The 3rd Annual BOFFY Ceremony - The Grand Budapest Hotel Dominates!

[Ezen Baklattan]

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.

[Ezen Baklattan]

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

[Ezen Baklattan]

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.

[Ezen Baklattan]

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.

[Ezen Baklattan]

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

[CoolioD1]

[Ezen Baklattan]

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.

[BadAtGender]

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.

[Ezen Baklattan]

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

[Ezen Baklattan]

The Best Horror Movie nomines are, oh fuck it, you all know The Babadook won.

 

[CoolioD1]

I voted for the babadook but I wish there was a better movie there I could've voted for.

[Ezen Baklattan]

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.

[BadAtGender]

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.

[CoolioD1]

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.

[CoolioD1]

I continue to hate.

Go ahead. Boxtrolls is mediocre and 6/dragon are so braindead I would rather show my children an autopsy video.

[Ezen Baklattan]

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

[Ezen Baklattan]

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.

[BadAtGender]

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.

[CoolioD1]

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.

[Ezen Baklattan]

Going off of that, the nominees for Best Original Screenplay are...
 
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, and Armando Bo
BIRDMAN

Richard 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