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Post by jhar26 on Feb 27, 2015 22:41:01 GMT -5
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Post by robertaxel on Feb 28, 2015 10:47:48 GMT -5
interesting; Quiz Show was superb, definitely Redford's best, and Broadcast News was unfairly overlooked.
Tree of Life was gorgeous and profound should have beat The Artist IMO
I did not like The Social Network as much as I was supposed to, I guess I am in the minority.
JFK over Silence of the Lambs for sure..
Five Easy Pieces over Patton (though I revisited Patton recently and was more impressed this time)
Wizard of Oz vs Gone with the Wind... the great debate, not sure how to judge this one...
Goodfellas over Dances with Wolves... real apples v. oranges here
Bonnie and Clyde over Heat of the Night... has held up better
Last Picture Show over The French Connection... also holds up better
Chinatown over Godfather II?.. not sure about this one, but Hollywood has rarely had 2 masterpieces like this in the same year..
Citizen Kane v. How Green was my Valley... Oscar's biggest goof?
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Post by erik on Feb 28, 2015 12:13:36 GMT -5
The big problem is that a lot of the times there are so many great films released in certain years that any one of them would be worthy of Best Picture.
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And the whole "chicken between your scenes" scene in FIVE EASY PIECES is a classic. But I do think PATTON is kind of an important film because it does show the megalomania of not only just this one general, but of America in the eyes of certain peoples of the world, especially in parts of that opening speech that George C. Scott gives: "Americans love a winner, and will not tolerate a loser. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for any man who lost...and laughed!"
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Post by robertaxel on Feb 28, 2015 13:15:25 GMT -5
Interesting thing about the famous 'diner scene' in Five Easy Pieces. At first I perceived it as the character rebelling against meaningless establishment rules (as did the audience). However, in a recent forum discussion several people opined that Nicholson's character was berating a minimum wage downtrodden character and being an ass.
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Post by erik on Feb 28, 2015 18:27:26 GMT -5
I find it a touch ironic that BARRY LYNDON was deemed in the article to be the #1 Best-Picture Oscar Loser, given that so few American critics really thought it to be among its maker's greatest (in this case, Stanley Kubrick) films. I admit it is a sort of anachronistic costume film, and very slow in pace. But Kubrick never gave the audience what it thought it was going to get (which I think was something along the lines of TOM JONES). This was, after all, the same director who remarked that what audiences wanted was the "sure thing", but who also remarked that "nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing."
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Post by profblues on Mar 1, 2015 14:25:27 GMT -5
Half of that list could have been made up of the other films nominated for Best Picture of 1939 (which Gone With the Wind won) alone.
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Post by erik on Mar 1, 2015 14:39:02 GMT -5
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One has to concede that 1939 was one of those years when so many great movies got made that they would have all qualified. It really has only happened a few times since (IMHO).
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