The Panda

I was planning on doing a top 25 of the half-decade as well, but probably not until mid-January or so.

Just an FYI I am doing my worst list on the 30th and my best list on the 31st, will do both entirely in one day (I usually only do my top 10, idk if I will go up to 15 or 25 for both, but no higher than 25. Most likely it'll be my top 10 and 5 honorable mentions on each, that way it remains short, sweet, and all of the movies on both lists are either resemblances of what I found to be the highest and lowest quality of the year and no mediocre/merely decent films wind up on either.) I've always done my lists on those two days (on previous forums before I was here) and would like to keep doing so.

I just want to make sure I know what category we would vote him in before we do a FYC. I would certainly put him in my Best Supporting list if we considered him supporting, but im not sure if I would nominate him in lead or not.

Also, are we going to be counting Andy Serkis as Lead or Supporting? Critics Circles have been nominating him for supporting, although that really seems wrong.

A's Birdman: Or The Unexpected Nature of Ignorance Boyhood Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fury Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Guardians of the Galaxy Interstellar The LEGO Movie Snowpiercer The Theory of Everything X-Men: Days of Future Past B's 22 Jump Street Bad Words Bears Begin Again Big Hero 6 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Chef Edge of Tomorrow The Fault in Our Stars The Giver Godzilla How to Train Your Dragon 2 Neighbors Next Goal Wins Noah Only Lovers Left Alive St Vincent C's About Last Night That Awkward Moment Blended Divergent Dracula Untold God's Not Dead The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Life Itself Locke The Monument's Men A Most Wanted Man Muppets: Most Wanted Oculus Veronica Mars D's 300: Rise of An Empire Alexander and the No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Annabelle Dumb and Dumber To The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Jersey Boys Maleficent A Million Ways to Die in the West Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop Transcendence F's Deliver Us From Evil Endless Love I, Frankenstein The Nut Job Ouija Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Trans4mers: Age of Extinction Winter's Tale Z's America: Imagine a World Without Her

Moore is not locked to sweep just like unbroken was not locked to win (or even be nominated). She is no Cate Blanchett and Still Alice is no Blue Jasmine. Best actress is currently up in the air.

That's the reason you don't negotiate with terrorists. Sony just made a bad situation worse by canceling it, they gave the hackers authenticity to make demands.

If they simply move this to January or February and go with the headlines, "The Film North Korea Didn't Want You to See," then this will end up huge.

I nearly fell asleep when the battles started, I was tired and it was just plain boring. I woke myself up pretty quickly though. There's just no joy in these last two hobbit movies. The first one was the closest to how these movies actually should be and that was flawed by having about an hour and half's worth of material in a 3 hour movie. The movies gradually get worse in my opinion (although I think DoS is stupider than Five Armies, I saw it at midnight tired and it managed to keep me awake). AUJ could have been a strong movie if all the fluff had been cut out (plus Azog is unneeded), it was the only one of the three that actually managed to capture the brisk tone and spirit of the novel. The other two tried to be LOTR films yet failed on every level. AUJ B- DOS D+ Battle of Five Armies D

I don't know, I kind of would have liked it to have ended at hero but I really like that last bit as it shows him finally stepping out as his own person.

It's not the same disney that released little mermaid anymore, they are one of the biggest financial giants around. Sony isn't the only gaming studio, yet you really never here of Microsoft getting hacked in such a way. Sony is a weak studio that was in financial trouble, they were the most vulnerable of the major studios to a hack.

What if this canceling and hack is all just a PR stunt staged by Sony to help gain notice to their movie.

But then they still didn't hack Disney to this extent, plus in that situation I think Disney is powerful enough to pretty much force those studios to release their movie.

I just don't think anyone could really take down Disney at this moment, their economic empire is to strong. These hackers destroying Sony is something that could never happen to Disney (as they are right now), at the very least no where near to that extent.

That's another part of my point. Even if the hackers managed to hack disney (a much harder task than Sony) they wouldn't have lasted long. Disney is dangerous and has much more power than people like to think.

Sony has been hacked by much less before, I'm not surprised that they were so vulnerable. Even if Disney was hacked it would never have been to this scale because they've never had the security problems Sony seems to have. Sony has been in a rough spot financially as well, less money is going to end up in less company security because there's less money and resources to go into it. Sony wasn't just unlucky, if it had been any of those other three studios you'd still see the Interview being released this Christmas.

Disney could take over the US government if that's what they wanted to do.

Had it been Warner, Fox, or Disney behind the movie the hackers would have failed though, Sony is just a weak studio. I am disappointed in them cutting the movie though, the damage is done and i just want to see if it was really worth the hassle. I am also disappointed because pulling the movie means the hackers win.

Julianne Moore is most definitely not locked, best actress awards have been all over the place. Many awarded Cotillard, quite a few have been given to Pike, and Moore has been struggling to win much.

I agree we need a best original score award and best original song. Plus a best visual effects award.

Oh yeah, why did you remove the Best Comedy category? That's a really good category.

In the Hobbit book one of the dwarfs comes and explains everything that happened after he left (who is the new king, etc.), the resolution to the movie felt fairly sloppy in my opinion.

A's Birdman: Or The Unexpected Nature of Ignorance Boyhood Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fury Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Guardians of the Galaxy Interstellar The LEGO Movie Snowpiercer The Theory of Everything X-Men: Days of Future Past B's 22 Jump Street Bad Words Bears Begin Again Big Hero 6 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Chef Edge of Tomorrow The Fault in Our Stars The Giver Godzilla How to Train Your Dragon 2 Neighbors Next Goal Wins Noah Only Lovers Left Alive St Vincent C's About Last Night That Awkward Moment Blended Divergent Dracula Untold God's Not Dead The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Life Itself The Monument's Men A Most Wanted Man Muppets: Most Wanted Oculus Veronica Mars D's 300: Rise of An Empire Alexander and the No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Annabelle Dumb and Dumber To The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Jersey Boys Maleficent A Million Ways to Die in the West Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop Transcendence F's Deliver Us From Evil Endless Love I, Frankenstein The Nut Job Ouija Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Trans4mers: Age of Extinction Winter's Tale Z's America: Imagine a World Without Her

I saw it and found it very monotonous and very weirdly paced. The movie really doesn't feel like a movie, it felt like I came into one halfway and so the movie is only a climax, there is no real build up and the resolution at the end feels strangely rushed, sudden, and undeserved. The acting was honestly some of the weakest of the trilogy, there were also many parts in the movie where I groaned and rolled my eyes over how stupid something was (and it would happen just after a "serious moment"). The movie felt like it was trying to be an amusement park ride of non-stop eye candy and that just made it incredibly boring. D On a side note this was one of the worst theater experiences I have had this year. There was a very large and evident stain in the middle of our screen, the sound was not on until halfway through the commercials so I was hearing Kelly Clarkson's extremely annoying cover of a Few of my Favorite Things over the trailers, there were a group of guys who literally would never shut up and made very loud comments to the entire theater throughout the movie when anything happened, they did not turn the lights down for a good way through the movie, there was a faint buzzing sound from the far left the entire time, and the popcorn was burnt. I can't hold any of that against the movie though, but that sure didn't help to make a boring movie a worthwhile experience.

As soon as I see Whiplash I will feel good enough to send in my nominees.