Movie review thread...
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I'm still amazed Basketcase(1982) wasn't even nominated! It had everything, mutant powers, siamese twins, circular saws...
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I'm a bit of a movie aficionado and like (badly) dissecting films so have probably watched most of them all from 1930 to now, but I've actually given up watching a lot of the winners in the last decade - the last good one being Spotlight.
How Parasite beat 1917 is beyond me. It's almost as if Hollywood has become self-flagellating and expects us to join in.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
I'm a bit of a movie aficionado and like (badly) dissecting films so have probably watched most of them all from 1930 to now, but I've actually given up watching a lot of the winners in the last decade - the last good one being Spotlight.
How Parasite beat 1917 is beyond me. It's almost as if Hollywood has become self-flagellating and expects us to join in.
Parasite is a better movie than 1917. (I like them both).
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That's a great comedy horror film. There's a rich vein of similar offerings in that period - Alligator, Blood Beach and the original Evil Dead of course - to watch.
If you want to go really, really disturbing, check out David Lynch's Eraserhead. Both brilliant and unsettling.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
If you want to go really, really disturbing, check out David Lynch's Eraserhead. Both brilliant and unsettling.
I always seem to miss that one. It's on my radar.
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I saw one of the director's other films, The Host, years ago and really liked it so searched for a few more and they were great (Memories of Murder is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant).
Bur Parasite did nothing for me which was a shame.
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
I'm still amazed Basketcase(1982) wasn't even nominated! It had everything, mutant powers, siamese twins, circular saws...
That takes me back
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
I saw one of the director's other films, The Host, years ago and really liked it so searched for a few more and they were great (Memories of Murder is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant).
Bur Parasite did nothing for me which was a shame.
Memories of Murder is great, I don't watch horror so haven't seen The Host.
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Speaking of academy award winning movies not watched and unlikely to since 1970:
Midnight Cowboy
Annie Hall
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
Terms of Endearment
Dances with Wolves*
Chicago
Slumdog Millionaire
The Artist
Moonlight
The Shape of Water
Parasite
Nomadland
CODA
Everything Everywhere All at Once -
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Speaking of academy award winning movies not watched and unlikely to since 1970:
Midnight Cowboy
Annie Hall
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
Terms of Endearment
Dances with Wolves*
Chicago
Slumdog Millionaire
The Artist
Moonlight
The Shape of Water
Parasite
Nomadland
CODA
Everything Everywhere All at OnceThere are some crackers in there
You will be pleasantly surprised IMHO
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Yes please
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What? Yes please, I'd like to see it or yes please, retire and just fuck off?
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@nostrildamus said in Movie review thread...:
I'm still amazed Basketcase(1982) wasn't even nominated! It had everything, mutant powers, siamese twins, circular saws...
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@MiketheSnow said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Speaking of academy award winning movies not watched and unlikely to since 1970:
Midnight Cowboy
Annie Hall
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ordinary People
Terms of Endearment
Dances with Wolves*
Chicago
Slumdog Millionaire
The Artist
Moonlight
The Shape of Water
Parasite
Nomadland
CODA
Everything Everywhere All at OnceThere are some crackers in there
You will be pleasantly surprised IMHO
Slum dog Millionaire was brilliant
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@MajorPom said in Movie review thread...:
i shall play. I suspect I'll be the least watched, which is odd as I love a good movie. Although I tend to find now watching movies is a brilliant way of going to sleep.
20/30s - 1 (gone with the wind)
40/50s - 1 (bridge on the river kwai)
60s - 1 (sound of music)
70s - 6
80s - 2
90s - 9 (not seen the English patient as bud told me is sucked)
00s - 8
10s - 2
20s - 1So thats 31 in total. Equal with Kruse!
1920's - 0
1930's - 2
1940's - 1
1950's - 2
1960's - 3
1970's - 5
1980's - 2
1990's - 6
2000's - 1
2010's - 0
2020's - 0Ha, only 22
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@Duluth said in Movie review thread...:
@MajorPom said in Movie review thread...:
i shall play. I suspect I'll be the least watched, which is odd as I love a good movie. Although I tend to find now watching movies is a brilliant way of going to sleep.
20/30s - 1 (gone with the wind)
40/50s - 1 (bridge on the river kwai)
60s - 1 (sound of music)
70s - 6
80s - 2
90s - 9 (not seen the English patient as bud told me is sucked)
00s - 8
10s - 2
20s - 1So thats 31 in total. Equal with Kruse!
1920's - 0
1930's - 2
1940's - 1
1950's - 2
1960's - 3
1970's - 5
1980's - 2
1990's - 6
2000's - 1
2010's - 0
2020's - 0Ha, only 22
I'm in too!
1920's - 0
1930's - 0 (I really need to see Gone with the Wind and that Western Front one don't I?)
1940's - 1
1950's - 0 (saw that remake of Ben Hur 10yrs ago though, does that count?)
1960's - 1 (Laurence of Arabia - never seen The Sound of Music, it looks annoying)
1970's - 5
1980's - 5
1990's - 7
2000's - 8
2010's - 4
2020's - 2That's 35, sounds about right
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Getting FOMO
Certainly don't consider myself a classic film buff, just someone who likes to watch stuff when there is no live sport or when drunk..
1920's - 0
1930's - 2
1940's - 2
1950's - 4
1960's - 4
1970's - 7
1980's - 8
1990's - 10
2000's - 9
2010's - 7
2020's - 1more than I thought..2000's last great decade of winners for me
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is there a site to tick off or you guys gone through list making notes?
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@taniwharugby I used this list.
▶️ Basket Case - Trailer
Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikipedia
