tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post4081079047754428148..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Picture 1968SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-20525940774924176102019-12-28T20:55:57.129-06:002019-12-28T20:55:57.129-06:00I'd punt four of the nominees as far as I coul...I'd punt four of the nominees as far as I could. <i>The Lion in Winter</i> deserves to be here, but the other ones don't.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-19780531672175671052019-09-22T04:06:14.773-05:002019-09-22T04:06:14.773-05:00That is a very odd selection of movies. On my list...That is a very odd selection of movies. On my list, leaving out Night of the Living Dead because we both know it would never be nominated, Lion in the winter would have to fight it out with Bulitt on the fourth and fifth place. Once upon a time in the West and Rosemary's Baby are both better and in complete a agreement with you 2001 A Space Odyssey was the movie that should have one. Seriously, there were five movies in 1968 that set the standard for how movies were going to look like for the next decades and none of them were nominated. Shame on the Academy.TSorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208153011927807857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-79728265462475808582019-03-26T20:58:07.932-05:002019-03-26T20:58:07.932-05:00I honestly don't love 2001 beyond understandin...I honestly don't love <i>2001</i> beyond understanding how much of a revelation it was when it came out. It's a film that I think is "great" in the sense of being important and impressive. It's objectively great in that sense. That said, my review of it is called something like "In Space, No One Can Hear You Snore," so I think it's pretty clear that I don't find it that thrilling.<br /><br /><i>The Lion in Winter</i> wouldn't bother me as a winner. It hits a lot of the right notes, and I can't really believe that it didn't win. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-44937990255640704952019-03-26T20:52:32.536-05:002019-03-26T20:52:32.536-05:00I can't say I've seen it, but Tony Perkins...I can't say I've seen it, but Tony Perkins, Tuesday Weld, and the great Beverly Garland? That's hard to top.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-36937988721134850092019-03-25T16:26:21.476-05:002019-03-25T16:26:21.476-05:00I like a lot of these movies, and I'm partial ...I like a lot of these movies, and I'm partial to The Lion in Winter. But I couldn't remember what I have marked as my favorite film for 1968 on my IMDB list. So I checked … Oh yeah! Pretty Poison!<br /><br />Despite lots of great movies already mentioned, I'm sticking with Pretty Poison.<br />Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-90437347335778656592019-03-25T15:42:21.799-05:002019-03-25T15:42:21.799-05:00I like Oliver! and I LOVE Funny Girl, but then I l...I like Oliver! and I LOVE Funny Girl, but then I like musicals, however I agree neither belongs in this race. <br /><br />Funny Girl has beautiful music, fantastic costume and production design but it’s constructed almost wholly to spotlight Barbra Streisand and turn her from promising singer into megastar. It does that handily but that doesn’t make it the best picture of the year. By the way the real Fanny Brice was reportedly much more down to earth and subdued off stage than presented in the film.<br /><br />Oliver is more lumbering, though it has good performances, but I’d agree that it was the establishment part of the Academy resisting the cinematic new wave that handed it the win. <br /><br />Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet is gauzy and romantic but aside from the leads being the right age there are better versions of the story and the director’s own The Taming of the Shrew from the previous year was a superior film to this one. <br /><br />I respected the craft of all involved in Rachel, Rachel more than liked the picture, and am frankly surprised that it received a nomination, it wouldn’t have from me but it’s not a bad film. Just not the best of the year. <br /><br />The Lion in Winter is an amazing film and I can’t believe that having been nominated it lost, what were they thinking? I say the same thing about Peter O’Toole’s performance. What’s really surprising is that even though it has earmarks of New Hollywood about it the film fits equally into what the older members of the Academy usually migrated towards. It even had a star of their vintage to draw them to it. Its loss is mystifying. It would be the only one I’d retain on my own list and no matter what else was nominated it would be my winner.<br /><br />I have to confess I hate 2001-I suppose considering the time it was released and the innovations it offered I understand why it’s considered so highly but I was bored stiff and unmoved by the film. <br /><br />Other than it and the ones you already mentioned I’d add The Young Girls of Rochefort, The Bride Wore Black and perhaps the dark comedy No Way to Treat a Lady, though it would probably come in sixth behind Rosemary’s Baby (which isn’t really my type of film but is expertly made and once again Mia Farrow was robbed of a nomination), Bullitt, the two foreign films I mentioned and Lion in Winter. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.com