Best Best Picture of the Decade
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Decent decade. Still trying to figure out the film I'm going to vote for.
Right now I'm splitted between The Hurt Locker and The Departed. The Return of the King and Slumdog Millionaire are behind. Million Dollar Baby is a great film but not my cup of tea (not a film to see anytime soon) and I have always thought NCFOM´s thematics are better than the film itself.
Gladiator (a guilty pleasure), A Beautiful Mind (a disgrace), Chicago (enjoyable but innocuous film) and Crash (a mess) shouldn't be considered...
Right now I'm splitted between The Hurt Locker and The Departed. The Return of the King and Slumdog Millionaire are behind. Million Dollar Baby is a great film but not my cup of tea (not a film to see anytime soon) and I have always thought NCFOM´s thematics are better than the film itself.
Gladiator (a guilty pleasure), A Beautiful Mind (a disgrace), Chicago (enjoyable but innocuous film) and Crash (a mess) shouldn't be considered...
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An even split to my eyes. Five uncommonly good to great winners (2004-2009 barring the one glaring misstep) and five mediocre or worse (admittedly, I'm going on spec with the third LotR movie, since I jumped ship ten minutes into The Two Towers).
Went with No Country, being as it's maybe the only best picture in history with Bresson on its mind.
Went with No Country, being as it's maybe the only best picture in history with Bresson on its mind.
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No Country was the obvious pick for me: the only time my top movie of the year coincided with the Academy's, and, in fact, the only Oscar winner to make my top three. (Million Dollar Baby and Chicago were a bit farther down) Had the best Rings movie (the first) won rather than the worst, I'd have at least considered it.
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What a strange collection of winners. Several of them seem way too good to be true, several of them seem way too bad to be true, and between them there's a solid batch of mainstream entertainments.
I picked The Hurt Locker, which I think is the most completely successful of all of these films, though I actually like many of these in some way.
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I picked The Hurt Locker, which I think is the most completely successful of all of these films, though I actually like many of these in some way.
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BREAK IT UP!
Heh. I actually accidentally wrote in Brokeback Mountain instead of Crash. That's how much worse this lineup is than Best Director. I can only muster up any kind of real enthusiasm for three or four of them. I choose No Country for Old Men slightly over Million Dollar Baby and The Departed.
Heh. I actually accidentally wrote in Brokeback Mountain instead of Crash. That's how much worse this lineup is than Best Director. I can only muster up any kind of real enthusiasm for three or four of them. I choose No Country for Old Men slightly over Million Dollar Baby and The Departed.
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