Billboards didn't remind me of anything, but it's been a long time since I've seen Crash.
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Here’s the list. Gladiator might be mine. Interesting that some years there are multiple really good ones and other years, it’s a stretch to think of any.
Here’s the list. Gladiator might be mine. Interesting that some years there are multiple really good ones and other years, it’s a stretch to think of any.
I’ve seen Get Out twice. It’s an excellent movie and I agree with your take on it.
I can buy that. BOYHOOD was such tremendous filmmaking craft, but BIRDMAN had a great Oscar marketing campaign around it.
I always think about the movies that I think should have won when thinking of the worst Oscar winners. I'm not a fan of CRASH at all. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN definitely resonates more to me. Other ones that stick out for me are DANCES WITH WOLVES and OUT OF AFRICA. IMHO, GOODFELLAS is so infinitely better than Dances that it pains me. And to me, every other movie nominated the year that OUT OF AFRICA was nominated was more deserving.
All that said, if you made a movie that is even in consideration for a Best Picture nomination, it's a huge achievement!
Good choice. People learn I like the Civil War and movies then say how I must love Gone With the Wind. I do not understand what it has to do with the Civil War or movies.
You have some good choices there. I always thought Apocalypse Now was robbed.
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I liked it. I watched it on a transatlantic flight and united edited the swear words out. It felt like the swearing was a major part of her character and they kinda ruined it. But still very good. I fear there are too many cops just like Rockwell’s character in real life in some of those towns. Hopefully there’s a Harrelson to counter such.
Forrest Gump. Stupid movie. Shawshank should have won.
So I will go in a completely different direction and say that as a father with young kids, I really liked Wonder. Not an Oscar contender or anything like that but we are using it to kind of reinforce the Golden Rule to our boys. Also, one of my boys has a mild cognitive disability so the story of the "different" child hits close to home.
Anyways, not a bad show to watch with the younger kids or grandkids.
Anyways, not a bad show to watch with the younger kids or grandkids.
My guilty pleasure movie. I love watching it, even though the analytical half of my brain recognizes it's trash.
Apollo 13 should have won that year. Traffic should have beat Gladiator.
I like it too, but agree Apollo 13 should have won the Oscar. I also liked Gladiator, Forrest Gump and Dances with Wolves among the movies being dissed here.
Shawshank Redemption was a great movie and it should have won. Same with Goodfellas and Saving Private Ryan.
Fairly recently saw him in The Mountain Between Us. Decent, not great. But he’s good as always.
I dont think he sees himself that sort of action hero.
I have mentioned it before -- Life on Mars (UK version) -- in interesting cop show on view/internal life of someone in a coma or purgatory.
I like it too, but agree Apollo 13 should have won the Oscar. I also liked Gladiator, Forrest Gump and Dances with Wolves among the movies being dissed here.
Add Layer cake to that list Aloha.
I'm a big fan of Layer Cake.
Fantastic gangsta movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_Cake_(film)
Then Lock Stock, two smoking barrels.
Apparently I must like director Martin McDonagh's sensibility, because I also like Seven Psychopaths and (especially) In Bruges.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying a bad film. Braveheart was Gibson's first attempt at cinematic masturbation, a technique he later perfected with The Patriot, but it's still a fun movie to watch, because it has some great battle scenes, some decent humor, and a couple of supporting actors (especially James Cosmo and David O'Hara) who far outshine the star. When Braveheart shows up on TV, I will stop flipping channels and watch it, because I enjoy the hell out of it. I just realize that I'm enjoying it the way you might enjoy a bag of Doritos. It does it's thing, but Apollo 13 was clearly the filet mignon that year.I like it too, but agree Apollo 13 should have won the Oscar. I also liked Gladiator, Forrest Gump and Dances with Wolves among the movies being dissed here.
Now, Gladiator. I can't even justify that one. That movie was just an abortion. Shouldn't have even been nominated.
Different strokes for different folks...to me, Shawshank is fine, but not extraordinary. I found Traffic to be much better and I got no beef with Forrest Gump winning. What's your problem with it? The filmmaking skill was pretty audacious for the time.
Can't agree in the least. I think Apollo 13 was the 5th best movie nominated that year. Like a lot of Ron Howard's stuff for me, it is technically exceptional but sort of emotionally inaccessible. I don't mind Braveheart winning, but Il Postino and Babe were my favorite nominated movies that year.
My issue with Gump winning is how can it win but not Raiders? The only reason Raiders could not win is that it wasn't the "type" of movie that wins. If we aren't going to let the greatest fun movie ever win, (either Raiders 1 or 3), then fun movies just aren't allowed to win.
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