Best Picture: 1976

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Best Picture: 1976

All the President's Men
12
29%
Bound for Glory
2
5%
Network
10
24%
Rocky
2
5%
Taxi Driver
15
37%
 
Total votes: 41

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Post by Greg »

Damien wrote:
dws1982 wrote:
Damien wrote:I'd love to know who was the other person perceptive enough to vote for Bound For Glory.

Me.

I should have known. :)
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dws1982 wrote:
Damien wrote:I'd love to know who was the other person perceptive enough to vote for Bound For Glory.

Me.
I should have known. :)
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Damien wrote:I'd love to know who was the other person perceptive enough to vote for Bound For Glory.
Me.

All The President's Men is okay, but so completely a product of its time that it's hard for me to get into it. And it's almost nauseatingly self-righteous. Network is ridiculous garbage, and Rocky might have been more tolerable if it had been one of those movies everyone watched and then never gave a second thought, rather than turning it into a Best Picture winner. Taxi Driver I probably need to see again, but when I watched it about three years ago it seemed that its reputation had outgrown the film itself.

Bound For Glory, meanwhile, is possibly the best movie buried in the $5.50 DVD bin at Wal-Marts across the country, a movie that for no good reason seems to be mostly forgotten, even by Oscar buffs. Althought the obscurity may be a good thing: Unlike some of the other films on this lineup with oversized reputations, I caught Bound For Glory on cable one night a few years ago without any expectations and was very surprised by how good it was.
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Damien wrote:I'd love to know who was the other person perceptive enough to vote for Bound For Glory.
Not me, but I'm abstaining until I see it.
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Network.

Never understood the facination for All the President's Men or Taxi Driver, though both are not bad at all. It was such a disgrace when Rocky won. Have yet to see Bound for Glory although I got it from Amazon early last year.
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I'd love to know who was the other person perceptive enough to vote for Bound For Glory.
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All the President's Men still packs a huge punch. I love the bitchy, talky Network, too. Beatrice Straight's eight minutes are a knockout.



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In broken record mode: far and away, Bound For Glory. No contest.
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All the President´s Men.
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Seems like deja vu all over again, but All the President's Men was far and away the best of the year.
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Taxi Driver.
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Post by Sabin »

One of Oscar's saddest nights. I go for 'Taxi Driver' slightly over 'All the President's Men' and 'Bound for Glory'.
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