Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 For Best Original Score, we have a great variety of nominations. What will win here? Antonio Sanchez (Birdman) Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (Gone Girl) Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel) Hans Zimmer (Interstellar) Mica Levi (Under The Skin) And the winner is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpp3uPZgq8 Zimmer's move to dramatic brrrmmms to more mysterious and alluring sounds of organs and other instruments really paid off. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Speaking of music, here are the nominees for Best Original Song: The Last Goodbye THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Everything Is Awesome THE LEGO MOVIE Glory SELMA And the Boffy goes too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsonS3zlG8 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Here are the nominees for Best Foreign Film. Get those subtitles on! Force Majeure Ida Two Days, One Night We Are The Best! Wild Tales The winner of the Boffy is... TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT All hail Cotillard in this powerful and moving drama. Not many people voted here, but it's a very deserving winner. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Lots of people hit the big time this year at our awards. Who shined the brightest?Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) Ellar Coltrane (Boyhood) Carrie Coon (Gone Girl) Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) Jorge Gutierrez (The Book of Life) And the Boffy goes to... I say, going from writing a shitty horror sequel to one of the most beloved films of the year must be an awesome transition. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Somebody post something, I feel awkward filling all these up alone! Have another tribute while you're at it. So this was fucking awesome. Like Dragon Tattoo, it had some pulp-y, schlocky stuff, but unlike that movie, this one for an hour or so is a straight-forward unraveling mystery thriller and then the twist comes and it gets crazy. Also unlike that movie, this one isn't a one-character show (well two if you count Martin who only really came out late in the movie) nor does it take itself particularly seriously which only help to make it more memorable where Dragon Tattoo was much less so outside of a couple big scenes. So, the twist. I kind of guessed the gist of it from the fact that the actress with the role of "missing woman" was getting rave reviews and the knowledge that there was a game-changing twist midway through, but I never foresaw how well-executed it'd be. Pike as we all know nails it, and the reveal is accompanied by fucking stellar direction and music from Reznor/Ross (who've done their best work here). All of a sudden every bit of irony is played up for maximum comical effect and the movie becomes an outright satire and it's amazing. It is, however, a pretty dire tonal shift from the grim and more grounded thriller we'd just spent an hour or so investing in, and while that's not an issue in and of itself, the contrast makes the nuttiness of the plot a bit more noticeable than it would be in a movie that was so pulpy from the outset. And then we have the ending. The murder/staged rape was the most ridiculous thing in the whole movie and I think I have more an issue with it than the ending itself. I mean, it's not necessarily bad but it's one of those moments where you have to accept that this isn't an elite drama and instead an crazy, dark, fun, thriller--which can be disappointing when you're dealing with a guy as talented as Fincher, and in that respect it's okay to wish he'd choose to direct different material. It's certainly more Seven than Zodiac. All the performances are perfect. Affleck, Pike, Coon, Perry, Harris. Affleck nailed it in a way I haven't seen him do so before, Pike was a revelation, Coon was a surprise, and Perry and Harris were great but it wasn't really surprising because Fincher's weird cast choices always are. Probably my favorite movie of the year thus far, though I've seen pretty little so take that with a grain of salt. Ranking it among Fincher is harder, in part because ranking his movies is hard enough when you haven't just seen one. But, alas, I'll try. -Seth Rollins Edited February 16, 2015 by Spaghetti 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks, love. Moving on to the category that had Blankments clenching his teeth this whole time: Big Hero 6 The Book of Life How To Train Your Dragon 2 The LEGO Movie The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The best animated film of 2014 is... Rest easy now, Blankments, your peace has arrived. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Speaking of music, here are the nominees for Best Original Song: The Last Goodbye THE HOBBIT: BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Everything Is Awesome THE LEGO MOVIE Glory SELMA And the Boffy goes too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsonS3zlG8 I hate you people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) The nominees for Best Comedy are... 22 Jump Street The Grand Budapest Hotel Inherent Vice Neighbors Top Five And the Boffy goes to... Wes Anderson's second win in the category. Edited February 16, 2015 by Spaghetti 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 The Best Horror Movie nomines are, oh fuck it, you all know The Babadook won. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I voted for the babadook but I wish there was a better movie there I could've voted for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 It was a weak year for horror. Documentaries, on the other hand.... Citizenfour Jodorowsky's Dune Life Itself The best documentary of 2014 is... A fascinating look into one of the bravest individuals of the decade thus far, highlighting the need for protection of information and indicting the overreach of the NSA. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Thanks, love. Moving on to the category that had Blankments clenching his teeth this whole time: Big Hero 6 The Book of Life How To Train Your Dragon 2 The LEGO Movie The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The best animated film of 2014 is... Rest easy now, Blankments, your peace has arrived. I continue to hate. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 real special film. I just saw The Overnighters last night and if people saw that it could've taken Life Itself's spot we'd have 3 of the best movies of the year in that category. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I continue to hate. Go ahead. Boxtrolls is mediocre and 6/dragon are so braindead I would rather show my children an autopsy video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Ladies and gentlemen, Tribute #6: If one goes to IMBD and looks up Ironman, they may be shocked to discover the release date was in 2008. That’s only 6 and-a-bit years ago, yet it feels like Marvel Studios has dominated the cinema landscapes for decades. As each film seems to hit crazy levels of success, some audiences and cynics have been waiting for their first major misstep. When would Marvel release their Superman 4, Spiderman 3, Batman and Robin or X3: The Last Stand. When Guardians of the Galaxy was announced, it was almost as if Marvel had just decided to get the bomb over and done with on purpose by creating some sort of Avengers-Lite, but set in space and starring a tree and a rat. It had failure written all over it (especially once it became clear that they had even bothered to cast a real actor for one of the major roles). Then the trailer hit and it turned out to be pretty funny and suddenly there was a chance Marvel may have a modest hit on their hands. Then the film was released and the whole world went nuts for raccoons, trees, wrestlers, sexy hulk lookalikes and wrestlers that think their actors. How did this happen? Well the main reason was because the film was awesome. It was that mixture of action, comedy and well thought out set pieces that set the great blockbusters aside from the mediocre. The filmmakers were able to introduce, evolve and explain 5 new superheroes that 99.99% of people had no idea about while avoiding getting everything bogged down in ‘origin story exposition marathonitis’. Take Starlord as one example: We go from that opening scene of the mother dying, straight to the awesome credit sequence as grown adult. In a worse film, there could have been 15 minutes of unneeded scenes featuring 11 year old Starlord crying over mummy between those two scenes. The we have the characters. All 5 Guardians are amazingly cast and it’s a really good thing too as at least 4 of them had the potential to be near-Jar Jar Binx level, film-destroyingly bad. A Cgi-wise-cracking raccoon? A tree with only repeated line? A virtual nobody who thinks he’s Hans Solo in the lead and flipping Batista as comic relief? Imagine how badly that could have gone wrong but yet it didn’t. Rocket turned out to be one of the best characters in the Marvel Universe, “We are Groot” somehow had as much emotional impact as any line in the Marvel Universe, Chris Pratt turned out to actually be Hans Solo in disguise and Batista’s comic timing is actually stunningly good. This film is proof that if you build a great concept and story, the audience will come (so long as your name is Marvel and not Edge of Living, Dying Kill.) There may not be any real-life historical heroes, catching smallpox while ending slavery and being played by Daniel Day Lewis, but for its genre it really is nigh-flawless and just an immense piece of fun. And when it comes down to it, there are maybe two main reasons to see a film: To learn something or feel deep emotions over a difficult or life-changing story, or to just be entertained by the pretty pictures. When you feeling like falling into that latter camp, there are few better places to go than here. -Chasmmi 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 Now we're getting to the biggies. The nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay are... Gillian Flynn GONE GIRL James Gunn and Nicole Perlman GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Paul Thomas Anderson INHERENT VICE Kelly Masterson and Bong Joon-Ho SNOWPIERCER Damien Chazelle WHIPLASH And the winner is.... Another category where the winner wasn't nominated for an Oscar. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadAtGender Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Go ahead. Boxtrolls is mediocre and 6/dragon are so braindead I would rather show my children an autopsy video. None of those were my choice, but okay. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolioD1 Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 None of those were my choice, but okay. just saying. if it's at least the second best in the category (which it is, don't bother telling me you disagree, i don't care) then hating is pretty dumb. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezen Baklattan Posted February 16, 2015 Author Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Going off of that, the nominees for Best Original Screenplay are... Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo BIRDMANRichard Linklater BOYHOOD Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL Phil Lord and Christopher Miller THE LEGO MOVIE Dan Gilroy NIGHTCRAWLER And the Boffy goes to... http://d97a3ad6c1b09e180027-5c35be6f174b10f62347680d094e609a.r46.cf2.rackcdn.com/film_scripts/FSP3823_BiRDMAN_MINI_SCRIPT_BOOK_C5.pdf Edited February 16, 2015 by Spaghetti 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...