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Boards.ie Film Awards 2014 - Results!

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  • #52
    Looper007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    Great to see the Raid 2 win Best Foreign film (good to see a few people with awesome taste ;)) and I'm shocked to Interstellar win a few of the categories (I loved the film but it's such a split opinion film on here) so that's awesome.

    American Hustle was so below par so good to see it win most disappointed and overrated film categories. It was a Martin Scorsese knock off without the skill and passion. O Russell is far better then this, still think The Fighter is his best film to date although I love Three Kings. I also didn't understand why Amy Adams was getting nominated for her role in this during award season.

    No other real shocks to be seen.


  • #53
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Worst Performance
    Winner: Aidan Gillen - Calvary
    Runner Up: Seth McFarlane - A Million Ways to Die in the West

    Aidan Gillen must be seriously bad in Calvary if he was worse than Seth McFarlane.


  • #54
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Honestly Aidan Gillen was pretty weak in Calvary but he's just a mild and infrequent irritation compared to Seth Macfarlane who is not only awful but dominates the whole movie.

    Very egotistical performance in a "GRR I'm wittier and smarter than anyone here why can't I get a girl?" way too. :pac:


  • #55
    Looper007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    e_e wrote: »
    Honestly Aidan Gillen was pretty weak in Calvary but he's just a mild and infrequent irritation compared to Seth Macfarlane who is not only awful but dominates the whole movie.

    Very egotistical performance in a "GRR I'm wittier and smarter than anyone here why can't I get a girl?" way too. :pac:

    I think its the fact Seth is the guy who should be playing the idiot friend of the hero or the bad guy's stupid sidekick. Basically a co starring role. He's not a leading man and it was clearly a ego stroke as you said for him. He had no chemistry either with Theron.


  • #56
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,402 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Lego Movie was great fun but not even nearly as good as How to Train Your Dragon 2 which was better than most of the live action films last year imo.


  • #57
    Decuc500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Decuc500


    Bit odd to see American Hustle as Most Overrated. I thought it was a slick caper movie with a brilliantly created period setting. It was a lot of fun.
    It certainly didn’t set out to be anything more than that.

    Is it overrated because of the critical response it got? I remember that being lukewarm.

    Is it the Oscar nominations?
    I think people expected it to be great because of the Oscar buzz. But the Oscars can’t seriously be taken as a sign of quality.

    Sure overrated means a film that everyone loves, has the critics swooning and does fantastically well and you don’t like it?
    That’s definitely not American Hustle!


  • #58
    Falthyron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,835 ✭✭✭Falthyron


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Worst Film
    Winner: Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie

    And with that, all in the world is set right again. :pac:


  • #59
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Lego Movie was great fun but not even nearly as good as How to Train Your Dragon 2 which was better than most of the live action films last year imo.
    I enjoyed both but if anything the results of the animation poll show that more people really need to see The Congress and The Wind Rises.


  • #60
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,402 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    e_e wrote: »
    I enjoyed both but if anything the results of the animation poll show that more people really need to see The Congress and The Wind Rises.

    I still haven't had the chance to see either, I thought The Congress had quite a lot of live action sequences in it though?


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  • #61
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    I've the DVD ready to rewatch but from what I recall it's just the opening third and a little bit at the end that's live action.


  • #62
    Looper007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    e_e wrote: »
    I enjoyed both but if anything the results of the animation poll show that more people really need to see The Congress and The Wind Rises.

    I've seen both but I preferred Lego Movie and How To Train your Dragon 2. Just cause the First two are made by more respected directors shouldn't take away anything from the two films were picked, they are pieces of art themselves.


  • #63
    e_e
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    Don't get me wrong I liked all 4 movies a lot. Just felt the need to flag up both The Congress for its ambition and audaciousness and The Wind Rises for being such a moving and beautiful swansong from a master.


  • #64
    Looper007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,216 ✭✭✭Looper007


    e_e wrote: »
    Don't get me wrong I liked all 4 movies a lot. Just felt the need to flag up both The Congress for its ambition and audaciousness and The Wind Rises for being such a moving and beautiful swansong from a master.

    The Congress was good but its nowhere in the same ballpark as the directors pervious Waltz With Bashir. I admired its ambition but it didn't quite pull it off.

    I agree with you on The Wind Rises, beautiful and moving film with a Werner Herzog voice over if you watched the dubbed version :D. I do think Hayao Miyazaki has done better though i.e Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

    But How to Train your Dragon 2 was probably one of the best Animated experiences I had in the cinema. It didn't speak down to its audience and was a joyous ride.


  • #65
    happysunnydays
    Closed Accounts Posts: 247 ✭✭happysunnydays


    If 90% of boards film fans went to see 5 average films while the other 10% went to see the good stuff, those 5 average films would still dominate and win the awards.
    That's how an average film like Grand Budapest did so well.


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