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Clueless. It's one of the greatest films ever made.It`ll always win the Academy Award for most overrated picture (until The Dark Knight came along)
Clueless. It's one of the greatest films ever made.It`ll always win the Academy Award for most overrated picture (until The Dark Knight came along)
A few points:
Crash - It was very well made, fully deserved the nomination IMO, but it only won because the academy awards panel were under huge pressure not to give it to Brokeback after its critical shitstorm of a reception
Hugely patronisisng hollywood pap. One of the few films that made me want to smash the telly to make it stop. Utterly hateful.
Born on the Fourth of July (beaten by Driving Miss Daisy)
Dead Poets Society (same as above)
Both better than the winner by some margin particularly the later.
Hotel Rwanda (criminally underrated and largely ignored, despite 3 noms)
Brilliant film.
The Dark Knight (would have still gotten steamrolled by Slumdog anyways, so they decided not to nominate it altogether to make themselves look more professional, snubbing the comic book movie) (yet LOTR3 won like 11 Oscars)
Yawn. Can't remember a thing about it already.
The Aviator (losing out to Million Dollar Baby)
Not as bad as MDB but not all that.
Blood Diamond (Djimon Hounsou got robbed on a ridiculously intense performance, and it didn't get a Best Picture nomination)
Agreed. I remember I mentioned this somewhere on here before and some of the film buffs not liking it.Yes it was. The worst bit was the rat at the end of the movie. I like symbolism, but that was way too obvious.
"The rat symbolizes obviousness"Agreed. I remember I mentioned this somewhere on here before and some of the film buffs not liking it.
There's symbolism and then there's treating your audience like 8 years old.
You should see his interview with charlie rose about There Will Be Blood
It sums up why he is the best
Agreed. I remember I mentioned this somewhere on here before and some of the film buffs not liking it.
There's symbolism and then there's treating your audience like 8 years old.
It`s not even the best film based on a Stephen King book.Clueless. It's one of the greatest films ever made.
The oscars have been utter pap most of the time for ages. Not even close to the best film in particular. Slumdog Millionaire is another example. A good enjoyable film but the best this year? Feck off.Wibble, what movies do you rate? You seem to put down every movie that's been mentioned.
watching this on the iPod at lunch and will on way home soon Wib, I've sene it before, was very surpised how good it was, despite my hatred for Steve from Shameless. A good film, the Dunkirk Evac continuous panoramic scene was sensational...The oscars have been utter pap most of the time for ages. Not even close to the best film in particular. Slumdog Millionaire is another example. A good enjoyable film but the best this year? Feck off.
Looking at the Best Picture winners since 96 when Braveheart won it I can only see one that was a truly worthy winner - A Beautiful Mind.
LOTR and Gladiator were wonderfully entertaining and beautifully shot films but the best film? Not totally convinced. So 1 in 14 years is pretty piss poor.
Of the films nominted for something at the last 5 Academy Awards I'd have gone with
Finding Neverland
Brokeback Mountain
Pan's Labyrinth (I presume it won best foreign language film)
Atonement
Transformers (OK I couldn't think of one)
Milk (Not seen Benjamin Button)
fair enough, was just wondering like.The oscars have been utter pap most of the time for ages. Not even close to the best film in particular. Slumdog Millionaire is another example. A good enjoyable film but the best this year? Feck off.
Looking at the Best Picture winners since 96 when Braveheart won it I can only see one that was a truly worthy winner - A Beautiful Mind.
LOTR and Gladiator were wonderfully entertaining and beautifully shot films but the best film? Not totally convinced. So 1 in 14 years is pretty piss poor.
Of the films nominted for something at the last 5 Academy Awards I'd have gone with
Finding Neverland
Brokeback Mountain
Pan's Labyrinth (I presume it won best foreign language film)
Atonement
Transformers (OK I couldn't think of one)
Frost/Nixon with Milk close behind (not seen Benjamin Button)
I found it completely overrated, albeit very good but not as good as some believe. Also, I don't think it could have won best picture as it was in Spanish, I'm not sure but that may have disqualified it from that award, just a guess.The oscars have been utter pap most of the time for ages. Not even close to the best film in particular. Slumdog Millionaire is another example. A good enjoyable film but the best this year? Feck off.
Looking at the Best Picture winners since 96 when Braveheart won it I can only see one that was a truly worthy winner - A Beautiful Mind.
LOTR and Gladiator were wonderfully entertaining and beautifully shot films but the best film? Not totally convinced. So 1 in 14 years is pretty piss poor.
Of the films nominted for something at the last 5 Academy Awards I'd have gone with
Finding Neverland
Brokeback Mountain
Pan's Labyrinth (I presume it won best foreign language film)
Atonement
Transformers (OK I couldn't think of one)
Frost/Nixon with Milk close behind (not seen Benjamin Button)
Precisely. Judge a film on it's competition that year. I've seen The Departed a few times now, it's a very good film. Yipee it's a remake, was still very well done. I've not seen Little Miss Sunshine, but I have seen Babel, which I thought was a bit of a stinker. Not quite 12 monkeys or 7 years in Tibet bad, but another stinker on the Pitt CV regardlessThe Departed - Widely regarded as the "makeup Oscar" for Scorsese after having lost out so many times most notably for Goodfellas. Fair enough. It also won Best Picture that year, but what was the closest competition? Babel, and Little Miss Sunshine
Talking bollocks as usual Wibbs. He was exceptional in both those movies. Both times he was the best thing about the film by a country mile. Brillaint actorHe used to be good but he has gone down the massive overacting route which has mde him truly annoying to watch. Gangs of New York and There Will Be Blood were both really really annoying to watch because he was camping it up to show what a great Actoooooooor he was.
And I really really like him at his best.
ahhh but we love him overacting.Says the man who thinks Kevin Costner is good.
You will be telling me that Jack Nicholson doesn't overact next.
Costner has never been good. He's always been middle of the road in every sense.Costner is good. Twice nominated as best actor for the Oscar no less. And winner as best director / best picture for Dances with Wolves
One of my major problems with the departed.Says the man who thinks Kevin Costner is good.
You will be telling me that Jack Nicholson doesn't overact next.
Clueless. It's one of the greatest films ever made.
Amen to that. Just make a 4 hour long poke at the Indian genocide and throw in subtitles and you are a shoo-in for an Oscar.Costner has never been good. He's always been middle of the road in every sense.
i couldn't believe Russell didn't get an Oscar for that,The oscars have been utter pap most of the time for ages. Not even close to the best film in particular. Slumdog Millionaire is another example. A good enjoyable film but the best this year? Feck off.
Looking at the Best Picture winners since 96 when Braveheart won it I can only see one that was a truly worthy winner - A Beautiful Mind.
LOTR and Gladiator were wonderfully entertaining and beautifully shot films but the best film? Not totally convinced. So 1 in 14 years is pretty piss poor.
Of the films nominted for something at the last 5 Academy Awards I'd have gone with
Finding Neverland
Brokeback Mountain
Pan's Labyrinth (I presume it won best foreign language film)
Atonement
Transformers (OK I couldn't think of one)
Frost/Nixon with Milk close behind (not seen Benjamin Button)