Should L.A Confidental have won Best Picture?
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click_to_add_text — 14 years ago(June 26, 2011 09:31 AM)
It's easy to say that Titanic won and made lots of money because of teenage girls, but if this was how things worked Twilight or its various sequels would be the most successful films out. Sure Titanic had teenage fans, but almost all critics thought it was a masterpiece as well.
LA and Titanic are both good, and both have flaws. In the end it all comes down to POV. its not a Brokeback-Crash situation where one film was clearly robbed. Either film could have won, and Titanic happened to on the day.
I believe Titanic is better, because I think LAC is just a bit too messy. -
thecunn — 14 years ago(August 08, 2011 01:43 PM)
flawed? messy? What are you talking about. If one of the two is flawed it is Titanic. too long, too sappy, visually ostentatious, less than stellar acting. All overcome by great story line and sound track. I see no flaws in LAC.
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JJdaPK — 14 years ago(August 03, 2011 08:40 PM)
I still need to see this film. But it's always rented out whenever I am in the mood to see it.
I do think the acting in Titanic was pretty good however. The only problem is the script which is over reliant on the characters repeating each others names and talking like 90s people instead of people in 1912.
I do think Titanic is one of the better Oscar winners in the past 30 years. It may not have been the best of 1997, but that doesnt make it the "Worst Best Picture". -
Cypherven — 14 years ago(September 05, 2011 10:50 AM)
I'm not a fan of Titanic, but let's face it, sometimes they have to give the oscars to some movies NOT because they made a lot of money, but because those movies connected with the audience. Titanic was an event picture, even our grandmas went to see it, and you have to give some recognition to the filmmakers for that achievement
Putting that aside, L.A. Confidential is a million times better movie.
Maybe the exception was Star Wars, everyone though it was going to win that year, but then came Annie Hall, both movies are great and both are considered classics today. -
MyDarkStar — 13 years ago(December 11, 2012 10:42 AM)
That's exactly right Cypher. This film is a true masterpiece, and nobody likes it more than me. It's definitely in my top 3 favorite films. Personally, I regard it as the greatest film noir movie of all time - even better than Maltese Falcon, or Touch of Evil. The dialog is superior. The plot is as dense as it could be without becoming overly complex. The casting and acting are spot-on perfect. And the character depth is just awesome.
But with that said, Titanic is a movie that meant a lot more to a great amount of people than LA Confidential will ever mean to its biggest fans (myself included). Titanic was a landmark epic movie event. LA Confidential was simply a film masterpiece. There's a difference, and in this case the movie which truly represented the year in cinema was given the award. -
ColinChapman — 14 years ago(December 29, 2011 02:56 PM)
That's where you are SO wrong MichaelInlori.
Whereas L.A.Confidential is on #70 on the Imdb top 250, Titanic is rightfully OUT of it!
Now I suggest you check out Red Letter Media's review of "Avatar" (which is a 1,7 million view hit on youtube) to see what kind of cheap tricks James Cameron uses to make a lot of people fall for his cardboard character fluff. Do so before I carefully explain to you how much of an i**** you are. -
Mcclane101 — 14 years ago(January 02, 2012 12:04 AM)
That guy's shot about LA Confidential not being remembered was ridiculous at best. It absolutely deserved best picture, but if the best picture did win everytime then Raging Bull, Mystic River, Gangs of New York, and other movies also were shafted. But people with a real sense of movies know this is the one to see.
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JJdaPK — 14 years ago(January 02, 2012 04:23 PM)
Return of the King was the best Best Picture ever and should not have been beaten by Mystic River.
Gangs of New York is better than Chicago, but I don't know if it should have won.
Anyway, Titanic gets way too much hate. Just because it may have beat a more deserving winner doesnt mean it's the worst best picture. Worst Best Picture is a film that has little to no reedming qualitieslike Crash.