Movies That Should Have Won Best Picture

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   J.C. Simpson on January 15, 2011 at 2:45 pm

   For 1998,
   Should Have Won: American History X

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   M R Conn on January 15, 2011 at 6:41 pm

   Some very good choices I must say. Moon last year was an excellent film but Let the Right One in was the best movie last year foreign or otherwise. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was one of the most undervalued films of the last few years and one of Brad Pitt’s best performances. Fargo is a great shout for 1996 but The Big Lebowski and Saving Private Ryan are very overrated and The Untouchables is fun but never as good as the Last Emperor.

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   Charlie on January 15, 2011 at 9:26 pm

   Should have Won:

   2009: Inglorious Basterds
   2008: Slumdog Millionaire (yes, I like it, sue me)
   2007: There Will Be Blood
   2006: United 93
   2005: Crash (deserved win)
   2004: Nothing in the Oscar template this year so I’ll go with The Incredibles
   2003: Lost in Translation
   2002: Adaptation
   2001: nothing
   2000: Memento
   1999: Fight Club
   1998: Rushmore

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   J.C. Simpson on January 16, 2011 at 11:11 am

   Charlie: I loved Slumdog, man, I just thought that the Wrestler was better. Inglourious was great, excluding your 2006 choice, I think you have some good picks.
   M R Conn: I couldn’t really get into the Last Emperor, so I guess I just saw some De Palma eye candy and shoved it up there. Agreed with everything else you said, even the films for being overrated. The thing about it is, though, that Saving Private Ryan and The Big Lebowski were overrated because they WERE that good. The first time I saw Saving Private Ryan, I was so moved by the movie, and the first time I saw The Big Lebowski, I cried laughing. I think that they are both legit in rating. Some people go overboard with them, hell, that happens for most movies, but I think they are both modern classics that deserved the Oscars for standing the test of time.

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   M R Conn on January 16, 2011 at 5:02 pm

   Personally I couldnt really get into Saving Private Ryan. For me Spielburg always does pop corn movies better than he does ‘serious’ films. Give me Raiders of the Lost Arc over Schindler’s List any day. Not sure about best picture (though i liked it very much) but Mickey Rourke was absolutely robbed by Sean Penn for best actor.

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   J.C. Simpson on January 16, 2011 at 9:20 pm

   Completely agreed on both accounts. I think that Spielberg, though his angles and filming are equally amazing, is an overrated director. I think that his only good movies, aside from Saving Private Ryan, The first two hours of Schindler’s List, and Duel, because of its authenticity and basis from the Richard Mattheson novel, was the first three Indiana Jones movies. Crystal Skull raped all possible respect from the series after that.

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   M R Conn on January 17, 2011 at 6:45 am

   I liked Duel too and your right about Crystal Skull a film more even than Jurassic Park III which tried to destroy my childhood.

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   J.C. Simpson on January 17, 2011 at 9:57 pm

   agreed.

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