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KMR — 11 years ago(June 03, 2014 09:37 AM)
I'm slowly slogging my way through all of the Best Picture winners and just finished Tom Jones last night. I would agree w/ others here that it doesn't work nearly as well in the present day but that it definitely has some good things going for it too. I would put it somewhere in the lower end, though not at or near the very bottom at all. There have definitely been some dogs along the way - I'd sort of been looking forward to The Greatest Show on Earth and found it pretty much as bad as I'd heard (although intermittently entertaining in a dopey way). Crash and Forest Gump are still the worst two, for me. Fifteen more to go.
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philthegreatone-786-63058 — 11 years ago(June 03, 2014 03:03 PM)
the worst for me is slumdog millionaire im getting through them as well ive seen 67 out the 86 best picture winners my favourite you could probably guess is The Godfather yeah i want to see The Greatest Show and earth as well i also need to see From Here To Eternity
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KMR — 11 years ago(June 06, 2014 08:45 AM)
From Here to Eternity is pretty good, wasn't as "CLASSIC" for me as I'd expected, but def. worth a watch. I still don't think Slumdog Millionaire was as bad as many think, but it's not one of the academy's best choices (it had weak competition that year, not unlike Tom Jones had in 1963 enabling it to pull out the BP win). Watching all the Best Picture winners is harder than it sounds, as a lot of the really old films haven't aged well. But I want to be able to say I saw every last one of them!
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KMR — 11 years ago(June 11, 2014 08:52 AM)
"that one that won best picture the first oscars wings in 1928 would almost be impossible to find"
Actually, Netflix has Wings! But it's one of the ones I'm not exactly looking forward to watching (hear it hasn't aged too well, though a certain plane fight scene still gets praise today) - I keep putting it off and it'll probably be among the last ones I see. Just watched In the Heat of the Night (1967's BP winner) and it's a very respectable winner, I think. Not great, but quite good. -
KMR — 11 years ago(June 23, 2014 10:14 AM)
Philthegreatone, have you seen this Buzzfeed article, ranking all the BP winners? It's pretty funny, totally subjective.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/all-85-best-picture-oscar-winners-ranked -
brefane — 11 years ago(December 05, 2014 12:05 AM)
Dated film may have seemed innovative in its day plus the Academy favors Brit films look at The English Patient, a terrible film and remember Oliver, A Man for All Seasons, My Fair Lady, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Chariots of Fire. Tom Jones is not good, and Hud released the same year is so much better and wasn't even a Best Picture nominee.
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gittes98 — 10 years ago(September 06, 2015 11:14 PM)
To the OP
Have you seen all 87 Best Picture winners? if not, your blanket comments mean nothing. Watch The Great Ziegfeld, Cimarron, Oliver!, or especially The Greatest Show on Earth then your comment may have some merit.