Year End Polls Nominations

[Cash Rulz]

Can we get some academy shit going to?

How about Best Actor/Actress
Supporting
Comedic actor
Best up and coming
"How'd the hell they got a budget for that?" award
Best action sequence
Best screenplay
Best CGI

shit like that

[The Ivy League Nigga]

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.

Agree with everything Drizz said and I'll add...

There's something to be said about a fun movie that's made for serious-minded adults. Which is rare these days. It seems every movie that could be considered "fun" is actually for teenagers or some silly riff on nostalgia like The Expendables Series.

This movie moved, had twists and turns, several moments of humor, genuine surprises and it never felt like it was reaching down to appeal to kids. Like I said, rare. I don't think it's an important movie, but I do think it was perfectly executed for what it aspired to be. And in that regard, I think it was one of the year's best.

[ackbar]

blue ruin was dope. saw it in the theatre on a whim & was def glad i did

[Comedy Quaddafi]

There's something to be said about a fun movie that's made for serious-minded adults. Which is rare these days.

I sympathize with the sentiment but it's not true. This was a great year for genrefilms for an adult audience. Maybe you just don't know where to look.

[The Ivy League Nigga]

Maybe you just don't know where to look.

LOLOLOLOL.

[ThaJim2]

Best use of 3D
Movie that should have had 3D

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

No movie should ever have 3D.

[Y@k Bollocks]

Some suggestions:

New drama: Gomorrah

Yes, mate. I didn't think anyone else was watching that. So dope.

[jamrage]

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.

Agree with everything Drizz said and I'll add...

There's something to be said about a fun movie that's made for serious-minded adults. Which is rare these days. It seems every movie that could be considered "fun" is actually for teenagers or some silly riff on nostalgia like The Expendables Series.

This movie moved, had twists and turns, several moments of humor, genuine surprises and it never felt like it was reaching down to appeal to kids. Like I said, rare. I don't think it's an important movie, but I do think it was perfectly executed for what it aspired to be. And in that regard, I think it was one of the year's best.

My biggest problem with it was that I didn't think the fumbling theme was uniform. At the beginning of the movie he seems kind of a badass to me. He's got this big ass beard, he's sneaking into people's houses to bathe, he seems like the classic brooding loner archetype. He then finds out this guy is getting out of prison, follows him, sneaks into a place where all this guys friends are, and then proceeds to fairly expertly murder him in the bathroom. To me the bumbling and fumbling begins at the point when he can't start his car and takes the limo. He cuts off his beard and looks like an accountant, makes more mistakes, and by the end of the movie I'm wondering how he managed to kill the guy in such gully fashion in the first place. It's almost like he regresses during the course off the film which really makes no sense to me.

That's what really took me out of it and made it an average film. Just my opinion obviously.

[T Rav]

Can we get some academy shit going to?

How about Best Actor/Actress
Supporting
Comedic actor
Best up and coming
"How'd the hell they got a budget for that?" award
Best action sequence
Best screenplay
Best CGI

shit like that

Some of these are really great. It probably makes for too many threads. Maybe they can be strictly Curb threads.

[907]

Best use of 3D
Movie that should have had 3D

Would you enjoy CBS primetime comedies more if they were in 3D?

What about CW teen vampire shows?

[Tommy Bunz]

Thanks everyone for the input, I think we have a pretty good handle on all the tv/movie polls.
Still need nominations for the most annoying tv character poll though

[T Rav]

Annoying TV Character: Pete from The League.
I think it's a stretch, but some people seemed to loath Will from Hannibal.

[Employee]

Most Annoying Character (TV): Tara from "True Blood"; Tara from "Sons of Anarchy"; Kevin's wife from "The League"; entire cast of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia"; Lena Dunham from "Girls"; Maggie from "The Newsroom"; Claire from "Modern Family"; Main Detective Chick from "The Bridge"; and Skyler from "Breaking Bad."

[Krook]

Some suggestions:

New drama: Gomorrah

Yes, mate. I didn't think anyone else was watching that. So dope.

Was that the same story as movie from 2008?

[Y@k Bollocks]

Some suggestions:

New drama: Gomorrah

Yes, mate. I didn't think anyone else was watching that. So dope.

Was that the same story as movie from 2008?

Well, they're both based on the same book, so kind of. The TV series isn't very similar to the film though, aside from where it's set and the fact it's about the Camorra. But if you liked the film, I think you'll like the TV series.

Quite a few torrents about for it, but make sure you get the one with hardcoded English subs. I tried loads where looked like they'd been translated with Google Translate.

[Comedy Quaddafi]

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[Krook]

Thanks guys

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

From the new issue of Sight & Sound magazine, their top 20 of 2014.

1. Boyhood
2.Goodbye To Language 3D
3. Leviathan
4. Horse Money
5. Under The Skin
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Winter Sleep
8. The Tribe
9. Ida
10. Jauja
11. Mr. Turner
12. National Gallery
13. The Wolf Of Wall Street
14. Whiplash
15. The Duke Of Burgundy
16. Birdman
17. Two Days, One Night
18. Citizenfour
19. The Wind Rises
20. The Look Of Silence

The latest tour inside Godard's rectum at number 2 (how apt), but no The Raid 2, no Maps To The Stars, no The Lego Movie, no Nightcrawler, and no The Rover.

[Spartan]

As dire as that list is, I really do want to see Peter Strickland's supposed tribute to 70s erotica The Duke of Burgundy.

[Andvil]

Nightcrawler / Whiplash / Boyhood are my top 3 so far but I still have a good chunk left to see

Finding Vivian Maier, Dinosaur 13, and Life Itself for best docs

[Spartan]

Kermode's top ten:

10. Under the Skin / Interstellar (Tie)
9. Grand Budapest Hotel
8. The Past
7. Maps to the Stars
6. Pride
5. The Golden Dream
4. Belle
3. Frank
2. Boyhood
1. The Babadook

[Comedy Quaddafi]

1) The Raid 2
2) Why Don't You Play In Hell?
3) Wolf
4) Nightcrawler
5) The Babadook
6) Under The Skin
7) Enemy
8) Like Father, Like Son
9) '71
10) Killers

Just 5 more favorites:
The Rover
Blue Ruin
Noah
Starred Up
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
(Nymphomaniac was on my list last year but would make the top 10 if I had seen it this year. (Probably.))

[ackbar]

Starred Up
Blue Ruin
The Lego Movie
Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Boyhood
The Wolf of Wall Street

those are some of my faves. there's a bunch i have go seen yet tho

[ThaJim2]

That site and sound list is the gay. Fucking Transformers is better then Boyhood. Yeah cool how it was filmed but that is all it is cool the way it was filmed.