culminated with the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger of 2000

Yep, as soon as I saw “Hollywood’s most hated movie mogul”, Cohn was the first person that came to mind.

Nope. Harry Cohn (Columbia Pictures) beats out Jack. May be an apocryphal story but at Cohn’s funeral which was attended by most of Hollywood, Red Skelton said, “Just goes to show you. Give the people what they want and they’ll turn out for it.”

I have a somewhat higher opinion of Star Trek: First Contact and (confession time) skipped Star Trek: Nemesis because the reviews and the previous movie were so underwhelming, but overall... yeah, that’s pretty much the ST:TNG films in a nutshell.

Man... yeah no you basically nailed it.

Not to be high and mighty but what part of Vertigo warrants a remake? Its not a film the youth will have seen and the TCM going crowd probably won’t like a masterpiece like this getting done but worse.

Don’t forget 1976's “Obsession”!

Body Double is amazing, a Vertigo and Rear Window combined remake.  De Palma’s Hitchcock obsession was never stronger.

Just, why? Make something new and stop looking backwards. Vertigo has nothing to be added to. Psycho had nothing to be added to when Gus Van Sant did it again. You have Eggers, a director I actually like, trying to remake Nosferatu for fuck sake. These films belong where they are, influential to filmmakers for so many…

Never go full remake.

Unless it features Craig Wasson, Melanie Grifiith and the best (unofficial) music video for Frank Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax,” Vertigo should never be remade.

And thus the superiority of physical media is once again asserted.

I wonder if you get the Brits voting as a block once in a while, if it pushes a film over the finish line. Like in years where the Independent and Hollywood backed pictures kind of cancel each other out. Or I suppose that was Weinstein’s thing for 20 years. He was like the frickin House Majority Whip for Oscar Awards. …

Yeah, at least they put it last on the list.

1939 rivals 1999 for all time movie years:

I’ll go one further - How Green is a masterpiece and one of the best movies ever to win the Best Picture Oscar (the fact that it beat Kane is beside the point).

Indeed. Many Oscar best winner movies are nice, charming movies even if they aren’t really “the best” of their year. More recently, Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan, for example. It was a very charming movie and Paltrow was cute in it and hadn’t gotten into her Goop pseudoscience yet. But it isn’t…

Crash sucked.

I thought for sure #1 would be Forrest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction. Weird that it’s not even in the top 10.

Just because HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY isn’t CITIZEN KANE doesn’t mean it belongs on a “worst” list. It’s a very charming movie!