Best Film: X-Men: First Class
Best Actor: Michael Fassbender as Erik Lensherr/Magneto
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme/Mystique
Best Supporting Actor: Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast
Best Supporting Actress: Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter
Best Director: Matthew Vaughn X-Men: First Class
Best Villain: Tom Hiddleston/Loki
Best Script: X-Men: First Class
Most Inspiring Moment: Captain America bringing back Bucky and his unit back!
Best Special Effect: Asgard and the Bifrost
Best Human Special Effect: Chris Hemsworth (male) January Jones(female)
Best Costumes: Thor
Best Decision to Change a Costume for the Big Screen: Captain America
Gone Too Soon: Darwin, X-Men: First Class
Coolest Comic Book to Movie Makeover: Azazel (Jason Flemying) X-Men: First Class
Coolest Male Character I Hope to See in a Sequel: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan)
Coolest Female Character I Hope to See More of in a Sequel: Lady Sif (Jaime Alexander)
Most Perfect Casting: Chris Evans (Steve Rogers) and Hugo Weaving (Red Skull)
Best Mix of Marvel Mythology in one movie while still keeping it accessible: Captain America: The First Avenger
Honorary Award: James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier. Michael Fassbender received most of the praise but he had the more demanding role. Everyone roots for the anti-hero. Xavier was the optimistic, steady yin to Erik’s passionate, revenge driven yang. Xavier is the mentor to the other characters and McAvoy was the rock for the rest of the cast.
Honorary Award: Kenneth Branaugh! I had serious doubts about making Norse Gods, Asgard, and the Nine Realms accessible and enjoyable but he pulled it off beautifully. His Shakespearean background was perfect to infuse the Odin, Thor, Loki conflict with power and drama.
A stellar year for Marvel superhero fans at the box-office. Great action, inspiration, and emotion. Thanks to all the creators and actors who accepted the challenge of bringing our heroes to the big screen.
Thor was amazing! Kenneth Branagh never caeess to amaze me. He was the perfect choice to direct for this particular character. I was worried about how the use of humor would transfer over and not make the Asgardians seem corny, but it was placed in just the right spots. Especially the second time Thor was hit by the car. The way Hawkeye was introduced was really good. I was surprised by how emotional the film got. It really had a big moral overtone which made it that much more spectacular. The scene where a human Thor confronts the Destroyer and we see Odin’s reaction, as he is still able to see what Thor did. That was the climax of the movie for me. I can’t wait for Captain America to see how the cosmic cube will be introduced, since we got a glimpse in the post credits scene.
Thanks for the great comment! Hope you enjoy The Avengers! I’d love to know your thoughts.
How ’bout ‘Hottest Piece of Manmeat’? I nominate actor Alex Gonzalez who played ‘Riptide’ in X-Men: First Class, but I don’t know if they ever specifically ‘named’ him or referred to him by name. What a case of bad editting and a slight to a beautiful man.
Good call Scott! I don’t think they called him Riptide. They kind of slightly referred to them as the Hellfire Club – or was that just the Vegas club? Riptide was a good comic to movie makeover.