Posted on 04/27/2008 1:50:30 AM PDT by uncitizen
We can hope our favorite movie will come away with the big prize, but in the long run, some of the best pictures ever made did not receive Best Picture Oscars. A good example would be the AFI’s choice for number one movie of all time, Citizen Kane.
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Davis should have won for that flick, she was robbed blind!
Life imitating art - didn’t that happen in the movie itself? Can’t remember but I know it starts out in an awards ceremony.
Ooh, you betcha!
Gone With The Wind is the greatest movie ever made. The Ten Commandments is up there in the top 5.
Yup.
A young Anne Baxter who is Davis’s stand in gets to go on, then continues to win a ton of awards.
That movie is certainly on my “ten Best” list.
Very near the top.
The screenplay is excellent, the acting is superb, (even a short appearance by a very young and blonde Marylin Monroe), you could simply sit and read the dialog from it and be totally wrapped up in it.
Thank you. So there are officially two of us in the “We Hate Forrest Gump Club”.
I understand how you feel about Tim Robbins. It’s just that he is such a great actor. Loved “his work” in Mystic River. Love the work, Don’t love the guy.
Red Dawn.
North by Northwest was amazing the first time i saw it. After that it lost something for me. There are some movies I get the same thrill out of every time. Not that one. But it is still a terrific movie.
L.A. Confidential (Insert sinister laugh)
I bet Laz can recommend some titles...
GWTW is a very deep character study if you look below the surface. Scarlett and Melanie are alter egos as are Rhett and Ashley. The film used color as representation of feelings. Green is envy. Blue means something bad is about to happen. Red represents how unpure a woman is. For instance in the beginning Scarlett is wearing a white dress with only a red belt and red bows in her hair. At the climax of the movie, Ashley's birthday party, she's wearing an entirely scarlet colored dress and hat. There is so much more analysis. There's so much more to it i can't even think of right now. But you might appreciate it more if you looked at it as if it were literature. That's the briliance of it.
While I don’t consider any of them to be my favorite movie (those would probably be the first two “Godfather” movies, “Saving Private Ryan” or “Schindler’s List”), Hitchcock is certainly my favorite director.
The strange thing is that Hitchcock’s only best picture was for “Rebecca” which is certainly NOT one of his masterpieces. I agree that “North by Northwest” loses some of it’s “thrill” after repeated viewings, but I think “Vertigo” and “Psycho” still deliver a thrill. The other great movie (which also should have won the Oscar) that still is thrilling is “Jaws”.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is one movie i could watch every week and never get tired of.
Have you seen “Capote”? If so, what did you think?
Guffaw
O-Kay.
ROTFLMAO!!
“Forget it, Jake — it’s Chinatown” Shoulda won hands down.
Some others: “The Wild Bunch”, “L.A. Confidential”, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Naked City”, “The Sand Pebbles”.
Regarding your list, I thought Shakespeare in love was pretty good.
I did see L.A.Confidential at the movies and I was certain that it would win Best Picture. I think that it lost to Titanic, but perhaps it was some other film that beat it.
Other favorites of mine include...
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Midway....(That movie had some very cool images in it.)
Unforgiven
Godfather
I'll have to think about it a little more.
L.A. Confidential did win didn’t it? That one was great. So was It’s a Wonderful Life. Loves it.
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