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 TUNEFUL TALE: Slumdog Millionaire Until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences finally comes to its senses and starts giving out that Best Kiss Oscar, there’ll always be room for other perspectives on the cinematic achievements of the year. To that end, we polled our readers on 2008’s most beautiful babes (of both genders), most awesome-est action scenes, and which movies and performances just plain blew. The illuminating results are below—the envelope, please… MOVIE MOST OVERLOOKED BY THE ACADEMYWhile Hollywood rewarded the late Heath Ledger’s playful, creepy performance as the Joker, readers apparently felt the movie itself deserved some of that shine as well. Jonathan Demme’s very deserving wedding-set dramedy also got love.
30% The Dark Knight MOST OVERLOOKED PERFORMANCEClint’s growly, self-directed performance in his latest—for which he really pulled out all the stops, even singing the end-credits song—gets recognized by Mirror readers, with Jean-Claude Van Damme’s soul-baring act as himself in second. 24% Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino BEST SOUNDTRACKHard to top Slumdog’s zeitgeist-nailing A.R. Rahman/M.I.A. combo, though ABBA’s unimpeachable pop hooks were enough to bring Mamma Mia! in as a close second. But not even LCD Soundsystem and MGMT could get anyone to care about 21.35% Slumdog Millionaire BEST MALE BODBat-stud Christian Bale just edges past Bond babe Daniel Craig in this year’s battle of the screen studs—though don’t count out Mickey Rourke, who proved this year he still has the goods.
27% Christian Bale, The Dark Knight BEST FEMALE BODLike her Wrestler co-star Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei proves that if you’ve still got it, it’s worth it to flaunt it—Mirror readers at the very least will appreciate the effort.33% Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler WORST PERFORMANCEMike Myers’ bizarre faux-Indian shtick as The Love Guru wins this one in a landslide, with double the votes of Mark Wahlberg’s hapless, plant-conversing M. Night Shyamalan protagonist. 42% Mike Myers, The Love Guru BEST ACTION SCENESHard to argue with the choice of The Dark Knight’s IMAX-enhanced blockbuster set pieces, which also benefited from minimal CGI effects—unlike the big loser, The Incredible Hulk, which was practically a cartoon. 52% The Dark Knight MOST OVERRATEDLots to choose from in a year widely considered pretty lackluster, but the 12-Oscar-nominated Benjamin Button, which nobody seemed to really like, handily 37% The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button FUNNIEST FILMLots to choose from this year, but the Ben Stiller/Robert Downey, Jr./Jack Black/Steve Coogan supergroup behind Tropic Thunder won voters’ favour, with two Judd Apatow offerings in second and third. 29% Tropic Thunder BEST SEX SCENEThough it’s more suggested than shown, who could resist that threesome? I mean, really. You can keep your naked Nazi Kate Winslet. 46% Threesome with Scarlett Johansson, TURKEY OF THE YEARCanada loves to eat its own, and no more in the case of Mike Myers, who got both the Worst Performance dishonour and this for his universally loathed Love Guru. AND NOW FOR THE REAL OSCARS…Congratulations to Vicky Parisella, randomly selected from the pool of several readers to guess every one of the major Oscar categories (Best Picture, Best Director and all the acting categories) correctly. She wins a double pass for every Sony Pictures Releasing film to open through the end of December 2009—not bad! Coming in second place is Diane Voyer, who gets 10 DVDs from Alliance Vivafilm, and third goes to David Cyr, who gets a $100 gift certificate to Le Ryad. Good work, everyone, and thanks to our sponsors. But the real lucky (in a manner of speaking) contestant, is Patrick Pomerleau, randomly selected from the few who got every category wrong. Patrick, step up and receive your Montreal Mirror Alternative Academy Awards Lucky Loser Booby Prize Bonanza! You receive a DVD PRIZE PACK that includes Céline: Her Life Story (“If music touches your soul, you’ll love…”), Matthew McConaughey’s Surfer, Dude (“Bud, Beaches & Babes… now all he needs are waves”), Wizards of Waverly Place (“Supernaturally Stylin’”), the Air Bud Dogtastic Double Feature set (containing the original and Seventh Inning Fetch), Screamers: The Hunting (“A mind-shattering sequel”) and Disney’s The Secret of the Magic Gourd (“Includes English, Mandarin & Cantonese Language Tracks”). Ballots compiled by Jeffrey Malecki, commentary by Mark Slutsky THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT |
takes the prize. It’s also worth noting the Dark Knight backlash, a movie which our readers seem to think is both overlooked and overrated.  |
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