Who doesn’t like a good set of yearly movie awards? Here at Half Popped Reviews, we want to do our own version for the second year in a row, and since we don’t have the ability to send out screeners like the Academy Awards do, we can’t expect everyone to have seen all the top contenders for the year, so we’re going a slightly different route. For each award we’re giving out in the categories below, we want reviewers to do a write-up for their choice of a winner (and a runner up / honorable mention if they’d like) and why they made that choice. Either email it to us (popper [at] halfpoppedreviews [dot] com) or send us your nominees on Facebook (through a message to our page). Then I, the Review Popper, will sort through everyones lists and come up with the overall winners for each. Those winners will be chosen either by the ones that get nominated the most by the reviewers, or through the persuasive means used by the reviewers.
Listed at the bottom of this page are the movies to pick from. If there’s a movie from 2014 which you’d like to include which isn’t on the list, let me know. The list can also be found on the 2014 Page.
Perhaps most importantly, the award categories are listed below. Try to pick a winner for each.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
When the award winners are announced here on Half Popped, each reviewer who participates will have their website and Twitter promoted in that article. There will be a list of participants in addition to reviewers being hyped when their choice for an award is featured.
Also, if you let us know when you write an article with your choices, we’ll promote that on Facebook, Twitter and in the award winner announcements themselves. You’ll get more hits to your site, and that’s a good thing.
To let us know that you’ve written an article, perhaps the easiest way is to Tweet about it and mention @ReviewPopper or #HalfPopped. You can also message us at our page to let us know about it, and since most of you have probably gotten an email from me before, you can email me about your article, too.
THE CATEGORIES
Most Enjoyable Movie of 2014 – maybe it wasn’t of the highest quality, but you enjoyed it the most.
Best Picture of 2014 – top film in terms of quality from all aspects (writing, performances, directing, visuals, etc)
Best Visuals of 2014 – which film provided the most beautiful scenes
Most Surprisingly Good Movie of 2014 – perhaps you had low expectations of a movie before you saw it, and then it surprised you with its quality or enjoyment
Most Disappointing Movie of 2014 – it seems as though whatever expectations you had for a movie were too high, and after seeing it, you felt let down
Best Adaptation of 2014 – whether it’s a book being converted to the screen, a comic book brought to life (even through animation), biography or remake/reboot, which was the best of the year?
Worst Adaptation of 2014 – not all of the adaptations are a hit. Which one was the least enjoyable?
Adaptation list for consideration (others might apply):
Gone Girl
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The Two Faces of January
Big Hero 6
The Theory of Everything
The Normal Heart
Lone Survivor
A Walk Among the Tombstones
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Foxcatcher
The Fault in Our Stars
Cold in July
Godzilla
Kill the Messenger
Veronica Mars
Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The
Get On Up
A Most Wanted Man
Million Dollar Arm
The Maze Runner
Noah
Exodus: Gods and Kings
RoboCop
The Hundred-Foot Journey
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
About Last Night
The Giver
The Railway Man
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Divergent
Heaven Is for Real
Hercules
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Maleficent
Jersey Boys
Need for Speed
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Dracula Untold
The Legend of Hercules
Best Sequel of 2014 – people love to say that Hollywood doesn’t produce anything original these days, but some of them were really entertaining. Which one was the most enjoyable sequel of the year?
Worst Sequel of 2014 – not all of the sequels were great, so this is where you get to sound off about which was your least favorite!
Sequel list for consideration (others might apply):
X-Men: Days of Future Past
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Raid 2: Berandal
22 Jump Street
Muppets Most Wanted
Dolphin Tale 2
Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Amazing Spider-Man 2
The Inbetweeners 2
The Purge: Anarchy
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Expendables 3
Horrible Bosses 2
V/H/S: Viral
300: Rise of an Empire
Think Like a Man Too
Rio 2
Step Up All In
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Dumb and Dumber To
Planes: Fire & Rescue
A Haunted House 2
Sharknado 2: The Second One
See No Evil 2
ABCs of Death 2
Most Anticipated for 2015 – There’s quite a few highly-anticipated films which are already announced for 2015. Which are you most looking forward to?
The rest of them are probably self explanatory.
Favorite Action Movie of 2014
Favorite Comedy of 2014
Favorite Sci-Fi Film of 2014
Favorite Thriller of 2014
Favorite Horror Film of 2014
Best Actor of 2014
Best Actress of 2014
Best Director of 2014
Full Movies Reference List from 2014
This simply lists as many movies from 2014 that we have in our system. Others may apply.
12 O’Clock Boys
13 Sins
22 Jump Street
23 Blast
3 Days to Kill
300: Rise of an Empire
50 to 1
A Good Marriage
A Haunted House 2
A Long Way Down
A Million Ways to Die in the West
A Most Wanted Man
A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide
A Walk Among the Tombstones
ABCs of Death 2
About Alex
About Last Night
Addicted
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Alive Inside
Alleluia
Almost Human
Amazing Spider-Man 2, The
America
And So It Goes
Animals
Annabelle
Annie
Antboy
Appropriate Behavior
Are You Here
As Above, So Below
As the Palaces Burn
Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?
Automata
Back in the Day
Backcountry
Bad Words
Bang Bang Baby
Barefoot
Bears
Before I Disappear
Before I Go To Sleep
Begin Again
Beijing Love Story
Believe Me
Belle
Beneath the Harvest Sky
Beyond the Lights
Big Eyes
Big Game
Big Hero 6
Big Men
Bird People
Birdman
Blended
Blood Ties
Blue Ruin
Boyhood
Brick Mansions
Calvary
Camp X-Ray
Cannibal
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Cesar Chavez
Cheap Thrills
Chef
Clouds of Sils Maria
Cold Comes the Night
Cold in July
Creep
Cuban Fury
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Dear White People
Deliver Us from Evil
Devil’s Due
Devil’s Knot
Dinosaur 13
Divergent
Doc of the Dead
Dolphin Tale 2
Dom Hemingway
Dracula Untold
Draft Day
Dumb and Dumber To
Earth to Echo
Eden
Edge of Tomorrow
Endless Love
Exhibition
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Expendables 3, The
Fading Gigolo
Farmland
Fishing Without Nets
Force Majeure
Fort Tilden
Foxcatcher
Frank
Frankie and Alice
Frontera
Fury
G.B.F.
Get On Up
Gimme Shelter
Gloria
God Help the Girl
God’s Not Dead
God’s Pocket
Godzilla
Gone Girl
Grace of Monaco
Grand Budapest Hotel, The
Guardians of the Galaxy
Half of a Yellow Sun
Hank and Asha
Happy Christmas
Happy Ending
Happy Valley
Hateship Loveship
Heaven Is for Real
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Hellion
Hercules
Hide and Seek
Hide Your Smiling Faces
Highway
Honeymoon
Horrible Bosses 2
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, The
Hyena
I Am Ali
I Believe in Unicorns
I Origins
I, Frankenstein
If I Stay
In Bloom
In Order of Disappearance
In Secret
In the Name of the King III
In Your Eyes
Inherent Vice
Interstellar
Into the Storm
Into the Woods
Intruders
It Follows
Ivory Tower
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa.5
Jersey Boys
Jimmy P.
Jimmy’s Hall
Jingle All the Way 2
Jinn
Joe
John Wick
Jupiter Ascending
Justice League: War
Kelly & Cal
Kick
Kill the Messenger
Killer Legends
Knights of Badassdom
Korengal
Labor Day
Laggies
Land Ho!
Left Behind
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
LEGO Movie, The
Leprechaun: Origins
Let Us Prey
Let’s Be Cops
Life After Beth
Life Itself
Life of Crime
Like Father, Like Son
Lilting
Listen Up Philip
Locke
Lone Survivor
Long Distance
Losing LeBron
Love Is Strange
Lucky Them
Lucy
Magic in the Moonlight
Main Tera Hero
Make Your Move
Maleficent
Manglehorn
Maps to the Stars
Meet the Mormons
Men, Women & Children
Million Dollar Arm
Miss Julie
Mission Blue
Mistaken for Strangers
Moms’ Night Out
Monuments Men, The
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Mr. Turner
Muppets Most Wanted
National Gallery
Need for Speed
Neighbors
Next Goal Wins
Nightcrawler
No Good Deed
No No: A Dockumentary
Noah
Non-Stop
Nut Job, The
Obvious Child
Oculus
On the Other Side of the Freeway
Only Lovers Left Alive
Open Grave
Ouija
Over Your Dead Body
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Particle Fever
Penguins of Madagascar
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Plastic
Pompeii
Predestination
Pride
Raid 2: Berandal, The
Reasonable Doubt
Repentance
Ride Along
Rio 2
Rob the Mob
RoboCop
Rosewater
Sabotage
Saving Christmas
See No Evil 2
Selma
Sequoia
Serena
Sex Tape
Sharknado 2: The Second One
Shrew’s Nest
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Someone Marry Barry
Something, Anything
Son of Batman
Son of God
Space Station 76
St. Vincent
Stage Fright
Stalingrad
Starry Eyes
Step Up All In
Still Alice
Stranger by the Lake
Stretch
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Tammy
Teen Lust
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
That Awkward Moment
That Guy Dick Miller
The 50 Year Argument
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
The Art of the Steal
The Babadook
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
The Best of Me
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
The Breakup Guru
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
The Drop
The Duke of Burgundy
The Equalizer
The Fault in Our Stars
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
The Girl on the Train
The Giver
The Good Lie
The Guest
The Heart Machine
The Hero of Color City
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Homesman
The Hornet’s Nest
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hungover Games
The Identical
The Imitation Game
The Inbetweeners 2
The Infinite Man
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
The Judge
The Legend of Hercules
The Liberator
The Love Punch
The Maze Runner
The Normal Heart
The November Man
The One I Love
The Other Woman
The Overnighters
The Pact II
The Players
The Possession of Michael King
The Purge: Anarchy
The Quiet Ones
The Railway Man
The Remaining
The Returned
The Rover
The Sacrament
The Signal
The Single Moms Club
The Skeleton Twins
The Sleepwalker
The Theory of Everything
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
The Trip to Italy
The Two Faces of January
They Came Together
Think Like a Man Too
This Is Where I Leave You
Time Lapse
To Kill a Man
Tracks
Transcendence
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Tu dors Nicole
Tusk
Two Days, One Night
Uncertain Terms
Under the Skin
V/H/S: Viral
Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters
Venus in Fur
Veronica Mars
Very Good Girls
Virunga
Walk of Shame
Walking with the Enemy
We’ll Never Have Paris
What If
What We Do in the Shadows
When the Game Stands Tall
Whiplash
White Bird in a Blizzard
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Wild
Winter Sleep
Winter’s Tale
Wish I Was Here
Wolf Creek 2
WolfCop
Women Who Flirt
X-Men: Days of Future Past
X/Y
Young Ones
Zero Motivation
Zombeavers