― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
ah, and we part ways again...
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Explain.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't see this at all. To me he's more like post-70s Nicholson - a caricature that's the same every time.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmmm. There's an argument to be made that, whichever of the killers in SOTL you're talking about, you're misreading them, but I suppose it's neither here nor there if you simply don't like the movie. In any case it was certainly Demme's last good one.
Gene Hackman is one of my all-time favorite actors.
― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
don't read too much into this, i made it in 3 minutes
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 5 May 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:05 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― erklie (erklie), Saturday, 6 May 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 01:46 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 6 May 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 6 May 2006 04:00 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 6 May 2006 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― a.b. (alanbanana), Sunday, 7 May 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 May 2006 12:35 (eighteen 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