...among the last ten Best Picture winners?
While I admired certain things about it - McDormand’s performance and the cinematography above all - I wasn’t blown away by this as so many were. The clip they showed before the BP presentation did make me eager to give it another watch, though.
Parasite
Moonlight
Birdman
12 Years a Slave
Spotlight
Nomadland
Argo
The Artist
The Shape of Water
Green Book
I can’t rank it because I couldn’t finish it.
shareOh my God!
Just read that list!
So many crappy movies in one place it's unbearable.
NONE will be remembered in a few years, they are a list of barely ok films that should embarrass hollywoodd if they are really the best.
For me Parasite and Moonlight were somewhere close to the top for their respective years and their wins delighted me, and I do like the next few to some degree too. The bottom two or three films on the list had no husiness representing their years.
shareSorry rudeboymurray but for me every single one of those films is barely re-watchable. It's all crap that you see once, it's ok, but if you think about watching again you go "why would I?". That is really NOT the sign of a classic (or a good movie in general).
I could maybe rewatch once Argo and Green Book, but they are not even near to be the best movie of any year, or list. Argo, wtf...
Parasite, sorry to disagree, was probably the worse offender on the list. An ok movie that got blown out of his own league.
But it's my fault: I know oscars are shit and mean nothing, now less than ever, but I keep fooling myself expecting something more from "oscar movies" while it's just a politically motivated fare, it has nothing to do with quality or art.
I'm getting to the point that oscars are a mark of a lower quality, as in "it won an oscar: it must be shit".
Well a couple of these films I’ve seen more than once and enjoyed them no less the second time, and for me something like Parasite certainly holds up to repeat viewings, but different strokes and all that.
shareI would rank it as #1 among the last ten best picture winners.
shareI have seen Birdman and The Artist.
My rankings:-
1. The Artist
2. Birdman