We all need something to take our mind of Britney and Anna Nicole. Thank goodness the time has come for The Brians. This marks the fifth year I have given awards for the best new movies which I saw in the theater during the preceeding year. In 2006, I had to bend the rules and add in movies I rented or bought on pay-per-view because we hardly made it to the movies.<\/p>\n
This year, we’re back to the old rules with lots of contenders. In no particular order (except the order I remember them), we saw “Casino Royale,” “Click,” “Stranger Than Fiction,” “Talladega Nights,” “The Break-Up,” and “Date Movie.” The field of six is the largest in Brians history, I think.<\/p>\n
We also have a new category for animated films. Those can be called the Bridgets because I came along for the ride to see \u201cCurious George,\u201d \u201cOver the Hedge\u201d and \u201cIce Age: the Meltdown.\u201d<\/p>\n
So without further ado, come down the Rivers-free red carpet and find out the winners. Best Supporting Actor: <\/strong>This was a tough category with Dustin Hoffman (Stranger Than Fiction), Christopher Walken (Click) and John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights). I have to give it to Hoffman though. The movie could have gotten too weird, but Hoffman’s character added an extra touch.<\/p>\n Best Actress: <\/strong>Kate Beckinsale, \u201cClick.\u201d Both she and Maggie Gyllenhaal from \u201cStranger Than Fiction\u201d are real pretty, but Kate gets the nod in an underrated movie.<\/p>\n Best Actor: <\/strong>Will Ferrell, \u201cTalladega Nights.\u201d Let\u2019s just say he loaned the award to Vince Vaughn for a year. Vince followed up last year\u2019s win with a mediocre performance in \u201cThe Break-Up,\u201d while Will created Ricky Bobby, one of the greatest comedic characters in recent years. Will has now won three of the five Brians for best actor.<\/p>\n Best Animated Movie: <\/strong>\u201cIce Age: The Meltdown.\u201d This one kept my attention the best. I think \u201cCurious George\u201d was too simplistic and \u201cOver the Hedge\u201d tried to cram too much into the movie. \u201cIce Age\u201d just put enough silly between the morality message for me.<\/p>\n Best Movie: <\/strong>\u201cTalladega Nights.\u201d There really wasn\u2019t much of a contest. That\u2019s not to put down the other movies I saw because this really was a good year. Some people put down this movie, but I just couldn\u2019t stop laughing. Even when I knew certain jokes were coming because of the trailer, they still made me laugh.<\/p>\n And now for the minor awards:<\/p>\n Best Song: <\/strong>\u201cLost in the Supermarket\u201d by Ben Folds from \u201cOver the Hedge.” Rock pianist Folds plus a classic from The Clash equals good times.<\/p>\n Best Scene: <\/strong>The grace scene from \u201cTalladega Nights\u201d could have been one of the single funniest scenes in recent years. I can think of close to a dozen pieces of that which will be quotable material by immature guys for years to come.<\/p>\n Best Villian: <\/strong>James Bond. Yes, Bond was a villain of sorts in Casino Royale. I really like the tougher, edgier character and hope they incorporate that into future movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We all need something to take our mind of Britney and Anna Nicole. Thank goodness the time has come for The Brians. This marks the fifth year I have given awards for the best new movies which I saw in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-movies","category-the-brians","wpcat-3-id","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-14-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBest Supporting Actress: <\/strong>Queen Latifah, \u201cStranger Than Fiction.\u201d This is the second time Queen has won this award. Her first was three years ago for \u201cChicago.\u201d<\/p>\n