The Brewster Awards

With the Oscars coming up in the next month I asked myself, “If I gave out movie awards what would those awards be?” So I came up with this list of movie I reviewed this past year along with two honorary movies “Toy Story 3” and “Inception” that I didn’t review for The Pathfinder but everyone’s been talking about them and they earned a reward. I’ve given the name of the award and an explanation of why the particular movie earned that award. So here are this year’s Brewster Awards

Best Use of Dramatic Irony- City Island

For those that don’t remember dramatic irony is when the audience knows something that the characters don’t. So the characters perceive certain events as something entirely different from what it really is, and then the hilarity ensues.

Best Dialogue- Easy A

The dialogue is so fast and so witty; you have to be paying attention to get it all. Every line is also delivered with the perfect timing and tone.

Best Locations- Eat Pray Love

After seeing this movie, it’ll make you want to buy a plane ticket to Italy, India and Bali. The cinematography also shows the beauty of these countries as well.

Best Film You Probably Never Heard Of - Get Low

Unless you read the review or keep really good tabs on movie releases, you probably missed it. If that’s the case, then you need to check it out. The acting, plot and characters are all perfectly performed.

Best Boy Meets Girl/Girl Meets Boy - Flipped

This movie’s creative use of storytelling by flipping perspectives adds a unique twist to the genre. We see boy meets girl, then we get to see what she felt when girl met boy.

Best Portrayal of a Natural Disaster - Hereafter

In the five minutes we are struck with a Tsunami that is so realistically created, it feels like I was there. However, the rest of the movie isn’t that exciting, unless you think staring blankly out a window is exciting.

Best Trying Not to be Cliché but Ending up Completely Predictable - Life as We Know it

The only thing I can say about this is, at least they tried, they failed terribly (almost as terrible as the whole movie) but hey, nice try.

Best Bad Guy- Megamind

Really, Megamind should be considered one of the best villains of all time because he actually succeeded in getting rid of Metro-Man. He then goes on to be the hero, but he was a successful bad guy as well.

Best Denial of Reality- Red

I really doubt that someone could have aim that was so exact they could fire a bullet into a barrel of a gun and blow it up.

Best Use of Hair- Tangled

How she manages to use her hair as a rope and a whip with experiencing intense pain I’ll never know, wonder what shampoo she uses?

Best Destruction of the Source Material -The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I don’t know what book the screenwriter read, but it sure wasn’t the book I read as a kid.

Best 3-D Credits- The Green Hornet

The most exciting 3-D moment of “The Green Hornet” was the ending credits. The names popped-out with the car shooting bullets, it was cool… too bad the movie wasn’t.

Best Use of Profanity - The King’s Speech

A lot of films use a lot of language, but none use it more effectively or humorously.

Best Film to Watch with Subtitles and a Dictionary - The Social Network

Jesse Eisenberg’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg talks so fast and with such a large vocabulary that if you don’t, you’ll just have to watch it again just for comprehension’s sake.

Best Confusing Plot - Tron Legacy

After thirty minutes I was so confused I don’t even know what to say anymore.

Best Toughest Characters - True Grit

The title isn’t referring to any one character, it’s all of them. They’re all tough, determined and flawlessly acted.

Best Technical Difficulty - Unstoppable

Rarely does a movie so gripping begin with “whoops”.

Best Mirror of Reality - Winter’s Bone

Everything is done in such a way that makes it seems so real, the characters, the places and even the plot. It felt like I was watching real events unfold, rather than watching a film.

Best Use of Puns- Gnomeo and Juliet

Not only does this story poke fun at the original so well but the other puns in the movie are hilarious, but you have to be paying attention to get them.

Best film that Will Make You Cry - Toy Story 3

The last line “So long partner” breaks the heart and it’ll make you break out the tissue.

Best Ending that You Will Forever Try to Figure Out- Inception

Just so you know, you’ll never figure out the ending. If Christopher wanted to tell you what happened, he would have but he didn’t. It is meant to never be solved.