[Vermont Lt]

Keep in mind that most movies get Oscar attention in the last couple of weeks of the year.

For a movie released on Christmas Day (the last day you can be released and be considered for an Academy Award) to crack the top ten movie for the year is a real special circumstance.

I agree that most of the stuff lately hasn’t been great, but it doesn’t mean they are not “blockbusters.”

[G Larry]

Are you suggesting that the award is given to the top leftist agenda item of the day and NOT to films people actually want to see?

[Grampa Dave]

We have never seen nor will we see any of this trash posing as movies:

2016 Moonlight: #101
2015 Spotlight: #62
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78
2013 12 Years a Slave: #62
2012 Argo: #22
2011 The Artist: #71
2010 The King’s Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36

We cut our Comcast Cable last June when our monthly cost exceeded $250. We didn’t watch any of the movie channels, yet our monthly bill paid for them. We are saving about $125 per month, and Comcast apparently just came up with another big price increase. Relatives and friends, who didn’t cut their cable, are asking me how to cut off Comcast after their Jan 2018 price increase.

In over a half of year since we cut our cable, we have not watched a single tv movie nor gone to one.

My wife is not a prude, but when the opening sentence of a movie and basically every sentence afterwards contains the “F” word, she is ready to leave the theater or turn off that movie.

[woodbutcher1963]

I saw the following:

2012 Argo: #22
2010 The King’s Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionaire: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36

I would say the best of these was No Country for old Men. The King’s Speech had a great performance by the actors that portrayed King George and his speech therapist but I would not say it was a great movie. Argo and Slumdog were both good movies not great. The Hurt Locker was so/so.

I just watched a good movie last night with Jeremy Renner called Wind River I would recommend.

[JimRed]

We’ve attended about three movies in the past ten years. The only name I remember is The Blindside, which I enjoyed. The other two, not memorable.

[Steve_Seattle]

The only one I saw was “The Hurt Locker,” and I really liked it.

[drjimmy]

The King’s Speech made $414 million worldwide (on a budget of $15 million).
Slumdog Millionaire made $378 million worldwide (on a budget of $15 million).
Argo made $232 million worldwide (on a budget of $44 million).
Even Moonlight made $65 million worldwide (on a budget of $4 million).

Yes, movies like Marley and Me, The Angry Birds Movie, 21 Jump Street, and Little Fockers all were “hit films” that made more money than the Oscar winners in their respective years. Yet I don’t think that made them deserving of an Academy Award.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Well just wait, be patient. I heard they are making a movie of Hillarys book "What happened" and that is bound to be a hit. They said Margot Robbie is playing Hillary, I can see why as they are both blonde and have blue eyes and supposedly Robert Redford will play Trump.

Margot Robbie as Hillary Clinton

Robert Redford as Donald J. Trump

Oh but first they are coming out with the movie "Mrs. Clinton" which will be starring Meryl STreep as Hillary

[Baynative]

Academy awards are as meaningless and Pulitzer Prizes, Nobel Prizes, Participation Trophies, Government Shutdowns and Contempt of Congress Citations.

[Kickass Conservative]

You haven’t seen “No Country for Old Men”?

If you do, don’t watch the butchered version on regular TV.

[ssaftler]

Saw most of them. My opinion of those I did see:

• 2015 Spotlight: #62 - Being a native Bostonian was probably the sole reason to see it. Not bad, but I think "Ray Donovan" has done as much for the scandal as this.
• 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78 - One word: HUH? Pure Hollyweird tripe from start to finish, whatever that finish was.
• 2013 12 Years a Slave: #62 - Okay, but overblown
• 2012 Argo: #22 - This one was actually pretty good, even if Ben Affleck starred in it. John Goodman and Alan Arkin were the saving graces
• 2011 The Artist: #71 - Meh!
• 2010 The King's Speech: #18 - Another in the quite good category. They didn't muck with the actual story much
• 2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16 - I guess it was okay. Capitalizing on the "Who wants to be a Millionaire?" craze of the time, but the ending was another of those "huh?" things

That's one man's opinion. You can agree or disagree. Just don't get disagreeable about it.

[Slyfox]

I have been watching me some Turner Classic Movies.

Those old movies beat the hell out of anything they are making today.

[Yaelle]

I’ve only seen Spotlight (well done), Birdman (weird, well done), Argo (good story, but Ben affleck), and Slumdog Millionaire (best one in the bunch I’ve seen, and difficult to watch).

[morphing libertarian]

some of these are adult films and I don’t mean in a sexual sense. Hurt Locker, Birdman, Kings Speech, moonlight. for example. I have seen three of these and consider them excellent films.

Kids drive the box office. kids and action films. They repeat view films. That gets a film over 500 million and some over a billion.

Even the academy is not stupid enough to ignore adult movies in favor of explosion and car chases, and buddy movies where one is whacky and the other serious and food looking.

[Rummyfan]

2016 Moonlight: #101 Haven't seen it; won't see it.

2015 Spotlight: #62 Same as above...

2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78 A gimmick, but Michael was very good.

2013 12 Years a Slave: #62 Don't need to see this to have an idea of the evils of slavery.

2012 Argo: #22 It was okay. Best Picture? Nah...

2011 The Artist: #71 Same story was done much better in Singing in the Rain....

2010 The King's Speech: #18 Man overcomes speech impediment. So- so...

2009 The Hurt Locker: #116 I thought it was great. Almost documentary in style.

2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16 Great. A love story with sibling rivalry and rags-to-riches overtones. Plus Frida Pinto is beautiful.

2007 No Country for Old Men: #36 Great minimalist flick.

[Navy Patriot]

Ping, you may find this enlightening.

[DoodleDawg]

These may well be good films. I couldn't say, as I haven't seen a single one of them.

I saw 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015. All were pretty good.

[x]

The most popular movies are either comic book superhero movies or kid flicks.

The Academy doesn't go in for either.

[Grampa Dave]

The reality is simple. Hollywood makes movies that we hate because they sell great overseas.

I started posting about this reality years ago during GW’s .
terms.

We had a friend, who used to travel a lot to the UK, France, other Euro Trash countries, China, Japan and reasonably well off countries.

He told us that the more our Movie actors/actresses trashed America, the more popular they were in the countries where he traveled. Their talk shows were loaded with America Hating/spewing Follywood types. The more they hated America, the more popular their movies were across the oceans.

This is documented below:

https://www.statista.com/topics/964/film/

Film and Movie Industry - Statistics & Facts

The global film industry shows healthy projections for the coming years, as the global box office revenue is forecast to increase from about 38 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to nearly 50 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. The U.S. is the third largest film market in the world in terms of tickets sold per year, only behind China and India. Just under 1.2 billion movie tickets were sold in the U.S. in 2016. There are about 5,800 cinema sites in the U.S. as of 2016. According to a recent survey, 13 percent of Americans go to the movies about once a month, seven percent go see movies in the movie theater several times a month, whereas 31 percent go less than once a year. This is a considerable share taking into account the 52 percent of American adults who prefer watching movies at home.

https://www.statista.com/topics/964/film/

So. movies that trash America with Follywooders who hate America and trash it often in our media, are very popular across the various oceans.

Our movie makers, actors/actresses don’t care how we feel about their products and them. The more we hate it/them, the more tickets they sell across the oceans.

[a fool in paradise]

Top seller doesn’t equate to best.

Look at pop music from any era.