05. Pitch Perfect 3 (2 / 2)

 

I CAN'T!!!

Girls Trip deserved better

BEST DRAMA



01. Call Me By Your Name (7 / 2)
02. Dunkirk (3 / 2)
03. Moonlight (3 / 1)
04. Manchester By The Sea (2 / 2)
05. Wonder (1 / 6)
06. Get Out (1 / 2)

After coming so close three times already tonight, Call Me By Your Name finally takes home its first award of the night!

Call Me By Your Name is an excellent drama film and deserves this award, I'm not surprised it won here one bit and this definitely felt like one of the most obvious wins of the night! This follows from last year's excellent winner Arrival which actually won this category in an even bigger landslide than CMBYN did! Arrival went on to win best picture, will CMBYN repeat this?!

In 2nd place, and definitely higher than I was expecting, is Dunkirk, the fantastic Christoper Nolan drama and it edged out Oscar BP winner Moonlight by one 2nd preference votes. This is the only nomination Moonlight scored meaning it'll be going home empty-handed but it did beat three Buzzjack Best Picture nominees here! In 4th was Manchester which started really strong and then flatlined, the only non real life Oscar Best Pic nominee Wonder takes 5th as it scoops up a massive amount of 2nd preference votes and in dead last, despite winning horror, is Get Out!

Split didn't deserve last place in horror! :( The Big Sick beating out some big BJ faves though! I didn't vote for it, but I'm not mad tbh :lol: Such a cute film and story. Best Drama was probs the most predictable category of this year tbh. Poor 'Wonder' though :(

BEST PICTURE: NOMINEE #2

Jonjo:

Where do I start with this? Just everything about this was perfect. From the casting, directing, songs, story. The cinematography and general style and feel of the film is so classic with a modern and updated twist. It pays homage to the true classic musical movies in such a gorgeous way and manages to do so whilst still be quite unique and fresh within itself. Ryan and Emma's chemistry together is still yet to be matched for me. But I am so happy it was them two instead of the heavily rumoured Miles Teller & Emma Watson! I feel like it would have been a completely different film.

Ultraviolence:

This really is an utter work of genius. From the eye-catching visuals to stunning work infront and behind the camera to the catchy tracks and the fabulous plot, this film has everything and brings out every emotion from happiness and joy to sad and regret, this is a film for the ages and a film that is surely going to become a cinematic classic in the future.

First of all lets start with the acting. Emma Stone is absolutely bloody fabulous as Mia and gives one of the best performances that I have ever seen. She portrays Mia fantastically and she is such a fabulous actress who really adds to her character and is fabulous throughout. She gives a masterclass of a performance, I adored her auditions and her final performance of The Fools Who Dream was so so heartbreaking. She gave absolutely everything to it and I haven't felt that way seeing a song performed in a non-animated movie since Anne with I Dreamed A Dream. I really hope she wins the Oscar! Ryan Gosling is also absolutely fantastic as Sebastian and he is absolutely stunning with all his great piano playing throughout the film despite only learning how to play it during the pre-production! He also gives everything to his role and portrays his character perfectly, I really couldn't imagine anyone but these 2 in these roles so it still feels crazy that this originally starred Emma W and Miles (as much as I love both of them, especially the latter!). Their chemistry is utter fire and they work so perfectly together! The rest of the cast is also great in the few moments that they get to shine, loved Rosemarie DeWitt in her one prominent scene and John Legend and Emma's friends etc were all great also and I loved J.K. Simmons in his scene as the uptight boss!

The film is such a beautiful film to look at. From the moment it starts as being presented in Cinema-Scope, I knew this was going to be something special! The colours are fabulous and the dresses are so bloody beautiful in the film! This has to sweep the technical categories such as Costumes and Production Design at the Oscars! I love the old school Hollywood feel that the visuals present and it was spectacular to see on the big screen! And I loved every second omfg! The opening scene was so joyous and I loved it all from Emma and Ryan's fabulous first meeting to the dinner scene and the auditions! It was perfect. Especially the last scene.

That montage was so f***ing beautiful and heart-breaking. I was desperate for Ryan & Emma to end up together but them failing to be both together and fulfil their dreams and destinys was so gutting but it worked perfectly. And the 'what if' of showing us what would have happened had they ended up together. Omg. It was heartbreaking and once again complimented with the absolute visual beauty of the rest of the film. The last look at each other, I was in tears at the end. It just completely hits you emotionally and is just so superb. I love how they both achieved their career dreams but the film manages to portray that they had to sacrifice each other to get to where they are.

. I loved all the references to old cinema and the references to Casablanca and Rebel Without A Cause etc <3 The relationship was so beautiful and the film was fascinating in seeing everything develop. I also loved when they saw that film being filmed and Stone/Gosling are walking passed it and admiring it, really sticks with me! Chazelle's direction is absolutely fabulous and he has really made himself become one of the hottest directors on the block with the one two punch of this and Whiplash. You can so easily tell the cast and crew's passion in this project and everything always looks so perfect.

And onto the songs. Bloody hell I haven't loved a soundtrack this much since Frozen. The songs are fabulous and the score by Justin Hurwitz is as good and is so beautiful! My review by review per songs/score! I also love the constant use of the piano playing throughout the film!
Another Day Of The Sun: Such a fun opening, felt like a fun track from a classic musical and the visuals with this are so striking! Love how they all get out of the cars just randomly during traffic and then the eventual beeping at the end of the track!
Someone In The Crowd: So so fun! They all slays this and Emma's solo slow part is beautiful and then the track kicks into full gear with that fabulous showstopping jazzy ending *.*
City Of Stars: Definitely one of the best! from the film! The song is fab and I love how Ryan and Emma's vocals compliment each other on this track. They are so fab and I love the little laughter from Stone throughout this track, really just brings joy and I loved that bit before the end where they are singing together!
Audition (The Fools Who Dream): I think this is my favourite. I still cry even when just listening to it. This is so stunning in the film with the focus just fully on Emma with barely any backing and pretty much no visuals bar Emma herself. Her vocals are so beautiful on this and the song really portrays the entire theme of dreaming with heartbreaking lyrics and Emma breaks my heart during this scene. The last part of the song where her vocals soar is just too much. So so stunning.
Epilogue: I think this is already the most I have ever listened to a 7 and a 1/2 minute song. I think this is my favourite piece of score of all time. It is just so incredible and portrays every single emotion that is elicted in the film, from the joy to the pain to the sorrow, it is ugh stunning. Hurwitz's does such a fabulous job here and I think this is in my top 3 from the soundtrack! Spoilering the rest of my review for this track so don't read the spoilers unless you have seen the film as I am spoiling the ending!

I didn't think anything could top Arrival's epilogue montage but just two months later this comes on. 7 and a 1/2 minutes that portrays everything from this film. Starting with Ryan realising Emma is in the audience and how this brings all the past emotions flooding back. And then he plays the piano stunningly for the first part of the track before the film goes into one of its best scenes, the montage. I've talked about it earlier but it was so heart-breaking to see how it could have been, how everything could have been perfect between the pair but they would have had to sacrifice their dreams. This is one of the best what if scenes of all time. One for the ages. From the uptempo joy for a couple of minutes to Ryan/Emma's first meeting with them actually kissing like in the trailer instead of him ignoring and shoving past her as we saw in the film!, to the use of the film's wonderful City Of Stars to the gorgeous sets and visuals to Ryan and Emma's stunning ballroom dancing. And then all this hope of kids and being together fades away as they pursued their careers and we just see Ryan playing piano and Emma lifeless in the audience. This is really a scene for the ages. So f***ing epic. So utterly perfect. Both cruel and beautiful, hurt and stunning, just a 7 and a 1/2 minute piece of music and stunning visuals and storytelling creates one of the best movie scenes of all time.

I could probably write more but I'm gonna stop there, I think this is the longest post I've wrote since my rate last year! :lol: I haven't loved a film this much in my entire time on Buzzjack and I am so looking forward to this sweeping the rest of the awards this year! I've had the soundtrack on repeat all day, can't wait to see this again and will be definitely getting this on DVD! Chazelle, Stone, Gosling & the rest of the cast and the crew have created something so spectacular, special and magnificent. As Emma said in her GG winning speech, this is a film to inspire dreamers. And this has inspired me so so much. Perfection.

11/10

I was going to write a new write-up but this is still my best review (apart from maybe In The Heart of The Sea xxx) on the site and I can't think of what else to write. I've pracied the soundtrack part down though!
(Don't worry no other review is gonna be anywhere near this long!!!)

Call Me By Your Name totally deserved that award. I watched it last night for the second time and it is just such a stunning film. I really hope it picks up some awards at the actual Oscars tonight.

BIGGEST BOX OFFICE FAILURE



01. Justice League (5 / 4)
02. Ghost In The Shell (4 / 4)
03. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (3 / 2)
04. mother! (2 / 0)
05. Monster Trucks (1 / 3)

Yeah there really couldn't be any other winner here.

Justice League is one of the most catastrophic failures of recent times. For a superhero film including all the massive DC heroes (especially Batman) to limp just over $200m domestically and not doing much better worldwide is something else. This is a major failure which took DC about another 10 steps back after Wonder Woman finally took them in the right direction. This takes the crown from last year's big budget flop sequel Alice Through The Looking Glass.

In 2nd place, and nearly usurping Justice League to the win, was Ghost in the Shell which died at the box office due to poor reviews + whitewashing controversies. Those two were probably the biggest failures (along with MT) so at least they came top 3. Despite underperforming, especially in comparisons to expectations, I really don't see how Star Wars 8 is the third biggest disaster of the year considering how much money it still managed to rake in and was one of the biggest films (possibly biggest?) of 2017. In 4th was mother! which was never gonna do more than it did so I'd say it did pretty well respectively and coming in last place is Monster Trucks which showed a perfect argument for why green-lighting an $115m budget film based on the idea of a movie executive's four year old child is not the best idea.

BIGGEST BOX OFFICE SURPRISE



01. The Greatest Showman (6 / 2)
02. Get Out (5 / 3)
03. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (4 / 4)
04. It (2 / 5)
05. Split (0 / 0)

The Greatest Showman already pulls off its 3rd win tonight and were barely through that many of the awards, how many more is it gonna take?!

The Greatest Showman only just scraped a nominee in this category through the tiebreak round but ends up winning the whole thing! My theory turned out to be correct that this suffered in the 1st round cos it was still starting to only just surprise but by the voting stage it had gone way more crazier and turned into a phenomenon! This film has been quite something at the box office and has incredible holds worldwide, including becoming the 1st film in UK history to go to #1 on its sixth week of release. This films box office is something else & I'd definitely read up on it if you haven't already! Way better than last year's winner 10 Cloverfield Lane which wasn't really that big of a shock. (f*** me that won a lot of random awards last year :lol:)

Just missing out on taking the win here is Get Out which was another huge success and had insane legs for a horror movie. Though as good as it did, I do kind of feel it'd be 4th for me here, idk if that's because the other films box office are more fresh in my minds but I was low-key expecting this to meet the numbers it did than all other films bar split here! In 3rd is Jumanji which also picked up a significant number of votes and has done completely insane numbers, its about to become Sony's biggest ever grossing film at the domestic box office and this could have easily have been a box office bomb + alongside TGS its been having insane holds worldwide! It was another massive winner and in a weaker year this probably would've won this category. It was expected to breakout but the numbers it did were still nearly double what anyone was expecting & it became a cultural phenomenon. That means in dead last, being one of the only things in any category this year to get 0 votes in 1st & 2nd preference votes, is Split which did do better than expected but can't hold a candle to any of these. I personally wouldn't have even had it in the final 5 but oh well!

BEST PICTURE: NOMINEE #3

Jonjo:

The first Superhero movie Marvel Studios had control over but under Sony's distribution. It was also the first full feature length movie with Tom Holland as Spider-Man. After how disappointing the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man films were, everyone seemed to be a bit sceptical until everyone saw Tom's performance in Civil War. We had no right to be. We should always trust Marvel Studios haha. Not only did Tom really encompass the role of Peter Parker, but the script & story were fantastic and it didn't feel forced! He really fits in with the MCU. I'm really excited to see more of Tom as Spider-Man and I'm hoping that we can see more of Zendaya's character in the future too!

Josh:

Tom Holland is the third Peter Parker we've seen since the start of the decade and Spider-Man was beginning to become quite the tired character amongst the general public. The past three Spider-Man films made by Sony had mixed or negative reviews and it needed something brand new and fresh (like the character film rights being shared with Disney's Marvel for the first time) to get people excited about the character again. It seemed to really work as Spider-Man: Homecoming was the most successful MCU film of 2017 at the worldwide box office making just over 880 million US dollars (making it the second most successful Spider-Man instalment ever behind only Spider-Man 3). On a personal note, Spider-Man was one of my favourite movies of last year and a lot of that is down to Tom Holland completely nailing the role. It's nice to finally see a teenage version of Peter Parker and being in school still gives a lot of opportunity for some laugh out loud comedy during the house party and homecoming scenes, for example. Of course, it was nice to see the likes of Iron Man and Aunt May pop up again too (

and Pepper Potts too!!!!

) and Im very excited to see more of Spidey in the upcoming Avengers films. Don't kill him off please so we can get more sequels to this!!!

Next categories:

Most Attractive Actor

Most Attractive Actress

Best Newcomer

 

Predict! Who do you want to win?

Sam do you get paid for just bursting that review for LLL out? Haha!

 

Amazing. :')

MOST ATTRACTIVE ACTOR



01. Chris Hemsworth (5 / 1)
02. Timothee Chalamet (4 / 0)
03. Armie Hammer (3 / 4)
03. Ryan Gosling (3 / 4)
05. Zac Efron (2 / 1)
06. Hugh Jackman (1 / 0)
07. Ansel Elgort (0 / 6)

And this year’s winner is Chris Hemsworth!

Chris Hemsworth is pretty attractive but I’d probably choose most people in this category over him! Anyway he looks good in the pics I’ve seen from Thor 3 (tf he has shorter hair now *.*). He got 5 first preference votes here and takes over from another Chris (Pratt) winning last year.

In 2nd place is Buzzjack’s fave Timothee Chalamet who is probably my least fave here so I’m kinda glad Chris won and the both gorgeous Armie & Ryan share third place <3 Ryan was third last year I’m pretty sure as well. I’m shocked Zac Efron didn’t do better than 5th after he is finally starting to look great again in The Greatest Showman and his co-star Hugh Jackman finishes just behind him. In last place is the gorgeous Ansel Elgort who failed to pick up any first preference votes but took the most 2nd preference votes in this category!

Loved Spider-Man: Homecoming too! Tom Holland is perfect as Peter Parker and it had a great balance of drama and comedy. I was also very grateful that they bypassed the origin story that we’d seen so many times before. The next Spider-Man movie will take place immediately after Avengers Infinty War Part II so I can’t wait to see that!

MOST ATTRACTIVE ACTRESS



01. Gal Gadot (6 / 5)
02. Margot Robbie (5 / 6)
03. Jennifer Lawrence (3 / 1)
04. Emma Stone (2 / 3)
05. Jessica Chastain (2 / 2)

And this year’s winner is Wonder Woman herself, Gal Gadot <3

Gal Gadot is beyond stunning and is such a deserving winner! <3 She's gorgeous & she was incredible in Wonder Woman and this is the 1st year that Margot Robbie hasn't won this category :o As you can see it was such a close race between the two of them at they pick up over half of both the 1st & 2nd preference votes!

In 2nd place is ofc the aforementioned Margot Robbie who is probs still my ultimate girl crush and she was winning this until the final vote! Into 3rd is Jennifer Lawrence who was actually dead last for most of this but got nearly all the final votes which meant that she came top 3 after nearly winning the previous two years. In 4th and 5th are regular additions to this category Emma Stone & Jessica Chastain who are both stunning as well. Such an amazing category <3

I hope this pace isn't too fast and that you guys can keep up with it! I'm aiming to get to the end of animated by 10:30 cos after that we'll be going a lot slower (unless Jack or Josh turn up).

Can't moan at any of those winners. In fact any of those that were nominated deserved the wins!

Oh and Sam, you're doing amazing. Truly :wub:

BEST NEWCOMER



01. Timothee Chalamet (5 / 5)
02. Tiffany Haddish (4 / 0)
03. Daniel Kaluuya (3 / 1)
04. Keala Settle (2 / 3)
04. Zendaya (2 / 3)
06. Lucas Hedges (1 / 5)

And ofc the winner here is CMBYN & Lady Bird's Timothee Chalamet!

I can't lie and say I completely get the hype behind Chalamet, he's good but nothing of his has wowed me yet. Anyway he was an obvious winner here and dominated both the 1st and 2nd preference votes. He takes over from Tom Holland who won this category last year (so at least this year we have someone winning I hadn't really heard of before this year!)

In 2nd place, despite being the only nominee here to not gain an acting nomination, Tiffany Haddish slays and nearly came close to winning! She's hilarious in Girls Trip & such a star in the making <3 Daniel Kaluuya is in 3rd after his breakthrough in Get Out and both The Greatest Showman actresses take joint 4th together *.* I didn't know Keala before this year but ofc I knew Zendaya but this was her breakthrough into acting with both Spider-Man & TGS! In last then is Manchester By The Sea & Chalamet's Lady Bird co-star Lucas Hedges who is definitely one of my favourites here and has turned in two terrific performances in those two films I mentioned. He only got 1 first preference vote but scooped up a lot of 2nd preference votes!

Oh and Sam, you're doing amazing. Truly :wub:

Thanks Jonjo :wub: :wub:

BEST PICTURE: NOMINEE #4

Ultraviolence:

An incredible and fantastic movie that is easily one of my 2017 favourites. This is an incredible real-life story with a killer script that deservedly got an Oscar nom. The film is fantastic and has heartfelt moments and laugh-out-loud moments. Holly Hunter in the comedy club is one of the best scenes of 2017 *.* The thing that really elevates this film for me though (bar its script) is its incredible ensemble which is one of the best of 2017. Kumail Nanjiani & Zoe Kazan are incredible together and give terrific performances, Ray Romano is fantastic as Zoe's father and Holly Hunter gave one of the best performances of 2017 which I'm still absolutely beyond gutted didn't gain any recognition at the real Oscars :cry: A fantastic film that I highly recommend to watch if you haven't seen it yet!!