Posted on 02/27/2011 12:41:24 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Every year since 1929, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has crowned the year’s finest film. But which is the greatest Best Picture winner of all time? We entered the past 72 title-holders — beginning with 1938’s “You Can’t Take It With You” and ending with 2009’s “The Hurt Locker” — into a March Madness-style tournament, adjudicated by Post film critics Lou Lumenick and Kyle Smith.
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Exactly! Talk about the “Yin and Yang” of the acting spectrum...
Dang. Spaceballs wasn’t even mentioned.
The book “Ben-Hur” is wonderful, too. It is a great read.
Seriously, someone should do a similar type bracket matchup of the all time worst movies. That would be a hoot!
I’ll be watching the Amazing Race and then cleaning the kitchen.
Hollywood people are most self-absorbed people in the world. The Oscars are just an excuse for them to get together to give awards to each other, usually for “heroic” directorships and “brave” portrayals.
Hollywood people are most self-absorbed people in the world. The Oscars are just an excuse for them to get together to give awards to each other, usually for “heroic” directorships and “brave” portrayals.
I’ve tried but have never gotten more than through about 15 minutes of any Godfather movie. They’re just too boring.
What is this “Oscar” thing?
Is it interesting?
Should anyone really waste their time, listening to a small insular, bunch of sanctimonious leftists “awarding” each other, blatantly discriminating against anyone conservative?
I mean...
You will enjoy Mr. Hulot’s Holiday...a true classic!
:)
What a nice thread!
The Oscars lost my interest when they passed over “Red Dawn”.
WOLVERNES.......
Most inspirational film ever—”A Man for all Seasons”—IMHO.
I believe Charleton Heston was a Democrat.
What happened to the James-Younger Gang? The townspeople of Northfield, Mn shot holes in them that’s what. The cinematic conceit of the western townspeople being afraid of the nasty gunmen has been a staple of scriptwriters for sixty years. That conceit has little basis in fact given that many westerners were probably very tough, hardnosed types who fought in the civil war. Most likely what would happen to the gunmen trying to kill Cooper is what happened to the James-Younger Gang.
Isn’t it awesome? All of my kids have been baptized at the parish my mom belongs to in Indiana—St. Thomas More. I wish we had more principled men like him, not only within the Catholic Church, but in the world overall.
Just for the record - early on, well before the terms 'conservative' and 'liberal' came into common usage, it was the Democrat party that was ardently anti-socialist, and it was the Republican Party that was our nation's first 'progressives.' It was 'progressive' Republican Governor Hyram Johnson, who in the early 1900's (1914, if memory serves) who turned our political process upside down, and began the long march to where we find ourselves tonight.
My grandparents and their parents were ardent conservative and religious American Democrats. I was one too, until I found Democrats to be the greatest supporters of abortion. I chose to become a Republican, mainly because they had become the true conservatives - meanwhile socialists in the GOP gravitated to the Democrat party.
'Chuck' was little different. He too found that Democrats left him' - while Godly conservative folk had moved to the GOP. Hence, despite the fact that he knew that his career would be radically affected by the move, he became a Republican, saying, 'The Democrat party has come to disdain moral people.'
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