Thought we forgot. Didn't you?
Best Film (aka The Mighty Ducks award)
Director - Up (funny, sad, joyful, and depressing, all in one film)
Weatherman - Inglourious Basterds (I’m generally not a Tarantino fan and this had some long scenes, but in the end it was worth it. Looked great, good action, some good acting and the story came together at the end.)
Worst Film (aka the You Got Served award)
Director - Transformers 2 (kept everything wrong about Transformers and took out everything that went right)
Weatherman – Extract (a comedy that was really predictable. Any one of us could have written it.)
Best Actor (aka the Clint Eastwood/James Woods award)
Director - Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (always nonchalant yet somehow terrifying)
Weatherman – Woody Harrelson as Tallahassee in Zombieland (funny, badass, and caring all in one). Close second was Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds.
Worst Actor (aka the Brendan Fraser award)
Director - Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in Inglorious Basterds (part of the blame goes to Tarantino, but Brad Pitt was so over-the-top and caricatured that it was distracting)
Weatherman – Bradley Cooper as Phil Wenneck in The Hangover. (this one is tough because The Hangover was very good and is my best comedy, but Bradley Cooper just seemed douchey. Maybe that was supposed to be his character, and so then maybe he did a good job. But either way, he wasn’t as funny as the rest of the cast and he didn’t seem right as the leading dude in the movie.)
Best Actress (aka the Jaundis award)
Director - Zoe Saldana as Uhura in Star Trek & Neytiri in Avatar (she manages to be both a hot version of Uhura and a hot blue alien)
Weatherman – Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (she nailed the role and portrayed the real life Leigh Anne Tuohy accurately. Even the real Leigh Anne Tuohy said so in an interview.)
Worst Actress (aka the Queen Latifa award)
Director - Megan Fox as Mikaela Banes in Transformers 2 (She's tryna but she hasn't proven that she can act as anyone but a tryna jaun)
Weatherman – Jayma Mays as Amy in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (A kinda tryna, but wasn’t very good)
Most Overrated (aka the Ray Lewis award)
Director - Paranormal Activity (sure I was scared as I was watching it, but what I imagined was going to happen turned out to be scarier than what actually happened.)
Weatherman – Funny People (was about an hour too long. With the cast -- Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Jason Schwartzman, etc -- and director Judd Apatow, I expected a little more.)
Most Underrated (aka the Ethan Kilmer award)
Director - Moon (this film had only two actors: Sam Rockwell as the lone worker of a moon mining operation, and Kevin Spacey as the voice of his HAL-like robot. Good old fashioned sci-fi. And it was directed by David Bowie's son)
Weatherman – More Than a Game (LeBron James documentary) – Wasn’t released in a lot of theatres, but was close to being my film of the year. It follows LeBron and from like 12 years old and his first organized basketball team through high school. He played with the same four kids all the way through and it’s a story about all of them. Great raw footage from his high school days and earlier)
Best Comedy (aka the Superbad award)
Director - Up (Yes, the Hangover was funny but ultimately unfulfilling, Up was just as funny and I felt good afterwards)
Weatherman - The Hangover (Funny-ass movie. Quotable lines. Still ranks behind Old School and Superbad for me though.)
Best Action (aka the Rambo award)
Director - District 9 (good sci fi with bad-ass alien guns. And it was made for a low budget, at least compared to Hollywood special effects films)
Weatherman - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Pure action, Megan Fox, and nothing else, but the action was really good. I didn’t expect anything more.)
Best TV Series (aka Rome/Walker, Texas Ranger award)
Director - Community (I was tempted to put Lost since it's out of control, but Community flew under my radar. It's got good characters, good writing, and Chevy Chase is hilarious)
Weatherman - Mad Men on AMC. (Just couldn’t stop watching once I started) Runners-up: Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel, Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO had some classic episodes.
Special Awards
Director - Most Disappointing: Terminator 3
Most Silly Fun: GI JOE
Not Sure How I feel: Watchmen / Star Trek / Inglourious Basterds
Weatherman - Movies I liked but ones that could have been better and/or great: District 9 and Public Enemies.
Best looking movie: Where the Wild Things Are
I would also just like to mention that Elizabeth Banks is a MFTJ.
DISCUSS. Remember these are based only on the movies each of us has seen with our own eyes.
Happy New Year's everyone. I miss you all.
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Good stuff guys...that was hilarious. Best movie for me was Avatar. Transformers 2 was a disappointment but it doesn't qualify for the "You Got Served" award. It was entertaining with subtle racism, which is great. Also, You Got Served is a classic. I would give the worst film to Pink Panther 2 (saw it on the plane). Lastly, Best TV Series = Dexter. If you haven't seen it, then watch it! I promise you won't be disappointed.
I think that I have seen about 3 of the movies listed above. However there is no way that any of those films could have been better than Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. A true classic.
Stay in California where you belong Dave...
per, put Kevin Johnson and His Merry Players on Youtube.
AVATAR WASNT THAT GOOD!!!!
It was a mix between fern gully, the last samurai, and the war in Iraq.
skip
This is hilarious...
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/12/boy_gets_revenge_on_sister_via.php
nah Avatar is Pocahontas in 3D
I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin that some of our awards were identical to the ones handed out at the Golden Globes on Sunday, such as Up, Basterds, best actor, Mad Men, etc.
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