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In Reply to: I'm an old geezer who liked Pulp Fiction posted by Feanor on March 15, 2023 at 05:14:38:
I wanted to be a film critic at one point but there were too many bad movies I had to sit through to find a good one.
Reviews at their best will make me rewatch a movie that I didn't get or perhaps I was not in the right mood to see. Sometimes I change my mind greatly (A Clockwork Orange) and sometimes it doesn't.
I don't have time to see that many movies so I usually wait for the oscar nominations and see those - after all these are "supposed to be" the best movies of the year. Since I didn't give any of them a score higher than 7/10 I don't think the "reviews" influenced me much - just as they don't with audio gear, watches or anything else.
Personally, I would have chosen The Batman - a film noir take on Batman over any of the nominated films. I don't much care for comic book movies either so I was pleased by it. In fact, like Joker, I feel like they could have changed all the names and just made it without the Batman shtick and it would have been even better. Joker was an arthouse film about a non-universal healthcare system not providing badly needed anti-psychotic drugs to a man who then goes off his nut. But that film makes $1 million at the box office (maybe). Call it Joker and loosely tie it to the Batman universe and it's a massive money maker. That film was also much better than anything on this year's list.
It's funny but you say you give EEAAO 7/10 and All Quiet.. an 8/10
Most of the time I'd be happy with that. I gave Nomadland 4/10 and it won the best picture! Jeez.
Last year CODA won - I was happy enough with that because while it's a Hallmark Movie it was done about as well as a Hallmark Movie can be done. So no problem there. Drive My Car was a 3-hour Japanese movie that requires some work and while I loved it I was just happy to see it get nominated. Titane which won the Palme d'Or was IMO the best film and didn't even get nominated. Polarizing to say the least though.
If you look back over all of the Academy Award-winning films in your lifetime - how often do you really concur with the best picture winner? And even just taking the ones they nominated not the ones you thought were the actual best movie that year that got skipped. How about all the movies you love and will watch if it happens to be on the box?
Here's a list of all the Academy Award best picture nominees and winners. I have not seen them all by any stretch.
I'd take
Raging Bull over Ordinary people (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark over Chariots of Fire (1981)
E.T. or Tootsie over Gandhi (1982)
The Killing Fields over Amadeus (1984)
Witness, Prizzie's Honor, or The Colour Purple over Out of Africa (1985)
Field of Dreams or My Left Foot or Born on the 4th of July over Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
PS there aren't enough comedies. That's why I like the Golden Globes with their best comedy/musical section. How the hell can you really compare a movie like EEAAO to a film like All Quiet...?
Or take your absolute favourite comedy of all time and your absolute favourite war film of all time. Most people probably want to award the war film (it's serious after all and awards are serious business). Eesh. So much for escapist entertainment - let's throw you into a trench in WWI and watch people get run over by a tank - pass the popcorn. We're all mad I tell you.
Goodfellas over Dances With Wolves
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Follow Ups
- RE: I'm an old geezer who liked Pulp Fiction - RGA 19:18:43 03/15/23 (2)
- Was a time when I'd usually see all Best Picture nominees before they we annouced - Feanor 04:36:01 03/16/23 (1)
- RE: Was a time when I'd usually see all Best Picture nominees before they we annouced - RGA 22:54:46 03/18/23 (0)
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