Techtite Feature Article!

Techtite's 2nd Annual Golden Ottos are awarded in these categories:

Movies

DVDs

Multimedia

Television

Video Games

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What? No Video Game Awards?... ...sadly, Techtite's Video Game department is practically brand new, with the exception of a paltry number of reviews in past years. Although a revival of the page is now underway, it was not deemed appropriate to offer awards in a genre with so many consoles (PS2, XBOX, Gamecube), many of which were only recently purchased. See awards for these systems in the 2002 awards...

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Movies:

We here at Techtite.com like to give honor to the "lucky 7" of the best films of the year. That said, here they are:

Best Movie of the Year: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. This was a tougher choice than you'd think because there were a lot of great films this year. However, when you look at the scope of material Peter jackson had to work with, there really is no other choice. Let the Academy Awards imply Peter Jackson didn't deserve a best director nomination; we here at Techtite.com know better.

Best Animated Film: Ice Age. This was an easy call. Lilo & Stitch had some laughs, though I couldn't get past the muppet heads to accept it as a major animation achievement. Conversely, Treasure Planet was visually stunning with its giant galleons in space, yet the story was surprisingly disappointing, regardless of its classic novel origins. Ice Age had the best of both worlds; good laughs and good computer graphics as well. As for Scrat the squirrel, he was by far the best new animated character incantation since Buzz & Woody. Let's see more of him soon.

Honorable Mentions:

Changing Lanes; an excellently woven tale of two guys crawling their way back to the top after hitting rock bottom

Gangs of New York, another Martin Scorsese masterpiece that need no explanation as to why,

Minority Report, the best movie based on a Philip K. Dick sci-fi tale since Blade Runner.

Signs; call me a M. Night Shyamalan fanboy but I loved it,

Spider-Man; the best super-hero film since X-man (with X-man 2 coming in 2003, and Spider-Man 2 coming in 2004; things look very good for comic fans!),

 

...and on added nod to Chicago, if just because making a popular musical in 2002 would seem so difficult, and these guys made it seem so easy!

 

Worst Movie of the Year: Death to Smoochy. You can pick on Roberto Benigni if you wish, and Madonna as well; their movies this year were pretty rotten, too. However, for all its lack of vision, for it having the potential to be a good film yet...NO, and for how it not only leaves the viewer with disappointment, but simple and utter bile; Smoochy is the true "loser" here.

DIShonorable Mentions:

Collateral Damage, for its inept pacifism force fed into a Schwarzenegger film that would appear to allow for NONE,

Crossroads, for its appearance as an ABC after school special from the 1970's with Britney in the lead role,

The Wild Thornberrys Movie, because of its total female chauvinist pigisms, where all male characters are either 1) inept fathers, 2) villains, or 3) total idiots,

and Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio, because...do I really need to explain this one?

 

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