The Last of The Award Shows from ‘At the Flicks’

Welcome to the At The Flicks Awards show.

What, I hear you cry – not another one. Ah, but this is not just any awards show. This is the At The Flicks ALTERNATIVE Awards show. It’s like the Razzies except we don’t pick on children – although Jeff sees everyone else as fair game, especially Neil!

At the Flicks · 223: The Last of The Award Shows

Be afraid, as we let Jeff write the script again this year. That’s why the show is late being delivered to you. You see, we had to run it past our lawyers first. It took months for them to check over the details, which resulted in some of the awards having to be removed from this recording and put in the At The Flicks vault, never to be heard again (although Graham has said we can be bribed). During the consultation period, things got so tense with our team of lawyers, one left us to work for Donald Trump instead. His parting words were “Trump is sane compared to you lot”!

As we said, Jeff wrote most of the script for these awards, with one exception. That exception is the one Graham insisted on writing and presenting. It is of course, his most look forward to moment on the show – the annual Mel Gibson Movie Of The Year award. To be fair, this year there were many options. Although it went a bit far when Graham said he wanted to present The Mel with an award for each of the nominations, as he couldn’t pick just one film. When we told him that wasn’t possible, Graham initially stormed off the red carpet, almost tripping over his little Gucci creation as he went. Luckily, we were able to get him back by waving a signed copy of Braveheart near him. I guess if we had known this show would be coming out around Easter, we could have used The Passion Of The Christ instead.

As for the other awards we are allowed to share with you, they are:

The Star Wars Award: For The Most Pointless Sequel
The Braveheart Award: For The Most Annoying Re-Writing Of History
The Hobbit Trilogy Award: For The Most Gratuitous Cash-In
The Heaven’s Gate Award: For The Most Embarrassing Failure
The Steven Seagal Award: For The Actor You Don’t Want To See Next Year – this year awarded to a previous winner, with the warning of three strikes and you’re out
The Boris Johnson Award: For The Family Film Of The Year
The Frank Die Hard 2 Award: For The Most Unbelievable Plot Developments

All other awards have been removed to prevent lengthy court cases.

Tune in to find out who was nominated and who won. Sadly, no one turned up to collect their award in person. Neil took them away promising to send them on. We are still waiting for proof of sending.

As an added bonus, we also reveal to you what our review team are most looking forward to seeing at the cinema this year. There are a couple of surprises in that list.

What about you dear listener, what are you most looking forward to seeing in what is left of 2023? Please drop us a line and tell us.

Who knows, if your film list corresponds with ours, we might see you At The Flicks.