Thursday, March 08, 2012

2011: Exit Words (For A Few Films)

To wrap up Movie Week at hideouslywrinkled (or has it just begun?), I humbly offer to you my annual awards to the 10 films that I may or may not have liked this year.

A Few Honorable Mentions

The King Of Carrot Flowers Part 2 & 3 Award for Hipster Christianity AND The Steven Spielberg Award for Not Knowing How to End A Movie goes to...

The Tree of Life


The Vin Diesel fights The Rock Award for the movie with the best fight scene between Vin Diesel and The Rock goes to…

Fast Five


The "I should have seen this instead of In A Better World at last year's Portland International Film Festival" Award goes to…

Incendies


Top 10 Movies

The (now) annual "The Parts Are Greater Than The Sum" Matthew Vaughn Award goes to...

Attack the Block


The Judd MiLOLtary IndustriLOL Complex Award goes to…

Bridesmaids


The (quite surprisingly) least Freudian movie in the Cronenberg oeuvre Award goes to...

A Dangerous Method


The Aaron Sorkin's Continuing Quest To Find The Least Likely Blockbuster Protagonist Award AND The newly minted Brad trolling Award goes to...

Moneyball


The (now potentially annual) Award for the Best Foreign Film (that you can tell is a foreign film because the protagonist is Muslim) goes to…

A Separation


The Mark is going to hate this movie because it totally rips off The Smashing Pumpkins video "Tonight, Tonight" Award goes to...

Hugo


The Warner Herzog Award for the most profound and deeply moving documentary of the year, which also had two descent selections from the big man himself goes to…

Nostalgia for the Light


The I told you the director of the film with the One-Eyed Clairvoyant Viking was somebody special but you refused to believe me until he made a movie featuring Ryan Gosling Award goes to...

Drive


The Kirsten Dunst haters to the back Award goes to...

Melancholia


The Takashi Miike remakes The Seven Samurai and it is indescribably badass Award AND The I seriously need to watch this movie again with Ian Lindsay because it might be the most awesome movie of the year Award goes to…

13 Assassins

2 Comments:

Blogger b r christensen said...

one quibble. there's a protagonist in a separation?

Fri Mar 16, 03:20:00 PM GMT-7  
Blogger M S Martinez said...

I really liked Attack the Block too. It was just fun, classic sci-fi.

Tue Apr 10, 03:42:00 PM GMT-7  

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