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The 2014 5MMG Awards - Lamest Movie of the Year

1/31/2015

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As far as I'm concerned, 2014 was a pretty great year for movies. However, not all movies can be good movies. Sometimes movies with a lot of potential end up being horribly disappointing. Sometimes they're doomed from the start. Of the 50 movies I saw in 2014, these five nominees are the bottom of the barrel. These films fell far short of my expectations, and are all pretty lousy in their own right. If you choose to watch any movie from 2014, do yourself a favor and make sure it's not one of these picks.

Lamest  Movie  of  the  Year  Nominees:


If  I  Stay

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After falling completely in love with The Fault in Our Stars, I wanted to see this movie. I thought it looked like another cute, heartfelt teen romance. Boy, was I wrong. Not only was it dull and stupid, but I found it to be offensive and amoral. With frustrating characters and  a pitiful attempt at a love story, If I Stay is an excruciatingly painful experience that should be avoided. It gives love... a bad name!

Lucy

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Directed by Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) and starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, this action movie looked like a winner. With it's intense and intriguing trailer, I was pumped to see it. It's too bad then that the trailer showed the only cool parts. The unfortunate end result is that Lucy might just be the single dumbest movie I have ever seen. I'm losing IQ points just thinking about it.

Jersey  Boys

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Directed by Clint Eastwood? Starring Christopher Walken? Sold. That's all it took to get me to walk into this death trap. Granted, I wasn't a particularly big fan of The Four Seasons when I went to see this movie, but now I have no respect for them or their music. Jersey Boys trashes their whole legacy and makes Frankie Valli look like an idiot. I can't imagine the Broadway musical was this bad, but I don't intend to find out.

Sin  City:  A  Dame  to  Kill  For

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill ranked as my 5th most anticipated movie of 2014. Needless to say, I certainly didn't see this one coming. What should have been an awesome, and stylish sequel ended up being a tiresome and droll return to Sin City. I'm still left scratching my head over how this visually stunning sequel with a star-studded cast could be so lifeless and boring. It may try really hard to be cool, but it's so far from it.

Godzilla

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Maybe my expectations were too high. Maybe I feel stiffed by the misleading trailer. Maybe I'm frustrated by the film's superhero portrayal of the legendary King of the Monsters. Whatever the reason may be, I think Godzilla fails on so many levels. It obscures the action. It teases us. It robs us of the film's only interesting character within minutes. Most of all, it never feels as big or epic as a Godzilla movie should be.

And  the  Winner  Is...


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The 2014 5MMG Awards - Introduction

1/31/2015

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the first annual 5MMG Awards! I hope you're as excited as I am! These awards have been a long time in the making and I can't wait for you to see the results! Barring the weak box office revenue, 2014 has been a wonderful year for movies. I feel blessed to have started this journey with you when I did, as I got to see a whole lot of excellent movies that I know I otherwise would have mostly missed. During 2014, I saw a personal record breaking number of 50 movies in theaters! (My previous record was probably about 4, just to give you an idea). While 2015 is already off to a tremendous start with films like American Sniper, Selma, and A Most Violent Year, these awards are about taking the time to look back at my personal favorite and least favorite movies of the last year (which means you won't see any 2015 movies nominated here). Before we get this ceremony under way, I'm going to share with you a list of all of the eligible films that were seen and considered when creating these award categories and choosing their nominees. Here they are in alphabetical order:

22 Jump Street
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Big Hero 6
Birdman
Blended
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
Boyhood
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Drop
Dumb and Dumber To
Earth to Echo
Edge of Tomorrow
The Equalizer
Exodus: Gods and Kings
The Expendables 3
The Fault in Our Stars
Forrest Gump
Fury
Ghostbusters
The Giver
Godzilla
Gone Girl

Guardians of the Galaxy
Hercules
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
How to Train Your Dragon 2
If I Stay
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Jersey Boys
John Wick
The Judge
Lucy
Maleficent
The Maze Runner
The Purge: Anarchy
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Theory of Everything
This Is Where I Leave You
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Unbroken
Wish I Was Here
X-Men: Days of Future Past


The 2014 5MMG Awards will be held over 5 days, with 5 different awards revealed each day from February 1 - February 5.
Please vote for your favorite nominees in the polls provided and leave comments sharing your own personal picks!
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