The Scottscars 2016 Movie Awards

          So it's been quite the year. Quite the year indeed. From celebrity deaths to crazy political shifts to me spending the last 8 weeks recovering from surgery, quality films have been needed more than ever to distract us average joes from the chaos of 2016.
           Once again, I didn't get to see as many new movies as I would have liked (104 to be exact, 23 of them being rewatches, but who's counting?) but the year certainly has given us some incredible highs, like when we discovered just what was really going on in Arrvial, and some facepalm inducing lows, like TMNT 2 from start to finish.

So with that, here are my thought on the past year, followed by some predictions I made last year ( which didn't go so well) and a brand new shiny set for next year. Enjoy!

THE AWARDS!


Food Fight Award for FAVOURITE ANIMATED MOVIE

Boy and the Beast

Runners up:
Zootopia
Moana
Kung Fu Panda 3
Your Name

The Mummy Returns Award for BEST CGI

Jungle Book


The Ghost Rider 2 Award for WORST MOVIE

Sausage Party
I hate everything about this movie. From treating its animation staff like dog shit to Seth Rogen and James Franco's half arsed approach to making lazy stoner movies. Unfunny, pathetic plot,  sub par animation quality due to no budget and eugh, just everything.

Runners up:
Suicide Squad
War on Everyone
Allegiant

The Arsenal Award for BIGGEST LET DOWN

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
It gives me no pleasure to write this. Bebop and Rocksteady were cool new additions, done quite well and the slightly lighter tone helped somewhat, but the whole thing was brought down by a trash human cast of forgettable characters with zero motivation and an idiotic plot.

Runners up:
Star Trek Beyond
X Men Apocalypse
Sausage Party
Suicide Squad

The Green Lantern Award for FAVOURITE SUPERHERO MOVIE

Captain America: Civil War
In what was a less than stellar year for the superhero genre, Civil War really did it for me, giving new motivations to an old cast, finally giving us the rock bottom I wanted to see Tony Stark at in Iron Man 3 and of course successfully introducing and integrating Spider-man and Black Panther to an already bloated cast. Didn't just feel like like a big set up to Infinity War either which was great and something that DC needs to take note of. This movie was nearly impossible on paper and the Russos nailed it. Bravo!

Runner up:
Doctor Strange

The Leicester City FC award for UNEXPECTED BRILLIANCE

Train To Busan
Again, a zombie film! I hate zombie films but this was so much fun!

Runners up:
The Jungle Book
Deadpool (Don't look at my predictions from last year)


The Ghost Rider Award for FAVOURITE MOVIE

The Girl With All The Gifts
If you had told me last year that a zombie movie would be my movie of the year then I would have thought the world was ending (like at do ye?) Great new take on a worn out genre with incredible visuals, deep and interesting characters and a new take on the question of who has the right to survive.

Runners up:
Creed
Boy and the Beast
Arrival
Train to Busan

THE PREDICTIONS!

Let's see how I got on with the predictions I made on this day last year.

1. La La Land to be film of the year.

Didn't get released in the UK this year so nope.

2. Deadpool will be critically panned and just about make back its budget.

Woops. Overwhelming commercial and critical success.

3. Batfleck will win over the haters, being the only interesting thing about Batman Vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Yes! Success!

4. Tom Holland’s Spider-man cameo in Captain America: Civil War to be the highlight of the year.

One could make a case for this. Holland's Spider-man got unanimous praise. My highlight of the year? Possibly.

5. Star Trek Beyond will be completely bland and forgettable, forcing the studio to consider a reboot.

Underperformed with a $345.3m worldwide take, but had generally favourable reviews. I thought it was boring pants though, so I'd consider a reboot. 

6. No one will care about Channing Tatum's Gambit.

It got postponed, probably indefinitely so I take this as an unintentional win.

7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows will be be praised for its lighter tone and new characters, becoming everyone's guilty pleasure and bringing in close to the $500m mark.

Bugger. Complete flop, still unfavourable reviews and caused the studio to halt plans on the third film.

Score 3/7

Oh dear, definitely the worst thing about 2016.

PREDICTIONS FOR 2017!

1. La La Land to be my film of the year. Yes, I have the right year this time.

2. Power Rangers to be the worst thing that comes out this year. Pulls in around the $300m mark but gets completely slated critically.

3. Ghost in the Shell to do well at the box office, outperforming Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but Valerian will be the much better movie.

4. xXx Return of Xander Cage kills the franchise for good this time. Performs poorly and reviews even worse. I'll love it.

5. Alien Covenant to be the Alien movie we've been waiting for with unanimous praise.

6. Blade Runner 2049 to be the best reviewed movie of next year, barring perhaps La La Land for us UK folks.

7. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 to be criticised for just copying the first film completely, bringing nothing new. Will cross $1bn at the box office though and will outgross Transformers 5: The Last Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

8. Justice League will be better than Suicide Squad and BvS, but will still be considered an unbalanced mess with a forgettable villain, awful pacing and bloated run time.

9. Spider-man Homecoming will be a huge success, with critics saying it's the best standalone superhero film since The Dark Knight.

10. Logan to be dangerously close to superhero film of the year but be let down by a few ridiculous and distracting over the top superhero set pieces, similar to how the giant robot samurai destroyed The Wolverine.

Let me know what you think! Cheers, now let's all celebrate the death of this crappy year!