re: Here's why the Oscars have been falling in the ratings in recent years

Oh Annie Hall would get made.

That's a NY liberal love-fest.

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1973: The Sting (#1)

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Just rewatched this a week or two ago, it's a lot more graphic than I remembered. Bloody corpses, a close-up head shot assassaination, the line "You goddamn n- lover!"

The ending would change for sure. Too merry, not near poignant enough.

The Deer Hunter would be warped beyond all recognition. A filmmaker like Cimino, with his rep for directing/editing, would never get a leash like that.

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1974: The Godfather Part II (#7)

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This is arguably one of the greatest movies of all time and IMO the best sequel ever. It finished 7th that year? I had to google to see the rest of the list.

1. Blazing Saddles Warner Bros. $119,500,000[1]
2. The Towering Inferno 20th Century Fox / Warner Bros. $116,000,000[2]
3. The Trial of Billy Jack Warner Bros. $89,000,000[3]
4. Young Frankenstein 20th Century Fox $86,273,333[4]
5. Earthquake Universal Pictures $79,666,653[5]
6. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three United Artists $61,984,039
7. The Godfather Part II Paramount Pictures $47,542,841[6]
8. Airport 1975 Universal Pictures $47,285,152[7]
9. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Sunn Classic Pictures $45,411,063[8]
10. The Longest Yard Paramount Pictures $43,008,075[9]


The "Trial of Billy Jack" almost made twice what the Godfather 2 made. I would have lost my arse if I bet on that. It's the 3rd Billy Jack movie. I didn't even know there were more than one of them..