Year End Polls Nominations

[Philaflava]

Mods get at me if you are game to create the polls in the Poll Forum.

This was last year to give you an idea.

Best TV Comedy: Eastbound & Down
Best TV Drama: Breaking Bad
Best New TV Drama: House of Cards
Best New TV Comedy: Orange Is the New Black
Best TV/Talk Show: Real Time with Bill Maher
Best Movie 2013 (Action): Fast & Furious 6
Best Movie 2013 (Drama): Django Unchained
Best Movie 2013 (Franchise): The Hunger Games
Best Movie 2013: Foreign/Documentary/WTF/Indie: Only God Forgives
Best Comedy 2013: This Is The End
Best Horror 2013: Maniac
The Faggot-ass Carl Award aka Most Annoying TV Character: Carl Grimes (Walking Dead)
Paul Walker Memorial (Favorite Film): Running Scared
The Dirt Dirt Award (Shittiest CYE Poster): Mindbender Futurama

[Tommy Bunz]

The biggest question is, Carl has barely even been in the Walking Dead this season? Can he hold his faggot crown even when he's not even there to defend it?
I think yes.

[Tommy Bunz]

Also, try to save any serious discussion for the year end forum. We're mostly looking for lists of nominations.

Nominations for the Carl award are especially appreciated, since I don't watch every popular show.

[Philaflava]

doesnt have to be the same awards

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Movies:

The Raid 2
Under The Skin
The Lego Movie
Maps To The Stars
The Rover
Nightcrawler

Documentaries:

Jordorowsky's Dune
Life Itself

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Movies: Inside LLewyn Davis (tech. 2013, but wasn't released until Dec), Blue Ruin, Under the Skin, Night Moves

[ackbar]

TV Drama:
- Hannibal
- True Detective

TV Comedy:
- @midnight
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- The Eric Andre Show
- Nathan For You
- Parks & Recreation
- Silicon Valley

[zombie]

Anybody heard of Peak Blinders

[drizzle]

Movies: + Grand Budapest
+ GOTG

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Some suggestions:

New drama: Gomorrah

Foreign/Indie: Enemy, The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, Why Don't You Play In Hell?, Killers, Wolf, Like Father Like Son, Nymphomaniac + Blue Ruin, Rover, Under the Skin

Some of those could be put in the Drama poll. The Raid 2 in the Action poll for sure.

Horror: Dead Snow 2, The Babadook, In Darkness We Fall, Starry Eyes, The Dead 2, Among the Living, Cheap Thrills(?), Wolf Creek 2 - there's a few more candidates I haven't seen yet but not a lot of obvs choices.

[Tommy Bunz]

Good. Always need input for the horror poll. I had Cheap Thrills in the comedy column, haven't watched it yet though. You think it belongs in the horror category?
The Purge: Anarchy and The Sacrament to round out the poll?

[drizzle]

Purge might be a better fit for action maybe idk

[Comedy Quaddafi]

Purge is more of an actionfilm maybe but IDK if that category is full (EDIT: Agree w/ drizzle then). Cheap Thrills is prob better placed in Comedy - wasn't sure myself.

In Darkness We Fall hasn't been released yet, I see now - no point including it.

The Sacrament prob should be in it. I'm checking out a few other horrormovies from this year in the next few days

[Tommy Bunz]

Action movie poll is already 10-15 movies deep and thats not even including the major franchise movies. Great year for action films.

[alpha]

Are "you're next" and "coherence" from 2014?

[T Rav]

Review

[wizeguy]

Movies: The Wolf of Wall Street, Enemy, The Grand Budapest Hotel, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Edge of Tomorrow, 22 Jump Street, Fury, Interstellar

[Spartan]

You're Next was in last year's horror movie poll.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

I need to see Blue Ruin, huh?

[The Ivy League Nigga]

I need to see Blue Ruin, huh?

Yup

[drizzle]

yea it's pretty pretty good

[Spartan]

I thought it was good, but a little overrated.

[Spartan]

Really ought to add The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears in either any possible WTF/Experimental or Horror movie poll.

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Surprised I'm the only one saying Llewyn Davis. People didn't think this was a masterpiece?

[Tommy Bunz]

It was actually in last years poll, but it was probably premature to put it in there as I don't think many people had seen it at that point.

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Oh really? Yeah, it came out at the very end of the year and it was a limited release, so I doubt most people saw it until this year. I'd like to see it go up again.

It didn't open wide until January of this year.

[unclebengi]

Surprised I'm the only one saying Llewyn Davis. People didn't think this was a masterpiece?

It's a top 4 Cohen movie (and rising) in my book and I'll vote for it if it's there, just didn't know if it'd be eligible or not.

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Surprised I'm the only one saying Llewyn Davis. People didn't think this was a masterpiece?

It's a top 4 Cohen movie (and rising) in my book and I'll vote for it if it's there, just didn't know if it'd be eligible or not.

[jamrage]

"Inside Llewyn Davis "was fine, but hardly a masterpiece imo. Same with "Blue Ruin", I'd rate it slightly above mediocre. Took a well worn premise and didn't really do anything new with it. Don't understand the love, feels like an emperors new clothes situation.

My favorites so far: Under the Skin, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Rover, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Calvary, Enemy (if that counts as 2014)

[drizzle]

Same with "Blue Ruin", I'd rate it slightly above mediocre. Took a well worn premise and didn't really do anything new with it.

a bumbling nearly inept avenger who's actually kind of a pussy, but not to a comical mocking extent, is a pretty neat twist on the revenge formula. the scene where he tries to patch himself up in a typical action badass way but can't bring himself to stitch the wound so he just gives up and goes to the hospital is key to what the movie is going for. the theme of the cyclical violence and how the dude's fumbling only serves to make things worse was handled pretty well too, with real resonance as opposed to just creating opportunities to show more people die. and the execution is really solid, a lot of subtle touches that don't really stand out immediately but add a lot.

it's not the kind of thing that blows your mind as you're watching it, but many months after seeing it the movie is still strongly impressed into my memory while a bunch of others i saw this year are already nearly forgotten.