This has got to be the worst movie ever to win an oscar! What was the academy thinking??!
shareI saw it and I really was not that crazy about it. But so many people I talked to liked it so I thought it must be me. I went to watch it again and guess what, I still didn't like it.
shareAgreed! They chose this joke of a movie over a great movie like The Great Escape???
I guarantee if the Vietnam War had not been going on The Great Escape might have swept the Oscars!
Sidney Pointier is my fave of all time but TGE was absolutely unfairly snubbed in my opinion.
ANNIE HALL (OVER STAR WARS AND CLOSE ENCOUNTERS)
CRASH (OVER ANYTHING ELSE NOMINATED THAT YEAR)
FORREST GUMP (OVER PULP FICTION)
THE ENGLISH PATIENT (OVER ANYTHING ELSE NOMINATED)
THE LAST EMPEROR (OVER MOONSTRUCK WALL ST FATAL ATTRACTION)
RAIN MAN (OVER MISSISSIPPI BURNING)
CHARIOTS OF FIRE (OVER RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK ON GOLDEN POND RAGTIME)
MOST OF THESE BEST PICTURE WINNERS ARE FORGOTTEN
MOST OF THESE BEST PICTURE WINNERS ARE FORGOTTEN
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In order to enjoy this film it helps to accept the style in which it was directed, which I was able to do. It is a bit much, but the film also has some real humor and good dialogue, with some very good performances. Diane Cilento is something of a revelation here, and I have long felt Susanah York is an underrated actress from that period. She is very good here as well.
So I hardly agree with the OP.
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its not one of the worst movies to win best picture its better than say Slumdog Millionaire or Shakespeare in love
shareI'm slowly slogging my way through all of the Best Picture winners and just finished Tom Jones last night. I would agree w/ others here that it doesn't work nearly as well in the present day but that it definitely has some good things going for it too. I would put it somewhere in the lower end, though not at or near the very bottom at all. There have definitely been some dogs along the way - I'd sort of been looking forward to The Greatest Show on Earth and found it pretty much as bad as I'd heard (although intermittently entertaining in a dopey way). Crash and Forest Gump are still the worst two, for me. Fifteen more to go.
sharethe worst for me is slumdog millionaire im getting through them as well ive seen 67 out the 86 best picture winners my favourite you could probably guess is The Godfather yeah i want to see The Greatest Show and earth as well i also need to see From Here To Eternity
shareFrom Here to Eternity is pretty good, wasn't as "CLASSIC" for me as I'd expected, but def. worth a watch. I still don't think Slumdog Millionaire was as bad as many think, but it's not one of the academy's best choices (it had weak competition that year, not unlike Tom Jones had in 1963 enabling it to pull out the BP win). Watching all the Best Picture winners is harder than it sounds, as a lot of the really old films haven't aged well. But I want to be able to say I saw every last one of them!
sharethat one that won best picture the first oscars wings in 1928 would almost be impossible to find
share"that one that won best picture the first oscars wings in 1928 would almost be impossible to find"
Actually, Netflix has Wings! But it's one of the ones I'm not exactly looking forward to watching (hear it hasn't aged too well, though a certain plane fight scene still gets praise today) - I keep putting it off and it'll probably be among the last ones I see. Just watched In the Heat of the Night (1967's BP winner) and it's a very respectable winner, I think. Not great, but quite good.
yeah i thought in the heat of the night was pretty good. Actually i did find a website that has wings so i could watch it now
sharePhilthegreatone, have you seen this Buzzfeed article, ranking all the BP winners? It's pretty funny, totally subjective.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/all-85-best-picture-oscar-winners-ranked
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Dated film may have seemed innovative in its day plus the Academy favors Brit films look at The English Patient, a terrible film and remember Oliver, A Man for All Seasons, My Fair Lady, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Chariots of Fire. Tom Jones is not good, and Hud released the same year is so much better and wasn't even a Best Picture nominee.
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