Bob and Justin's Mad Movie Blog

My name is Bob. My friend Justin and I are aspiring filmmakers and we have pretty similar tastes in movies. This will include our take on what's going on in film and television today as well as updating you on the status of our own work.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Bob Awards

Well the top 20 list...yeah, that would take forever and I'd probably change my mind about some of them the instant I posted it. So no top 20. But who else has an award to recognize achievement in eyebrow acting?
And the winners are...

Art Direction

The Science of Sleep



Cinematography

Children of Men



Visual Effects

Pan's Labyrinth



Costume Design

Marie Antoinette



Film Editing

Conversations With Other Women



Sound

Children of Men



Score

The Illusionist- Philip Glass



Animated Film

Hoodwinked



Makeup

Pan's Labyrinth



Song

Idlewild- Outkast: "PJ and Rooster"



Sup. Actor

Rob Brydon- Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story



Sup. Actress

Meryl Streep- The Devil Wears Prada



Actor

(tie)

Sacha Baron Cohen- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

and

Peter O'Toole- Venus



Actress

Ellen Page- Hard Candy



Adapted Screenplay

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story- Frank Cotrell Boyce (credited as Martin Hardy)



Original Screenplay

Snow Cake- Angela Pell



Director

(tie)

Alfonso Cuaron- Children of Men

and

Paul Greengrass- United 93



Picture

United 93



And now the fun stuff…



Funniest Movie: OSS 117 (Do what you have to but get your hands on a copy of this movie!)



Funniest Performance: Sacha Baron Cohen- Borat



Peter Gallagher Award For Special Achievement in Eyebrow Acting: Jean Dujardin- OSS 117



Most Entertaining Movie- Casino Royale



"XXX" Award For Most Awesomely Over the Top Movie- Crank



"Unforgiven" Award For Movie Most Immersed in Badassery: (tie)- "Casino Royale" and "Crank"



Clint Eastwood Award For Most Badass Performance: Daniel Craig- Casino Royale



Best Villain: Meryl Streep- The Devil Wears Prada



Character I Most Wanted To Punch in the Face: Eno- Art School Confidential (There's one in every class.)



Best Child Performances: (Male) Jaden Smith- The Pursuit of Happyness

(Female) Abigail Breslin- Little Miss Sunshine



Self-Proclaimed Cult Movie That Doesn't Deserve One: Snakes on a Plane (Still have to love the personalized Sam Jackson phone messages.)



Most Disappointing Movie: Miami Vice



Most Pleasant Surprise: The Pursuit of Happyness



Best Ensemble Cast: (tie) Little Miss Sunshine; Snow Cake



Actor of the Year: Aaron Eckhart for bringing his awesomeness to "Thank You For Smoking," "Conversations with Other Women," and being the best part of "The Black Dahlia."



"Withnail and I" Award For Best On-Screen Friendship- Peter O'Toole and Leslie Philips in "Venus."



Best Cameo- Adam Brody in "Thank You For Smoking" (Seth Cohen lives!)



Funniest Scene- Borat goes to dinner. ("Where you want I put this?")



Best Fight Scene- Borat vs. Azamat (Ken Davitian)



Most Quotable Lines: An unimpressed Rob Brydon watches dailies of war scenes declaring, "I am leading literally tens of men."- Tristram Shandy.

"Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater because then all you get is a wet, critically injured baby."- For Your Consideration.



Good Movie Inexplicably Mistreated By Its Studio: Idiocracy (What was Fox worried about?)



Most Underrated Movie: Art School Confidential (Any movie that mercilessly shreds pretentious college students is pure gold… but maybe that's why most critics and college students hated it.)



Most Underseen Major Release: Stranger Than Fiction (Will Ferrell fans stayed away because it wasn't silly enough. Film buffs stayed away because it starred Will Ferrell. Both missed out on his best performance and a very smart and funny film.)



Best Crowd Pleaser (which incidentally deserved a much bigger crowd): The World's Fastest Indian



Most Overrated By Critics: Monster House



Most Overrated By Audiences: Apocalypto (The more I think about this movie the more I hate it.)



Most Overrated By Awards Organizations: Babel (Yeah it's good, but it's not thaaaat good.)



Best Movie With An Unfortunate Title: Wah-Wah (Richard E. Grant's first time as writer-director was an incredibly heart felt story of a young man getting through a difficult childhood.)



Best Movie Set in Africa: Wah-Wah (Finally a movie set in Africa that doesn't have the condescending Hollywood/Bono touch. Am I honestly the only one who's sick of the Hollywood/Bono crowd acting like nobody knew there were problems in Africa before they started talking about it?)



Best Family Film: Hoodwinked



Worst FF: Monster House (Less than ten minutes in the frightened child behind me justifiably says, "Mommy, I wanna go home.")



Worst Movie That I Actually Subjected Myself To: Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector



Probably the Actual Worst Movie: Little Man (I just couldn't.)



Worst Trailer: Little Man



Worst Actor: Sean Penn- All the King's Men



Most Egotistical Bit of Casting: M. Night Shyamalan casting himself as a man writing a book that will save the world in "Lady in the Water."



Best Action Sequence: "Crank"… the whole movie.



Most Boring Action Sequence: The car chase in "The Da Vinci Code"



Don't Worry, it's not your fault these movies sucked: Ian McKellen- The Da Vinci Code; Paul Giamatti- Lady in the Water; Hugh Grant- American Dreamz



Most Miscast: Hilary Swank- The Black Dahlia (Did anyone at all really think that she looked even remotely like Mia Kirshner?)



Worst Looking Movies- "Miami Vice" and "Apocalypto." Hey, Michael Mann and Mel Gibson: You guys are great directors whose movies look amazing…but only when you shoot them on FILM.



Best Magician Movie: "The Prestige" just slightly over "The Illusionist." "Scoop" was pretty good too.



"Hoosiers" Award For Inspirational Film That Is Genuinely Inspirational: (tie) The World's Fastest Indian; The Pursuit of Happyness



Names You Need To Remember: (Male) Max Minghella- Art School Confidential; James McAvoy- The Last King of Scotland (I don't care what anyone says, that movie belongs to him.)

(Female) Ellen Page- Hard Candy



Who Knew He Was This Good: Ben Affleck- Hollywoodland



Movies I wish I could have made it to: The Good German; The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (it's supposedly on DVD but danged if I can find it); Half Nelson; 49 Up; 13 Tzameti



Best Movie-Going Experience of 2006: Watching a 35mm British Technicolor print of the original cut of "Star Wars"… in a man's house!


Best Ending: The Prestige

1 Comments:

At Sun Feb 25, 05:28:00 PM PST, Blogger Mike the Marine said...

The Prestige? THE PRESTIGE? I liked it right up UNTIL the ending! It was a good "whodunit" (or HOWdunit) kinda movie until it tripped over itself and became a sci-fi flick. The Illusionist was much better. THE PRESTIGE!? C'mon dude... Crank had a WAY better ending.

Oh, by the way, "The Protector" has the best actiom sequence, PERIOD. FOUR - count 'em - FOUR minutes of uncut, unedited, fight scene. Single camera, single take. The most badass cinematography job EV.ER.

 

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