12 Years a Slave" or "The Butler" but they were not reviewed. "Captain Phillips" and "Gravity" will chase the award for best drama, and for action in some sense.
Best director, actors, actresses, story, etc, might actually be hard to pick this year, due to most of the films nominated being just action fantasy films.
Animated movies include "Epic", "Frozen" and "The Croods" and "Escpae from Panet Earth" but really it's been a slow year, so Frozen is a shoe in to win.
Worst of this category are "Planes", "Turbo" and "Monster's University" with a special smell to them because they're just bad ideas.
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