― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Heh, good point. But wait, gaming references and then you don't like Return of the King. *runs away*
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
1 - The Silence of the Lambs2 - annie hall3 - The Deer Hunter4 - Casablanca5 - Ordinary People
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
sorry morbs too much sentimental value in those two Forman flicks for me. wee adolescent shakey mo suckered by melodramatic-rebel-artist movies shockah.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
SotL is probably the best Best Picture winner in like the past two decades. I actually just deleted 1990+ when I was going over the list, automatically.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd like to see anyone defend Gentleman's Agreement, Kramer vs Kramer, Tom Jones, Going My Way, or The Bridge on the River Quai.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Hahahahah. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Redd Temple Player (Two Headed Dogg) (Ken L), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I really love Rebecca, despite George Sanders' cartoon villain (less Basil Rathbone, more Addison De Witt, please)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
That's not being that different. Best Years is one of the only completely defensible BPs in history, right up there with Sunrise and the three A's (one of which, Apartment, I haven't seen yet).
I'll probably have to blog my answer to this or I'll never update that thing again.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
We will! Sidney Lumet will! (you are so damn Seventies)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
outside the text, it amuses me that this light thing destroyed the jingoistic, macho bullshit of saving private ryan, a movie i loathed
― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I think my main problem with SIL is basically the leads. I agree with some of what you said but the two leads are just basically unwatchable for me.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
1. the apartment2. one flew over the cuckoo's nest (all you ppl NOT voting for this are insane!)3. casablanca4. from here to eternity5. the best years of our lives6. rebecca7. midnight cowboy8. on the waterfront9. annie hall10. schindler's list (haha am i really the first one to vote for this? i don't even really like spielberg!)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
cuckoo's nest was probably the third Best Pic I saw in a theater (after Oliver! and The Sting) but I haven't seen it in years, it's a much more sanitized rebel story than the psych-sprawl of the novel, and Big Nurse is basically a misogynist's straw woman (yeah, coming from a gyrophobe like me).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
If John Waters should've directed Network, then Ken Russell should've directed Cuckoo's Nest.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
You Can't Take It With You is a seminal stage comedy, but Capra and his writers basically threw out the last third for one of their most simplistic Big Business jeremiads.
I've cooled on Some Like It Hot over the years tho it's still a lark, but Wilder thought The Apartment was a makeup for SLIH losing to Ben-Hur. But I think the only other Wilder comedy that approaches The Apartment in sophistication is A Foreign Affair.
Eric, Russell def for Cuckoo!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 May 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
She creeps me the fuck out, in part because she never hisses or even raises her voice. She's every colorless school nurse who gave you an aspirin but wouldn't excusing your lateness for your next class.
Best Years is one of the only completely defensible BPs in history
I agree, Eric, but I rarely read an intelligent defense.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link
- Pungent dialogue- Ambivalent treatment of women (Eastwood the director seems himself confused about the whores: are they victims or instigators?)- Munny's transformation from flu-ridden sadsack to the merciless psycho killer. It bothered me when I first saw it, but no longer.- Excellent perfs by Freeman, Hackman (another deserved Oscar), and all the prostitutes, even by the cute one who gets cut up.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
the apartment i like because of its britlleness, and how much it hates.
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
My ten (first half for real, second half a little devil's advocate):
01. Sunrise02. All About Eve03. How Green Was My Valley04. Annie Hall05. The Best Years of Our Lives06. Titanic07. The French Connection08. Ordinary People09. Million Dollar Baby10. Driving Miss Daisy
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Foster is what give SOTL its reason for being; Hopkins isn't scary or believable, he's just a pro at not blinking.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link
's here.
but was there a newer one?
― pisces, Thursday, 28 February 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.ofcs.org/the-best-of-the-best-picture-oscar-winners-part-6/
22. Gone With the Wind (1939)23. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Ouch.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Eric pointed out this marvelous juxtaposition:
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Oops. Goddamn cell phones.
DMD at #80 is ridic though
Yeah, of all the vilified '80s winners, that ones by far the best movie, even if it got awarded during the very wrong year.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
there are a lot of "good" best-picture winners i have little-to-no personal affection for, but here are some i really like:
how green was my valleythe best years of our livesit happened one nightcasablancathe godfathergoing my wayno country for old mengigithe silence of the lambsrocky
(I admit that I don't love "rebecca")
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
we should do a thread where we all pick the best american movies of all the years since 1927/28. i.e. "what should have won the oscar?"
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
or maybe we can even pick the FIVE NOMINEES and one winner, none of which have to actually have been nominated/won.
― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
sure as shit Holiday should've been at least nominated in '38.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
There's an Oscar for best American movie?
― Alba, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
I got '95 on lockdown.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
most mediocre of my lifetime
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
Not too hard to improve the nominations tho.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
rebecca easily my fav hitch these days
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Probably time to revise my list from upthread. Now it'd be more like ...
01. Sunrise02. All About Eve03. Annie Hall04. The Best Years of Our Lives05. No Country for Old Men06. How Green Was My Valley07. The Godfather (I give)08. maybe West Side Story09. I dunno, maybe The Hurt Locker?10. Ordinary People
― Eric H., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
revised:
SunriseAll About EveThe ApartmentThe Godfather, Part IIIt Happened One NightFrom Here to EternityHow Green Was My ValleyNo Country for Old MenRebeccaThe Best Years of Our LivesOn the Waterfront12 Years a Slave
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Chronologically:
On the WaterfrontThe ApartmentMidnight CowboyThe GodfatherThe Godfather IIOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestAnnie HallThe Deer HunterAmerican BeautyNo Country for Old Men
"American blah blah blah?"--it's okay, I'm aware, I'm aware.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:21 (ten years ago) link
Missed From Here to Eternity--probably that over Annie Hall, but it's close.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
1. Forrest Gump2. Amadeus3. Rain Man4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest5. Silence of the Lambs6. Titanic7. Platoon8. The Godfather9. Driving Miss Daisy10. The Deer Hunter
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
rebeccasunrisethe apartmentone flew over the cuckoo's nestthe best years of our livescasablancamidnight cowboyhow green was my valleyall quiet on the western frontthe lost weekend
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
the lost weekend is a really good movie, I forgot about that one
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:00 (ten years ago) link
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/every-best-picture-oscar-winner-ranked-from-worst-to-best/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
don't know the guys who wrote abt Gigi and My Fair Lady, but they're kind of embarrassing
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 February 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
at first I thought, "but a lot of these 'What Should Have Won' choices are dubious too" before realizing they're only choosing from the other nominees
― Josefa, Saturday, 16 February 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link