The 2010 Theatre 3000 Awards

Welcome to the Theatre 3000 Awards. I want to respond to all of the vague, snobby and shitless award shows with these mothaf**kers (sic.). They're not the most prestigious awards by any means from an internet blog which has only 13 followers, but it's what I will say is that this represents the best movies of the past year and a half  in my opinion and to all the following people who hand out awards only for star power, because you're too lazy to vote or you don't give a shit about movies, this is what you should see. (People's Choice Awards, Golden Globes, Oscars and MTV Movie Awards)

Like the Razzies and you should know about them as well, this is satire to all the awards that host for crap, hand out crap, and use red carpets to distract us from crap. Most of the nominations are satire. Each category will have two winners

• My vote
• Your vote

So here are the nominees.

1st Most Overrated Film... by Audiences

• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (RT Audience: 74%)
• Iron Man 2 (RT Audience: 80%)
• True Grit (RT Audience: 86%)
• Alice In Wonderland (RT Audience: 72%)
• Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows (RT Audience: 87%)

Most Overrated Film... by Critics

• True Grit 
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
• Iron Man 2
• The Kids Are All Right
• The King's Speech

Best Film-Wrecking Moment (MTV Satire)

• A character screws up pronouncing Aang - The Last Airbender
• The ending in - The Tourist
• The moment where a movie is announced it'll be shot in 3D - every movie made in 3D
• The word 'Focker' in every line of dialogue - Little Fockers
• When the whole movie turns into a fantasy flick about stalking - When In Rome

Worst nominations in an award show

• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - almost every nomination (People's Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards)
• The Tourist - Best Film: Musical Comedy, Best Actor: Musical or Comedy, Best Actress: Musical or Comedy (Golden Globes)
• Burlesque -Best Film: Musical Comedy (Golden Globes)

Worst Snubs in an awards show

• Christopher Nolan - Inception, Best Director (Academy Awards)
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - Best Film, Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Fight (MTV Movie Awards, Golden Globes, Academy Awards)
• Andrew Garfield - The Social Network, Best Supporting Actor (Academy Awards)

Shyamalan-Bay Award for Worst Film

• The Tourist
• The Last Airbender
• Grown Ups
• Cop Out
• Sex And The City 2
• Vampires Suck
• When In Rome

Most Underrated Film

• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• Greenberg
• Easy A
• Animal Kingdom

Best Soundtrack

• Black Swan - Clint Mansell
• Inception - Hans Zimmer
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - Nigel Godrich, various artists
• The Social Network - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• Tron: Legacy - Daft Punk 

Best Cinematography

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Inception
• The Social Network
• True Grit

Best Production Design/Art Direction

• 127 Hours
• Alice In Wonderland
• Inception
• The Social Network
• Tron: Legacy

Best Editing

• 127 Hours
• Black Swan
• Inception
• Kick-Ass
• The Social Network

Best Visual Effects

• Inception
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• Tron: Legacy

Best Screenplay

• 127 Hours - Simon Beaufoy
• Inception - Christopher Nolan
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - Edgar Wright
• Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt
• The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin

Hero of the Year

• Christopher Nolan
• James Franco
• Roger Ebert
• Aaron Sorkin
• Natalie Portman

Villain of the Year

• Jason Friedberg + Aaron Seltzer
• Will Smith's kids
• Harvey Weinstein
• Miley Cyrus
• M Night Shymalan

Best Scene-Stealer

• Justin Timberlake - The Social Network
• Hailee Steinfeld - True Grit
• Chloe Moretz - Kick-Ass
• Tom Hardy - Inception
• Rock - 127 Hours
• Kieran Culkin - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• Christian Bale - The Fighter

Most Breakthrough Performance

• Hailee Stenfeld - True Grit
• Chloe Moretz - Kick-Ass
• Tom Hardy - Inception
• Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
• Greta Girwig - Greenberg

Best Supporting Actor

• Geoffery Rush - The King's Speech
• Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
• Jeremy Renner - The Town
• Rock - 127 Hours 
• Christian Bale - The Fighter

Best Supporting Actress

• Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
• Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom
• Chloe Moretz - Kick-Ass
• Mila Kunis - Black Swan
• Marion Cottilard - Inception

Best Movie Moment

• Mark Zuckerberg's comeback towards the Winklevosses - The Social Network
• Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis makes out - Black Swan
• Gravity Fight Scene - Inception
• Scott Pilgrim vs. Deadly Evel Exes - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• The climax - Toy Story 3
• James Franco cuts off his arm - 127 Hours

Best Actress 

• Natalie Portman - Black Swan
• Ellen Page - Inception
• Jennifer Lawrence -Winter's Bone
• Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine

Best Actor

• Colin Firth - The King's Speech
• James Franco - 127 Hours
• Jesse Einseberg - The Social Network
• Leonardo Dicaprio - Inception
• Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine

Stanley Kubrick Award for Best Director

• Darren Arronofsky - Black Swan
• Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
• David Fincher - The Social Network
• Christopher Nolan - Inception
• Edgar Wright - Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Best Picture

• 127 Hours
• Animal Kingdom
• Black Swan
• Greenberg
• Inception
• The King's Speech
• Kick-Ass
• Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
• The Social Network
• Toy Story 3

Please vote at the comments section below. The results will be handed out after the MTV Movie Awards

Grainy Greenberg

B+ (8.2)


Picture this. You're a man who's in his 40s. You have accomplished nothing, do not care about life, refuse to do anything social because it has moral implications but you just got out from a mental hospital. This is a life where no human being would take even if he has mental health issues.

Ben Stiller is Roger Greenberg, a New Yorker in his 40s who arrives at Los Angeles to house keep his brothers house while he and his family are on vacation. He's unemployed, but works as a carpenter. He does nothing, has no ambition, but at least he's write complaint letters to companies, which is doing something (insert sarcasm). He meets up with his former bandmate (Rhys Ifan) who suprisingly still talk to him despite Greenberg responsible for breaking up the band. As he cannot tolerate parties, he doesn't want to talk to people, he wants to find a connection. He forces himself to connecting with his brother's personal assistant Florence (Greata Gerwig) where it's her whose trying to restart his life.

Greenberg is the omega male. Opposite to the alpha male, he's the lowest person of the male social structure. He doesn't want to be held responsible, socially inept and doesn't want to keep up with his peers. Ben Stiller nails this intriging character study. You don't need to like his character because of his anti-social and possibly strange behaviour, but at least you could understand why he's doing it because he's a damaged person who suffer from anxiety. Greenberg may be autistic (in that case he's Aspergers) since he doesn't want to adopt to social gatherings yet he's intelligent in many things (which may be the only positive note of the character).

A film directed by Noah Baumbach whose a frequent collaborator with Wes Anderson, the dude knows dysfunction to his characters and it is well written and so has it been directed. The supporting cast is also great especially Greta Gurwig whose character's in and out of a relationship who's on the verge of becoming an "it"girl and the best thing is that she kindly reflects on Greenberg who can be at times prickly. Rhys Ifans does a good job, but I really want to see more of his presence of his character.

I myself reflect to Greenberg. Like him, he hates everything around his world. Like him, I want to find a connection. And like him, he quotes "hurt people hurt people" which I do.

IF you don't enjoy characters whose behaviours are certainly strange yet they are perfectly norman, then you're not going to like this film. But if you have anxiety or who want to connect with people and at the same time forget about the past, see this movie.