Posted on 02/24/2017 6:14:42 AM PST by jalisco555
The film that walks away with the Best Picture statue at Sunday’s Academy Awards will earn a place forever in the history books — but perhaps not on viewers’ screens.
The cream of the crop of Hollywood’s golden age gained immortality. They are rerun and ritually rewatched endlessly, and remain regular pop-culture presences. But nowadays it seems like the Best Picture winner shines for one week in February and then — much like former Knick Jeremy Lin — is mostly forgotten.
Anyone watched last year’s winner, “Spotlight,” lately? Plan on revisiting 2011’s “The Artist” every year?
It’s pretty clear that recent Best Picture winners probably won’t have the cultural longevity of past honorees, such as 1942’s “Casablanca,” 1939’s “Gone With the Wind” and 1965’s “The Sound of Music".
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The only ‘films’ of any merit (and that's debatable) that Hollywood creates are designed to impress each other - - to win awards and prizes.
Kind of like newspapers have taken to covering the news for the benefit of the guy sitting one desk over in the newsroom... and for ‘prizes’... That's why their product's crap - garbage. So-called ‘elites’ have become insensitive, self-absorbed assh*les. (Note: the only ‘prize’ worth winning is the respect and trust of your readers and audience - get a clue guys) It's embarrassing.
Meryl Streep is queen of the garbage heap... show some pride guys... tell her it's tacky to charge designers to wear their gowns... waaaaaay to cheap. Tacky moneygrubber... just like Hillary.
I have always thought that they should trim the three down to one film, that follows the book and shazam! have a fourth film!
“Nobody cares about any recent Best Picture Oscar winners”.....
Only those self important egotistical phonies.
Ditto.
Loved LOTR. Bailed after watching Hobbit #1 ONCE (and that was the non-extended version). After that, I had no interest in wasting my life watching any more of the thing.
For the most part today’s American offerings don’t have mature adult actors or mature adult scripts.
Two shows I have liked are Foyle’s War and The Crown.
The Crown, done by Netflix, is 99.9 percent clean but there is one use of the word ‘cu*t’ and one use of the word “fu*k”. Absolutely no call for that. Guess Netflix thinks a show can’t succeed without some dirt.
The golden era had even more being made but it was practically the only show in town for entertainment dollars. The movies that are remembered from the golden era are a select few as will be the case from our current time. Which will be remembered is the big question. Perhaps fewer or even none. There has to be something that raises a movie above the usual detritus to be able to viewed by someone long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.
Oscars were LAST Sunday? Guess I’m outta touch.
I thought I was going to grow old and die before the scene with the dwarves throwing plates around would end. It went on and on and on and on. But it eventually did end and so did the film in which vert little actually happened and I skipped the next two.
I dont know if No Country for Old Men won or not.. but i still watch it all the way through... one of the best I have seen in a LONG time.
Here is the list of nominees and winners of best picture:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#1920s
Just about every year you can find pictures that have stood the test of time better than the winner.
The fact that Citizen Kane didn’t win it’s year is most telling.
That’s because modern movies suck. The left is picking these movies because it shows how much smarter they are than we are.
Speaking of Netflix I just watched a six-part docudrama called Roman Empire:Reign of Blood. It’s about the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. An odd mix of historical re-enactment, erotica and academic historians commentary, all narrated by Sean Bean. I’m still not sure what to make of it but I did enjoy it for what it was.
Back in the day there were comparatively few films in total - so good ones stood out more. Today the catalog, especially if you factor in millions of hours of TV programming, has grown to such vast proportions that any individual film has a much harder time to stand out. Oh, and CGI...meh.
Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture of 1977. Granted, Annie Hall was a very good movie but which film has had the greater cultural impact?
Last Oscar winner I liked was THE LIVES OF OTHERS. But, no gunshots, no super-powers, and it was in German with subtitles. Hard to believe it still won.
That was a really great film.
Hobbit - I agree. I couldnt stand all the dizzy CG effects of swooping down,down, down in circles through the troll caves under the mountain. It seemed like there was 15 minutes of that scene. Definitely huge padding that added nothing to the story except to give viewers dizzy spells and a huge headache. It seems every movie nowadays has to show off their CG effects by a similar scene that adds nothing to the storyline.
My brother and I watched “Hell or High Water” last night, and we both thought it was pretty good...Jeff Bridges was great in it!
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