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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 8:30:40 GMT -7
I liked the hurt locker. Its not a very cohesive film but it has some solid acting and the suspense in the action sequences is incredibly intense imo.
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Post by bussit on Jan 23, 2019 9:55:48 GMT -7
Worst best picture ever imo
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2019 10:03:05 GMT -7
I can't say I've seen enough winners to make that call but my vote would go to Crash.
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Post by bear on Jan 23, 2019 10:17:27 GMT -7
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Post by EddieBlake on Jan 23, 2019 10:26:45 GMT -7
How Green Was My Valley sticks out to me.
Two of the other nominees that year are all time classics (The Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane) while How Great Was My Valley is basically notable for how unremarkable it is.
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Post by bussit on Jan 23, 2019 11:59:56 GMT -7
I can't say I've seen enough winners to make that call but my vote would go to Crash. That was shite as well.
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Post by EddieBlake on Jan 23, 2019 12:04:14 GMT -7
I really like looking at this. Gives me some stuff to look for. The Towering Inferno was like Black Panther in it's day, shit maybe even like The Avengers. Steve McQueen AND Paul Newman?!?! What's next???
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Post by bussit on Jan 23, 2019 13:02:18 GMT -7
And the 3rd worst winner of best picture iiiiis: Chariots of Fire 1981
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Post by EddieBlake on Jan 23, 2019 13:04:23 GMT -7
Out Of Africa is a giant turd.
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Post by bussit on Jan 23, 2019 13:09:38 GMT -7
I actually like out of africa. The cinematography in that movie is beautiful. No way in hell it should have beaten the color purple though
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Post by bussit on Jan 23, 2019 13:12:36 GMT -7
Looking at the all time list makes it obvious to me that the overall quality of the movies that were nominated goes down pecipitously starting in the 2000's.
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Post by bussit on Jan 27, 2019 8:39:47 GMT -7
Bohemian Rhapsody was great. That's the best one I've seen so far.
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Post by EddieBlake on Jan 27, 2019 12:25:04 GMT -7
I actually like out of africa. The cinematography in that movie is beautiful. No way in hell it should have beaten the color purple though Cinematography alone never sells me. Out of Africa was a crappy white savior movie.
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on Jan 27, 2019 12:28:43 GMT -7
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Post by saulgoodman on Jan 27, 2019 15:39:12 GMT -7
I have seen the last 53 best pictures
(I've also seen All Quiet on the Western Front, Casablanca, and On the Waterfront--and now you know every best picture I've seen)
The worst ever in my opinion was Gladiator. Braveheart is a close second. I'll take Return of the King for 3rd place just cuz it seems like these things should come in threes
and when I look at all 3 together, I realize: I really don't like light-on-story, heavy-on-war-scene period pieces.
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Post by bussit on Jan 27, 2019 17:08:51 GMT -7
I love gladiator and braveheart so much. Those will be in my rotation for life I think. On the waterfront too, so good.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 20:22:52 GMT -7
I remember watching the French connection and not really getting what was so great about it. I get that the camera work was probably pretty innovative for the time and of course Gene Hackman is always good, I still don't get what was really great about it. Clockwork orange should have won that year.
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Post by EddieBlake on Jan 27, 2019 20:26:46 GMT -7
The podcast about the AFI Top 100 list I'm listening to basically said the same thing.
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Post by EddieBlake on Jan 27, 2019 20:37:42 GMT -7
At the time, it was a pretty edgy movie.
Now it's just another 70's Cop movie.
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Post by saulgoodman on Jan 28, 2019 4:43:29 GMT -7
I remember watching the French connection and not really getting what was so great about it. I get that the camera work was probably pretty innovative for the time and of course Gene Hackman is always good, I still don't get what was really great about it. Clockwork orange should have won that year. overall, I think French Connection is pretty bad. Watching it years later, it is very, very dated. the whole bit where it resolves with the screen text saying which insignificant character received which punishment: worse than made for TV stuff from the 80's.
But, it was ahead of its time in its time. There had not really been a Popeye Doyle on screen: a cop that "gets results" despite some shady methods. There had been hard boiled detectives of the P. Marlowe variety, but those types had a moral center. That Popeye was in it more for the thrill of the chase suggested problems in the war on drugs when it was still too early for most to recognize them. Anyway, back to his gritty investigative methods: it's really tired now, but it was actually fresh then--started the trend.
But that isn't what is really great about it. That would be the chase scene. I don't think it's the best of all time or anything, but when does a car race a train? it was kind of cool.
so, point being: there were neat things about it in its time, but it sure don't stand the test of time.
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