Good Movies People Might Have Missed This Year 3: What We Do In The Shadows

Most of this cast will be dead by the end of the film. Because they already are.
Because they are vampires. They're undead. Get it? Yeah you got it.

So what we understand about movies in general is that there is a certain build up and resolve. A hero wants something and works to get it and has this last epic encounter where he shows how much he has grown before defeating his adversary in some way or another. Mainly it is the defeating that matters anyway. As long as something vaguely enemy shaped is clubbed over the head like a seal or any other anything, we're happy as an audience. See Marvel.

Which brings me neatly to What We Do In The Shadows, created by the creators of Flight Of The Conchord's (or more specifically, Jermaine Clement and Taika Waititi), who I feel always despised this clubbing baby seals policy, preferring to go for something more awkward instead, like shaving the baby seals fur off and leaving it confused and wanting to write a letter to it's Seal Mayor. 

Good Movies People Might Have Missed This Year 1: Shaun The Sheep The Movie

Roughly five or six months from now, award chatter for Oscars and Baftas and Academy things will start. There will be speculation and hype driving movies toward nominations or awards, or certain actors being shuffled up to a pantheon. Real movies like any biopic you could care to mention will be released just in time to be nominated or to be canned as award-bait or whatever they call it, and really it's a load of balls isn't it?

A (possibly flawed) glance over the awards indicates that the majority of the heavy hitters were released around that December window - the Stephen Hawking biopic, Imitation Game, Birdman, Boyhood (no, I didn't get it) and many more. Even Whiplash, released to Sundance film festival on the 16 January 2014, wasn't released until October of the same year, which was close enough to award season for people to talk of Oscars for JK Simmonds (who played the mad scientist type Jazz teacher) along with everyone else 

My complaint I suppose isn't that these films aren't good (Whiplash in particular is fabulous) but simply the idea that films released around Autumn/Winter time stand a better chance of getting awards where really good films from the rest of the year stand a diminished chance. Which is a massive shame because films like Ex Machina may well be completely unremembered. And this pleb thinks that Shaun The Sheep Movie will suffer the same exclusion, which is a massive shame, because in said plebs opinion this film is worthy of an award because it is just really, really, really good.