Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Courtesy of Yahoo and AP

I don't think anyone should feed us with their perception of what we should or not like when it comes to movies... after all I (Gasp!) loved The Fountain :) but this list is sooo on the light side that I'll stick to most of it with added commentary

LOS ANGELES - Leave the Academy Awards' to the important movies in the serious categories. Here are a few bests (and worsts) that, regardless of the quality of the films in which they occurred, are much more fun:

Best fight/chase scene: The opening of "Casino Royale." Yep, I still sweat thinking about that one

Best car chase: "Deja Vu." I'll stick to the French Connection until I see this

Best naked wrestling match: "Borat" That is not fair, I guess this was THE ONLY one this year, but funny as hell

Most ill-advised reprise of an iconic role: Tie between
Sharon Stone' "Basic Instinct 2," and Sylvester Stallone' "Rocky Balboa." More to Stone than to Stallone, people should know when to retire. It could be worse though, they could have remade "The Specialist" together

Most incomprehensible Southern drawl: Sean Penn "All the King's Men." I don't waste my time with remakes, so there's not much to say about this, except that Penn sorts of drawls in any accent

Best cleavage: Penelope Cruz "Volver." She will ride the cleavage into the Academy Awards, I bet ya

Best kiss: Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson on the playground in "Little Children." Have to See this one


Best sex scene: The entire opening sequence of "Shortbus" — because they're really doing it. No theater in at least a 100 miles was playing it


Best self-introduction: "I am Al Gore I used to be the next president of the United States of America," from "An Inconvenient Truth." Old joke, still funny... I'm in Florida, remember?


Most needless sequel: Tie between "Big Momma's House 2" and "Jackass 2." ARRRRRRRGH


Lamest horror remake: Tie between "The Omen" and "When a Stranger Calls." This is the reason why I swore off remakes, stupid little new Damien


Biggest waste of Scarlett Johansson' name "A Good Woman."


Best use of Lindsay Lohan' name "A Prairie Home Companion."


Best actor playing a gay, suicidal Proust scholar: Steve Carell in "Little Miss Sunshine." There are no words for this, except WATCH IT!!!!


Most persuasive argument for clean living: Tie between "Thank You For Smoking" and "Fast Food Nation." Thank you for smoking... Nick Naylor somehow sounds like a porn name or something and leaves you feeling appropriately dirty.


The life-imitating-art award: Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston in "The Break Up" I'm tired of Aniston and all her moping over Brad and hating Jolie. I hated this movie so bad, I hope Vaughn can out live it...

Best-dressed man: Andre Benjamin in "Idlewild."


Best-dressed woman: Anne Hathaway in "The Devil Wears Prada" (post-makeover, of course). Awesome movie, even for those with heavy fashion disadvantages, like yours truly


Best dig at a guy who did not win the role of James Bond, agent 007: "Boswell. Nigel Boswell. 006. You know what that means?" asks agent Boswell ( Clive Owen in "The Pink Panther.) "Of course!" answers Inspector Closeau-"It means you are one away from the big time." Actually the best line of all that Godforsaken film

Best use of Spandex: "Nacho Libre." (Sorry, Superman.) Add best use of a corn cob as self defense and I'm in on it

Best excuse for a good cry: "Lassie"

Best soundtrack: "Marie Antoinette," a New Wave mix that includes Bow Wow Wow, Adam and the Ants and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Didn't catch the film but I have the soundtrack... whooo hooo

Biggest genealogical news: "You are the last living descendant of Jesus Christ!"
Tom Hanks' to Audrey Tautou' in "The Da Vinci Code." It was not as impressive as finding out that the idiot descendant who supposedly was versed in several languages couldn't figure out the root "sang" in sangrial meant blood

Best argument for everybody going down with the ship: "Poseidon."

Best withering gaze: Helen Mirren' in "The Queen."

Best performance by an actor playing a decomposing corpse through much of the movie:
Jeff Bridges in"Tideland."

Guy with the most movies: Hugh Jackman And I saw them all

Hairiest actor: Robert Downey' in "Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus."

Most memorable line: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these (expletive) snakes on this (expletive) plane!" — Samuel L. Jackson in (you guessed it) "Snakes on a Plane." As if we didn't expect THAT!!!

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