Favorite Oscar Winning Best Picture
04-03-01, 12:03 AM
#51
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: The slums of Escondido
Posts: 2,802
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally posted by dave955
Well the thing that gets me is people whose favorite best picture lists are entirely composed of 1995+ (or 1990+) movies. I mean, yes, I too have not seen most best picture winners, but I certainly wouldn't then post in a thread like this and spout off Braveheart, the English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, and American Beauty.
Platoon would be my pick, offhand. (I'm always afraid in this kind of thread I'll name a movie that didn't win, e.g. Pulp Fiction.)
Well the thing that gets me is people whose favorite best picture lists are entirely composed of 1995+ (or 1990+) movies. I mean, yes, I too have not seen most best picture winners, but I certainly wouldn't then post in a thread like this and spout off Braveheart, the English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, and American Beauty.
Platoon would be my pick, offhand. (I'm always afraid in this kind of thread I'll name a movie that didn't win, e.g. Pulp Fiction.)
04-03-01, 02:10 AM
#52
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota
Posts: 3,807
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally posted by dvdnation
Mine is "Saving Private Ryan". I'm not accepting "Shakesphere in love" the winner that year. The only reason why that won was because it came out in December.
------------------
"Dean Keaton once told me I don't believe in God but I'm afraid of him,well I believe in God and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
Mine is "Saving Private Ryan". I'm not accepting "Shakesphere in love" the winner that year. The only reason why that won was because it came out in December.
------------------
"Dean Keaton once told me I don't believe in God but I'm afraid of him,well I believe in God and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
01-25-03, 01:20 AM
#67
DVD Talk Hero - 2023 TOTY Award Winner
Holy Old Thread, Batman!
I still stand by my answers from over two years ago. Sheesh, I don't even think I was a mod then.
I still stand by my answers from over two years ago. Sheesh, I don't even think I was a mod then.
01-25-03, 04:11 AM
#70
Originally posted by JustinS
Holy Old Thread, Batman!
I still stand by my answers from over two years ago. Sheesh, I don't even think I was a mod then.
Holy Old Thread, Batman!
I still stand by my answers from over two years ago. Sheesh, I don't even think I was a mod then.
The ones I have are American Beauty, French Connection, Godfather I/II, and SOTL (also Life Is Beautiful, if you count them foreigners' films), so I guess I like those the most.
06-06-06, 03:31 PM
#71
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Annie Hall is one of them, from 1977. I watched it last week, and picked up on two scenes that I never really "understood" before.
1) When Annie (Diane Keaton) and Alvy (Woody Allen) are discussing living out in the country. Annie's for it, Alvy's against, and his reason: Dick and Perry are out there! I never knew who "Dick" and "Perry" were, until I saw the movie Capote - Dick & Perry were the killers.
2) Alvy is in bed with Wendy Torrance from The Shining, and Alvy says something like, "The orgasm is overrated." Wendy asks him who said that, and Alvy hesitates, and answers: "Um, I don't know, I think it was Leopold and Loeb."
That's another obscure reference to killers from the past (Leopold & Loeb were 19-year old "thrill killers" from the 1920's - they killed a 13 year old child in order to commit "the perfect crime"). I had also just recently read up on them before my recent re-viewing of this picture.
Is this a common thread to Woody Allen movies?
1) When Annie (Diane Keaton) and Alvy (Woody Allen) are discussing living out in the country. Annie's for it, Alvy's against, and his reason: Dick and Perry are out there! I never knew who "Dick" and "Perry" were, until I saw the movie Capote - Dick & Perry were the killers.
2) Alvy is in bed with Wendy Torrance from The Shining, and Alvy says something like, "The orgasm is overrated." Wendy asks him who said that, and Alvy hesitates, and answers: "Um, I don't know, I think it was Leopold and Loeb."
That's another obscure reference to killers from the past (Leopold & Loeb were 19-year old "thrill killers" from the 1920's - they killed a 13 year old child in order to commit "the perfect crime"). I had also just recently read up on them before my recent re-viewing of this picture.
Is this a common thread to Woody Allen movies?
Last edited by Buttmunker; 06-06-06 at 03:34 PM.
06-06-06, 07:15 PM
#73
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Originally Posted by connie_s
I'm going to tell you my least favorite best picture winner: Titanic. That movie did not deserve a single oscar, let alone best picture. The award that year should have gone to LA Confidential or Good Will Hunting
It deserved the Oscars it got and deserved none of the ones it didn't.
My faves: Braveheart, Ben-Hur
