Comments on: The Five Least-Deserving Best Picture Winners http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/ Sun, 19 May 2013 01:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: FilippiliF http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-63345 FilippiliF Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:45:37 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-63345 The Thin Red Line is ten times better than Saving Private Ryan, Life is Beautiful and Shakespeare in Love combined. And Tadd, sayig that all the filmmaking talent is on the American side is an incredibly idiotic statement, proving nothing but your own ignorance.

]]> By: Madison http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-21569 Madison Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:18:19 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-21569 @ Gary

Life is Beautiful is one of my favorite movies. I remember a couple friends and I rented it the night before we took the LSAT, as a way to relax and get our mind off of things. I had heard it was great, but I really didn’t know anything about it. Needless to say, the three of us were moved; there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.

I haven’t seen Chariots of Fire in YEARS, but Raiders is one of my all-time favorites. The fact that I can’t remember much about Chariots (aside from the theme song) probably doesn’t bode too well.

]]> By: Gary http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-21568 Gary Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:13:49 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-21568 THANK YOU for saying Life is Beautiful deserved it that year, I thought I was alone on that. Great list, I agree with literally each one, but in my opinion you missed the biggest of them all: Chariots of Fire. The thing plays like a bad TV movie and it beat both Atlantic City and Raiders of the Lost Ark (two absolute classics), as well as Reds, which I haven’t seen but suspect is much better than Chariots.

]]> By: Madison http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-16854 Madison Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:04:58 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-16854 @ jon

There’s no right or wrong. It’s just my opinion. All reviews will remain opinions until someone points me to a standard, objective means of reviewing films.

Life is Beautiful is better than Saving Private Ryan, in my opinion, but SPR is a phenomenal film worthy of a best picture nomination (and award, were it released in a different year).

]]> By: jon http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-16848 jon Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:01:55 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-16848 the only thing the author got ‘right’ in his abysmal review was ‘shakespeare in love’…

saving private ryan IS the greatest war pic of all time and it surely was the BEST MOVIE of that year

]]> By: Jim http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-15848 Jim Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:53:31 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-15848 I’ve seen every Best Picture winner but three, and it can’t be that four of the five least deserving are from the past ten years. These are my least favorite Best Pictures:

1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty
1941 – How Green Was My Valley
1944 – Going My Way
1947 – Gentlemen’s Agreement
1951 – An American in Paris
1958 – Gigi
1998 – Shakespeare in Love
2002 – Chicago

I probably have more, but a lot of them I’ve only seen once and don’t remember if I hated them or not (e.g. Crash, Out of Africa, The English Patient).

Here are some I really enjoyed and wouldn’t have otherwise seen had I not been trying to see them all:

1927 – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1932 – Grand Hotel
1938 – You Can’t Take It With You
1940 – Rebecca
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives
1950 – All About Eve
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai
1963 – Tom Jones
1973 – The Sting
1984 – Amadeus
1992 – Unforgiven
2006 – The Departed
2007 – No Country for Old Men

]]> By: sadfkjasd;fl http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-15686 sadfkjasd;fl Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:46:55 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-15686 your description of crash was used on the polarizing movie list verbatim. way to plagarize yourself.

]]> By: Rob http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-15179 Rob Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:07:06 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-15179 Don’t get me started on 1976. Rocky beating Network, Taxi Driver, and All the President’s Men? Gimme a break…

]]> By: Laugh at Tadd http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-8006 Laugh at Tadd Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:00:53 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-8006 Good list i suppose but seriously… why do people feel so insecure enough to get into little rages like Mr. Tadd here? And obviously IQ doesn’t prove a thing (which I highly doubt he scores well in), as you can see by his erroneous conclusion that you are a “Mr. fat man blogger” (I saw a picture of you somewhere on the site… far from fat.), and his ethnocentric view that “real talent in film making” is predominately in America. HAH! For someone so smart you’d think he’d realize that there are idiots and geniuses in every part of the world. Sorry for the rant.

]]> By: Andy Libby http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-6429 Andy Libby Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:17:16 +0000 http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/01/07/the-five-least-deserving-best-picture-winners/#comment-6429 Nobody mentioned how Woody Allen’s vaguely memorable smirkfest “Annie Hall” beat out the timeless classic “Star Wars” for 1977s best pic. I agree that the English Patient couldn’t velcro my interest without an IV drip of Ritalin in an isolation tank… butt let’s not trounce Titanic’s improbable class crossing tryst: Roseanne Barr married Tom Arnold, didn’t she? And Liz Taylor “that guy.” Think of it as the first Love Boat episode ever. And let’s not bash the Bard’s best blowout in Shakespeare in Love. Finally Shakespeare we can understand. I just watched Private Ryan 3 times in a row, but Mr. Spielburg, please… how many ways can you show decapitation in France without Marie Antoinette’s ghost Poltergeisting in? So… how do I win the Oscar pool each year? Ask “How would a 50-something, straight, white guy vote?” That’s the bulk of the Academy, folks.

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