The Pondo Awards 2014
After seeing over 100 films and an event to remember at Cineworld in 2014, I thought I should end it with my own personal awards for the films seen.I have a couple of months free with the Cineworld Unlimited Pass and will be continuing to watch films at the cinema throughout 2015. I will continue to review them on my new film blog, Pondo Cinema: Episode II Return of the Pondo
Thank you to people who have read some of these reviews, I know there are millions of sites out there each with their own opinion, so what harm is one more?
So on to the awards....
Best Film
I have a top 10 list of the films I have seen throughout the year, but there are three films that I really enjoyed:
Nomination One: Gone Girl
Nomination Two: Guardians of the Galaxy
Nomination Three: Interstellar
And the winner is.....Click Here
Worst Film
There were some terrible films in 2014, but if I had to choose three of them, they would be:
Nomination One: Delivery Man
Nomination Two: The Rewrite
Nomination Three: What If?
Best Actor
Nomination One: Andy Serkis (Ceasar - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)
Nomination Two: Tom Hardy (Ivan Locke - Locke)
Nomination Three: Matthew McConaughey (Cooper - Interstellar)
And the winner is.....Click Here
Best Actress
Nomination One: Lupita Nyong'o (Patsey - 12 Years a Slave)
Nomination Two: Imelda Staunton (Hefina - Pride)
Nomination Three: Rosamund Pike (Amy Dunne - Gone Girl)
And the winner is......Click Here
Best Soundtrack
Nomination One: Pulp Fiction
Nomination Two: Chef
Nomination Three: Begin Again
And the winner is....Click Here
Best Animated Movie
Nomination One: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Nomination Two: Frozen
Nomination Three: The LEGO Movie
And the AWESOME winner is......Click Here
Best Nostalgic Reshowing
Cineworld occasionally show classic films again on the big silver screen, I was fortunate enough to visit three of these events (I wish I could have done more)
Nomination One: Pulp Fiction
Nomination Two: Ghostbusters
Nomination Three: Sin City
And the winner is.....Click Here
Best Horror
I am a horror film fan and judge a years success on the quality of its Horror Films, 2014 had a tricky start and didn't seem to get much better nearer the end of the year, but there were a few highlights
Nomination One: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Nomination Two: Annabelle
Nomination Three: The Babadook
And the winner is....Click Here
Best Scene
The nominations here are all scenes that have stood out in the year, be it visual comedy, Tear inducingly moving or just the fact that there is a dual machine gun wielding, horse back riding, bad ass ape.
Nomination One: 12 Years a Slave - Solomon whipping Patsey
Nomination Two: X-Men Days of Future Past - Time in a Bottle Quicksilver Scene
Nomination Three :Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Koba dual wielding horse back bad ass
And the winner is....Click Here
Most Visually Stunning
Nomination One: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Nomination Two: Gravity
Nomination Three: Interstellar
And the winner is...Click Here
Sleeper Hit
The nominations for this catagory are all films I enjoyed whilst watching at the cinema but a few days after I realised how much I really enjoyed them
Nomination One: Inside Llewyn Davis
Nomination Two: Locke
Nomination Three: Pride
And the winner is....Click Here
Worst Remake
Nomination One: Annie
Nomination Two: Robocop
Nomination Three: Godzilla
And the film that should not have been remade is....Click Here
Best Cameo - (Spoiler Warning)
Nomination One: Han Solo & Chewbacca - The Lego Movie
Nomination Two : Dr Emmett Brown - A Million Ways to Die in the West
Nomination Three: Billy Connolly - The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
And the winner is......Click Here
Best Bad Guy
Nomination One: Hammer Girl and Baseball Bat Boy - The Raid 2
Nomination Two: Lou Bloom - Night Crawler
Nomination Three: Koba - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
I do feel that one film this year deserves an award all by itself. This film was wrong on so many levels and is everything a film should not be. Over use of CGI, lack of any story, completely and utterly pointless. and over 3 hours long to boot. It was that bad it could not even be mentioned in the "Worst Film" category.
And the winner is....Click Here
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And the winner is....Click Here
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I am definitely looking forward to an exciting year of cinema on 2015 and would love your feedback, comments or just a little +1
Yours in Great (and not so great) Films
Pondo