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Nerds on Earth presents the Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Movie of 2018.

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The Nerdies” are the end-of-year awards from Nerds on Earth. They are only awarded to the most excellent of things, and are selected by Nerds on Earth writers and editors, with input from readers via our social media.

Our category today is “Most Excellent Movie,” and what a year for nerdy movies it has been.

This year’s slate was super impressive (pun totally intended), but we narrowed it down to four before opening the vote to determine the winner of the Nerdie Award for Best Movie.

2018 Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Movie

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A Quiet Place

The thing that impresses me about A Quiet Place is the detail. The sand-strewn walking paths, a fuzzy, lumpy, silently rotating baby mobile–all of it shows the level of thought and planning that John Krasinski gave as he wrote, directed, and acted in this tightly-wound thriller.

The movie is downright Spielbergian at certain points: the siblings’ fight to fend off the monsters and Emily Blunt’s grim determination to protect her children at any cost (as she tells her movie and real-life husband, “Who are we if we can’t protect them?”) channel the master’s 1980s classics in the best ways.

All of these small details add up to a film that will leave you jumping at every loud noise for the next 24 hours after you see the film.  – Kerry

 

Avengers: Infinity War

Ten years of movies. Ten years. Avengers: Infinity War packed 19 movies worth of world-building and character work into a film that ends in a cliffhanger. Given the scope and grandiose vision of the MCU over the last 10 years, there should be no way that Infinity War works, yet everything about it does.

It’s a movie that takes audiences to a dozen different locales and threads a story across 3 dozen characters. Then, with a snap, the movie is over and audiences are left wondering what Kevin Fiege and company will do to top yet another billion dollar movie in the mighty Marvel juggernaut. We’ve never seen a movie like this ever before, yet wouldn’t you know it, we only need to wait a year for the followup.   – Clave

 

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Mission Impossible should be an old, tired worn out story. And yet, with this year’s addition, Mission Impossible: Fallout, we see and are reminded that that we still just need excellent, adventurous summer movies.

Now, it would be easy to put it in the same category as something like the Rock’s Skyscraper movie, but that would also be a disservice to the work of the directors and writers who bring new ideas and stories to the world that is more led by the producers than the directors.

The scenes and work of writer and director Christoper McQuarrie really did help to make it the best action film in several years and worth checking out!  – Jaws

 

But the Nerdie Award winner for the Most Excellent Movie of 2018 is…

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Black Panther

Black Panther was a smash hit for all the right reasons. It had the rightful support of the black community for showcasing an incredible and largely black cast, and the story-telling and visuals made it a “must watch over and over” selection for fans of all colors and creeds. From known stars like Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa and Michael B. Jordan as Killmonger down through relative newcomers like Winston Duke as M’Baku, this film was full of home-run performances. In fact, picking a favorite character from this movie would be nearly impossible.

There is really no weak link in Black Panther. The plot is compelling as an origin story of sorts for the kingdom of Wakanda within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it boasts strong heroes, villains and everything in between. The visuals are also incredible, as is a soundtrack that masterfully complements the action throughout.

With so many strong entries just in the MCU, it’s truly a feat how emphatically Black Panther has cemented itself as one of the best superhero films of all-time, and it has a strong claim for the top spot. For those reasons, it is no surprise that Black Panther won the Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Movie of 2018.  – Jeremy

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Weekly Nerd Chat: 2016 Nerdie Awards https://nerdsonearth.com/2016/12/weekly-nerd-chat-2016-nerdie-awards/ Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:00:36 +0000 https://nerdsonearth.com/?p=11316

Clave, Jason, and Adkins reflect on the best of 2016's nerdy offerings.

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Us nerds like nothing more than to banter back and forth on nerdy topics in Slack. Here is one of those chats, very lightly edited.

Weekly Nerd Chat: 2016 Nerdie Awards

Clave We’ve been writing about nerdy stuff for a couple years now, but we’ve been nerds all our life. It’s only fitting that we’ve used our platform to award the best stuff out there for nerds. Hence, the Nerdie Awards for Excellence!

So let’s spend a bit talking about our award winners. First up was Acquisitions Incorporated, which won the Nerdie for Best RPG Experience. Good sirs, I need your thoughts!!!

Adkins We actually had the pleasure of watching the most recent AI event together. It was my first experience and I absolutely loved it! Lots of laughter, high production quality; it entertained at least as much as most movies do.2016 best rig experience acquisition incorporated

Clave So what do you think the trend of watching others play D&D is doing for the hobby?

Jason I think watching is fun but it should be a gateway drug. Also, I worry watching high end story tellers like Patrick Rothfuss play may run off others from the RPG experience.

Play more games! Take a chance!

Adkins With DnD and other RPGs, watching others play actually grants you an opportunity for growth that, say, watching baseball doesnt. When I watch an MLB game, I don’t improve any skills as a baseball player. But while watching others play RPGs I can easily grow both as a player and as a DM. That’s glorious.

Clave Yes, a tremendous opportunity to see that the experience of roleplaying games is engaging! It gets a bad wrap in the larger culture, so AI, Critical Role, and others really did their part in 2016 to lessen the stigma of tabletop gaming.

[Pushes clutch; shifts gears] There were a lot of good movies in 2016 so the selection was tough. Doctor Strange didn’t even make our slate, for example! Adkins, jump in and talk about your Nerdie Award for Best Movie.

Adkins The field was a tough one this year, and we caught more than a couple of questions about whether or not we considered Rogue One. But I’ll go out on a limb and say Civil War still takes the cake.

Jason Yep. Rogue One isn’t a bad movie at all. But Civil War is epic and a tremendous piece of film

Adkins Even though Civil War sparked more than a few contentious exchanges between us Nerds2016 nerdie best movie civil war black panther (specifically about who was right: Cap or Iron Man), the one thing we were unanimous about was that movie’s awesomeness.

Epic action, well designed conflict, smooth introduction of new characters that have a LOT of future cinematic potential. Top to bottom: Great movie.

Clave Jaws, you reviewed these movies for the site. What were your thoughts on Civil War winning the Nerdie?

Jason It was the best movie this year. Champion of the catergory and box office for a reason. It has to do a lot with characters including introducing two new ones and not completely resolving everything. That second part is hard; see Iron Man 2.

Clave Cool. Well let’s shift to TV, since you wrote up our Nerdie there. What was engaging about Luke Cage?

Jason I think it’s authenticity is a big part. It is a show about inner city life that was made by people who have lived that life.

Luke Cage as a reluctant hero works well and the soundtrack is magnificent.

Clave A small slate of 4 means that any of the shows is deserving, making the final selection tough. Adkins, did you have a darkhorse for television show or was your pick Luke Cage as well?

Adkins I honestly don’t watch much TV, so I rely 100% upon you guys and your recommendations. I mean, I was going to watch some Luke Cage anyway because its M@#$Y F@#$%^&^% Luke Cage, but the show held my attention really well and I can’t WAIT to see him teamed up with Iron Fist (whose show I hope is equally solid).

Jason Yes! Heroes for Hire!

Clave I think our final writer selections largely went lockstep with the votes from our readers, but comics was where the field was wide open. It’s difficult to select a slate of only 4 comics from the Big 2 (Marvel and DC) when they have so many beloved properties. I had never even read The Vision, and I’m a big ‘ole comic nerd. Talk a bit about a selection that is a little out of left field.

 

Jason It was our Nerdie but I am seeing it on a lot of people’s Best Of… lists. Tom King is the2016 best comic the vision proverbial man. And The Vision story was compelling because it was/is one complete set piece.

Clave Yes, Tom King was the writer our our pick for best Indie comic as well. Ross was masterful in the writeup of that Nerdie, so I’ll just let folks read for themselves. Kudus to Tom King and yay for comic readers who are being gifted with more and more talent in the hobby.

Jason I think it could be one of those books that you can hand to non-comics people and, if they have a bent to that story, they will love it. I still can’t believe Marvel let it happen to a major character.

Clave There will be even more categories of Nerdie Awards coming next year, but what do you think of the overall slate and what the quality means for nerds?

Adkins It makes living into our mission statement easy, man. Sure, there are things that we could complain about and nitpick, but why waste that time when there’s an abundance of the praiseworthy out there?

Clave For sure. There is no reason to hunker down and complain if you are a nerd. It’s too easy to find something you’ll love!

Jason Absolutely. We are living at peak nerd. It is a beautiful thing to find what you love and nerd out on it.

Clave BTW, did anyone order trophies for the nominees and winners? Did we assign that to someone?

Adkins Pretty sure that’s Nash’s job.

Clave Anyone want to call a shot for 2017 or would you rather just bask in the nerdy goodness of 2016’s winners?

Adkins Jason is an accurate shot-caller. I’ll leave the prediction up to him!

You are, too, for that matter.

I’m too slow on uptake.

Jason Prediction: Thor is best marvel movie ever! Planet Hulk!

Clave Well, my prediction is that you two win the 2017 Nerdie Award for Best Besties and All Around Awesome Nerds, which would make your second year in a row. Thank you, gentlemen. I’m going to go follow up with Nash on those trophies.

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Nerds on Earth presents the Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Movie of 2016.

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The Nerdies” are the end-of-year awards from Nerds on Earth. They are only awarded to the most excellent of things, and are selected by our writers, with input from readers via our Facebook page.

Our category today is “Most Excellent Movie,” and what a year for nerdy movies it has been.  In 2006 – just ten short years ago – we were treated to three superhero movies from the Big Two:

  • V For Vendetta 
  • X-Men: The Last Stand
  • Superman Returns

In 2016, we saw twice as many (that’s six for those keeping up at home), and 2017 promises just as many.  And that doesn’t even count other sci-fi/fantasy movies that tickle our fancies.

This year’s slate was super impressive (pun totally intended), but we narrowed it down to four before opening the vote to determine the winner of the first ever Nerdie for Best Movie.

2016 Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Movie: Runners-Up

10 Cloverfield Lane was an unexpected treat for me.  I actually had no desire to see it initially because10 cloverfield lane poster I honestly did not care one bit for its spiritual predecessor and namesake, Cloverfield.  But then Jason started gushing about it in Slack, so I rented it at the first opportunity.

This movie totally works for me.  I love a good psychological thriller, and this is a great one.  It keeps you guessing throughout and the tension is incredibly well engineered.  John Goodman’s character Howard had me confused the whole film:  Is he is a good guy or a bad guy?  That kind of trickery and ambiguity is not often found in films nowadays and was a super welcome change of pace.

The scenery (almost 100% of the movie is filmed within the very tight confines of an underground bunker) creates one heck of a challenge for writers which I absolutely believe they overcame with flying colors.  The static scenery forces all of our attention onto the characters occupying that space, so they’d better be well written and well executed.  Check and check.

Definitely a surprise hit for me this year.

 

Arrival was this movie that seemed to sneak up on most of the nerds I know and for sure us here at Nerds on Earth. There was one quiet trailer that didn’t reveal much (a rarity in 2016) and then some unbelievable buzz as critics began to see the film. And for good reason.

We live in a world where we get science fiction movies but we tend to only get massive tent pole summer films like Independence Day: Resurgence. What we rarely get is the quiet science fiction story that focuses on a few characters even though the topic at hand has global ramifications. Arrival is that quiet type movie that is moving, deeply passionate and that has an awfully relevant message for our world today. If you haven’t seen it, it is definitely worth checking out and it is a worthy contender for the top spot this year.

 

Deadpool was my most anticipated movie of the year.  I’ve long loved the Merc with a Mouth – longdeadpool poster before it was “cool” to like him.  My biggest fear going in was that it would swing way too far to the comedy side of things, but I’ll be darned if they didn’t have a nigh perfect balance among comedy, action, and – of all things – romance and drama.  Who’da thunk?!

Laughably enough, it has been nominated in two Golden Globe categories:

  • Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy up against La La Land, Sing Street, Florence Foster Jenkins, and 20th Century Women.
  • Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy up against Colin Farrell in The Lobster, Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins, Ryan Gosling in La La Land, and Jonah Hill in War Dogs.

Lots of folks were skeptical about the R rating, but it met with huge success – quickly becoming the highest grossing R-rated movie ever (something which we Nerds are a little wary of).  But so long as you can stomach violence and vulgar humor, Deadpool is a laugh-a-minute (actually, that’s probably slightly underestimated), high action movie that entertains from credits to credits.

The 2016 Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Movie Goes To…

Captain America: Civil War.  Jason totally called it.  Civil War did so many things right…its difficult to give it due justice in just a couple of paragraphs.  But the good news is that I really don’t have to.

If you’re a nerd, there is simply no way you missed Civil War.  None.  Even if you went to the theater just to see superheroes beating up on other superheroes, you were the beneficiary of so much more:captain america civil war poster

  • The introduction of not one…but two(!) new characters to the Marvel cinematic universe in Spider-man and Black Panther – both of whom will have their own solo movies (and likely sequels and other appearances) in the future.
  • Solid comedy (that little head nod from Falcon and Winter Soldier in the car, amiright?!), great action, and well-designed drama outside of any costumed encounter.  Whether the cast were in or out of their suits, the movie was extremely entertaining.
  • A movie that highlighted – heck, was built upon a foundation of – super hero consequences in a way that hadn’t ever really been done before.
  • One killer ending that leaves us guessing and gossiping like giddy schoolchildren about what’s next for these characters in the MCU.

Civil War is a champ from top to bottom and easily ran away with the votes – and rightly so.  If it had come up second to any of the other absolutely noteworthy contenders, I might have vetoed the results and written it up as the winner anyway.

If I were a needlessly entitled nerd, I would remark that it is the superhero movie we all deserve.  But we didn’t earn Civil War; it was just 2016’s unwarranted and beloved gift to us all.

But 2017 is right around the corner, and its offerings hold a lot of promise as well.

What a great time to be a nerd.

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2016 Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Genre Television Show https://nerdsonearth.com/2016/12/2016-nerdie-award-excellent-genre-television-show/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 13:00:36 +0000 https://nerdsonearth.com/?p=11120

So, all this week, we are debuting the Nerdie Awards, where we here at Nerds on Earth give out our awards for the best thing in a given genre or category and celebrate it. After we have narrowed the list to 4 things, we then placed it as a Facebook poll for you, the fans […]

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So, all this week, we are debuting the Nerdie Awards, where we here at Nerds on Earth give out our awards for the best thing in a given genre or category and celebrate it. After we have narrowed the list to 4 things, we then placed it as a Facebook poll for you, the fans to vote. And today’s reveal is for the Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Genre Television Show.

Now, let’s start with the fact that right now it is in an incredibly good time for television. While the historic networks seem to be dogging nerd television like it is the snotty kid at a potluck, places like Hulu, Amazon, Netflix and HBO are all embracing it.

2016 Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Genre Television Show

Our final four contenders are all great shows.

The Flash, season 2. The Flash on CW finished a stellar second season. This show is what you wish DC movies were: gripping, yet funny, not afraid to make fun of itself but, at times, an appropriate amount of seriousness. But, to be honest, this show disappeared from my radar when CW pulled the show off of Hulu. I am not going to download and install another app just to watch any show, much less this one. Maybe I will want to retroactively change my mind when Season 3 comes to Netflix at the end of May, but this programming decision was a misstep that cost this one. (Special shout-out: the crossover episode with Flash and Supergirl in Season 1 of Supergirl is perhaps the best hour of network television in the last couple of years.)

Game of Thrones, season 6. Game of Thrones on HBO. Now, if this award was solely in my hands, this might be the winner. In the last calendar year, I sucked it up and decided to watch this show from the beginning. Now, admittedly, this show isn’t for everyone. There are creative decisions that leave me baffled; I understand that you can do more “adult” programming on HBO. But having a couple people go at it in the background of a scene that is meant to be a conversation is salacious and thankfully that slowed down in later seasons. The world of this show is intriguing, magical and everything a fantasy nerd could want for. With the promise of a resolution over the course of the next two mini-seasons, I am pretty excited about it.

The Expanse, season 1. But if you aren’t a fantasy person and hard science fiction is what you are looking for, SyFy’s (it is still silly) The Expanse seems to be the show for you. None of us here at the site have dug deep on this show but the buzz has been good. The show hits Amazon Prime in a week or so and I will be doing a deep dive on it over the holiday season, in-between viewing of the Christmas classics like Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas. The series is based on a long running and very highly regarded book series, so it would seem that like Game of Thrones when it started off, this show has many, many pages of plot and characters to mine as it moves forward into season 2 and beyond.

The 2016 Nerdie Award Goes to Luke Cage

Luke Cage, season 1. But the winner, both personally and in the poll was the amazing and stellar first season of the Netflix original Luke Cage. We’ve talked and written up the show in a variety of ways on the site, and with due reason. This show is a stand-alone in terms of the total package. The casting, the acting done by that cast, the storytelling and the phenomenal use of music make this show a hands-down runaway winner for the 2016 Nerdie Award for Most Excellent Genre Televison Show. If you haven’t seen the show, I beg you to check it out, especially if you stayed away from it because you aren’t into superheroes. Luke Cage is different and I was very pleased that they announced season 2 last week!

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The NERDIE Award for the Most Excellent RPG EXPERIENCE of 2016 https://nerdsonearth.com/2016/12/best-rpg-2016/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:09:30 +0000 https://nerdsonearth.com/?p=10833

What was the best tabletop RPG experience of 2016? Nerds on Earth presents the Nerdie Award for Most Excellent RPG Experience of 2016.

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The Nerdies” are the end-of-year awards from Nerds on Earth. They are only awarded to the most excellent, and are selected by our writers, with input from readers via our Facebook page.

Our category today is “Most Excellent RPG Experience”, which is a little more loosey-goosey in terms of interpretation, so I’ll explain as I go. Let’s get to our slate of nominees!

The NERDIE Award for the Most Excellent RPG EXPERIENCE of 2016

Our nominees for the best RPG experience of 2016 are the following:

  1. Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition (D&D 5e)
  2. The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (Pathfinder RPG)
  3. Online gaming platforms such as Roll20.net.
  4. Visual performance roleplaying such as Acquisitions Incorporated.

Let’s go through these one by one.

D&D 5e WarlockD&D 5e had a great year in 2016, releasing Curse of Strahd and Storm King’s Thunder, a couple of great adventures. They also opened those adventures up to digital licensing deals, which we’ll get to in a moment.

And let’s not overlook the obvious when it comes to D&D 5e: the rules system is wonderful and that along makes it worthy of a Nerdie Award nomination. I, for one, hope D&D 5e lasts another 10 years.

But while D&D related some great products in 2016, their release schedule is measured. And although there is an abundance on material related via DMsGuild.com, the quality there is often pee pee poor. Did they do enough in 2016 to take an award that honors overall experience?

pathfinder core rulebook coverThe Pathfinder RPG continues to display great creativity and a consumer-minded approach to products, despite it being over a decade old, which in gaming years might as well be longer than the lifespan of an elf.

Pathfinder by Paizo is committed to producing pretty much any product that a gamer might be able to use at their table. But while this shotgun approach could flood a small market, Paizo continues to bring great thoughtfulness and creativity to their products. A book like 2016’s Horror Adventures could have been a sign that they’ve wrung every ounce of juice out of the turnip, but it’s just as fresh as some of the very first books they published.

Perhaps the volume of materials they produce for gamers, coupled with the continued excellence and creativity that goes into their products, is why readers voted Pathfinder as their choice for the 2016 Nerdie Award for the Most Excellent RPG Experience.

roll20_videoRoll20 is allowing more gaming groups to meet despite the physical distance between them.  Roll20 boasts tens of thousands of users who live in different cities or countries, yet can play roleplay together through video conferencing and a sharing digital tabletop (Roll20 relates usage numbers each quarter).

The digital tabletop allows users to be looking at the same map together as well as be able to move and manipulate their digital pawns. Us Nerds on Earth writers have rigged up a similar system that allows us to game together, despite many of us living in Atlanta and others living in Minneapolis.

Before I go any further, I should be clear that I’m lumping Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, and other digital gaming platforms into a single pool. The intent here is not to elevate one platform over another, instead it is highlight that tabletop role players in 2016 are now able to play tabletop roleplaying games despite being separated by physical distance. Digital tabletops took a step forward to come into their own in 2016.

Acquisitions IncorporatedAcquisitions Incorporated has shown that it can be entertaining to watch other people play Dungeons and Dragons. Starting out as a pretty rough podcast, Acquisitions Incorporated (AI) morphed into being played live in a 2,000 seat theater at PAX (the full AI history is shared here).

But it turns out that watching players like the artists behind Penny Arcade, Patrick Rothfuss, Morgan Webb, and Wil Wheaton play D&D was super entertaining. So entertaining that their last live session at PAX was broadcast into movie theaters around the country.

Between AI, Critical Roll, and great podcasts like the Glass Cannon (GCP), we learned in 2016 that D&D is a spectator sport.

The 2016 NERDIE Award Goes to Acquisitions Incorporated

Indeed, the incredible popularity of watching others play D&D is the most excellent RPG experience in 2016. So…

This year’s NERDIE AWARD goes to Acquisitions Incorporated.

It was difficult to choose among a slate of four very deserving options, but 2016’s rise of spectator D&D was too important to ignore. D&D 5e continues to bring in brand new players, most due to the fact that anyone can watch a video like this one:

As can be seen in the video above, a two hour session of AI is funnier than any television sitcom and is more captivating than most big budget motion pictures. It’s no wonder that spectator D&D is drawing new players into the fold.

No doubt, D&D 5e will release new products in 2017 that will be just as brilliant as the adventures that were related in 2016. Acquisitions Incorporated will bring those adventures to a screen where hundreds of thousands of people will view them.

Pathfinder will release more incredible products in 2017 that will continue to be both creative and consumer-minded. In fact, Pathfinder was the reader’s vote winner on Facebook for the 2016 Nerdie Award. But while 2016 was another solid year for Pathfinder, 2017 will see the release of Starfinder. So watch out for Paizo next year.

Roll20 continued to gain steam in 2016, yet despite the gains, the use of technology in a small niche like RPGs isn’t quite on par with surrounding industries. Still, we’re thankful for the gains and look forward to more next year.

But in 2016 spectator D&D like Glass Cannon, Critical Roll, and especially Acquisitions Incorporated, both entertained long time role players, plus brought in legions of new players into the hobby. That along makes them the worthy recipient of the 2016 Nerdie Award for the Most Excellent RPG Experience.

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