Saturday, June 2, 2007





AFTERTHOUGHTS (9)

9.1 Congratulations to Neil Marshall, whose film The Descent (or more precisely, its trailer) nabbed the award for Best Thriller at the 8th Annual Golden Trailer Awards. The Descent also won for Best Horror Poster.
Other notable winners:

Trailers
Best Action: 300
Best Drama: The Departed
Best Documentary: This Film is Not Yet Rated
Best Voice Over: Grindhouse
Best of Show: 300
Best Sound Editing: Little Children
Best Motion/Title Graphics: Transformers: Teaser
Best Anime Trailer: Paprika

TV Spots
Best Comedy: Stranger Than Fiction: Cards

Movie Posters
Best Thriller: Hard Candy
Most Original: Premonition*
Best International: The Prestige

Congratulations to all involved, particularly the companies and ad groups responsible for the trailers, teasers, and one sheets. Check out the complete list of winners at the official GTA website.

9.2 So, after that song-and-dance by Edward James Olmos and David Eick (see Afterthoughts (7) and (8): Archive: May 2007), it seems that Battlestar Galactica really is cruising off into the great beyond at the end of season 4.
Ah well, there’s still 22 more episodes and that Pegasus TV movie before I have to break out the mourning veil…

* Yes, this is one of those cases where I liked the one sheet a hell of a lot more than the movie itself. (This also happens with trailers, where that minute and a half is sometimes so much more kick-a$$ than that excruciating hour and a half plus change.)

(OS’s courtesy of horrorphile.net [The Descent, Hard Candy] and wildaboutmovies.com [Premonition, The Prestige].)

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