Saturday, January 18, 2025

The 2024 Clara Awards and any last minute entries

Best Picture of the Year

The Wild Robot

Theme, message, visuals, voice acting

Best Musical Adaptation of the Year

Wicked, Part 1

Part of a two part series, likely to nab Best Picture at the Oscars.

Best Science Fiction Drama of the Year

Dune, parts 1 and 2

Best Foreign Picture of the Year

Flow

Original and late coming story, but was out limited in November. Marx Cards recommends for Best Picture.

Visuals, theme, message, blender animated movie, Belgium

Best Fan Film of the Year

Identiteaze  

message, visuals, acting and gravitas, Jessie Earl, De Lancie.

Best Animated Sequel of the Year

Inside Out 2

Theme, message, update and continuation satisfies, Disney, Pixar

Best In House Fan Film or Original Picture of the Year

Starship Locations Cohnirri the Redemption

Part one of a three part series.  

Best In House Continuation of Series Fan Film

Starship Locations Legacy

A Star Trek themed fan series taking place after the events of Picard in the 2400s. 

Honorable Mention

Transformers One

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Posthumous

David Lynch

Movie maverick from the original Dune movie, the Mullholand Drive, to the cult classic Twin Peaks and beyond. Passed weeks ago.

Victoria Browne

Browne Productions CEO from 2009 to 2022. Passed in 2024.

Worst Movie or Series of the Year

Rebel Moon, Snyder's Star Wars 

Caveat being we did not see a lot of them.


Friday, January 10, 2025

Our Picks for Best of the Year Movies or TV show or our own stuff 2024

 "Dune" Parts 1 and 2, best completed work. 2024. 

"Wicked Part I" Marx Cards did not see it. Based on buzz, going to nab acting and visual Oscars. Maybe song. 

"Transformers One" Best origin story, but Marx Cards did not see. Poor marketing though. Made it look like a frat comedy. It isn't. It is akin to heroes journey classics, and friends turned enemies stories. 

"The Wild Robot" Although cartoon drama, best drama of the year, best message, will likely get a nod for animated film, original screenplay, concept, voice acting. 

(Oscar will probably completely ignore it and pick some dull January release that only aired in Poduck, AK New Year's Eve last year). 

"Inside Out 2" Best sequel, even if they cut out most of the implied gay stuff, and should not have. Allegedly. 

"Identiteaze" Marx did not see, but highly recommended, a Nebula original with a Star Trek alum in John DeLancie not playing Q, and Jesse "Gender" Ear's first directorial debut. The 45 minute Matrix style evil company cult story takes two gender fluid people, a man and woman, into their midst where it becomes like an autistic fever dream. (This is in a good way, and it doesn't chicken out with the gay). 

The best short film indie category, best picture, best original story, short film, or documentary short subject, all of the above. 

(Oscar will probably ignore it too). 

Worst Story of the Year, because we did not see the obvious ones like Megalopolis and Madame Web, but did see this, as it goes to "Rebel Moon", the two movie miniseries that proves not everyone can write a spoof of Star Wars, and Snyder shouldn't, ever again. 

(Razzies will be forthcoming for this turd). 

"Star Trek Lower Decks Season 5" Final season of the parody series most similar to our stuff. Nod for best animated TV show only because we don't see a lot of them lately. 

"Transformers Earth Spark, The Second and Final Season" They call it season 3, but it's season 2.5. It too seems like our stuff in some ways. 

"Star Trek Prodigy, Season 2" Saved to Netflix, the series ends with a new Voyager and a few surprises in a time bending story. A special nod.

Best of the In House Stuff We Did. 

"Transformers Legacy" Based on the popular Transformers MUSH and Lexicons stories, the sequel series picks up during the years following the Sentinels from last year, and rushes on ahead after a catastrophe destroy space time, and the legendary Primes must intervene. 

The four stories and most interestingly the final act that retcons it. Ha. 

"Starship Locations Legacy" Based on Star Trek and on Starship Locations spin off series, the sequel finally goes balls to the wall and has the new crew pay homage to Lower Decks and Prodigy, which left this year last, and has them face various shipping fiction stories. 

"The Illiop at Mad Planet" episode adapts the Silly Trek Adventure, 1988, as a new modern movie story and is moving and interesting, sort of an update taking place in 2024 or in 2407.  

"Starship Locations Cohnirri" Original spin off series based on Conhirri Space and and episode of Starship Locations, began just shy of Christmas 2024 and got on the list. They are doing two more movies. It's a trilogy based on the long and epic first book. 

We have done at least 8 feature length films in house in 2024 with the action figures.