Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Final Random Awards

Now for some random awards.

Best Fight Choreography
A draw between the 4 minute-long Steadicam shot in Tom-Yum-Goong that follows Tony Jaa up a spiral staircase while he takes out baddies en route, and the intense knife-and-baton fight between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing in an alley in 殺破狼 (SPL).

Best Sex
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Of course, they also win for Best Kiss.

Worst Sex
A draw between all the stupid sex acts in 桃色 (Color Blossoms) and all the stupid sex acts in 天邊一朵雲 (The Wayward Cloud). Bring your own leather strap, mineral water bottle cap and watermelon.

Funniest Sex
The puppets in Team America: World Police.

Shittiest Stripper
Jessica Alba in Frank Miller's Sin City, for being the only stripper in the world who doesn't actually strip.

Best Superhero Movie
Batman Begins, hands down.

Best Comic Book Adaptation
No, make that Best Adaptation, period.
A History of Violence, also hands down.

Best Use of Location
Be With Me, for making the Wheelock Place steps both gorgeous and unrecognizable.

Most Cheekopek (Dirty Old Man)
The dirty old man in The Bow who hides away a young teenaged girl in his boat to marry when she becomes legal.

Most Stylish
Frank Miller's Sin City for it's gorgeous black, white and splashes of color.

Most Original Visuals
Mirrormask, basically a door into Dave McKean's dreams. Finally, he gets to create an entire world.

Best Support for Euthanasia
The anthology Eros, where Antonioni shows that he's way past senile.

Funniest Movie
The 40 Year-Old Virgin. Although 獅子城 (Lion City) was a very close second, and bloody hilarious too, albeit unintentionally.

Scariest Movie
The Descent, for being the only decent horror I saw last year (that was not made over ten years ago).

Scariest Musical Number
Probably any one of the songs in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Best CGI
King Kong. Need I say more?

Best Use of a Song
Damien Rice's The Blower's Daughter, in the opening scene of Closer.

Best Use of a Food Item
Wine in Sideways - as story, as metaphor, as life.