Best Popcorn Flick/Best Comedy

Hey peoples, take down your God damn Christmas tree because we're here to announce two more award winners!

Best Popcorn Flick


Best popcorn flick, or the best movie to see in the theater this year, is an important award, especially to the Box Office (who may or may not be paying for us to include this category). It's kind of a hindsight award, mocking those who will never get the experience we did seeing it upon release, though I suppose if you have a big TV and surround sound you'd get most of the experience. Plus you don't gotta wear pants.


Anyways, here are our nominees for Best Popcorn Flick of 2010!


Iron Man 2
Inception
Red (2010)
The Expendables
Resident Evil: Afterlife


And the Winner is...

Iron Man 2
This was a close call, but the average film fan in me pushed Iron Man 2 just ahead of Inception, which was mostly carried by Hans Zimmer's score and like I've said, gets too wrapped up in its own concept. Ultimately, Favreau manages to overcome the shadow of the first film and keep it fresh. Is it a better movie than Inception? No, but if I had to go to see one movie in the theater right now, I'd have to pick RDJ and company for Iron Man 2 (btw, it was also the only movie I saw twice in theaters this year).


Best Comedy


Comedy movies are meant to be funny. That might sound a bit redundant, but a lot of the "comedy" films released in 2010 did not meet that simple criterion (that list is probably longer than our nominees).


The films nominated in this category succeeded in one simple think- being memorable for being funny.

Get Him to the Greek

Hot Tub Time Machine
Jackass 3D
The Other Guys

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

And the Winner is...

Get Him to the Greek
Jackass 3D was good, but we've seen it twice before. Hot Tub Time Machine was funny, but the dumb factor was a bit over the top. Get Him to the Greek was a fresh comedy with a hilarious cast (Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, two hilarious actors, were out-shined by an amazing performance by P. Diddy) and a ridiculous but completely plausible plot. The antics and random funny situations the duo of Hill and Brand get into are enough to push this movie into first place for Best Comedy... you don't even have to smoke a Jeffery to see that!