This has got to be the worst movie ever to win an oscar! What was the academy thinking??!
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scritchours — 19 years ago(January 15, 2007 10:35 AM)
had the guy been nigerian, would you have dared said "truly an idiot - african i presume?" - and no, i'm not american, i just can't stand that kind of comment.
and by the way, the importance of a script is much bigger in america than, say, europe, where they consider directing makes the quality of a movie. -
TrueFiendish — 19 years ago(May 08, 2006 10:57 PM)
Okay, so apart from the script and the musical score it was okay? No worries. I would add the bit where he kills himself for her. Talk about shmaltz; in real life he might have tried to hang on a bit longer, I reckon
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FredCDobbs — 21 years ago(November 18, 2004 10:04 AM)
It's a basically a Carry-On type film winning an Oscar - outrageous! And it's crap to boot. That said, admittedly, it was a lean year for quality films but in my humble opinion "This Sporting Life" should have won.
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jim6263 — 20 years ago(May 08, 2005 06:01 PM)
Of those nominated, "America, America" deserved to win and would have been on any other decent list that year (imho), unlike bloated crap like "Cleopatra" (which sorely needed a B.O. boost, coincidentally!). But Kazan was not popular with many in Hollywood, due to his McCarthy hearings participation, so!?
This is a great quote, Maggie! (as it's true) "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."Orson Welles
It rings of Sartre's observation that ALL we ever experience (or perhaps it's perceive?) is ourselves! -
nocomputer1962 — 20 years ago(July 19, 2005 06:53 PM)
So, being a comedy disqualifies it from Oscar consideration? There are plenty of worse movies that have won Best Picture Oscars: Chariots of Fire, The English Patient, Out of Africa, The Last Emperor, Gandhi, etc. Just out of curiosity, can you name a comedy that you would have given a Best Picture Oscar to? I don't mean to sound rude, but I'm just trying to get a sense of where you're coming from. (Obviously, I happen to like Tom Jones, but wouldn't have minded if the BP Oscar for that year had gone to Hud or The Birds.)