I gues the only time the two of yours taste in film differs is when it comes to porn.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.
Best Picture: 1976
Me.Damien wrote:I'd love to know who was the other person perceptive enough to vote for Bound For Glory.
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.
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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