The End of Year Awards (Other than best picture)
An article by Frederick Cholowski
The roundup of 2010 is here and it's filled with awesome. I have decided to split my year end roundup into two parts. The first being the awards where I have fun and select winners for random categories, then in part two I give you my top ten films of the year. In other words this is all the awards except film of the year which will come in another article. So let's get down to business (mixed with fun like a mullet). As usual I am not a paid critic so there for I have not seen all the films of 2010 (most notably The King's Speech sorry!) and I am going with what I got, fools. Here we go part uno of the 2010 roundup.
Most Underrated:
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Question, why did no one go and see this? It was a very good film that was both funny and thrilling (although more awesomely funny). This movie didn't even break even. The puzzling question is why not? Am I missing something, in a year with bad 3D movies and stupid twilight sequels this should have been a huge hit.
Most Innovative:
Black Swan
Sure movies that screw with the mind are nothing new and neither are ballerina films. Mixing these together and putting it from the perspective from someone who goes insane with no distinction of reality from hallucination and you have one film spurring with new light.
Best Character
Lisbeth Salander
Tough, gothic and anti social Lisbeth Salander from the millennium trilogy is one unique character. She is the example of a character that is well developed, interesting to watch and unique from head to toe. One of the best cinema characters of all time Salander is truly amazing.
Most Disappointing:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
Man beginnings of books do not work as whole movies. I wish Warner had thought of that before splitting the final Harry Potter chapter. Poorly paced and abruptly ended it did not satisfy on the level that it should have at this crucial point in the franchise. If they can make part 2 great all can be forgiven but if not this could be one of the biggest disappointments (and not to mention poor creative decisions) ever.
Best Performance Female:
Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in the Millennium Trilogy
Man what a performance! Lisbeth is not an easy character to play and young Sweetish actress Noomi Repace is flawless as the gothic heroin. Fearless yet tortured violent yet peaceful if left alone feared yet strangely appealing Repace plays the character to perfection and lights up the screen every time she is on it.
Best Performance Male:
Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network
Wow as far as breakout roles go this has to be the largest. Before this role Eisenberg was a comedy actor and sort of another Michal Cera. Then comes The Social Network where he plays the youngest billionaire and the creator of facebook and is absolutely brilliant. Fast talking and incredibly snippy Eisenberg plays the role to perfection and will hopefully never look back.
Worst Film:
Vampires Suck
Do I have to say anything else than this movie is a piece of crap with nothing funny or entertaining about it. Or that the writing is terrible and the acting for the most part sucks (pun intended). Yeah it ran away with this one, right into the dumpster.
Stay tuned folks for part two the top 10 of 2010!!!
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