Scream 2009 Awards Nominations

Is it really worthy of its own blog? Well, yeah, I'd like to think so. I didn't just sit here for 10 minutes voting on their '32 Fan Approved Categories' (where was I when these were approved??) and I think I might let you in on who I picked with a few of them and maybe some other thoughts I have within this annual Spike TV Awards show.

The Ultimate Scream Award - I voted for Drag Me To Hell, mainly because besides Up and Star Trek in that list, everything else was pretty much asinine. I really don't get this category though. The ultimate scream? Out of all those films, Sam Raimi's fantastic horror film is the only one which made me jump. Well, Transformers made me want to jump into a brick wall face first.

Best Horror Film - That was a hard one. It really was. I truly enjoyed Splinter, got a little kick out of Dead Snow, Let the Right One In was beautiful, thought Derek Mears is the new Jason for this millenium in Friday the 13th. But I ulitmately went with the PG-13 stylings of Mr. Raimi's Drag Me To Hell. It deserves more credit than it has gotten.

Best Breakout Performance Female - Eh. Looking at this list, I only saw two names that meant anything to me. Lorna Raver from Drag Me To Hell and Lina Leandersson from Let the Right One In. Between those two, it was a tough choice. The rest are laughable at best.  Malin Akerman, although pretty to look at, was the worst part of Watchmen, the same goes for Zoe Saldana as Uhura in the new fangled Star Trek. And let's not speak about anything else from Revenge of the Fallen. Please.

Best Breakout Performane Male - Oh god. What a fucking list here. Two names sprang up, yet again, but again it was a little tough. Saw Worthington was probably the best part (besides Anton Yelchin's young rebel Reese) of Terminator: Salvation (which I didn't hate... I just thought it was bland and Bale had too much control over the script) and Chris Pine's pitch perfect young brat Captain Kirk from Star Trek. I went with Pine, even though the first time I noticed him was when he played the smallest of the Tremor Brothers in the underappreciate nutzoid action film Smokin' Aces. And any category which has two actors by the name of Taylor makes me laugh a bit.

Best Director - This one was one of the hardest for me to choose. Well, scratch Michael Bay off the list for the turdfest that raped my childhood. But the rest were all worthy choices. JJ Abrams took a decent script with tons of plotholes and made a fum Star Trek film from it. Tomas Alfredson made a creepy yet beautiful film with two of the best child actors I've ever seen with Let the Right One In. Bob Peterson and Pete Doctor worked the usual Pixar magic and made a heartwarming tribute to remembrance and redemption with Up. And Sam Raimi returned to the world of horror where we all fell in love with him in the first place with Drag Me to Hell. But I chose first timer Duncan Jones who crafted a low budget sci-fi film with one of my favorite actors (Sam Rockwell) and made a claustrophobic mind trip called Moon that I can't wait to own on DVD so I can show it to all my friends. Over and over again.

Best Sequel - You know it's a bad category when the only film I enjoyed was Punisher: War Zone. That's all I really have to say about this one.

Fight to the Death Scene - This is when they put their 'extreme' edge to the categories. It's okay, but I've seen it occur on the MTV Movie Awards already. But out of the scenes listed, I had to pick the car fight scene from Drag Me To Hell. Haven't seen it? Well, you're the reason the movie didn't do so well. Assholes.

The Holy S***! Scene of the Year - Oh, and S*** is SHIT, for all you noobs out there. Do they really need to block that word out still? Didn't South Park make the joke about this word and profanity in general 7 years ago? I still find it funny. Slightly tough, but Drag Me To Hell's seance scene takes the cake. And there's no way I would vote for anything in general from Knowing. Unless it asked for best hairpiece. And only if Jeremy Piven and Brendan Fraser were not in the running again Nicolas Cage.

I think I'm going to stop there. You can just go to Scream 2009's site to vote for all the categories. Let's vote for the good movies and kick out the Twilight's and Revenge of the Fallen's in these categories and make sure some good genre films are noticed. But who am I kidding? Robert Pattinson signed with the devil himself. It's the only way it makes sense that he's famous.