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Post by Doomsday on Feb 23, 2018 19:21:21 GMT -5
It wasn't a terribly original trailer but it was still really damn effective.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 23, 2018 19:26:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I LOVE that Logan trailer.
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Post by Dracula on Feb 23, 2018 22:12:55 GMT -5
Best Poster
I love movie posters and find it interesting that this form of advertising, once considered unimportant when compared to trailers and TV spots, have become increasingly important now that they’re needed to represent a movie every time it shows up on a streaming service or something to sell a movie. For this award I’ll only be considering posters for movies I’ve seen as I need to know if they accurately reflect the movie and I’ll only be looking at official advertising rather than fan art and the like. After The Storm:  Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film After the Storm is about a divorced dad who wants to get his life together but maybe doesn’t have the strength to do so. The film also culminates in a scene where the family is stuck together waiting out a typhoon, which forces father to consider the sadness of it all. This poster uses a cool effect to make it look like we’re seeing an image of them walking together through a window in the rain, perhaps showing the sadness that surrounds the visit. Split:  Poster designers of the world remember: when in doubt just do a Saul Bass homage. Saul Bass pretty much never leads you wrong and whoever made this poster seems to realize that as they clearly tried to use a Saul Bass inspired minimalist art style with a neat representation of the film at its center. The metaphor here doesn’t need a lot of explaining what with the divergent personalities working within the one body and trying to break free. Thor: Ragnarok:  Marvel generally puts out really busy posters that are doing their damnedest to cram in as many actors faces as possible while also throwing in some action shots for good measure. This poster for Thor: Ragnarok appears to hit that company mandated objective but finds a way to have fun along the way. Using both colorful concentric circles and having the characters lined up down the middle with arms spread out the poster actually looks almost more like a 60s psychedelic rock album cover than a movie poster and gives you an idea of the film’s irreverence. Wonder Wheel:  This poster doesn’t really have much in the way of a high concept, but it sure does look good. The poster simply shows Kate Winslet in the foreground with the titular Coney Island Ferris wheel behind her outside the window, which was a feature of the character’s apartment in the film. The lighting off of the wheel looks really good and the look on the character’s face makes you wonder what is going on with this lady and what story she’s in the middle of. Wonder Woman:  This early poster for Wonder Woman does a good job of taking a seemingly simple action pose and turning it into something iconic. Seemingly taken from the film’s well like “trench” scene, the shot shows the title heroine running into battle and has doing a signature move where she deflects a bullet off her metal gauntlet that audiences would recognize from the old Wonder Woman TV series. I also like that this move covers up the bottom of her face, preserving an aura of mystery in this teaser poster. And the Golden Stake Goes To…SplitThese were five pretty strong nominees and it was hard to pick an actual winner, ultimately the one I went with was the one that seemed to be the most like something you wouldn’t generally expect to see sitting on a multiplex wall. This wasn’t the film’s main poster but it was an official piece of advertising put out by Universal Studios and it was cool that they were willing to go with something relatively abstract like this.
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Post by Dracula on Feb 23, 2018 23:21:40 GMT -5
I considered some of those.
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Post by Deexan on Feb 24, 2018 5:43:09 GMT -5
Thought this was the better WW one:  |
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Post by Jibbs on Feb 24, 2018 11:48:31 GMT -5
Those are all good posters.
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Post by Wyldstaar on Feb 24, 2018 12:30:22 GMT -5
One of the tragedies of the digital age is that the movie poster designed by the studio is the one that gets used throughout most of the world. Some of the most original and visually stunning movie posters used to come from the foreign market. The studios didn't usually bother to provide them with anything but the film itself, sometimes sending one US poster to be copied or ignored as they pleased. Sometimes the foreign version would be far superior to the US, and sometimes it would be hilariously terrible. When it comes to strikingly unique posters, the Italians have the best track record. Scanners (1981) US version  Scanners (1981) Italian version  On the Waterfront (1954) US version  On the Waterfront (1954) Italian version  When it comes to hilariously bad posters, nobody beats Ghana.    |
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 24, 2018 14:03:17 GMT -5
What's interesting about the poster for Shape of Water is that it's pretty much a spoiler.
Anyway, I'd never seen that poster for Split. I dig it.
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Post by PG Cooper on Feb 24, 2018 14:32:02 GMT -5
What's interesting about the poster for Shape of Water is that it's pretty much a spoiler. Anyway, I'd never seen that poster for Split. I dig it. Me neither. Cool design. |
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Post by PG Cooper on Feb 24, 2018 14:32:49 GMT -5
On the Waterfront (1954) Italian version This is my favourite. |
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Post by Doomsday on Feb 24, 2018 19:14:54 GMT -5
I think you guys are missing a big one.  |
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Post by Dracula on Feb 24, 2018 23:28:39 GMT -5
Most Under-rated
My category for the most under-rated film has always been a bit undefined and strange. It’s basically a place for me to speak up for movies that have gotten a raw deal. Either the critics didn’t seem to get it or audiences didn’t show up for it or for some reason the narrative around it seems to have been unfair. Of course what counts for success can vary from movie to movie so this can be a bit subjective. All Eyez on Me: This Tupac biopic didn’t have anywhere near the critical acclaim of Straight Outta Compton and there were some good reasons for that. It didn’t have that movie’s energy and it didn’t have a particularly original take on the important life it was chronicling, so yeah it deservedly wasn’t as well received as that movie. However, it’s not as much of a decline as some critics made it out to be. This thing is currently sitting at 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and it’s a lot better than that score would indicate. Demetrius Shipp Jr.’s stellar performance has been completely overlooked and I don’t think the movie would have been much better than it is without going in some novel new direction. BPM (Beats Per Minute): BPM (Beats Per Minute) was wildly buzzed about at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Gran Prix there, and it’s also got a pretty loyal critics following, so calling it “under-rated” is a little tricky. The film is here less for its critical reception and more for the way it was almost entirely ignored even by art house audiences. The movie has made a whopping $100,072 in theaters. No I didn’t miss a decimal point there. Part of this may have been a horrid release strategy by The Orchard, but even with that I feel like it should have found an even slightly bigger audience than that. A Cure for Wellness: A Cure for Wellness was a movie that intrigued me the second I saw advertising for it. It certainly seemed like the kind of bold vision that we so frequently demand Hollywood to give us while also so frequently fail to reward. When the actual movie came out the response was kind of muted. It wasn’t seen as a disaster but it also wasn’t loved and by now it’s practically been forgotten. I get why this wasn’t received with complete enthusiasm, it has flaws to be sure, but when mediocrities like Split and Don’t Breathe are considered triumphs of horror I think this visually adventurous psychological thriller deserved to at least be more widely considered. This could well be a cult movie in the making for horror fans. It Comes at Night: This year there were two films that were applauded by critics but shunned by audiences and slapped with poor cinemascores because they were supposedly advertised as different kinds of horror films than audiences expected. The other example of this, mother! at least managed to get enough press out of its divisiveness that it sort of turned into a boon for the movie and it has enough strong defenders that I wouldn’t exactly call it “underrated,” but the critics did not stay by the side of It Comes at Night as long as they should have. Last Flag Flying: I had hoped that the success of Boyhood would have led to a greater respect and excitement for Richard Linklater as a filmmaker but it looks like he’s right back to being taken for granted. His spiritual sequel to The Last Detail (another hook that should have excited people) made less than a million dollars in theaters and while reviews were mostly respectful the critics never really felt a need to champion the film to any great degree. Part of this was that it was released during a busy season for specialty film and if never really had an awards campaign, but still, it deserved better. And the Golden Stake Goes To…Last Flag Flying
 Last Flag Flying isn’t necessarily my favorite of the five films here but it is the one whose utter failure seems the most distressing. When French movies about activism fail, that sort of makes sense given how hard it is for foreign language films, and when something like It Comes at Night fails to ignite at the box office that can just be blamed on poor marketing, but how do you explain a good movie from a great director with three fairly famous stars not even being able to break a million dollars? The studio’s mistake was probably in chasing awards instead of letting it find its audience a bit more organically, there are probably a lot of older audiences who would have appreciated it if given a little more time to find it.
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Post by Dhamon22 on Feb 25, 2018 0:26:45 GMT -5
It Comes At Night for me.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 25, 2018 0:35:22 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to watching Last Flag Flying now that I own it. I also agree with the inclusions of A Cure for Wellness and It Comes At Night. The latter certainly holds up for me and the former I very much want to watch again.
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Post by Wyldstaar on Feb 25, 2018 1:15:05 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Feb 25, 2018 18:03:52 GMT -5
Best Action Movie
Having an action movie category during this decade has been frustrating as many of the nominations have been superhero movies and other similar extravaganzas instead of true action movies. Part of this is to do with what I have access to (it’s pretty hard to keep up with the cool stuff coming out of Asia in a timely manner), but I’m kind of at the mercy of what Hollywood puts out. This year though I had a lot of options for whatever reason and that makes me pretty happy. Atomic Blonde: While John Wick co-director Chad Stahelski stuck with the franchise that made him famous his partner in crime David Leitch branched off to make this cold war spy film that sought to do for the fight scene what John Wick did for the shootout. I’m not entirely sure that a complex cold war plot was the perfect home for this kind of kinetic action the individual scenes certainly speak for themselves. Between the film’s famous virtuosic fight scene, it’s car chase, and a handful of other cool actions sequences this more than earns its place here despite not being a great overall movie. Baby Driver: I was pretty skeptical about Baby Driver when I first heard about it as Edgar Wright strikes me as a filmmaker who’s pretty consistently over-rated. But with Baby Driver he seems to have proven me wrong and used his clear craftsmanship towards a really bitchin’ action movie. Setting car chases and shootouts in perfect synch with pop songs seemed like something that would get old fast, but Wright made it work and he also managed to create set-pieces that held up beyond their gimmick. John Wick: Chapter 2: The original John Wick came out pretty late in the year in 2014 so I didn’t see it in time to incorporate it into the Golden Stakes that year so I feel like I need to make up for it with the sequel. The second John Wick: Chapter 2 is a pretty stupid movie at its core but it does still deliver on the kind of highly choreographed gunfights but it has a bigger budget to work with and it’s in some ways able to hone this signature style to perfection. Kong: Skull Island: I was kind of hard on Kong: Skull Island when it first came out, in part because the King Kong legacy demands a certain amount of scrutiny, but taken just as a B-movie creature feature it’s a pretty damn solid action movie. The film has a great number of large CGI creatures hitting each other and various soldiers going through all sorts of action movie things. Between the initial helicopter attack, a fight with a giant spider, and various antics with the giant lizard creatures this is quite the fun time. Logan: Logan isn’t exactly an action movie in the sense of having a ton of super kinetic and effects heavy action sequences, though its limo chase and its climactic battle do hold their own, but rather it feels more like a gritty old school action movie of the Dirty Harry variety but for the super hero age. Of course it’s other action movie roots are in the western, particularly the later “the west is dying” breed of action westerns. Certainly a neat capper of sorts to the X-Men franchise, which has provided plenty of great action moments for the last 17 years. And the Golden Stake Goes To…
Baby Driver
 I generally view the winner of this category to be a combo of the movie that has the most cool action scenes and the movie that most effectively creates a solid framework for said action scenes. Baby Driver hits this pretty perfectly. Its individual set-pieces are top notch for the most part, it has a decent plot that the action makes sense within, and it also has the x-factor of its musical element that makes it feel unique from other action movies while still respecting the genre’s conventions.
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Post by Doomsday on Feb 25, 2018 18:15:24 GMT -5
Best Action Movie
And the Golden Stake Goes To…
Baby Driver
I generally view the winner of this category to be a combo of the movie that has the most cool action scenes and the movie that most effectively creates a solid framework for said action scenes. Baby Driver hits this pretty perfectly. Its individual set-pieces are top notch for the most part, it has a decent plot that the action makes sense within, and it also has the x-factor of its musical element that makes it feel unique from other action movies while still respecting the genre’s conventions. |
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Post by frankyt on Feb 25, 2018 18:18:29 GMT -5
Kong hands down. Baby bird chested ansel should never be a leading man in an action movie.
The king is still the king. Side note - as a kid I always wanted Godzilla to win in the vs matchup but after skull island I'm all mammal all day. Go Kong.
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Post by Deexan on Feb 25, 2018 18:23:32 GMT -5
Keanu was robbed.
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Post by Doomsday on Feb 25, 2018 18:27:11 GMT -5
All Mammal All Day: Franky’s Autobiography.
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Post by PhantomKnight on Feb 25, 2018 19:48:51 GMT -5
I get your reasoning...I just don't agree with the end result.
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Post by 1godzillafan on Feb 25, 2018 20:12:13 GMT -5
No nod for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter equals upset.
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