The National Board of Review is a vaguely defined group of “film enthusiasts and professionals, academics, young filmmakers and students” whose last ten awards for best film have predicted only two Academy Award Best Picture winners. So when the group announced Tuesday that it had selected the blockbuster action flick Mad Max: Fury Road as its best film of 2015, movie-watching corners of the Internet cocked their collective heads and wondered, “Should we even care?” The answer depends on the value one places on the prizes doled out long before The Big One.