Posted on 02/05/2017 12:02:40 PM PST by EveningStar
I finally saw last year’s winner, “Spotlight.” I found it very ordinary and forgettable, and some of the acting was not too good. “The Big Short” was a better and more memorable picture.
Will not disable adblock ( would likely stop using the interwebs first) but I would bet $100 that I have not seen more than one movie on this list.
I saw the movie when it came out. I felt so relieved then to see that Elaine agreed with me
Zoilo Versalles
LOL thanks for the memory ! My pal and I spent an entire summer debating how his name should be pronounced :) Life in a small town, before the internet . . .
I would have included the unbearably sanctimonious Gentlemen’s Agreement, with Gregory Peck being ridiculously Gregory Pecky.
It was probably the single best pro-Nazi propaganda film ever released. The contrast of the two homosexual degenerates talking with the beautiful singing voice of the Hitler Youth; the comedian played by Joel Grey going with the political flow challenging all of us to think how we would deal with such a situation; the promiscuous slut aborts her baby to maintain her career, with us knowing that the Nazis rewarded motherhood; the encouragement of rape of the innocent jewess by the said slut.
A clear depiction of good vs. evil, with the Nazis representing the good.
The trouble is how a movie is looked at years later is out of the hands of the Academy voters at the time. Ultimately a work stands or falls on its own and how many awards it got is irrelevant.
The two have one other thing in common: unlike virtually all movies, the only music in both is at the very beginning and the very end, with the bulk of the movie being music-less. Keeping an audience's attention without background music is very difficult, and both films pull it off successfully.
First of all, you always post the most fun & interesting topics!
Secondly, if anyone has missed, ‘L.A. Confidential’ make time to see it. I saw it ages ago and I still think about it from time to time. Great story (I LOVE anything Noir!) realistic characters and great acting.
High praise from me, seeing as my favorite movie of all time is, ‘The Sound of Music.’ *SMIRK*
Most of these glitter awards are insider glad-handing politics.
Also, “Babe” won and “Apollo 13” was a better movie. And “Pollack” was unforgettable while the winner “Gladiator “ was not.
Also, “Babe” won and “Apollo 13” was a better movie. And “Pollack” was unforgettable while the winner “Gladiator “ was not.
I saw it in the theater when it came out and I have the DVD.
Well, if the list in Post #21 is correct, I did see “Dances with Wolves” and enjoyed it far more than Goodfells, but I just have an instinctive dislike of eastern city stuff.
“Angela Lansbury should have won Best Supporting Acress for her most memorable role in, ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ in 1963.”
Agreed! I have the 1963 original and watched it the week of the Election so I would be mentally prepared for anything.
I also have the re-make with Meryl Streep...just because it’s fun to watch her take a bullet. ;)
See post #21.
1939 was the best year ever for movies. Wizard of Oz versus Gone with the Wind....
The best picture award is not about which movie is good. Its all about how many people the voters know who are part of the movie. Titanic used virtually everybody in Hollywood. So of course it won. Thats the biggest bet for best picture. But there are some others that will from time to time win over Hollywood. A very popular topic like the 1946 winner, The Best Years of Our Lives. This movie which comes the year after world war two ends, is really a pretty bad movie. But because it features a character (and actor) who is an amputee, it wins best picture. All the other films in the running that year were better.
And the other way a film becomes best picture is the life time achievement award. Where a picture wins because it has an old actor or director in it who is a sentimental favorite, Like driving Miss Daisy or Terms of Endearment.
Its sad but these three factors strongly out way the stated purpose of the award which is to identify the best picture. Hollywood Academy voters know that winning a best picture means that a film will be remembered and its that which they are awarding, the film they want remembered and not, the best film.
There may have been one, but apparently so inconsequential I don't recall the experience.
Zero Dark Thirty was an immersion experience. I could not tear my eyes of the screen. If Hollywood made more movies like that, I might return to the movies.
I watch the occasional movie when it rolls out to Netflix, but it better be something REALLY special for me to put up with a theater.
Best Years is considered the first movie to deal with post-war reality. It is considered an American classic and still discussed as younger viewers continue to watch it. Sadly, it has never been analyzed by Criterion Collection.
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