More fun extras, today touching on:
Tagline of the Year
Trailer of the Year
Poster of the Year
Best Scenes (oodles of spoilers)
Best Ending (even more)
Most Aesthetically Pleasing Film of the Year
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Tagline of the Year
"Why So Serious?" - The Dark Knight
"A Life Misunderestimated" - W.
"Life Is the Ultimate Work of Art" - Vicky Christina Barcelona
"Intelligence is relative." - Burn After Reading
"Get Carried Away" - Sex in the City
Trailer of the Year
Poster of the Year
Best Scenes (oodles of spoilers)
Best Ending (even more)
Most Aesthetically Pleasing Film of the Year
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Tagline of the Year
"Why So Serious?" - The Dark Knight
"A Life Misunderestimated" - W.
"Life Is the Ultimate Work of Art" - Vicky Christina Barcelona
"Intelligence is relative." - Burn After Reading
"Get Carried Away" - Sex in the City
Bronze
A Life Misunderestimated. W.
Silver
Life Is The Ultimate Work of Art. Vicky Christina Barcelona
Gold
Why So Serious? The Dark Knight
Trailer of the Year
The Dark Knight – We got a glimpse of the dazzling effects and Heath, which got everyone insanely excited. When a movie makes half a billion dollars, the marketing must be doing something right.
Milk – The titles cards and music were all perfect and synced up with the previewed scenes just right.
Eagle Eye – Okay, so the actual film sucked ass, but this trailer set up the pretty cool premise and the action looked good. Luckily, the trailer didn’t give us a preview of the feature’s crappy execution.
Burn After Reading – The music worked and the trailer effectively captured the craziness of the film.
Benjamin Button – The teaser with Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is a Cage” (= amazingness) was simply stunning and showed us many of the film’s impressive visuals. I was nearly moved to tears when I first saw it.
Poster of the Year
Kabluey – Simple but clean and it really fit into the film’s overall look.
The Dark Knight – So original and weird and epic and awesome.
Be Kind Rewind – Okay, a tad messy, but so is the film. Really, a poster needs to capture the essence of the film, and the poster did just that.
Funny Games – Every strand of Watts’ ruffled hair; every cloudy tear that leaves a stream of liquid on her cheeks; every facial blemish, a result of her torture = artistic perfection.
The Bank Job – Simple, yet no less effective.
Kabluey – Simple but clean and it really fit into the film’s overall look.
The Dark Knight – So original and weird and epic and awesome.
Be Kind Rewind – Okay, a tad messy, but so is the film. Really, a poster needs to capture the essence of the film, and the poster did just that.
Funny Games – Every strand of Watts’ ruffled hair; every cloudy tear that leaves a stream of liquid on her cheeks; every facial blemish, a result of her torture = artistic perfection.
The Bank Job – Simple, yet no less effective.
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Best Scene
Joker dressed as a nurse from The Dark Knight
The pile of poop from Slumdog Millionaire
Opening bank heist from The Dark Knight
The last driving lesson from Happy-Go-Lucky
Randy at the Deli counter from The Wrestler
Kym’s speech at rehearsal dinner from Rachel Getting Married
Juan's dinner proposal from Vicky Christina Barcelona
Viola’s mucus-filled monologue from Doubt
Driving the Muslim couple from Frozen River
Flamenco Class from Happy-Go-Lucky
Walking between the Twin Towers - at last from Man On Wire
“Could You Open the Blinds?” from Let the Right One In
Walking between the Twin Towers - at last from Man On Wire
“Could You Open the Blinds?” from Let the Right One In
Bronze
TDK's opening bank heist
Silver
"Could You Open The Blinds?" from LTROI
Gold
Joker as a nurse
Best Ending (Major Spoilers!)
Synecdoche, New York – Every time I watch it again on YouTube, it never ceases to amaze me. Finally, minutes before he’ll die, Caden realize what life is all about. “Die.” Damn.
Milk – An air of foreboding doom coats the last fifteen minutes of the film. We see Dan. We see Harvey. He really never did make it to fifty.
The Wrestler – “I’m really here.” Holy shit, if that doesn’t make you cry, you don’t have a heart. Perfectly shot, acted and then Bruce chimes in.
Happy-Go-Lucky – Poppy gets a dose of pessimism and for a minute we think she may go to the glass-half-empty side. But, no, she’s rowing happily. What will break her optimism?!
Let the Right One In – That scene in the pool is simply mind-blowing. Ingenious, and then when Alfreddson has the shot hold on the dead bullies, I basically shrieked with amazement.
Bronze
The Wrestler
Silver
Synecdoche, New York
Gold
Let The Right One In
Most Aesthetically Pleasing Film of the Year
Synecdoche, New York – Art direction, costumes, make-up cinematography. They work together to build a world quite surreal yet on the flip-side, surprisingly realistic and true to life.
Milk – Captures the look of the seventies with flying colors. The look of the film is so consistent and clean throughout.
Benjamin Button – The home-sweet-home-ness is genuine and incredibly well-done. The slight darkness only works to the film’s advantage, creating a unique atmosphere.
The Wrestler – Bleak New JERSEY? Woods in the back of a trailer park. It’s all so raw and dirty. These little true-to-life details aren’t seen enough on film. I call that realism, bitches.
Slumdog Millionaire – A kaleidoscope of colors and images. The grittiness of the Mumbai streets are shot masterfully. Even the subtitles are awesome. A beautiful film to watch.
Bronze
Slumdog Millionaire
Silver
Milk
Gold
Synecdoche, New York
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