New Years Eve. This is it. We've had one late comer. It's not on the list. It's called American Hustle. Since it was just okay, it's not on the list.
And now, the winners of the Clara Awards (since these went live in 2010)...
Best Action Picture of the Year
Star Trek Into Darkness
Reasons: Thor 2 and Iron Man 3 were cool but not the best, and The Hobbit 2 has long stretches of nothing happening. The movie does hit the marks and is a fine action ride, even though it is not pure Star Trek.
Best Fantasy Picture of the Year
The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug
Reasons: The other fantasy pictures like Oblivion and Elysium weren't all that good. Hobbit is a world. It's like an experience.
Best Horror Picture of the Year
The Conjuring
Reasons: The others weren't watched but since Marx liked it, it counts.
Best Picture of the Year
Captain Phillips
Reasons: The Butler wasn't the best, and 12 years a Slave was not seen.
Best Drama of the Year
Gravity
Reason: It was crowd pleasing, intense, interesting and kept the attention of the audience, and the acting was good (even for Clooney and Bullock) and the directing was good. It will likely get an Oscar for something.
Best Comedy of the Year
Jackass: Bad Grandpa
Reasons: An audience that actually really, really laughed, and the two movies about the end of the world were brilliant and at times cleverly shocking, especially At World's End, they were not the best.
Best Animated Movie of the Year
Frozen
Reasons: Epic was good but the Croods was not, and Planes was a vanity piece, and really since this is Disney, why not? The trouble might lie in that it doesn't really strike every chord right and at times is slow and mean spirited. It's just better than the other choices.
Dishonorable Mention
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Reason: The movie completely misses the point. Mitty has to have fantasies the whole time because he never leaves the city to go on aventures! If he really goes then it's stupid. He's not just nuts.
Worst Comedy of the Year
Movie 43
Reasons: Too many to count, but mostly it's just not funny, at all, and tries so hard to be. It's a manic badly written mess miscasting actors that are an embarrassment.
Worst Fantasy of the Year
After Earth
Reasons: M Night Shlayaman, Will Smith and his son. Nepotism gone wrong on a planet for 2 hours. Many more. Olibivon was close for being nothing more than another vanity piece for Tom Cruise. With enhancements, he doesn't look bad for 50.
We don't have a worst horror movies or worst drama. Pick any self centered thriller movie sequel this year for horror, or any self centered and pretentious drama.
We don't have a best director, actor, actress or that kind of stuff.
Dumbest Premise of the Year
Movie 43
Reasons: Sketch comedy is best left to the likes of SNL grads who actually kind of can do that, Happy Gilmore, Vacation, or to the old school guys who actually made stuff like Kentucky Fried Movie and Airplane.
Pity Party
Gravity isn't going to get best picture come Oscar time next February, but it will likely get technical awards.
Big Dumb Robot Movie of the Year
Pacific Rim
Reasons: Monsters versus giant robot battle suit mechs! Why not give it an award for something, because it is a fun movie and completely proves a Robotech movie would work if this guy directed it. The movie is fun and entertaining. Leave your logical mind at the door.
Vanity Piece of the Year
One Direction This is Us
Reasons: It likely beats our Justin Bieber 2 Believe, for sheer popcorn star action, and it proves the adage that even if you get second place on X Factor you can be a star. It also helps to know the old guy that runs the thing, and to make your sloagan playing to the premise you are the next Beatles. Uhm, no, but so what? This is a true vanity piece, tying into the mosic video that goes with the theme. (They are not even close to being the Beatles, but we'll give them that they're InSync from Britain).
Also that title is bad grammar. You cannot have a singular and a plural descriptor. It is either These are Us, or This is Me.
Scenery Chewing Fantasy of the Year
Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire
Reason: The actors in this love their work and chew the screen time to a pulp. The story is demented but fun. It's even more like Battle Royale. There I said it. But in that movie it was a horror film. This is more of a dystopian thriller/
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