meh, Dances With Wolves is still one of my favorite movies.

While it’s one of John Ford’s better films, it ain’t Citizen Kane. In fact, at this point, Valley is most memorable for being the answer to the trivia question, “Which film beat Citizen Kane at the 1942 Oscars?”

It was meh. Others were more deserving. 

Something that a lot of these highlight is that the acting branch of the Academy has always consistently been the largest. Many of the wins that are retrospectively shrugged off are very actorly movies. Driving Miss Daisy is a good example. Is it a very reductive movie? Absolutely, and Do the Right Thing is absolutely…

This one shares something in common with a lot of the “worst Oscar snub ever!” entries, which is that it took many years for Citizen Kane to acquire its present reputation. It’s only with the benefit of hindsight that we can appreciate how groundbreaking and influential Kane was. At the time, nobody was beating the…

Did you really say Belfast should have won Best Picture when The Power of the Dog and Drive My Car were in contention

No list of “worst Best Picture winners” is complete without Cavalcade (1933). On the other hand I will die on the hill that Cimarron’s bonkers series of improbably righteous escapades for Frontier Journalist and Vigilante Preacher Yancey Cravat, Attorney-at-Law is a delight if you can vibe with it.

And no, CODA wasn’t…

1932-33 Cavalcade is the most egregious.

Oh I so tire of the drubbing How Green Was My Valley gets, for having the temerity to receive the Academy’s recognition over Citizen Kane.  I can’t even compare the films, because they are so different, but Valley is a marvelous film in its own right, one of John Ford’s very best, and ought to be regarded on its own…

Chicago is great cinema, and an amazing adaptation of a musical imo 

Get the fuck outta here with How Green Was My Valley. One of the best Best Picture winners ever. The fact that it beat Kane is irrelevant. It’s a masterpiece.

The title of this slideshow doesn’t seem to jibe with the content, as many of the “15 Worst Best Picture Winners of All Time” listed are perfectly good, even great movies, as the writers freely attest. Maybe something more like “the 15 least deserving best picture winners”? Or just framing the list in terms of the…

Belfast?!

How could you leave off Carly Simon’s Let the River Run from Working Girl??

I’m not so sure about this. Anytime I’m hiring a contractor, and they say “I’m gonna bring my nephew in to handle this one,” it does not portend good things.

why can’t people be fans of this movie without being fucking dweebs about it? this is like those tumblr people who invented a movie. it was funny at first, and then it was sad

Remember that part in Iron Man when they are doing a big award presentations and talking about all of Tony Starla achievements?  Did people think Tony Stark is real because someone said he graduated from MIT at 15 or some shit?

“...offering a captivating study on abuse of power pulled from our own society.”

Maybe I’m a snob or a fuddy duddy spoilsport, but I just don’t get it. Though to be fair, I spent the whole first part of my life in that “high art realm,” and while it’s very realistic for a movie, it just seems a little silly to me. Like, 15 year olds at Juilliard Prep or NEC Prep often take classical music really…