Oscar Winning Best Picture - Stripped!

..and why not?
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Postby kath » 31 Mar 2007, 17:18

damndamn. the apartment was gonna be my next pick.

now it's gonna take me awhile.

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Postby kath » 31 Mar 2007, 18:09

1930s

• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night

1940s
• Rebecca
• Casablanca

1950s
• All About Eve

• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather
• Annie Hall

1990s
• Schindler's List


out goes from here to eternity. i apologize, really i do, but it's my least favorite of what's left. i gotta be cruel to be kind. besides, i think i would rather shane or roman holiday.

now is a good time to go clean.

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Postby Muskrat » 02 Apr 2007, 04:47

1930s

• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night

1940s
• Rebecca
• Casablanca

1950s
• All About Eve

• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather
• Annie Hall

1990s


How did Schindler's List make it this far?
Things that a fella can't forget...

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Postby geoffcowgill » 02 Apr 2007, 05:05

1930s

• All Quiet on the Western Front†
• It Happened One Night

1940s
• Casablanca

1950s
• All About Eve

• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather
• Annie Hall



Bye bye, Becky. The Grapes of Wrath, which won Ford best director, was much better that year and is possibly Ford's greatest film. Rebecca, on the other hand, is NOT Hitchcock's best film and, while enjoyable enough, there are probably half a dozen other films that year that were much more magical. Maybe even the other Hitchcock movie of the year, Foreign Correspondent, but certainly The Letter, Philadelphia Story, and His Girl Friday. If we're counting foreign films, Pagnol's The Baker's Wife should be thrown in as well.

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Postby kath » 02 Apr 2007, 13:16

ackk. and i love rebecca. ah well. if ya can't stand the heat, stay off of the rocky, allegedly haunted cliffs.

1930s


• It Happened One Night

1940s
• Casablanca

1950s
• All About Eve

• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather
• Annie Hall



i had to take out all quiet on the western front. it goes next. i don't know what to replace it with (blackmail?) because i really don't know any movies from that year. i don't recognize any on the other nominees list. mayhaps someone can help me in this regard.


six left. and every removal with feel like a splenectomy.

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Postby Matty Red Sox » 02 Apr 2007, 14:59

1930s


• It Happened One Night

1940s
• Casablanca

1950s
• All About Eve

• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather



See ya' Annie Hall. Woody would be insufferable if he knew he'd won BCB - Stripped. :wink:
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Postby Sneelock » 02 Apr 2007, 15:08

1930s




1940s
• Casablanca

1950s
• All About Eve

• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather



thanks to mattie because i couldn't decide between 'Annie Hall' and the one I took which is "it happened one night"
both are classics but both seem pretty bound to the era they were made in a way that i don't think our survivors above do.
I still love "it happened one night" - it's pretty flawless in story and movie star terms but it does have an awful lot of 'oh, you kid/23 skidoo' type stuff and I'll admit that i like it but only up to a point.

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Postby Sneelock » 02 Apr 2007, 16:57

things are getting pretty cut-throat because that pretty much was the best movie of that year that i can think of without making an expedition of it. i think 'merry widow' and 'the thin man' are good but i don't think they're as good as 'it happened one night'.

i guess we're at that stage of the game now. I have no regrets.

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Postby kath » 02 Apr 2007, 17:09

yep, sneelock, things are very bloody now, but there's naught to be done about it. surgery must occur. and then we may heal. sigh.

1930s




1940s
• Casablanca

1950s


• On the Waterfront


1970s

• The Godfather



i love all about eve, love it, and i just cut it out. sniff. in its place, i guess i would put sunset boulevard, although i'm not really thinking clearly at this point, and i must eat some eggrolls right away.

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Postby geoffcowgill » 02 Apr 2007, 17:37

I fold.

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Postby kath » 02 Apr 2007, 23:09

geoffcowgill wrote:I fold.


so what's gonna become of this, folk?

shall we all fold, admit these last three are equally superior, getting our judgments off the hook, so to speak, and saving our aesthetic asses?

or shall we carry it through, refusing to give in to the desire to wimp out and cop out, bravely struggling onward until we reach the END of all things, knowing with sighful pride that we did make it, we do have closure, and we can stick it out, even if our cohorts lynch us for the last few strips to come???

ok, maybe we should fold.

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Postby Sneelock » 02 Apr 2007, 23:11

i say let the thread sit. maybe somebody else will join in before we take another crack at it.

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Postby geoffcowgill » 03 Apr 2007, 01:28

I think it does us great credit as a collective that those three films are here. Though I probably wouldn't call them my absolute favorite three Best Picture winners, they are definitely all in my top ten. And my favorite film of all time is among the three.

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Postby marios » 03 Apr 2007, 08:31

1950s
• On the Waterfront


1970s
• The Godfather


I like Casablanca, but i love The Godfather and OTW.

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Postby kath » 03 Apr 2007, 15:13

= marios = wrote:1950s
• On the Waterfront


1970s
• The Godfather


I like Casablanca, but i love The Godfather and OTW.


well, that's done it then. we had a brief moment of wimpy peace and concord over the top three for a minute there, but marios really *is* right. let us see this to the bitter end.

and i'm gonna do it. i'm feeling ballsy (i.e., ovulatory), so fucque it.

between on the waterfont and the godfather. two of the most bitchinest films ever made. both excellent, with fantastic performances all around, fantastic direction, killer writing, you name it.

what will i choose?

tickticktick...

... the godfather.

forgive me marlon (the younger) and karl and lee j. and rod and elia.

and let us all reiterate the belief, through chanting and prayer, that almost all of the flicks in the original list won oscars for very obvious reasons.

ok.

so now we're gonna do tv series, right?


mwhahaha. i slay myself.

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Postby Matty Red Sox » 04 Apr 2007, 20:06

I could have told you that the godfather would have won on page 1. Oh and Casablanca made it too far.
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Postby Sneelock » 04 Apr 2007, 20:14

naw.
if you'd said The Godfather was gonna win on page one somebody would have axed it.

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Postby Matty Red Sox » 04 Apr 2007, 23:00

Sneelock wrote:naw.
if you'd said The Godfather was gonna win on page one somebody would have axed it.


Hence I kept my mouth shut.
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Postby Sneelock » 04 Apr 2007, 23:08

you should have spoken up.
then, Godfather 2 would have won and Davey the Fat Boy would still be in the thread and all would be right with the world.


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