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?

ditto
 

I read "Cider House Rules", didn't teach it but it was on the AP list, it was an excellent movie as was "An Officer and a Gentleman"

Agree Russ "Avatar" was groundbreaking in 3D, also saw the new "Alice in Wonderland", 3D eh, and "Toy Story 3" in 3D,

I am impressed with the way technology improves movies, but still think the quality of the acting has to be there, in addition to plot, sub-plot, characterization, conflict, theme etc, okay I'll stop now :agree:

But you just cannot stop there! Oh my! You did not mention symbolism and foreshadowing.......

Like in one of my favorite movies Body Heat. (1981) It's set in Florida. And it is hot. Kathleen Turner is setting up William Hurt to murder her rich husband Richard Crenna. There is a scene early in the movie where a clown drives by in a car. William Hurt has no idea the clown is symbolizing him and is foreshadowing what he's in for. (But for a lot of the movie, ya know....he did not seem to care anyway.)

But I digress....I do not think Body Heat won the Academy Award which is the topic here I guess. But all these years later, I cannot hear wind chimes without thinking about that movie. It had a real 1940's feel to it, too, which I like.

Oh well, enough digressing.....for now. Next thing you know I will be making everybody sing "Happy Birthday" to the best-written book ever -- To Kill a Mockingbird which turned 50 on July 11. And then I will go on and on about how the movie version was every bit as perfect as the book. The only time that has ever happened -- in my opinion.

Boomer Lee

But there were blue people with yellow eyes!!! Call me tasteless, but I loved it!! So did the hubs!

LOL again
 

I actually taught To Kill A Mockingbird, soooo many times and I never got tired of it, and Russ I know it didn't win the Academy Award but it should have; I taught it to my American Lit classes and as a movie to my Film as Lit classes, so much symbolism, incredible book and movie, it actually was the first book I ever bought on my own as a paperback, saw it, read it, loved it

The trial it was based on, The Scotsboro Trial is now on Broadway; most people don't realize that Dill is Truman Capote, he was Harper Lee's childhood friend, okay I'll stop again, NOW I am SCARING myself I sound like an English teacher, where did I put those tap shoes again, lol

I love American Beauty AND Cider House.

But I do agree on Ghandi. Maybe a little political correctness?