Scotty Newton - All Round Entertainer

The Scottscars 2014- Annual Movie Awards The Scottscars (the annual movie awards that every Hollywood filmmaker has their eyes on) follow. So will an actual good film make the list this year? Or will this be the year of the Transfomer? Afterwords a look at the questions I asked a year ago and a set of 2015 predictions. The Robert Pattinson Award for Best Actor :  Jake Gyllenhaal Runner Up: Benedict Cumberbatch The Kristen Stewart Award for Best Actress : Roasmund Pike Runner Up: Keira Knightley The Ghost Rider Award for Best Superhero movie : Amazing Spider-man 2 The Dragonball Evolution Award for Best CGI : Insterstellar The Scorpoin King Award for Worst CGI : The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies The Ross Gellar ‘Oh Wow!’ Award for Unexpected Brilliance : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Titanic Animated Musical Award for Best Animation : The Boxtrolls The Stan Lee a

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Film of the Year 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier is both a saviour and a fatal destroyer to the comic book movie. A film that got audiences thinking ‘actually Captain America isn’t the lamest Avenger’ and being so critically and commercially well received that people can finally forget that The First Avenger ever happened.   Excellent direction, more twists than a game of twister and a villain who nearly raises to Joker-level iconicness. Robert Redford and Anthony Mackie are excellent additions to the cast with Sam Jackson, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson all raising their game beyond anything else we’ve seen of them in the MCU.   Seriously exciting to watch action scenes with great choreography and sound editing in particular. However, this movie did so well, at least partly, because in a time when people are beginning to tire of comic book super hero films, it presented itself as a political thriller, with some superhero

Transformers: Age of Extinction Worst Film of the Year 2014             You may have realised that I am the champion of ‘bad’ movies. I even go back to my blu ray boxset of the Transformers trilogy and actually enjoy myself while watching it. I like Shia LaBoeuf, Jon Tuturro’s madness, the constant explosions and am not even worried by the ridiculous plots. I find them genuinely entertaining so I was first in line to see Michael Bay’s next attempt at assaulting my ears and eyes. And honestly, I wish I’d stayed in the line and not went into the screen. ...still more exciting than Transformers 4.            After having  initially refused to go back to Transformers after number two ( Revenge of the Fallen ), Bay openly criticised it, agreeing with his haters and saying he would right his mistakes and prove everyone wrong with number three ( Dark of the Moon ). He didn’t. And then the exact same thing happened with number four. Bay’s idea to silence his haters (he must