movies

[Jocephus]

[33anda3rd]

1989: "Driving Miss Daisy" is only fit for parody now. Although now that I look at the list none of those films really stand up as great movies. 1989 was a weak year. I think the actual Best Picture might have been "Say Anything". Or maybe "The Little Mermaid".

Do The Right Thing.

[33anda3rd]

1990: "Dances with Wolves" over "Goodfellas", oy.

1994: "Forrest Gump" over "Pulp Fiction", oy.

1997: I actually like "Titanic", that movie is worth watching just to see the re-creation of the ship, but you can't argue for that movie over "LA Confidential".

1998: "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Private Ryan", what a f*****g disaster. "Saving Private Ryan" just got added to the National Film Registry, by the way.

1997 I'll take Boogie Nights > LA Confidential.

1998 I'll take another war movie over Private Ryan, my favorite Malick, The Thin Red Line.

[Famous Mortimer]

1989: "Driving Miss Daisy" is only fit for parody now. Although now that I look at the list none of those films really stand up as great movies. 1989 was a weak year. I think the actual Best Picture might have been "Say Anything". Or maybe "The Little Mermaid".

Much as it would have made him even more unbearable a person, got to be "Do The Right Thing", I'd say. Or "Sex, Lies And Videotape".

If it was awesome B-movie Oscars, it'd be a three-way tie between "Road House", "Salute of the Jugger" and "Major League".

[JL21]

2005: Can't really speak to "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" as I haven't seen either, but after "South Park" called "Brokeback Mountain" in advance with that episode about gay cowboys eating pudding...

Pretty much anything that was remotely close to winning an award in 2005 was better than Crash. My dirty, sweaty nuts are better than Crash.

And yes, ET was light years better than Gandhi. So was The Verdict, Sophie's Choice, Diner, and Blade Runner. I don't mean to run down Gandhi- it was a perfectly decent film- but I'd take those others over it.

[JL21]

RE: 1997, I'd definitely take Boogie Nights and also Kundun over Titanic. I hate using words like overrated or underrated about movies (rated by who?), but I think Kundun is a painfully underrated film.

[ghostrunner]

ET a better movie than Gandhi? be careful, you're reputation's on the line.

?

Doesn't everyone agree on that by now?

I would have thought so. Certainly room for disagreement, but I doubt you'd find a critic choosing Gandhi over ET in retrospect.

[ghostrunner]

2005: Can't really speak to "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" as I haven't seen either, but after "South Park" called "Brokeback Mountain" in advance with that episode about gay cowboys eating pudding...

Pretty much anything that was remotely close to winning an award in 2005 was better than Crash. My dirty, sweaty nuts are better than Crash.

And yes, ET was light years better than Gandhi. So was The Verdict, Sophie's Choice, Diner, and Blade Runner. I don't mean to run down Gandhi- it was a perfectly decent film- but I'd take those others over it.

I agree on this too. God, Blade Runner over any of those.

[ghostrunner]

1998: "Shakespeare in Love" over "Saving Private Ryan", what a f*****g disaster. "Saving Private Ryan" just got added to the National Film Registry, by the way.

I don't even think Saving Private Ryan is that great.

Out of Sight came out the same year, and it's a better movie. Truman Show or Lebowski would also get my vote over it. Elizabeth. Rushmore. All better IMO.

[33anda3rd]

Man, Out Of Sight is so fantastic. How many very very good to great performances, from micro to leading, are in that movie? Clooney, Lopez, Rhames, Guzman, Farina, Zahn, Cheadle (If I say this is my whip you know this is my car, Glen), Washington talking to Lopez about tussling with the dog, Albert Brooks, Keaton bringing back his Jackie Brown character. I'm probably forgetting like 5. Viola Davis. What a cast. I'd see a whole movie of just the Cheadle character.