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View Poll Results: What movie did you think deserved the "Best Picture" Oscar award of last year? | |
Gladiator deserved it the most. Et Tu, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon!
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon deserved it. If Saving Private Ryan had swords, it'd be Gladiator.
|    | 4 | 25.00% | |
Traffic deserved it. Gladiator and CTHD are nutty!
|    | 2 | 12.50% | |
The Grinch deserved it! What's all this crap about movies only win if they're serious?
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Almost Famous deserved it the most. You are all foolish to think otherwise!
|    | 3 | 18.75% | |
I didn't see enough of these movies to make a decision.
|    | 5 | 31.25% |
Who cares? The Oscars are fixed and\or sucks.  | | 2 | 12.50% |
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06-06-2001, 07:40 PM
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UH-oh...
Well, I had this gut feeling inside of me, so it's time to let it out. I don't think Gladiator deserved "Best Picture" of the Oscars because there were waaaaaaay too many movies that used many of the movie's elements in the past. I thought "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" had a more original feel to it, and I thought it was more creative. My vote was for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, what's your's? |
06-06-2001, 10:03 PM
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I don't care who wins an Oscar or whether they are fixed or not.
I do like good films, however, and CTHD, Traffic and Almost Famous definitely qualify. I though Gladiator was OK, if a bit predictable.
-JP (Off to watch CTHD on DVD) |
06-06-2001, 10:27 PM
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I would NOT have given it to Gladiator, but I'm not sure I'd vote CTHD either. I think I'd vote Traffic if pressed (didn't see Almost Famous). CTHD was awesome and beautiful and breathtaking, but I guess I still don't get exactly what the point was, so I would have had to rate it below a ten.  But I have bad taste.
I liked Best in Show.
Kristen
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06-06-2001, 10:46 PM
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I still haven't seen any of the pictures that were nominated, so I can't make an educated guess. But, I don't think it's necessarily the 'best' picture that wins. Gladiator is just the type of picture to win. Big, popular, epic. (Which is why Shakespeare in Love winning before was so surprising) Same goes with acting awards. No matter how much you might have thought someone else deserved it, you KNEW Julia Roberts was going to win. |
06-06-2001, 11:02 PM
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I still don't get exactly what the point was
Alot of people ask that question, and it all comes down to this.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually based on a hundred year old legend. The romance of war in China was deeply involving including exaggerations of fighting abilities, such as flying. |
06-06-2001, 11:09 PM
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Really?  Oh.
Hey thanks!!
Kristen
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06-07-2001, 12:24 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by KristenNC
I liked Best in Show. | That movie was a riot.
-JP |
06-07-2001, 01:59 AM
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Personally I think Traffic was one of the worst movies ever set to film, which makes me surprised it didn't win the Oscar for Best Picture.
Best in Show was awesome. Gladiator was stupid. |
06-07-2001, 02:54 AM
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Traffic was good, but it was too slow-paced for me. Almost Famous was cute, but I don't think it was Oscar-caliber. I couldn't even watch all of Gladiator; Joaquin Phoenix grosses me out and I kept wondering about the historical accuracy (I know, I know, this is a pointless practice when watching such a film). I didn't see Crouching Tiger, and I don't plan to. And weren't the Oscars almost three months ago?  |
06-07-2001, 10:23 AM
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IMO, I thought that 2000 was not a very high caliber year for films. There were very few, if any, that impressed me. One person who I felt deserved the best actor Oscar was Geoffrey Rush. His roll in Quills was so much better performed compared to Russell Crowe's portrayal of the Gladiator.
Gladiator, like many other films, was riddled with errors. www.movie-mistakes.com lists a bunch of movie errors that I have found to be quite entertaining.
Besides, the 2000 Oscars were so 3 months ago.
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06-07-2001, 11:22 AM
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Winning an Oscar has nothing to do with the quality or artistic merit of a film or a performance. It has everything to do with studio politics, making up for past slights, and the phases of the moon.
MNM - Oscar winning actress
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06-15-2001, 01:16 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by MrsNormanMaine
Winning an Oscar has nothing to do with the quality or artistic merit of a film or a performance. It has everything to do with studio politics, making up for past slights, and the phases of the moon.
MNM - Oscar winning actress | I know this to be true because as I sit here reading your words, MNM, I have just finished watching Requiem For A Dream and cannot believe that the best actress award was given to Julia Roberts for Erin Brokavich. Tis a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Phases of the moon be damned, Ellen Burstyn was robbed.
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