Vote in the TSR Movie Awards
My friend Jeff Bayer’s site, The Scorecard Review, is hosting its 8th annual TSR Movie Awards, in which the films of 2009 are judged not by snooty, knowledgeable, well-informed members of the Academy, but by YOU, whoever you are. They’re arranged by categories: Funniest, Saddest, Scariest, etc. And it doesn’t matter how many movies you’ve seen, because you’re simply giving each nominee a score of 1 to 10, and you skip the ones you haven’t seen. So go vote here.
Funny story about the TSR Movie Awards. Jeff put up the nominees a couple weeks ago, and the “Twilight” sequel, “New Moon,” was mentioned a few times. This caught the attention of the Twilighters, who vigilantly scour the Internet for all references to their sparkle-monster franchise, and hundreds of them showed up to vote in the TSR Movie Awards. In one day, Jeff said he got twice as many votes as he’d gotten in last year’s entire contest. But the way these people “voted” was to give everything “Twilight”-related a 10 and everything else in the category a 1. In the Best Supporting Actress category, they gave Anna Kendrick high scores for her work in “Up in the Air” while giving her fellow nominees low scores. Why? Because Kendrick is also in “New Moon.”
That’s the mentality we’re talking about. “It’s a movie we love! We need to go stuff the ballot box so that it will win awards so that we can love it more!!” As punishment, Jeff deleted all those frivolous votes and removed most “New Moon” mentions from the ballot. You want to vote for “New Moon”? Too bad. Your loser friends ruined it for everyone.
The rest of you, go ahead and vote.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
For some reason that punishment just made me very, very happy. HA!
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:14 am
Jeff Bayer is a new American hero. Can we have a Bayer day for standing up to the nasty Twi-hards and giving them a big FU?
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Eric – can you post a link to the results when they are posted? I’d like to go back and see how the various choices ended up (especially the HoF votes).
Also, I’m now depressed at how few movies I actually saw last year. I had an opinion on most of them, and even thought I had seen some, because of the well written reviews here, but really I hardly saw any. Of course, voting only took a few minutes, so that was a plus.
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Same here, Neil.
I hadn’t seen most of the films listed. While that did make voting take a lot less time, I felt a little bit left out. But I also noticed that I enjoyed all the movies I saw and had no problem rating them high. (Exceptions being Transformers 2, Sherlock Holmes, and Avatar, all of which were movies I didn’t really want to see anyway.)
March 3rd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Rereading my post – to clarify, I know that I can go back myself, but I probably won’t remember. And I’m sure Eric is willing to do what it takes to drive visitors to his friend’s site.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Ooo…. I just got the follow-up email about the results – and I didn’t even have to wait for Eric to post about it. How convenient.