And the award goes to...

IGN.com, the famous online entertainment magazine, has just released their list of summer movie awards. I being a geek on (almost) all things movies and awards, thought it would be nice to report it on this humble little blog. Full link here!

Note that IGN is probably one of those chauvinistic websites out there, and is therefore very (stereotypically) male-oriented. As such some of the "awards" seemed to have popped up from the minds of those high school jock-geek hybrids you see on TV.

Nevertheless, it is still a fun list and some of the awards actually surprised me, in a good way. One was Favorite Hero, as I thought Batman was to be the clear winner, but IGN convinced me that Iron Man was more deserving of the title. Another was Best Effects Sequence, which proved me right about how cool the Troll Market was in Hellboy II.

So, here's the list in full:

1. Best Summer Movie - The Dark Knight
2. Best Animated Movie - Wall-E
3. Favorite Fizzle - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4. Favorite Hero - Tony Stark/Iron Man (Iron Man)
5. Favorite Villain - The Joker (The Dark Knight)
6. Best Cameo - Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (Iron Man)
7. Babe of the Summer - Natalie Martinez in Death Race
8. Best Effects Sequence - Troll Market Scene (Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
9. Greatest Explosion - The Hospital Explosion (The Dark Knight)
10. Gunfight to End All Gunfights - Supermarket/Car Chase Gunfight (Wanted)
11. Craziest Car Chase - Speed Racer
12. Best All-Out Brawl - Red vs. Saul and Dale (Pineapple Express)
13. Best Kill - The Joker's "Pencil Trick" (The Dark Knight)
14. Coolest Creature - Angel of Death (Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
15. Funniest Line - "You don't ever go full retard." (Tropic Thunder)
16. Niftiest Gadget - Mark III Armor (Iron Man)
17. Hottest Trailer - Watchmen
18. Best DVD of the Summer - Spaced - The Complete Series
19. Best Blu-Ray of the Summer - Batman Begins

Whew, that was a lot of typing. So, to tally up, and if my statistics skills still match up, the following movies are the biggest winners:

1. The Dark Knight - 4 awards
2. Iron Man - 3 awards
3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - 2 awards

I couldn't agree more with IGN about the greatness of these three.