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[Vidor]

Well, I now have a film that is a pretty solid lock for worst Best Picture ever.

"Cimarron", 1931. Hoo boy. Long, boring, horribly racist, and a protagonist who's supposed to be sympathetic despite leaving his family for years at a time when he gets bored. Filled with cliches, like when the hero gets shot through the upper arm and has full use of that arm afterwards, or the hero who can shoot from the hip with pinpoint accuracy, or the hooker with a heart of gold. A horribly racist Stepin Fetchit stereotype. Bad, bad, bad.

[33anda3rd]

Well, I now have a film that is a pretty solid lock for worst Best Picture ever.

"Cimarron", 1931. Hoo boy. Long, boring, horribly racist, and a protagonist who's supposed to be sympathetic despite leaving his family for years at a time when he gets bored.

Yup. That one is way up on the list of worst BP winners. City Lights was that year. A great Karlof and a great Lugosi, which even as genre movies are better. The Public Enemy, with Cagney, which is a classic.

[MrCrowesGarden]

I'm making my way through the Oscar movies. Out of American Sniper, Birdman, and The Imitation Game, it's not even close for me. The Imitation Game was outstanding. American Sniper was good, but it seemed like they put it together without editing it. It was choppy at times, and the scene with the baby was embarrassing. The individual performances in Birdman weren't enough to overcome a strange story. Keaton, Norton, Watts, and Stone were great, though.

I hadn't even seen the trailer of Imitation Game before I saw it. I read one quick synopsis on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB before walking in. Wife and I had to choose something as we dropped 4 13-year olds off for another movie we didn't want to watch.

I haven't seen American Sniper (or any other of the best male actor noms), but there's no way that Cooper (someone I really like) did a better job than Cumberpatch. Of course, Keaton will win. But the Imitation Game was really, really great, IMO.

I'll piggyback off of these two with the love for The Imitation Game. Some embellishing with the history of it all, but that's to be expected with any movie.

I did like Birdman quite a bit more than longhorn though. I think I'd put it on par with Imitation Game, with maybe even a slight nod to Birdman.

[Vidor]

Well, I now have a film that is a pretty solid lock for worst Best Picture ever.

"Cimarron", 1931. Hoo boy. Long, boring, horribly racist, and a protagonist who's supposed to be sympathetic despite leaving his family for years at a time when he gets bored.

Yup. That one is way up on the list of worst BP winners. City Lights was that year. A great Karlof and a great Lugosi, which even as genre movies are better. The Public Enemy, with Cagney, which is a classic.

Usually I'm able to take something from these films. "Wings" had lovely scenes of aerial combat. "The Broadway Melody" had some good musical numbers. "The Great Ziegfeld" had William Powell being charming. "Cimarron", man, "Cimarron" is the worst.

[heyzeus]

Well, I now have a film that is a pretty solid lock for worst Best Picture ever.

"Cimarron", 1931. Hoo boy. Long, boring, horribly racist, and a protagonist who's supposed to be sympathetic despite leaving his family for years at a time when he gets bored.

Yup. That one is way up on the list of worst BP winners. City Lights was that year. A great Karlof and a great Lugosi, which even as genre movies are better. The Public Enemy, with Cagney, which is a classic.

Usually I'm able to take something from these films. "Wings" had lovely scenes of aerial combat. "The Broadway Melody" had some good musical numbers. "The Great Ziegfeld" had William Powell being charming. "Cimarron", man, "Cimarron" is the worst.

It was also the [expletive] Cadillac of all time, too.

[The Third Man]

Not one of Emmylou Harris' better albums, either.

[Vidor]

Grantland on the Wachowskis on the eve of their release of what is nearly certain to be another disastrous failure, "Jupiter Rising".

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospect ... ki-movies/

[Famous Mortimer]

Best of the Best 1 and 2

The first one is about the most hyper-emotional movie I've ever seen that didn't have someone dying of cancer before their wedding in it. Plus, fighting! The second one is your fairly traditional "man fights in underground fight league to save someone or other" movie.

[go birds]

Best of the Best was great. how did Eric Roberts not win an oscar?

[Jocephus]

and now a poltergeist reboot