What is the most overrated Academy Award Best Picture?
 

Anyone really like Shakespeare in Love?

Of course not......:agree::agree::agree::agree:

If you go back further you could add Gone with the Wind. I was beautifully shot but was grossly overrated. OK. Start throwing the rocks.:throwtomatoes:

In 1998 it kicked the butt of Saving Private Ryan, Dark City, American History X and The Big Lebowski. Yet ten years later those movies are still talked about where as Shakespeare in Love was immediately forgotten. Go figure the Oscars, huh?

You really think American Beauty and Amadeus should be on this list?

These are two of my top 10-20 films of all time.

The English Patient. The longest (nearly) three hours of my life . . . .

I liked both of these Russ Boston.
 

I was at a loss of what other Academy Award Best Pictures to put on the list. Maybe, The English Patient
should be on it instead.

I change my vote: English Patient!!!

My understanding is that to win best picture it has to have some redeeming value. No movie that has lots of action, blood and guts will ever win the best picture academy award.

So as far as I am concerned I could have checked all of the choices.

What about Braveheart and Gladiator?

My bad; can I split my vote .....:agree::agree::agree:

SO MANY POSSIBILITIES AND ONLY ONE VOTE???

I have to think about this but these were epic/historic movies. I preferred Gladiator (Crowe) over Braveheart (Gibson) but neither were on my best picture list.

Braveheart has been on my list since it came out in the theaters. The movie has everything, like romance, friendships, betrayal, courage, loyalty etc. etc.
Gladiator was good, but alot further down on my list.

Check out the Chinese movie Red Cliff, if you want a lot of epic action.
 

This movie Red Cliff just recently came out in two DVDs. It is just over 4 hours long but has several epic battle scenes involving both land and river battles. It broke box office records in China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cliff_(film)

:faint:
Atlanta Pturner
(who went to Margaret Mitchell Elemetary School)
But... I'll worry about that tomorrow

p.s.
No I won't. Frankly, my Donna, I don't ... throw rocks.
:popcorn:

And why would I want to spend 4 hours of my time watching thousands of human beings needlessly killing each other?

I already rented it and watched both DVDS. Great movie!

That is the great thing about our society. You do not have to waste those four hours watching that movie. Just skip it and leave it to us to watch.

No rocks from my side. I agree completely. To me it was one of the worst acted movies of all time.

English Patient -- so awful I forgot about it. Thought it would never end.

Braveheart - another one I would like to forget about.

Lord of the Rings - one monster after another (just my opinon).

I aint that old either....
 

Just out of curiousity I looked at the complete list of Best Picture winners since the Academy Awards started in 1929. I have seen more of the first 30 movies on the list than the last 30! I am an old movie buff and loved
Marty with Ernest Borgnine. Of the movies listed on the poll, I've only seen No Country for Old Men (had to look it up to see what it was about before I remembered the plot). How bad is that?

English Productions
 

Lately I have been viewing a wonderful production form BBC, called Lark Rise to Candleford.

I purchased the first year which consists of 10 one-hour shows. The acting is superb. It is a period piece from the mid 1800's in England.
I couldn't find the second year to purchase but instead found it at Netflix which I just rented the first disk.
This is just a good old fashioned production about life in a different time. It may be too corny for some but we loved it.


I'm sorry. I realize I should not have posted this on this thread. The hosts can delete and I am fine with that.

Worst Best Pictures
 

I reviewed the list:

http://www.tif.ro/movies/oscar/lista.htm

My additions (of the ones I have seen):

Titanic
Lord of the Rings
Slumdog Millionaire

I preferred NOT to watch a lot of the Best Picture movies because they were really flops - think English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, Out of Africa).

My vote
 

AVATAR!!! ooops sorry I know that was not a choice. I felt there was no depth to the acting or the plot althouhg the special effects were good.

My vote
 

AVATAR!!! ooops sorry I know that was not a choice. I felt there was no depth to the acting or the plot although the special effects were good.

Not a choice because it didn't win best picture.

Two good low budget flix: The Red Violin and The Spanish Prisioner.

"The Piano" won the that title for me!


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On Oscar winning movies. An Education is quite good...
 

...for a chick flick. It was one of the ten nominees for Best Picture in 2010's AA show. I liked it more than many of the other nominated movies from this year's crop.

The greatest show on earth
 

There have a number of terrible films that have won the Oscar, but The Greatest Show on Earth is arguably the worst.

I can watch that movie again and again. Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorites. Charleston Heston and Betty Hutton were great. Classic Cecil B. DeMille. My husband had never seen it, watched it recently and didn't like it either. It does have a lot of plots going on at once, but I loved that old movie.

Jimmy Stewart is also one of my favorite actors.
 

I did not even realize he was in The Greatest Show on Earth. Think I saw this a decade ago but soon tried to forget the experience. I must have done a better job with forgetting than I had thought.

Maybe you didn't realize he was in the movie because he's the circus clown who never removes his clown make-up. He's the fugitive doctor wanted by the police for the "mercy killing"/muder of his terminally-ill wife.

I think Annie Hall was way overrated. But I'm not a fan of Diane Keaton.

Avatar
 

I think Avatar was the worst movie, Dances with Wolves in 3D, I taught Film as Lit and thought this movie was very over rated

Avatar didn't win the Oscar this year - It was "Hurt Locker".

http://www.filmsite.org/oscars.html

And what movies should have won that didn't? I have two favorites that I think should have won over the ones that did. Officer and a Gentleman and Cider House Rules. Now why didn't they get it?

lol
 

I know Russ, but someone else mentioned it too, it still was up for a lot of awards, didn't see "Hurt Locker", don't teach anymore, so I only do the G-rated stuff now like Toy Story 3, cute movie,

Just trying to keep on point.

But if we are going to stray then I think Avatar was exactly where it should be: nominated but no win. It was ground breaking and it won the special effects awards as it should have.

L2 - Officer and a Gentleman? Really? Decent flick but not Oscar worthy. Cider House was a very good movie.

Russ, I am probably a little prejudice on Officer and a Gentleman as I went through the Airforce version of the same thing. They took a few liberties with the movie, but actually very real in lots of ways. But you also have to look at what won that year. Ghandi in 82? Officer was a much better movie. And American Beauty over Cider House? No way.

That sounds interesting. I'd take that course if it involved older movies. I wonder if something like that is offered at TV Lifelong Learning College?