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re: Re-evaluating the 1980s Best Picture winners
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:30 pm to Lsupimp
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:30 pm to Lsupimp
And let's revisit 1988 .
THE VANISHING (Netherlands/France)is simply the creepiest film ever. EVER.So I amend my earlier vote because it's about as good a film as there is of that genre. Ever. Ever.
Also excellent that year were MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, EIGHT MEN OUT,and DOMINICK AND EUGENE. My guilty pleasure that year was THE CHOCOLATE WAR. That's the boarding school in me talking.
THE VANISHING (Netherlands/France)is simply the creepiest film ever. EVER.So I amend my earlier vote because it's about as good a film as there is of that genre. Ever. Ever.
Also excellent that year were MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, EIGHT MEN OUT,and DOMINICK AND EUGENE. My guilty pleasure that year was THE CHOCOLATE WAR. That's the boarding school in me talking.
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Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:31 pm to Baloo
Glory seriously got the shaft by the Academy, despite the fact it was nominated for 5 Oscars and won 3 of them (including Best Supporting Actor for Denzel Washington). That being said...it totally should have been nominated for Score, Director, and Picture.
James Horner's score should have won in a landslide. Very powerful and among his best and most original works.
James Horner's score should have won in a landslide. Very powerful and among his best and most original works.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:33 pm to Baloo
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though I do think its win has a lot to do with how we admire anything British and aristocratic.
I thought it had more to do with the theme of personal sacrifice and honor.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:33 pm to Jim Rockford
I think Coal Miner's Daughter is the gold standard of music biopics, a fantastic movie. Ordinary People always struck me as really good movie of the week, nothing special. I respect Raging Bull more than I like it, but that Scorese did not at least win best director is an outrage.
My favorite MS movie of the 80's is The King of Comedy.
My favorite MS movie of the 80's is The King of Comedy.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:37 pm to H-Town Tiger
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My favorite MS movie of the 80's is The King of Comedy.
I always got a kick out of AFTER HOURS too.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:39 pm to Lsupimp
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THE VANISHING (Netherlands/France)is simply the creepiest film ever. EVER.So I amend my earlier vote because it's about as good a film as there is of that genre. Ever. Ever.
I 100% agree. I strongly considered it and Eight Men Out. With 5 nominees, you always leave out strong choices. But I absolutely agree with you on the Vanishing. Terrifying movie.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 12:46 pm to Baloo
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1984
WINNER: Amadeus
NOMINEES: The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
NEW WINNER: Once Upon a Time in America
NEW NOMINEES: Amadeus, The Killing Fields, Blood Simple, Ghostbusters
While Kubrick gets the nod as the most screwed over director by the Academy, what about Sergio Leone? 1984 was actually a pretty great year for movies, as I’ve left The Terminator off because Amadeus was a memorable biopic if overrated and The Killing Fields is downright harrowing. Blood Simple almost single handedly invented independent film (it won Sundance, though it wasn’t called Sundance yet). But geez… it’s only Leone’s masterpiece on American crime. It’s arguably better than The Godafther, people. Yet the Academy nominated forgettable trifles like Places in the Heart and the interminable Passage to India.
Leone got fricked by the studio.
The 229-minute version seen overseas, now available on video, is a classic. The version that made it into US theaters was only 139 minutes long and is said to have been an incoherent mess as a result of The Ladd Company's major recutting of the film.
I can believe it, given that they chopped out a full 90 minutes, put the whole thing in chronological order, and changed the ambiguous fate of Secretary Bailey to a more definitive one.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 1:02 pm to teke184
Giving a best picture nom to The Fly makes your entire thread suspect.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 1:27 pm to Baloo
1980: Dressed to Kill
1981: Body Heat
1982: Blade Runner
1983: Videodrome
1984: Once Upon a Time in America
1985: Ran
1986: Blue Velvet
1987: House of Games
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Monsieur Hire
1981: Body Heat
1982: Blade Runner
1983: Videodrome
1984: Once Upon a Time in America
1985: Ran
1986: Blue Velvet
1987: House of Games
1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989: Monsieur Hire
Posted on 2/15/13 at 1:34 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Giving a best picture nom to The Fly makes your entire thread suspect.
Yes, Cronenberg is clearly a hack. And it wasn't like the finally accepted him into the studio system to update a classic film. The Fly is a classic.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 1:48 pm to Baloo
so much fail in your evaluations I can't even start to retort
Posted on 2/15/13 at 2:06 pm to RollTide1987
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The Right Stuff
A great movie that is not talked about nearly enough
Posted on 2/15/13 at 2:37 pm to Baloo
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Glory, admittedly, was my closest call. I went with Do the Right Thing, but I was very close to taking Glory, which is a great, great movie.
surprised at the lack of love for Born on the Fourth of July. I think it's Stones best, and Cruise did well get the nom, and prob should have won if not for the oscar buzzsaw that is Daniel Day Lewis.
Posted on 2/15/13 at 3:23 pm to Jim Rockford
Do the right thing and The last Temptation were both horrible movies.
Ill just do my top 80s movies that will make it easy.
1.Amadeous
2 Cienima Paradiso
3.Empire Strikes Bck
4 Raiders of the lost ark
5.The killing fields
6.Das boots
7.Full metal jacket
8.The Shinning
9.Die Hard
10. The Terminator
Nothing beats good 80s action
Ill just do my top 80s movies that will make it easy.
1.Amadeous
2 Cienima Paradiso
3.Empire Strikes Bck
4 Raiders of the lost ark
5.The killing fields
6.Das boots
7.Full metal jacket
8.The Shinning
9.Die Hard
10. The Terminator
Nothing beats good 80s action
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