unclepatrick said:From Earth to the Move and Metropolis were both made before the Oscars began.
TY.unclepatrick said:Agree with on Alien over Exorcist.
Agreed, not much chance it'd win. (I really, really disliked the overt religious implication of the ending...unclepatrick said:I like 53 War of the World but even if Nominated, There are better films included From Here to Eternity and Shane, (Both Nominated OTL) and Stalag 17 and The Big Heat neither of which were nominated.
I could see that (tho personally, I never liked McDowell, nor "Clockwork Orange").unclepatrick said:In my Step by Step Time line Malcolm McDowell wins best actor for a Clockwork Orange over Gene Hackman for French Connection.
unclepatrick said:Argree with you on CItizen Kane and Falcon/ The 1940's awards are mess up. Grapes of Wrath loses to Rebecca. Bogart loses for Casablanca to Paul Lukas. Going My Way beats Double Indemnity . They were Expendable is not Nominated. Best years of our Life beast It's a Wonderful life. Hamlet beat Treasure of Sierra Madre. And Broderick Crawford won for All the King Men, and Jame Cagney White Heat is not even nominated.
Agreed.unclepatrick said:In 1968 there is no way Doctor Doolittle can beat Bonnie and Clyde or the The Graduate.
On that, I completely disagree. I liked it enormously.unclepatrick said:I not a huge fan of the The Sting. just about anything would a better choice.
I think.unclepatrick said:Agree with you on Silent of the Lamb beating Beauty and the Beast. Beauty won by just be nominated.
Oh, me too, a lot. Just hard to beat "Unforgiven", which pretty much turns Clint's entire career on its head.unclepatrick said:Agree with you on Unforgiven. But I like A few Good Men.
Haven't actually seen "Hurt Locker", nor "Up", but it sounds like a real winner.unclepatrick said:You like "The Hurt Locker" more than me. But I agree it a better film than Watchmen. The Serious Fantasy Film competition was Pixar Up. But there no way it would have won. It did make me care for the characters more than any Live action film of that year.
Yes. They are.Are Academy members that out of touch?
Trying to think of any SF.
TY.
Agreed, not much chance it'd win. (I really, really disliked the overt religious implication of the ending...)
I could see that (tho personally, I never liked McDowell, nor "Clockwork Orange").
The studio system distorted the hell out of everything, it seems.
Agreed.
On that, I completely disagree. I liked it enormously.
I think.
Oh, me too, a lot. Just hard to beat "Unforgiven", which pretty much turns Clint's entire career on its head.
Haven't actually seen "Hurt Locker", nor "Up", but it sounds like a real winner.
unclepatrick said:One of the reason, I dislike the Spielberg War of the Worlds, is that Spielberg felt it was necessary to repeat the ending of the 1953 version. That and Tom Cruise character and his kids were so annoying that I started hoping the Martians would win.
No argument over a good job, I just don't like McDowell the actor much. (Something about him irritates me.) It does depend on the role, tho; I used to really hate Julian Sands, too, til he did a bad guy recently in "Person of Interest"--& it's the best I've ever seen him do.unclepatrick said:McDowell in Clockwork Orange is not a nice character but he did a great job in the role.
unclepatrick said:One of the fun things, I doing in my Step by Step Timeline, is giving some awards to film that deserve them.
Taste is a personal thing, so I won't argue over it.unclepatrick said:we are going to have to agree to disagree over the Sting. I think it was just a Big Budget episode of Mission Impossible and the ending is oblivious.
It a Fun film but it over rated.
Oh, yeah. It is one of the 5 best Westerns ever IMO.unclepatrick said:Unforgiven was one of the best western movie ever. And more than deserved it Oscar.
I didn't think "The Searchers" was so great (tho it's a really nice switch on John Wayne, an Oscar-worthy role for him IMO). I would give it the nod over "80 Days" or "Commandments", I think, but it's been awhile since I've seen Heston.unclepatrick said:I did give the John Ford western, The Searchers a Best Picture over Around the World in Eighty Days which won in 1957 and The Ten Commandments.
unclepatrick said:( I went to a religious School for grade 5 to 8 and I use to joke that I kept falling asleep around Commandment 4 or 5. Was there anything important in the last 5 commandments.
I think so, too. It's as if Clint has taken Dirty Harry & turned him upside down, too.unclepatrick said:And I thought Eastwood deserved a Best Actor nomination for Grand Torino. It was the perfect wrap up of Eastwood career.
I'll give 'em a look.unclepatrick said:Recommend both Up and Hurt Locker.
Sure sign the film is in trouble when you start rooting for the bad guy.
Can't say if it's any good; never had any desire to see it. (I've seen all of one remake that was worth a damn: "Payback", remaking 1967's "Point Blank".)
No argument over a good job, I just don't like McDowell the actor much. (Something about him irritates me.) It does depend on the role, tho; I used to really hate Julian Sands, too, til he did a bad guy recently in "Person of Interest"--& it's the best I've ever seen him do.
Taste is a personal thing, so I won't argue over it.
Oh, yeah. It is one of the 5 best Westerns ever IMO.
I didn't think "The Searchers" was so great (tho it's a really nice switch on John Wayne, an Oscar-worthy role for him IMO). I would give it the nod over "80 Days" or "Commandments", I think, but it's been awhile since I've seen Heston.
You are going to hell. You realize that, don't you?
I think so, too. It's as if Clint has taken Dirty Harry & turned him upside down, too.
I'll give 'em a look.![]()
You're right about that, I'd forgotten.unclepatrick said:The 1941 Maltese Falcon was a remake of a 1931 film
Look for me.unclepatrick said:As for me going to hell. I done worst since then and I will see plenty of Family members and old Friends down there when I get there.
Three actors have won awards for Sci fi Movies.
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And Edmund Gwenn won best supporting actor for Miracle on 34th Street.
No, not even a 0.00000000001% chance.Watchmen, even though it wasn't as good as the graphic novel, could have won best picture.
No, not even a 0.00000000001% chance.
Of the films listed and what they were up against, I'd go with four SF films that most got the shaft, in order:
1. 2001 - A total masterpiece and one of the great films of all time.
2. Children of Men - One of the most mature, well-realized, and thought provoking dystopias ever
3. District 9 - Possibly the best pure SF film ever made, if a bit too obvious as an allegory.
4. A Clockwork Orange - Great film, great use of music, sophisticated moral ambiguity, but unnecessarily graphic which hurt its chances