3rd Annual GCRN Awards Reveal

Hi, this is Brian Ward from Shout Factory, and

you are listening to the GeekCast Radio Network.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the third annual

GCRN Awards. Yes, that's right. The GeekCast

Radio Network here on GeekCast Radio, episode

90 .5, presents the GCRN Awards, and your hosts

are... Steven C. Phillips. Okay, that was lame

now on to the awards Hello and welcome to the

third annual geek cast radio network awards I

am one arose TF2 on Mike and journey me is movie

revolt and hello. Hey, how's it going? It's going

and we're going to turn it over to the award

presenter of wait what the ghost with the most

um don't you mean the host with the most not

the ghost with the most i did that on purpose

you're no star scream you're megatron come on

man uh megatron was never a ghost to my knowledge

well he kind of was in in the zombie prime episode

anyway you really screwed this all up for me

so turning it i'll do that Yeah, I know. Now

shut up already. So we are going to be turning

it over to the host of the most, Steve Megatron,

to talk to us about the process of the third

annual GCR Awards. We've been doing this three

years in a row, ladies and gentlemen. I cannot

believe we've been doing this thing for three

years at this point. But yeah, what was the process

for this year and how is it different from last

year if any differences were there? There weren't

really a lot of differences other than the fact

that the choices, and some of the bottom -end

categories were swapped around a little bit.

We got rid of some of the network stuff and changed

it to favorite specific podcast or YouTube channel

or YouTube series or review podcast or specific

things like that to kind of... because we're

already in a network being that this year we're

in blog talk radio right so it kind of was suggested

that it would be better to not more so do that

and then again it was open entry everybody entered

in their choices and then it got narrowed down

to the top five most selected things which from

there after a couple of weeks of having it set

up like that I had to go through the fun process

of entering them all into the the drop -downs

of the top five switch I still think that this

worked better than the first year where we did

it and there were actual polls and you had to

submit each one and wait for that one to finish

so it's all one form I just like it better like

that There might be a slight tweak to it next

year it just kind of depends but this year I

Definitely saw a massive increase in the amount

of people that voted So it and the choices were

unlike Last year, I mean again some of the more

popular things are going to show up pretty heavily

in that category Whatever it may be Some of the

things were surprising I will say and then some

of them were not so surprising I think it'll

get obvious when we get to that point Why don't

you give us the category rundown as far as from

top to bottom what the categories are Well, we

had for like TV. We had drama comedy sci -fi

Action adventure new show returning and then

cartoons we had new and then returning And then

there were best new release for a video game

console, the best console, basically. Then it

went into comics with best storyline, new series,

continuing series, artist, writer, publisher.

And then we get into the film side of things

where we go best performance, animated film,

comic book film overall, special effects, drama,

comedy, sci -fi, action, adventure. And then

we get into some of the GeekCast radio related

stuff with the core podcast, the review podcast,

the partner, the special events such as this

type of setup. And then we had the stuff that's

not in our wheelhouse. The favorite review podcasts

slash videocasts. Same thing for, this was review

and then there were favorite podcasts, videocasts

as a separate. Next to that and favorite YouTube

channel and YouTube series which are again different

so Yeah, that was the complete rundown Again

may tweak some of the categories next year just

kind of depends. It's just um Dan what there

were a lot of votes yeah, okay, so all right

before I ask Dan the question I was gonna ask

him how many votes total did we get? Come back

to me. Okay. Dan, what was your process in filling

out your ballot to submit for voting? I went

with what I felt were the best choices. When

I was just doing the initial ones, it was a little

bit easier because you had a huge variety of

whatever you felt was best. But once we actually

got down to the nitty -gritty, the specific choices,

I just went with ones I felt were the strongest

and best represented. They're selected categories.

I did try to spread out the love, so I didn't

give one TV show all the awards or I didn't vote

for one movie in every category when I voted.

But that's, that's about it. You know, I didn't

really, you know, pretty self explanatory. Yeah.

For me, when it came to the movie stuff, I voted

on movies I saw. Um, I don't remember doing the

male or female performance categories and just,

I don't pay it to hell. I just don't pay attention

to some of those selections. When it came to

TV stuff, I again voted for the shows that I

liked the best that I think should win. When

it came to comic stuff, when it came to the artist

and writer, I voted who I thought most deserved

it more than any of the other categories that

were around. Uh, when it comes to the, the GCRN

category, it's like, how can you not let a bias

go along, especially for me where I am on 10,

20 different shows on the network and it's like,

how am I going to pick between powers of grayscale

and Showtime synergy? Or how am I going to pick

between the pull bag and M wire? How am I going

to pick between this or that? I honestly don't

even, and I'm sure Steve could tell me I don't

want him to, but I'm sure he could. I honestly

at this point don't even remember what I selected

for half of that stuff at this point. Steve,

you got that vote total yet? Yeah, there were

166 voters. Wow. Overall. That's awesome. Which

again was more than last year. I think that's

the interesting thing when we do these giant

events whether it's this or whether whether it's

a top 100 whether it's a wars whether it's a

whatever each year that we do one or two or however

many we end up doing throughout the year We get

more and more exposure and when this has happened

for the last seven almost seven years now, you

know We've gotten a hell of a lot more exposure

Going on and on and on the way we have been the

last few years than we have in the first year

that we were online obviously, so This goes to

show you, the longer you're around, as long as

you continue to put out quality content, the

people will notice. All right. So I think we're

going to take a quick break. You're going to

hear some sort of mashup between TV, cartoon,

movies, and other things. And we'll come back

to have the first category awards revealed after

this on the third annual GCR Awards here on GeekCast

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Awards, and Steve, what is the first category

and nominees that we're going to reveal? Well,

the first category that we will review is the

reveal, not review, is the best TV drama. The

candidates were Better Call Saul, Downtown Abbey,

Fargo, Mr. Robot, and The Blacklist. And the

winner was Mr. Robot. DJ Valentine will be happy

about that. Not too surprising. I mean, I know

that was a huge hit this summer. I watched the

first, I think, a few episodes. I mean, then

I got rid of cable, so I lost USA, but I loved

what I saw. And I know it got huge praise from

a lot of people. And it was quite unique, especially

for a USA network show. It was really different

for them. So I think what I voted for in that,

I voted for Bitter Call Saul, but I have no issue

with Mr. Robot winning, because what I did see

was great. Yeah, I think I think I remember voting

for mr. Robot because that series look like Dan

Just said that series is something that you would

not expect on the USA Network I mean don't get

me wrong the USA Network has had a lot of really

cool series before burn notice white -collar

Covert affairs all kinds of but mr. Robot basically

Breaks the mold on the you at the standard USA

Network series, and I absolutely loved it I think

where I fell off was episode 8 or 9. It wasn't

because I didn't want to watch it, but it was

because of something happened where they didn't

air it, or I think the dumbass president took

over all television networks that night for his

address or some stupid thing, and then they aired

it again at like 1 a .m. and I completely missed

it or screwed up on my DVR. I cannot wait until

hopefully that series either comes to Netflix

or Hulu Plus because I really will most definitely

be seeing that again. Steve, what did you vote

on for that category? Blacklist. Which surprisingly

was not even close. Okay, so what's the difference

between each of the nominees as far as the votes

go? Fargo was number two by far and then Mr.

Robot was like double of any category. Wow. So

it was quite interesting to see. Yeah, I mean,

I do enjoy I have enjoyed the blacklist for the

first two seasons. I've seen like the first I

think two episodes of season three. But again,

because like like Dan, I no longer have cable

television and the blacklist is not. You know,

next day on Hulu Plus, I mean, it's on NBC's

website and that kind of stuff, but honestly,

half the time I end up forgetting about it at

this point, because it's not in my face as much

as it used to be when I had cable. Alright, what

is the next category for the TV stuff? Up next

is the best TV comedy, and the candidates were

Big Bang Theory, Last Man Standing, Master of

None, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Silicon

Valley. This one was triple. Oh, no. Big Bang

Theory. Really? Yes. Followed closely by like

about two thirds of what Big Bang Theory got

was Silicon Valley. Everything else was kind

of bottom. That's somewhat surprising, just because

I feel like I don't know, like I don't really

hear. A lot of people talk big bing theory. She's

kind of just There at this point. It's established.

So I kind of get that but I don't know for me

out of those shows I I would probably I voted

for silicon valley because I feel it's the strongest

category over there masters of none is it's kind

of a comedy, but it's also Yeah, it's mostly

comedy, but that's actually a show that really

surprised me. But uh, yeah, I don't know. It's

actually a pretty solid category There's a lot

of great tv comedies right now. So With I I would

almost argue that Big Bang Theory has turned

from a comedy to almost of a drama It really

has like and I've been meaning to talk about

this for the longest friggin time when we did

Some I think it was last year. We did something

else about oh the top when we did the top 100

television series Recently or the end of 2015

I meant to talk about this. Okay Anyone that's

seen the first two or three seasons of the Big

Bang Theory can basically say it's, you know,

geek culture making fun of itself or over making,

you know, making more fun of geek culture than

really is necessary or whatever else. But if

you watch from, I would say, at least season

five onward, that show has turned into a full

on character development, character building

show with all of the main characters. At this

point, If anyone hasn't seen it, I'm sorry, there

are spoilers right here. So if you haven't seen

it recently, fast forward about three minutes.

Recently in the last two or three seasons, Leonard

and Penny have gotten married. Sheldon and Amy

are dating and Sheldon is actually like the whole...

Sheldon Cooper now is nothing like what Sheldon

Cooper was in the first season. Howard and Bernadette

got married most recently. All of that aside,

the show's changed. Yeah, it's very much changed.

Do they still poke fun at pop culture and geek

culture and make somewhat really, really bad

jokes? Sure, but it's more of a character builder

at this point. I just enjoy the characters. It

has nothing to do with the show. It's not the

greatest written thing, but it is enjoyable,

so I do get why it's there. I personally voted

for Last Man Standing, but that's because...

Out of these categories like I enjoy big bang

3, but I also enjoy last man standing, but I

also like the political pokes that are in the

show too, so That's why I watch it Cool any other

comments on on this category nope Yeah, so the

best TV sci -fi was between the contenders of

ash verse evil dead Man in High Castle, Supernatural,

Walking Dead, and Doctor Who. I will say that

this year it happened to actually have. The only

one that's returning, I think, from last year

is Supernatural, I believe. Walking Dead may

have been there, but I know Doctor Who wasn't,

which we got crap for, but again, it wasn't us

that put it in the vote. Funny enough, made it

in there this year, which is great. The answer

is Evil Dead. I know that that's fairly new as

well. I came out last year I think didn't it

it came out around the time of that movie and

then they made like a two Season show on some

channel. I think it's like Showtime or something.

It's on stars. It just came out last stars. Yeah,

okay I personally voted for Supernatural, but

Doctor Who won it Really? Cuz I know like I'm

hearing mostly from people that I that I know

love Doctor Who that that They were not the biggest

fans of the last season overall like the the

Overall opinion towards doctor whose last season

was mild at best like i didn't hear a lot of

great praise for it So I was actually I voted

for the man in high castle Which I thought And

it was an amazon series, which was excellent

I I could see maybe what people didn't vote for

for best science fiction series because it's

it's face it doesn't necessarily seem like a

science fiction show but it takes place in this

like parallel universe where World War two Like

had a different result, but it's an excellent

show Maybe not necessarily sci -fi in the sense

of like a Doctor Who but yeah, I mean, I guess

it's I think what you're seeing with Big Bang

Theory Winning a Doctor Who winning. It's more

so people Voting over shows their general fans

of rather than actually looking at the the season

as a whole Comparing it to like what that show

did in 2015, but maybe I'm wrong. I mean speaking

of two shows I don't really watch so yeah, I

I don't even think I voted in that category.

I don't remember I I Like I said, I voted supernatural.

I don't watch it Yeah But yeah doctor who had

over half the votes, but I think that's because

of our Dr. Who syndicated podcast that flooded

the market as it were. So moving on, we have

the best action adventure. And the contenders

in this category were Aero, Daredevil, The Flash,

Black Sails, and Hawaii Five -O. Okay, I've never

seen Black Sails. I've seen a few episodes of

Hawaii Five -O and nothing recent. I've seen

like the first few episodes of the first season

and I guess it's an action adventure. I mean,

I don't know. I think I voted for Daredevil in

this instance because Arrow is just... Arrow

is just so hit and miss. It really is. That show

goes week to week whether I enjoy it or whether

I can't stand it. It just depends on what kind

of stunts, and I don't mean the actual stunt

work, but all the kind of stupid DC tie -in stunts.

What gimmick? The oracle gimmick. That week with

the oracle thing. Oh my god. Just... But no,

Daredevil completely. Oh, that show. Season two

is coming folks March 18th, and I'm probably

gonna spend March 16th and 17th rewatching season

one to get prepared for it So what show category

The show that won the category and it was close.

I mean how close three boats Wow The flash whoa

I guess it was number two daredevil. Yep. Yeah

That's what I figured. It literally was three

votes. I was like, you've got to be kidding me.

I know a lot of people have dismissed The Flash.

Some people have. A lot of people in the circle

that I go around have not, obviously. It's easily

the best CW superhero show that they're doing.

Oh, yeah. That is a standalone hero show that's

not a team -up show, because Arrow is kind of

Team Arrow, and then Legends of Tomorrow had

just started, and that's kind of a team show.

But flash is just turned into this Emotionally

crazy roller coaster ride through the speed force

and it is just epic how they pull that show off

Yeah, I like flash a lot it's a fun show I don't

think it's even on the same level as daredevil

my storytelling wise when it comes to just the

Like, to me, Daredevil, like, what it was able

to accomplish, I mean, from its fight choreography

to the performances where it's, you know, movie

-level, some of the best stuff Marvel did, bar

none, where Flash was just, you know, it's a

good show, it's fun. But I I don't think it necessarily

has the weight of a show like like daredevil

which it shouldn't because it's not along the

same tones and like like mike I think arrow is

hit and miss at bast um black sails I've not

really touched caught up a lot with and hawaii

50 i'm That's that was a random choice, but hey,

I guess there's some love for it out there I

blame kevin for that because kevin optimus soul

loves that show Um, okay, so the differences

between flash and daredevil really quick and

then we can move on daredevil is And this is

why when people ask me to rank the superhero

shows that I watch, I put Daredevil on a whole

separate page because it's a Netflix show. I

can't compare it along with the broadcast shows,

because the broadcast shows have to fit a formula

for broadcast. They have to fit into these molds.

And the thing with The Flash is it started out

as a somewhat of Villain of the Week kind of

thing from the very first season. by episode

maybe 14 or 15 is when they really started to

bring in the whole storyline and bring in the

whole end of the season. And then it continues

now through season two. With Daredevil, you got

one day and 26 episodes in one day. And again,

you're right, Dan, with the whole, the difference

in tonal shift with, I mean, Daredevil is dark,

it's gritty, it's... You know, it has more room

to breathe than with flash because it doesn't

have to worry about commercial breaks flash does

Yeah, well there are shows that like I walking

dead is a network show and deals with commercial

breaks. I don't necessarily think that I'm gonna

get what you're saying. Like certainly with a

Netflix show you have more freedom and what you

can do You don't have to cater to the CW audience

So you don't have to like throw in romance that

makes no sense because that's what people expect

or you know You don't have to fill in filler

episodes or make stories longer than they should

be or things like that So it's but ultimately,

you know Even beyond that What your format your

show was on whatever network your show was on?

Acting is good acting and there's great acting

on network shows There's great acting and Netflix

shows and not necessarily that the actors in

that flash are bad They're great. There's some

really strong and really great actors and really

seasoned actors there It's just that you know,

it's flash is the you know, it's it's bubblegum

fun. It's a show that's not necessarily Going

for the same type of things that daredevil is

like Which is fine, but I just think that when

I'm looking at quality and overall looking at

everything that makes the show great, I think

Daredevil has it, and Flash has elements of it,

but not to the same extent. The CW definitely

rubs off on the Flash. It's part of what I think

people don't like about it. Whereas Daredevil

is kind of its own thing, and I don't disagree.

I may not care for the show of Daredevil itself.

But I can't disagree that the way it's shot and

everything all the way around is more well -rounded

than any of the other superhero shows. By far,

the Netflix stuff is better than any of Marvel's

other stuff on any other station, meaning ABC.

But no, I mean, I definitely think that out of

all the if there was another superhero show to

go against Daredevil The flash would be about

the only contender Yeah, I mean like I said the

flash is falling I would put number two so I

have no issue with it winning I think they're

they're they're going they're both great at accomplishing

what they set out to do and And we can both agree.

They're all better than arrow. So there you go

But anything's better than Gotham next up Steve

And watch season two, you'll change your mind.

I don't know. They're bringing back the fish.

So as soon as they bring her back, that shows

me. There's a gimmick to it. Just you got to

watch season two. It's better than season one.

I almost killed myself during season one. And

then it got better after I watched the DVD around

the time that season two was airing. Then it

makes sense. It's kind of like Arrow season one.

Didn't like it. The best new show of 2015. Our

contenders were Ash versus Evil Dead, Daredevil,

Mr. Robot, Master of None, and Supergirl. Wanna

take a gander at which one this might have been?

Daredevil. You are correct. It was Daredevil.

I thought, I thought for a minute there that

Supergirl was gonna win. And it was winning.

Minus one vote. So Daredevil only one by one

vote? Yes. That's insane to me. And followed

closely behind Supergirl. It was a vote down

from that. It was Mr. Robot. Interesting. See

okay, so we already talked about dare to we already

talked about mr. Robot I gotta talk about Supergirl

here because I haven't really talked about it

a lot since it premiered It's a good show. It's

a show that's finding its legs It's a show that

in its first season at this point. We're coming

up on the 14th 15th 16th episodes of the season

By that time it found its legs more than Gotham

did in season 1 Supergirl is more enjoyable again.

It's a Like Dan said before, with Daredevil and

Flash, it's more of a tone thing. Gotham is this

dark, gritty thing, and obviously the Superman

universe, the Supergirl universe, is supposed

to be bright and kind of fun and whatever else.

I really dig Supergirl. I think it's interesting

with where they're going with it, and I like

how they're able to twist a lot of these Superman

stories to turn them into stories for her for

the show. An episode a couple weeks ago they

did for the girl who has everything. and they

brought in the Black Mercy plant, which is basically

the plant that basically knocks you into the...

They did this in Justice League Unlimited with

Starro. They made Starro think everyone was in

a dream kind of thing and whatever else. I really

dig Supergirl. It's better than a lot of people

give it credit for. It's not doing that well

because they're going to have the Flash cross

over with it. It's a ratings thing. Yeah, well,

they got to do some. Well, that's exactly why

the Flash and Arrow crossover, because Arrow

needs some sort of ratings boost. I think his

ratings are actually better than the Flash and

Arrow, but it's just considering the fact that

the CBS show, so their expectations for what

CBS has for ratings is higher. So I do not think

it's like last since time slot on Mondays, but.

I've only watched I watched the first episode

and I wasn't really a big fan So I figured I

would just wait till it hit Netflix and catch

it then or what have you but uh, see, you know

people always Oh, it's a CBS show. It's not a

see it may be on CBS But it's not your standard

CBS show. It really does. It feels like a CW

show on a CBS. It should be on the CW because

of the fact that it's a Greg Berlanti show and

all of Greg's other shows. They didn't want it,

though. CW didn't want another superhero show.

They already had three. What I meant by CW, it's

a CBS show, was that, with that, like... There's

more CBS is going to have higher expectations.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Comes to ratings. Not that

it's doing bad. I think it's doing pretty well,

but not to say, you know, they have to the normal

standards of. Yeah, they have like the highest

rating shows on the planet, which tells you everything

about who watches TV. That's that's another story.

What's next, Steve? Best returning show. Oh,

boy. Contender for this is Fargo, Game of Thrones,

The Flash, The Blacklist, and The Walking Dead.

It's gonna be a two -way tie, or it's gonna be

one or two votes off between Walking Dead and

Game of Thrones, because those two fanbases are

rabid. No, it's probably The Flash. Dan nailed

it on the head. Are you serious? Yeah, Flash

won. Wow! Yep. By how much? About 10 votes. What

was second? Game of Thrones. And Walking Dead

was third, right? Yep. Wow. Well, not the last

season, but the first half of the most recent

season definitely, I think, annoyed a lot of

Walking Dead fans for those that saw it. I'll

just say the dumpster aspect of it. And then

that's where we're voting, so that could have

affected Walking Dead. But Flash is huge. I think

you don't really hear Don't really hear much

negative things about the flash. So I'm not too

surprised So are we saying that the walking dead

has have the zombies jump the shark yet? No,

the last two episodes have been great. Okay,

I've I've heard and because I don't watch the

show all that much that this season They're really

trying to change things up It's going pretty

straightforward with the comic so far this especially

the midseason premiere was Pretty in line with

the comic it's it's spreading the story out a

little bit longer than the comic did But it's

it's kind of headed and then you know They announced

a character called Negan who's showing up for

next season, which is a pretty big deal for Walking

Dead But now it's it's I mean it's a different

direction But it's still staying within the framework

that it's always been where it takes elements

from the comic and changes things here and there

But the spirit is pretty much the same Nice next

up We enter the animation cartoons category and

the best new cartoon the contenders are F is

for family mind you I've never heard of that

one, but that's actually it's a bill burr show

on Netflix, which I Only reason I knew that because

I saw it was nominated. I'm like, what is this

thing? So I looked it up on Google and it's actually

funny. Hmm Guardians of the Galaxy Transformers

robots in disguise not the 1999 or 2001 version

the 2015 yeah It's the continuation of Transformers

prime. Mm -hmm and inspector gadget Now Transformers

robots in disguise I equate to being a Transformers

version of Pokemon Is that a good thing because

I got to catch them all Well, the the main storyline

for the first season is they have to catch all

the escaped decepticon criminals. Oh There you

go they're still doing that so um so the uh the

winner by a landslide is guardians of the galaxy

yeah i've seen the first episode i have not seen

beyond that i want to it's not that i don't want

to do it i i just i have not had the time With

everything else that I'm working on right now

to check it out but I did check out the first

season the first episode of the series and I

Got to say you got to get I mean, you know, we

all know Kevin Michael Richardson is a voice

acting god, but Basically putting his own spin

on Vin Diesel's group was amazing Even though

he only says three words Transformers or what's

in this case? I'm waiting to see what season

2 does. Season 1 was cool and good. I think at

this point the comic is more fun for me. The

current IDW version comic that they're doing

for that show. I just watched episode 1 of season

2 before we jumped on and it's not in the same

vein as season 1. That's good. But I wouldn't

say I totally enjoyed it either. It's a two -parter.

So gotta wait for the second part before I can

comment, but I haven't seen Guardians of the

Galaxy But I keep forgetting that it's there.

Yeah, it's my same problem. I don't have the

channel It's on either which is another issue.

So it's on either one of those crazy 18 Disney

channel So yeah, it's the Toon Disney or Disney

XD or something But yeah the best returning cartoon

the contenders were Archer Bob's Burgers Ricky

and Morty TMNT or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

for those that don't know or Star Wars Rebels

I see I don't know about this because I know

Rick and Morty has a huge following I don't know

how much a huge following Bob's Burgers has but

I would say probably about the same They're all

pretty strong contenders I would argue Probably

gonna guess Star Wars just because it's Star

Wars I'll go I don't mmm Yeah, I'm thinking Star

Wars 2 Then you would be correct Star Wars rebels

I I've been watching TMNT, but I haven't seen

the latest season Bob's burgers and Rick and

Marty just the animation doesn't appeal to me

Archer I've just never seen Most of these, actually

all of these, I don't have any of the channels

to. I have to obtain Rebels and TMNT. But I do

enjoy everything I've watched of Rebels thus

far. They have I don't I don't know because I

don't watch the show generally but I've seen

whatever they call Archer nocturnal emissions

or nocturnal mission whatever the hell the one

that airs on FX at like midnight to 1 a .m. or

whatever it is I had seen that one or two times

but and everyone sings Archer's praises how good

it is but I just I don't know what it is I just

can't get into the series I actually just started

watching them not too long ago. I actually quite

like Archer. I've only watched a few episodes

of Star Wars Devils, but I was actually pretty

impressed by it. I thought it's kind of staying

in the same vein as Clone Wars and continuing

that pretty well. I've only watched a little

bit of Turtles, so I can't really comment. I

have a hard time getting into CG animation when

it comes to cartoons for some reason, like the

TV animated cartoons. With Turtles, we had the

third season. And we had the whole shift up because

Jason Biggs either got fired or whatever else,

and Seth Green came in and is the new voice of

Leonardo. So there was that whole shift with

season three. By the end of the third season,

they had this big old battle. And then season

four, they did what turtles always do. They go

to space. And they go to other dimensions. No,

I'm not saying it as a bad thing. I'm not saying

it as a bad thing. I'm saying it as a blanket

statement is that's what happens ever since 87.

That's what has happened in 87, 2003, and now

2012. Is that what they're gonna do in the third

movie, then? I think it's gonna go into space.

Turtles in space! I don't know. Probably, they've

already got the technodrone and Krang in the

second one, so. Yeah, I don't know. Season four,

from what I have, I've seen like the first two

episodes of season four of Turtles. It's good.

it's something different, it's, and honestly

after three seasons of fighting Krang and fighting

Shredder and doing the whole thing with Karai

and all that and everything else, I'm kind of

glad at this point that they're giving us other

aspects of the TMNT universe. So, but yeah, I'm

behind on turtles as well. So. Getting into the

next category, we get into video games. And for

the best new release category we have... Batman

Arkham Knight, Fallout 4, Metal Gear, Star Wars

Battlefront, and Transformers Devastation. Which

Metal Gear? Metal Gear Solid 5? Whatever the

newest one is. That just says Metal Gear. All

of them. I don't think we could do that. I'm

gonna assume it was Fallout. There's gonna be

a theme this episode And it's the the nostalgia

is strong Transformers devastation or just no

it ain't that kind of devastating ain't that

kind of nostalgia It has to do with something

that's hot I'm guessing Star Wars. Yes battlefront

Wow the one game on there that I've actually

played so there you go Didn't I hear a whole

bunch of things about people saying that Battlefront

wasn't that great? It's people that play Battlefield

say that it's not great. It's a very, you know,

it's like a general audience game. It's not meant

for like hardcore gamers. So I could definitely

see that. And there's it's not even like I play.

I don't know when I played it. Actually, Greg's

house from talking in circles and there's not

a huge amount to it. So if you're one of those

people that thinks like, you know, years into

a game, I could see why I wouldn't be. all that

enjoyable it's just kind of like you know something

you play with friends here and there it's not

it's not like see you mentioned like a bet like

a serious first person shooter or anything it's

it's pretty light and lightweight i guess you

would call it but you know they know it's star

wars so it doesn't really matter because they

can just make a basic game and it's going to

sell well they could slap you know the star wars

name or not you know On a coat hanger and everyone

would buy it. They sold Star Wars oranges. They

can do anything. So Next up Next up. We have

the best console and the contenders were between

the PC the PlayStation 4 the 360 and the Xbox

one Why the 360 is on there? I don't know. That's

I was gonna say that's not a people voted for

it. That's why console It was supposed to be

new, and then for whatever reason, people kept

putting 360. So it doesn't really matter. The

PlayStation 4 won this one. And the close second

was the PC, because you can rebuild them. How

far has fall Xbox has fallen? Well, Xbox One

was close to PC, actually. One vote difference,

but yeah. So, getting into comics since there's

not really much to talk about on the console

front. We have the best storyline and it's between

the following. We have Batman, Robin Hood from

Xenoscope, Dark Side War, Vader Down, and Secret

Wars. I've been meaning to read Vader Down. I

just haven't. I'm so far behind on the Star Wars.

I haven't even read the first art in the main

Star Wars on your way with Marvel. I just haven't.

I read up to issue, I think issue nine or 10

of the Darth Vader series. What was the other

ones, Steve? It was Vader Down. Secret Wars,

Dark Side War, Robin Hood, Batman. Robin Hood

is something that Steve and I spent a whole month

on last year reviewing the first three trades

of the series, the first storyline of it. Xenoscope

does the grim fairy tale stories, basically.

They take the general character and make their

own universe out of them and they've done an

excellent job and Robin Hood is no exception

Instead of a male character They make her female

and they make her some child of darkness destiny

kind of thing But it is really really cool how

they spin that out Marvel and secret wars again.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry Marvel kind of not sorry

Marvel, but I just I read that free comic book

day issue last year and I'm just like What the

hell are all these characters? I was so lost

with the freak out of the issue last year I don't

know. What was the or Dan? Did you have anything?

I'll wait till we get the actual winner It was

Batman interesting I I voted for out of that

list. I voted for secret wars because I said

to me it's the best major Marvel event story

they've they've done probably since Civil War.

Jonathan Hickman I think is you know it's really

it's a story that's been building for really

years since he started the New Avengers run a

couple years ago and it really kind of Took hold

and it was just you know, maybe it you know,

there were delays and maybe took a little bit

longer But it was an epic story and it at the

heart of it ended up being this really showing

Like how Hickman really understands the character

of doom and Richards and it was a good launching

off point for new Marvel somewhat universe The

Batman last year was quite good though and game

and the new Batman seeing Gordon take up that

reign, I thought was going to be awful, but ended

up actually being rather interesting in how they

embraced that role. So in Dark Side War was surprisingly

really good, too. I think that's one that kind

of got overshadowed last year a little bit, maybe

because of just the turmoil that was DC in 2015.

But that one is coming in hardcover. I think

next month I would check it out because it was

actually quite good and it was gorgeous to look

at as well. Did read endgame and I did read the

first couple issues of the Gordon run endgame

was great Endgame was the Joker story that death

and the family should have been I I've said this

before over in the pull bag Outside a court of

owls Scott Snyder's run for me has been pretty

anticlimactic up until endgame But but yeah,

I just Can't wait to see what Tom King does with

the title Yeah, I I don't really have a personal

preference this one because like I just I I don't

care I didn't care for much as Snyder's run of

Batman after death of the family So I've not

well zero year kind of sucked the life out of

it for us mostly for you guys I think Snyder's

been one of the best writers of Batman in quite

a long time. I just, I personally didn't care

for it. That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm

right. No, I know. And it's not necessarily his

writing style that makes me not enjoy it, but

the whole zero -year thing was, you know... It

was, hey, let's, okay, so when the new 52 launched

they did all the zero issues. And they gave somewhat

origins of each of the characters. So they had

a Batman zero issue. And now fast forward two

arcs later, they're going to do zero year, go

back and create this five year before five or

six years in the past thing. And to give him

this whole origin that apparently he never quote

unquote had before. That's, that's, that's what

I don't like about zero year is the whole timing

thing of it. And I think Steve has agreed with

this. Just I had an issue when they rebooted

the new 52 it hadn't it really didn't have anything

to do a Snyder It just happened to do with the

fact that their timeline that they created didn't

mesh with what? They were trying to say yeah,

yeah, well the the the fact that the old continuity

still took place despite The fact that Batman

had only been Batman for five years That's what

I didn't like with it and it had nothing to do

with Snyder yeah, and that stuff really doesn't

mean anything to me to be honest with you the

continuity issues like yeah They kind of reset

it was weird what DC did with new 52 but at the

end of the day The new 52 actually was a huge

benefit for them for at least you know a lot

the first few years And he had to screw up things

continuity wise and did it make sense and no

and that's why they're you know They had the

rebirth storyline for flash and green and green

lantern and trying to you know kind of reset

those characters in some way and it doesn't make

things make no sense 100 percent but at the end

of the day it's you know it's that stuff doesn't

really matter to me to me it's like ultimately

the story you're telling needs to be good and

as long as it is i'm happy with it like how things

fit for four years ago into some made -up universe

timeline history that doesn't really exist i

mean as long as it's not too confusing but i

think it's gotten to the point now where It is

been super confusing because you have something

like Titans Hunt, which is also bringing back

Teen Titans into the universe that weren't there

before. Yeah, so it's been kind of crazy. But

anyways, what's the next award? The next category

of the event are Best New Series. And the contenders

for this are Darth Vader, Long Distance, Secret

wars unbeatable squirrel girl. That's almost

a tongue twister black canary I'm gonna continue

the theme and say maybe it was Darth Vader It's

either Darth Vader or secret wars because I seriously

doubt anybody besides me and a few others have

read long distance It was Darth Vader And about

seven votes difference below that with Secret

Wars. Darth Vader's, I like it, but it's too,

like, it should have been, to me it should have

been a mini -series, and Vader Down did re -energize

it. That was a fun series, it wasn't phenomenal,

it was just kind of a cool seeing these things,

all these different characters come together

in this like insane situation, but I think Darth

Vader's a character that you... It's hard to

tell great stories with him because he's such

a you know You're you can only develop him so

much as a character, you know, so that's the

challenge but the way that Gillan Set him up

is there you know Karen Gillan I think that's

how you say it Karen Gillan is then is the writer

on that the way you set him up in the first issue

you basically it's between it's after the defeat

at Yavin and before Empire and So it's that middle

ground there. It's like what we never got to

know between the two movies I think he set it

up really well. I think he introduced some really

awesome new characters in in triple zero and

Oh God It's not The two killer Yeah, but I know

but I'm trying to God what is the art the evil

are to name it BT one. That's what it is. I was

stupid soccer ball, BB eight, bull crap. Um,

uh, so they, I think he set it up. Well, for

me, when I was, cause Dan has actually taken

over doing written reviews for Vader, at least,

at least issue number 10, you did, um, or 11,

I forget which number it was, but I originally

was writing reviews on geocacherator .com for

Darth Vader. I made it up to, I think issue seven

or eight. The problem I had with the writing

on that series was. Issue four and five felt

completely different and not in a good way. It

felt like it was a complete disconnect for me

than what happened in the first three issues.

And then issue six, it got back on track. Issue

seven, it was kind of back on track. And then

issue eight, it kind of like fell off again.

And I'm like, what the hell is going on? Is somebody

ghostwriting for Gillen or is somebody mind controlling

him or is somebody force choking him? What the

hell is going on? Because it just felt really

inconsistent from issue to issue after the first

three. I don't know why. Yeah, I never got the

inconsistency feel. I just felt story -wise it

lacked direction at times because it was so pigeonholed

into this very specific timeline. And the new

characters introduced were fine, but they got

kind of repetitive I felt like there wasn't like

they them too there were like he understands

the voice of Darth Vader really well and you

see that especially when in the most recent issue

of Darth Vader and invader down but when it comes

to trying to like find stories to tell what you

need in the comic it's hard to when you're super

limited on time and you're super limited on a

character that, you know, you can't change him

a great deal from where we left him in Star Wars

to Empire, because he has to stay somewhat consistent,

so you have to put these other characters around

him and try to tell a story there. And it's okay,

but like I said, I think it would have been better

off if they limited it to like six issues or

12 issues, but that can change in the second

arc, but as of right now, it's just... it's running

on fumes a little bit. And see that's what I

originally thought of when they started announcing

all the character arcs or the character comics

because they had Darth Vader was the first then

there was Leia then there was Chewie and then

there was Lando and I don't know what else is

coming but originally I thought Vader was just

going to be a six issue arc I didn't think it

was going to be anything longer than that and

then it kept going and going and going. Didn't

sold really well. So let's let's keep this going.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like I said, I do enjoy I

did enjoy at the time when I was reading it and

you know, I do have plans to cover in the pullback

eventually, but I Don't know As far as the secret

wars Dan you can talk about secret wars all day.

I just not Yeah, I mean I would say the first

issue like after this first issue the second

issue of secret wars It's a completely new story

So it like what came before doesn't necessarily

really matter just becomes this hodgepodge of

a world where it's like kind of insane in a way

where You have each section, which is this battle

world where you have, you know, days of future

past world taking over here. You have some Marvel

zombies over here. But within that craziness,

like I love Hickman as a writer. I always compare

him to Christopher Nolan because he has stories

that like for so very much they are. They are

thematically rich, especially for a huge summer

event story. But they're also kind of emotionally

distant, where there's almost a coldness to them,

which works well when your center character is

Doom and Reed Richards. And it all, to me, really

came ahead in its final issue, and I don't want

to give away. But if this is the... Final fantastic

four story as it's being built up to be I think

it it leads leads them off You know one of the

most iconic teams in the history of Marvel comics

at a very Great note, so I would I would definitely

recommend it It's like probably pick it up and

trade and like I said, if you don't understand

the first issue Don't worry after the first issue

things completely change and go to a different

direction. I Will say really quickly because

I've read it God knows how many times the other

series that was on the ballot here long distance.

It's a creator own series by Tom Zoller through

IDW It's essentially about two people in a long

distance relationship. It's not your average

comic It's not a superhero comic, but it is very

much a geeky comic because they are both kind

of geeks The guy in it Carter. He's an artist

the girl in it. She's a Future rocket scientist

kind of thing and it basically just talks about

them going back and forth and just the whole

thing of being in a long -distance relationship

and to me it really related to me personally,

but it's not gonna relate to everybody but at

least give it a Give it a shot What's up next

Steve best continuing series And of course some

of these are gonna play a role again We have

Batman Saga TMNT Star Wars and Miss Marvel. Mm

-hmm Are we gonna keep the Star Wars train going?

You would be correct Really? Although follow

close here was Batman. What the where did TMNT

come in? It was the bastard child of the group.

Are you serious? Yeah, Sire was pretty close

to it, though. What is wrong with you people?

If you have ever been a TMNT fan, you need to

check this out. Seriously. Yeah, we know. No,

seriously. Seriously. Because, no, OK, I was

very skeptical about this. This is IDW. This

is Turtles. I was very skeptical about this series.

for one reason i was never i never i've never

read the original comics i'm i came from the

original cartoon series in the movie so i'm used

to the color -coded bandanas i've never cared

for the all red everything bandana and as soon

as i started reading the series way back when

for almost five years ago at this point And I

saw the red bananas. I'm like, oh no, please

don't tell and my buddy Joe who reviews it with

me on the pullback He's like no, don't worry

about it. There's an explanation. It's good.

You'll like it I've been reading this series

for four and a half five years I've been covering

on the pullback for two and a half three years

at this point and Everything they've done. It's

a love letter to the entire TMNT franchise It

really is Yeah, I've read that it's a good series

but honestly about that list There's Saga and

then everything else is a distant second. Saga

right now has been the most consistent book in

comics, bar none. It's a whole new level when

it comes to science fiction, fantasy, story.

And for everyone that voted for Star Wars, if

you love Star Wars, read Saga. It's a great space

opera, brilliantly told and gorgeous to look

at. If you know Staples, her artwork is just...

breathtaking, and it's a lot of fun and funny,

so that to me is what should have won, but you

know, yeah, like I said, I think we're setting

a theme when it comes to tonight's awards, so.

Damn galaxies. Next is? Best Artist. Okay. And

the contenders were Esad Rubik. Esad Rubik. Okay.

Tom Zoller, Greg Kapilow, Stuart Eminen, Fiona

Staples. Well, Stuart Eminen did do Star Wars

a little bit last year, so I'll go with him.

He did a few issues of Star Wars. It's either

gonna be Kapilow or Staples, probably. It was

Kapilow. Yeah, figures. Staples was close, was

second. Greg Capullo. Yeah, his work is I mean,

it's it's amazing. He's a great artist So there's

no it's a pretty solid group there. So yeah,

I I voted for staples. Actually, I voted for

her Esad Rubick mostly It might have been it

probably was Esad Rubick mostly mostly for his

work in Secret Wars, but Eminen his work is always

a key Put him on a book, the book comes better.

He fixed a lot of the issues I had with Star

Wars. You know, Fiona Staples, she has Saga,

but she also did some of the first issues of

Archie last year. And that got me into reading

an Archie comic for the first time in my life.

So that says a lot. And it was actually quite

good. And I was in Kapula, you know, he's just...

Going to go down as one of the best Batman artists

ever at least of this generation And I don't

know who the other person was but like Tom Zoller

is he does he's the creator of long distance

He also did love and capes You guys probably

well, I don't know about Dan Steve. You'd probably

like love and capes. It's a superhero situation

comedy It's it's really really funny He also

works with IDW as a writer and artist on some

of the My Little Pony stuff as well. Very cool.

Alright. What do we got next? The next one is

Best Writer. And we get down to the contenders

of Brian K. Vaughan, Scott Snyder, Tom Walz,

Jonathan Hickman, and Jason Aaron. Man, I'll

go with Snyder because if Capullo won... And

my guess is his partner crime Snyder is also

gonna win I'm hoping walls because he does amazing

stuff on TMNT, but I doubt it you both lose um

It was Brian K Vaughn ah nice He had a great

year last year. He had saga of course, which

has been great paper girls, which is crazy like

80s genre story and also he we stand our ground

which was like Three really different comics

really great for different ways. So yeah, Brian

cave -on is Amazing writer so but they're all

pretty good Yeah, he won that by two votes. Well,

it was second from Snyder Snyder was winning

the entire time and then all of a sudden Brian

cave -on like came in on nowhere. Yeah, he called

him some respect He called in those minions of

his There you go. So the next one is best overall

publisher. And obviously there's the contenders

of DC, IDW, Image, Marvel, and Xenoscope. I'll

say Image. I'm hoping Xenoscope, but I doubt

it. Xenoscope only got three votes. Xenoscope,

get on that next year. It was... Marvel we can

guess why yeah, I mean they do have this Yeah,

they didn't have stores they didn't like have

like 80 % of sales last year was something crazy

like that 60 % but I don't know to me I Married

a pretty good year last year, but I would I think

images on another They're putting out great stuff

a lot of those actually a lot of the indie series

even like IDW to Boom to you know, a lot of it's

actually like a golden age for indie comics.

But yeah Marvel still a juggernaut It's turning

into that. What a DC fall second Image like third

I thought that I find surprising but well, I

guess not too surprising. It's DC Yeah, so Moving

into the film category We have best performance

which I because of the amount of votes in all

of these The round that we're nominating them

I put more than five I put seven okay So we have

Brie Larson in room Charlie's there on and Mad

Max Fury Road, Daisy Ridley in The Force Awakens,

Harrison Ford in The Force Awakens, Matt Damon

in The Martian, Fassbender in Steve Jobs, and

Sam Jackson in Hateful Eight. Uh, so which Star

Wars category won? Or nomination won? Oh, you

mean actor? Yeah. Um, Daisy Ridley. Yeah, yeah.

She was great in that. Oh yeah, she was probably

one of the best newcomers to the franchise. That's

that's the definition of a star -making performance.

So I voted for Matt Damon in The Martian because

it was my favorite movie last year and I thought

you know Damon was fantastic. He was Damon being

Damon, but He was great in that movie He was

second place though. Really? I didn't expect

him to be second. I guess I assumed Harrison

Ford would be second Joey we're home I broke

my foot damn falcon But yeah Matt Damon one second

I was I was actually kind of surprised that he

didn't take it cuz like he was taking it for

a while and then she kind of Blew up there. So

and I think that it if it were less splintered

It probably would have been higher for either

one of them. But again, I think that it wouldn't

have mattered. Yeah So yeah, I mean I'm happy

with where it landed. Best animated film. And

the contenders for that are Home, Inside Out,

Minions, Animalisa, and The Good Dinosaur. I

think it's pretty obvious. I'm gonna go with

Inside Out. I think it's probably crushed that

category. Loved for three of the movies. I've

not seen the other two I Don't know what was

it Steve inside out destroyed this category Minions

was was second though, but it was only half the

votes of inside out. We're at home fall third.

Oh, that's good Yeah, those two those three movies

minions home and inside out I would put Minions

at third place, Home at second, and Inside Out

at number one, for me personally. I liked Minions,

I thought it was good, I thought it was a nice

little prequel, kind of in the vein of Monsters...

University? Yeah, thank you. Because it butts

right up to the first film very well. Usually

when prequels are done, sometimes they don't

really do that great of a job of coming up to

what... is supposed to happen in the first film

but that one does very well home was a nice little

piece of animated cinema with a whole friend

you know what it is like to be a friend i would

say it's not as good as i'm not going to sit

here and say it is as good as but it's essentially

you know you've got a friend it's essentially

this generation's toy story for me personally

because it's basically showing The dealings of

friendship between oh and and tip and it's it's

friggin Sheldon people It's Sheldon as an alien.

We we have all known Sheldon Cooper is an alien

And inside out inside out is something Pixar

is needed for years at this point inside out

put them back on the map Yeah, and then are you

saying an original property? Oh, okay. Well,

yeah original property. Yes on a sequel Yeah,

well, I'm saying as far as original property

as far as not necessarily an original idea But

the way of exploring an original idea as far

as exploring your emotions And I mean come on

Lewis black is anger. How can you get better

than that? Yeah, it's an excellent film. So I

think it's well -deserving and the clear clip

clear -cut winner in that case. So Next so We

have the best comic film, and there were only

three in this category. Surprisingly, Fantastic

Four did not get a nomination. That is funny.

It didn't. Not even one. Because I would have

had to put it in there if it did. There's only

three in this category of ventures age of Ultron

Ant -Man and Kingsman the Secret Service Which

I did not know was a comic at the time until

like I was looking it up to verify that it was

correct Yeah, yeah, I knew it was a comic because

I had heard Millar's name thrown around Every

comic that Mike Mark Millar writes now. It has

to become a movie I think I think it's like a

roll. Yes with the devil Not the guy did kick

ass. He did kick ass. He did wanted a bunch of

stuff Okay, I'm hoping it's Kingsman because

I age of Ultron was It was okay, it was not as

good as the first Avengers movie See I enjoyed

Kingsman more out of the three but right I just

because it was absurd but it was funny and it

had action. So it was great And it wasn't like

being too serious because it gets making the

James Bond jokes. Yeah, this isn't that kind

of movie Yeah. It was Age of Ultron. Oh, God.

Come on, people. Seriously. Even I know Ant -Man

was better than Age of Ultron. Age of Ultron,

it's a okay, decent film. And while I loved it...

It was good, but it wasn't as good as what the

people's thoughts were. I think what happens

is it's unfairly going to get compared to the

original. And I think it's one that... Actually,

I went back and re -watched it. Again, and I

think it definitely went up on a rewatch and

there's a lot I think it's a fairly gonna be

people wanting that same experience they had

with the first one which you can't replicate

really Which I'm hoping people don't have the

same experience with episode 8, but I agree I

voted for Kingsman as well, but I think the hate

on Egypt Ultron has gone a little bit too far

where it's like it's kind of like people seem

to Like, the overall, you know, when it came

out, people were happy with it, but as months

have gone down, somehow the movie's got worse

and worse and worse in people's minds. And I

don't know if it's really fair. It certainly

has its issues and it's problematic, but I don't

know. I think there's still a lot of good stuff

that it has. It's just not... You know, I think

it's maybe the fact that it's, you know, a case

of diminishing returns, but I still would put

Ultron above Ant -Man. I like Ant -Man, but it

was, you know, they're about even, I guess. What

about rinse -repeat formula? With Ultron, I don't

hate it. I really don't. But the first half of

the movie... Well, I'll say this the first probably

two -thirds of the movie up until the point where

you get the Reveal or the point where you get

to the point where you realize oh, hey That's

what happened in Jarvis for me when I watched

it. I'm like, okay. I like this. I like this

I don't know where they're going with this. Oh,

there's there's James Spader's Ultron He's awesome

as we all know James Spader isn't awesome and

everything he does, you know But on a rewatch

it didn't go up a notch for me Not the first

half of the movie, it didn't. It just felt like

it was, it felt like they were phoning it in

until they revealed the whole Vision thing. Once

they revealed Vision and he was in the movie,

it was awesome. I loved it. But Kingsman on a

whole, from beginning to end, was super enjoyable.

Yeah, I don't know. I think before that you still

have the Hulkbuster fight, which was really well

done, and you have I think the farm sequence,

which I think is actually quite good and underrated

and the initial sequence on Baron Von, the Baron,

I can't forget his name. Baron Von Strucker.

Baron Von Strucker, I thought that was well handled.

But the party afterwards was fun. There's some

problems with it. I think Quicksilver is kind

of a forgettable character here and there, especially

compared to... Which is again Kind of the negative

aspect of it, but I don't know like I think all

three of these movies are good And I don't think

there's much separation between the two but like

I said I agree that I would I vote I vote for

kick -spin as well because I do agree that it's

probably the most complete out of all the three

films So Moving on to the next category we have

best overall film which includes Age of Ultron,

Fury Road, Room, The Force Awakens, and The Martian.

There's no contest. It's Room, right? Yeah, we

all know what this answer is. It's The Force

Awakens, we all know. Was Mad Max the second?

No. Age of Ultron. Really? Yeah, I Actually know

they were tied. Oh Avengers and Fury Road were

tied I voted for The Martian because I loved

it. But I don't know to me the Yeah, I get it.

It's Star Wars. It was a fun film. So what are

you gonna do? Yeah, so yeah moving on Cuz we

talked Star Wars. Yeah is best special effects.

Contenders are Ant -Man, Age of Ultron, Ex Machina,

Fury Road, and The Force Awakens. Star Wars hands

down. As much as I loved the special effects

that I saw in Ant -Man and how cool that was,

overall it has to be The Force Awakens. Yeah.

Yeah, it really it should this should work needs

to go to Mad Max because what it did was so much

either Mad Max or X Machina because what you

know what Mad Max did was putting an illness

back on Practical effects combining those with

that of CGI was so well -handled and masterfully

done. You know, Star Wars was Star Wars, it looked

great, but on just a directorial standpoint,

on like just the creativity when it came to special

effects, because special effects does not just

mean CGI, it means it incorporates everything.

Bad Max was so much better than anything else

that came out last year, and ex Machina for a

movie that like cost like $15 to make, what it

was able to do with its special effects was...

freaking insane. You know. Fifteen dollars to

make. I'm sure it costs a little bit more than

that. Compared to Star Wars, it probably had

the catering budget of Star Wars. But it's both

excellent. But yeah, again, I think it's people

seeing Star Wars and voting for Star Wars. So,

yeah, I think we can safely move on to this category.

Best drama. This is where things start to get

switched. Until there's another category with

The Force Awakens. We have Creed, Room, Spotlight,

The Martian, and Revenant, The Revenant. Wait,

Room, what the hell is Room? Because all I can

think of is that stupid horror movie, The Room.

It's different. It's a mistake of putting the

in there to begin with. The Room is different.

It just came out to DVD starting with Brie Larson.

It's hard to explain but basically it's a story

about it centers on A mother and her child. It's

really good. It was just nominated for best best

picture. So Okay, should be hitting rent boxing

It's probably the martian honestly for this one

i'd say the martian or the revenant It was uh

The martian nice see golden globes, it's not

a comedy I wasn't quite sure how that fit into

category, but like I mean it was a drama and

it was funny But it was more drama than anything

else Yeah, it was it was certainly had its levity

and it was you know, it used humor and a great

deal But ultimately it's not you know, yeah,

it's I would say it's more dramatic than it is

Comedic but yeah, it's good. I love the Martian.

It's it's you know, it's it's Ridley Scott making

great movies again, which is good to see So Yep,

that's what I voted to so best comedy the Martian

It's between that's funny It's between ant -man

spy Which didn't you know the Martian trainwreck

and we do what we do in the shadows What we do

in the shadows or what we do in the shadows?

Yeah, I misread it I Like spy but that was because

it had Jason Statham Jason Statham I hate him

normally but the fact that he was making fun

of every film he's ever been in with all of his

lines and his absurdness and Melissa McCarthy

in it like fighting back to his comments was

just hilarious the two of them worked great in

that film, but The winner in this category was

Ant -Man Just saying so I I agree. I thought

that's why I was a pleasant surprise that that

was quite good I voted for what we do in the

shadows because it is Freaking hilarious. I could

I could get I'm glad it got nominated Honestly,

because it was this really small small film a

mockumentary about vampires, which sounds awful

I know but it's it's really funny. I think it's

streaming some places now to check it out But

Ant -Man was certainly humorous. It was I think

that's what kind of sold it Any other thoughts

on this one? Best sci -fi film? Ant -Man, Ex

Machina, Star Wars The Force Awakens, The Martian,

and Chappy. Star Wars, move on. It was Star Wars.

I've seen Chappy. It was pretty decent. And obviously

the Martian was good. So yeah, I I think I wrote

it for that or ex Machina which two bros Both

good because like again, I wanted to try to spread

out the love and not give everything the Star

Wars But hey, I get it people love their Star

Wars Yeah, I gave a lot of stuff to the Martian

just because I enjoyed the movie. I watched it

like You know In prep kind of thing. Yeah, it's

good. I still haven't seen X Machina. It does

appeal to my like tastes I just haven't seen

it yet but I have seen Chappy too which was okay

and I liked it overall but I didn't like the

entire movie as a whole so yeah it was problematic

for sure so best action adventure Star Wars move

on Furious 7, Mandamax Fury Road, Mission Impossible,

Rogue Nation, Cicero and The Force Awakens And

it was The Force Awakens. What got second in

that? Because that's really what we should have

voted to. Yeah, we should. If we had limited

Star Wars, then it would have been Mad Max Fury

Road. Yeah, I think that's rightfully the best

action movie of last year. I would kind of argue

that as well, because Star Wars was more of a

sci -fi drama than an action film. I would argue

for Mission Impossible Rogue Nation because it

was it was third. I would still argue it to win

because that was no, no, no, it's. The way they

did that movie was the way they do all of them.

No, no, I actually kind of I agree with. Well,

I the way Max better, but yeah, yeah. OK, but

the way that they produced and filmed and did

the story for Rogue Nation, it is meant to be.

Something that follows the 66 television series.

It's meant to be Something that it's not a state.

It's not like mission three or mission four.

It's nothing like that They reference the entire

franchise because last year is one year away

from the 20th anniversary of the first film but

the way they did the mystery in that movie the

way they did the villain in that movie the way

that they did all of the special effects was

just so great and Not just because I've interviewed

the guy but Joe Kramer composing that music.

It was absolutely amazing So that's what I would

pick to win if we were not including Star Wars.

Yeah, I like Rodney Shin a lot too. It had some

really A great variety of different action sequences

from like one of the best sequences and that

actually was the the opera scene Yep, that was

phenomenal and you know You always had Tom Cruise

being crazy Tom Cruise and hanging off the side

of a plane But you know, but also you had an

amazing motorcycle chase and underwater stunts.

It's yeah the Mission Impossible series has gotten

better as it's comes my favorite still for but

rogue nation was right up there to me is probably

right after ghost protocol Yeah. So, switching

gears, we're getting into the Geekcast Radio

Network Awards. Star Wars. No. We don't have

a Star Wars podcast. If we did, I'm sure it would

destroy the rest of the number. Don't even think

about it, people. Just don't. We're not doing

a Star Wars podcast. No. You can listen to little

segments. You can listen to all 10 hours of Star

Wars content we've done between MYR and GCR over

the last seven years. And all the other shows.

Yeah. Core Podcasts, Geekcast Radio, Altered

Geek, Talking in Circles, The Pull Bag, and Cinema

Geeks. It's obviously we're all biased so we

voted for our own shows probably talking in circles

Honestly, cuz that's the one that gets the most

comments half the time I go you cast radio because

it's the one that has everyone has the most people

on it. I don't know I will say cinema geeks and

talking in circles tied for second place Geek

cast radio did win Wow It's the podcast with

all the special events. You have the awards,

you have the top lists, you have the top 100s.

So it kind of makes sense. So, since there's

not much to... Okay, now I have to ask. Did my

show beat yours or did your show beat my show?

My show beat your show. Fucking hell. I was quite

pleased at least with that. I beat you by two

votes, so I was happy with that. Review podcasts.

We have All Things Transformers, Future Perfect,

Pixels and the Animation, Powers of Grayskull,

and Showtime Synergy. Okay, so Future and Perfect

is essentially dead. It still got 13 votes. Go

ahead. I think it was still the bottom of the

network, but on that category. The winner was

Pixels and the Animation. Really? Yes. That surprises

me. Because last year... It was the only one

to break 20. Really? Yes. That's surprising because

last year Powers of Grayskull won and I thought

this year... It was actually second from the

bottom. Oh, you're gonna have to send me that

list because that's... And ATTF was in the middle.

I was happy. Wait, don't tell me the bottom was

Showtime Synergy. No, that was actually second

place. Oh, thank God. We'll see. Oh, be quiet.

Most of your shows are in there. What I'm saying

is that everyone should know by now, I'm the

one that does all the review shows for the most

part, the specific lengthy... In -depth review

shows and Steve has done a lot of them with me

and Michael Wilson and Kevin has a few times

as well but Last year powers of grayskull one

and I thought this year It was gonna be a fight

between powers of grayskull and Showtime synergy

which for those that don't know powers of grayskull

is the he -man masters the universe She wrote

a franchise show and Showtime synergy. Obviously

is the gym podcast. So I thought it was gonna

be those two fighting it out for number one,

but the fact that Pixel's the animation one is

just sheer luck because we hadn't had episodes

for about two and a half, three months. What's

funny is it shows people have an interest in

video games. Yeah. Leave it right there. getting

into the next category of our partner podcast.

We had Hunnic Outcast, In Session Film, Mark

Who 42, Star Joe's, and Geek Scholars. I'd say

either Mark Who or In Session. You would be correct.

In Session One, second place. Mark Who 42, one

first. Mark Who 42... I will say that the game

is so rigged in their favor. And I say this because,

and it irritates the crap out of me because this

happened last year too, and the year before that.

They, their listeners come in, vote for only

Markhu42. Yeah, people and then they leave. Yes.

Okay. This is something we need to figure I don't

know if we can figure out a way to do this in

the website or not people Please when you go

to do the fill -ins or the voting thing for our

awards Well, I could make it required that they

have to fill out the rest of them But that's

kind of a dick move because if you don't know

of any of those things in those categories You're

just voting for whatever you want just to get

to the one you want So it's gonna throw the entire

thing anyway, so I mean, I could have easily

removed them, but it would have been a bias.

No, I'm not saying remove them. I'm saying...

I just let them. It's kind of a dick move that

they didn't vote for anything else, but... Well,

okay, here's the thing. Anyone not... Not just

the Marku 42 listeners, not just their staffers,

whatever. Anybody that comes to our website around

January that goes in to fill out the ballots

or goes in to vote in February or whatever, you

should fill out the whole form. I'm sure all

of our audience knows movies, all of our audience

knows TV, knows something about comics or something

about video games. I'm not saying you have to

fill out every single piece. I didn't fill out

every single piece, but at least I filled out

75 % of the thing. Or maybe 80, I don't know.

Yeah, there's no real way to... No, I know, but

I'm saying that... Yeah, it was 82 to... The

next lowest one was in session and that was like

28 So like so mark who 42 now has a two -year

reigning championship for the best syndicated

shit What's on Joe mind? Where are you guys?

Come on? They fell asleep apparently they didn't

even get on the original ballot because they

I think they got wrote in twice and then like

everybody else dwarfed them in that so Sorry

geek scholars got four votes. So GCR in special

events boy Was the contenders between the awards

the wars tournaments even though that's wars,

but it's still a special it's top 100 countdowns

in the top tens See we didn't do outside of what

Dan does with top fives and top tens until we

didn't do a lot of top tens on GCR last year

But they still happen. So I mean the last time

we did top tens are the only time we've done

top tens was When we did the movie stuff way

back when but anyway, the winner is top 100 figured

Next year. There'll be some extra things to fly

in that category. Yeah 50s and 30s and 70s and

it would be ironic if the award show won Second

place, but it still was like two -thirds of the

votes of the top 100 Yeah, oh what wins the awards

the awards What are you talking about? No, the

awards. When the Oscars win an Emmy, you're like,

all right, whatever. I guess it just kind of

flies that way. And then, of course, we're moving

to the non -GCRN, which is the bottom half of

the awards ceremony here. And we get into our

favorite review podcast slash video podcast.

And the contenders are Talking About My Generation,

Epic Voice Guy, John Bailey epic voice epic movie

trailer voice now playing podcast simplistic

reviews and real films podcast I'm probably gonna

guess now playing because They dominate everything

what I don't know if they could win since they

essentially make everybody pay for their content

half the time and So I'm not a fan of that show

at all But second place guess it probably be

simplistic Any thoughts Dan? Well, I don't know

I listen to them I'm playing and it's not cost

me anything so I don't know But I would probably

say now planning as well because they they have

a huge fan base and they've been around forever

and it's a good podcast I enjoy it, but I don't

really and listen or I love some sick reviews,

but and now playing is like a juggernaut Well

simplistic reviews took it home nice DJ be happy.

He was worried that he would he was becoming

the bridesmaid and never the bride. Oh, no, they

they had the highest votes. It doubled the second

place. Nice. Awesome. Second. And the second

place was no playing. Yeah. So, yeah, it was

it was quite interesting to see that pop up in

that that particular order. Real films was third

place and fourth place was The talk about my

generation So moving on to the next category

we have favorite podcast video podcast Contenders

are the Batcave podcast. How did this get made?

true bromance film podcast the weekly planet

and WTF with Marc Maron Let's say either WTF

or How Did This Get Made? I don't even know.

I don't listen to any of them or watch any of

them. I don't listen to any of them either, but

the fans spoke. True Bromance took it. Really?

Nice. Yes, at number one. And with a close second

was How Did This Get Made, followed by a close

third of that is what the F... Yeah, that's it

like WTF with Mark Maron is probably looked at

as one of the best podcasts ever and rightfully

so It's you know, it's insanely good and how

does it made is freaking hilarious. It's you

know, it's One of the best shows but true Britain

brands also great podcast weeks. He had on both

both Hiram Barry on cinema geocast last this

past year. So glad to see both them in simplistic

reviews representing And getting to our second

from the last final category we have favorite

YouTube channel and The contenders are Opti bottom

us the warp zone The black nerd screen junkies

bruisey voices it's gonna become it's gonna come

between black nerd and strange on case probably

I have no idea because I I'm old and don't watch

YouTube videos like except for it's like crazy

cat videos Wow you are old remember stupid video

an albino black sheep I still watch that stupid

dancing cat video from Yvonne's world back in

the day. I show that to my kids and they think

it's hilarious. They're like, cats, I'm a kitty

cat. But yeah, it's old as hell. Anyways, the

winner for this one is Screen Junkies. To begin

with, Optibotamus was taking it to the bank.

And then his loaded army Freezed their their

asses back in the category so he got second place,

but screen junkies Got first place there So moving

into the final category of the night we have

favorite YouTube series And we have cinema sins

the nostalgia critic on his trailers epic rap

battles of history and how it should have ended

As long as it's not CinemaSins, I'll be happy.

I'm betting it's Nostalgia Critic or Epic Rap

Battles. And winning again this year is Epic

Rap Battles of History. That's okay. Is that

still going on? I don't even know if that's still...

Yeah, they're still going on. They're on break

right now, getting ready to start Season 5. They

came out with one around Christmas of Deadpool

vs. Boba Fett. There you go. Which is hilarious.

I love this series. That's one of my favorites.

I love the Honest Trailers, too, and how it should

have ended, which is really funny because it's

animated. Much like I like Screen Junkies and

the Warp Zone, too. But yeah, the epic rat battles,

I was kind of happy that they took it. you know

them or how it should have ended I was in favor

of how it should have ended it was actually number

two uh second place and then uh followed by honest

trailers so cinema sins was actually the bottom

one there yeah I just I just don't like cinema

sins because I feel so nitpicky and just awful

but whatever I know they I was watching one the

other day and I was like wow they're nitpicking

over every little detail yeah it's just like

it's a movie yeah and it's to the point where

i feel like it's i don't know it's like everything

i hate about internet criticism so it's like

obsessive compulsive that that that and the idea

of the inability to read the logic within the

film and understand that like you know Movies

like the their issues can often be explained

Throughout the film and sometimes the problems

are actually more so on them than the actual

movie And even for movies that like I think that

aren't that great. I think they're just like

they pick on easy targets I feel like they're

never gonna like it's just I don't know like

what about honest trailers is that like I love

like they're Guardians of the galaxy one because

they're like, yeah, this movie is just really

good But we're gonna try to find things and they

were they made a joke of it, but I feel sort

of my senses. It's it's It's building itself

up by taking other people down which is to me

kind of garbage and Whereas like honest trailers

is more so poking fun at itself while it's poking

fun at the film. Yeah, it's done I think with

more of a Love for the yeah, it's not it's not

as cynical and that's kind of what I don't like

about citizens. I can see that But yeah, I mean

I I'm happy with how most of this landed I think

that There was definitely a bias in Star Wars'

side a little bit. Maybe next year we'll have

to have Star Wars awards and then everything

else. Yeah, well, next year we're probably gonna

have to have a superhero awards and then everything

else because otherwise... But at least that's

more dynamic though. Well, I'm thinking because,

you know, you've got... lot of these I don't

know huge franchise films you've got Suicide

Squad so we've got Daredevil Suicide Squad Captain

America you've got Batman v Superman you've got

X -Men Apocalypse you know those are for sure

gonna show up on it plus TMNT 2 then you're gonna

have Gambit and Doctor Doctor Strange and then

Rogue One and then You know Star Trek Beyond

like a bunch of these films are gonna all show

up in this thing next year Yeah, that's a little

crazy It's gonna be pretty much like this year

except there'll be some other contenders to possibly

knock some rockers off each other There could

be surprise movies like I think The Martian was

a pretty big surprise for me There could be some

more of that for next year. We also have Jason

Bourne the newborn film. Oh, yeah, that's right

So it's a 2016 I think actually has a lot going

for it So I'm looking forward to seeing how it

pans out. I'm hoping next year that the list

is a lot more diverse Yeah, it's in the selections

of the winnings just because We'll have that

big palette of different kinds of films coming

out. Yeah So yeah, I mean it's gonna be interesting

I do plan on seeing a lot of movies. I've kind

of in its I don't know if it's because I'm Running

low on films or because I get bored watching

the same ones that I've seen because I remember

them all or because I'm taking media classes

But I definitely find with doing like screenwriting

a lot of these media classes I tend to branch

out more to watch other films. I wouldn't normally

watch Like for instance like I watched Gravity

after all the hype died down of it just to see

for myself whether I liked it or not I watched

like the Martian I watched happy like normally

these type of films I wouldn't have given the

time of day the Martian I probably would have

anyway because I like Yeah, so it's It I'm more

of a an actor watcher like if I like the actor

I'll watch whatever they're in but if I'm not

I won't seek it out so I mean I've been trying

to branch out this year and this last year so

I'm thinking I'm definitely trying to do that

again this year a lot of films nowadays and Dan

has talked about this before but It takes there's

a lot of things coming out a lot of interest

and for me personally it's just too expensive

to go to the movies every single time and There

are certain franchises that I will go to a movie

for but even now I'm more so just willing to

just wait and Just wait till it hits Netflix

or Redbox or Hulu or whatever streaming service

you use so The evil trolls don't email us and

say oh, hey, we like this one over that whatever

but but yeah, I mean I've so moved away from

movie watching. I really really have I mean I

would rather go back and watch movies that I

haven't seen in so many years then then try to

Keep up with the current generation of film.

Yeah, I mean I so love I would go to movies if

I had to Unfortunately had the time just you

know having a kid now. It's it's not as easy

as just going up and get leaving But yeah, I'm

learning to become more patient and honestly

it does save a great deal of money and then freaking

like One thing is like utilizing free services,

like already, you know, Netflix to, I mean, though

they're not free, but even like the local library,

which I'm like, you know, this past weekend,

I picked up and watched, uh, you know, some,

some, some movies I haven't watched yet and didn't

have to pay anything for them. And it's kind

of, it's, it's like, it's interesting. I'm in

this new dynamic where I used to see everything

in the theaters. So that by the time, the time

it came out on DVD and Blu -ray I've already

saw it, but now it's like, Actually can go to

red box and see movie that I haven't seen yet

It's a new it's a it's a different dynamic for

me, but it's like a new adventure every week

Yeah, so 2016 is gonna make it hard because there

I do plan on seeing some of those those tentpole

films and some of the I like I got I love the

Bourne franchise So I'm gonna try to do everything

I can to watch that when it's out. Yeah, I I'm

gonna try and make my way out to see to see Borne,

Batman v Superman. I've already seen Deadpool

and I saw The Force Awakens when it came out.

I plan on seeing hopefully TMNT and Star Trek

Beyond, because I've seen every Star Trek movie

in the theater since Generations came out, so

I want to keep that trend going, but even though

I'm not that enthused. Of course, I'm more enthused

because it's not the same writing staff, so it

might be better. But yeah, I'm kind of... It's

gonna be a sticky situation trying to figure

out movies, because unfortunately that means

that my wife has to stay behind after seeing

somebody else. Because that's what happened with

Deadpool and Star Wars. Yeah, I'm lucky my wife

had no interest in Deadpool, so I was like, I

can go buy myself a Saturday morning screening,

and I don't have to... I saw it with my brother

when it went on in the afternoon, so it was quite

great. Very cool. All righty. But yeah, so I

think that concludes the GCR and awards for this

year. And if you guys have any questions, comments,

suggestions to change it for next year or about

the winners and contenders in the winning list,

leave comments below. Yep. Yeah. Absolutely.

That's going to do it for us. You can find me

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Twitter? I am at Movie Revolt. Steve. at SCP

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