Reel Roundtable #46 (2024)
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jump ↓Happy New Year! (it still counts, right?) Another bonus episode for your listening enjoyment as we bring you another Reel Roundtable discussion. Ian, Liam, Megan, and B-Tech Kev look back on the films they've reviewed in 2024 (with a mail-in ballot from Georgia) and have some awards to hand out in the form of The Resti…
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Happy New Year! (it still counts, right?) Another bonus episode for your listening enjoyment as we bring you another Reel Roundtable discussion. Ian, Liam, Megan, and B-Tech Kev look back on the films they've reviewed in 2024 (with a mail-in ballot from Georgia) and have some awards to hand out in the form of The Resties. Comments, banter, and flat out arguments can be found as we debate the worst that we saw in 2024 (A full list of award categories and eligible films are located at the bottom of these notes)
This year we're thrilled to have ballots from nine of our patrons (Shai, Foot, James DG, Hermes Auslander, Cheesy, Dirk, Ariannah, Norfolk Domus, and Richard) to help determine the winners and a couple of them cast some live tie-breaking votes.
The Awards:
- Worst Screenplay
- Worst Special Effects
- Worst Score
- Worst Song
- Worst Musical
- Worst Costume Design
- Worst Art Direction
- Worst Villain
- Least Funny Movie (That was supposed to be funny)
- Worst Plothole
- Worst Cinematography
- Worst Duo
- Most Unlikeable (for a character we’re supposed to like)
- Worst Child
- Worst Context Corner
- Worst First Watch
- Worst Fall From Grace
- Most Unnecessarily Sexualised Moment
- Worst Aged Moment
- Most Overhyped
- Second Opinion (Down)
- Biggest BFE Blunder
- Worst Supporting Actor
- Worst Supporting Actress
- Biggest Therapy Session
- Worst Actor
- Worst Actress
- Worst Film
Eligible Films:
- (500) Days of Summer
- 3:10 to Yuma
- A Bronx Tale
- A Patch of Blue
- Amadeus
- American Beauty
- Austin Powers in Goldmember
- Beyond the Mat
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Boyhood
- Chef
- Clerks
- Crazy Stupid Love
- Dave
- Dead Poets Society
- Dumb and Dumber
- Galaxy Quest
- Ghostbusters
- Gone Girl
- Gremlins
- Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
- Her
- In the Heights
- Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
- Interstellar
- Kramer v Kramer
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Logan
- LOTR: The Return of the King
- Mad Max
- Moana
- Mrs. Doubtfire
- Mystic River
- Nightcrawler
- Patch Adams
- Pulp Fiction
- Say Anything
- She’s All That
- Shrek 2
- Spider-Man 2
- Star Trek
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
- The Fifth Element
- The Help
- The Lego Movie
- The Lion King
- The Santa Clause
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Sixth Sense
- Trees of Peace
- Up
- When Harry Met Sally