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--Eric wrote:This Crash revisionism is amusing to say the least. Normally I prefer arrogantly bad movies to tastefully pointless or pointlessly tasteful ones, but Crash is the big walloping exception to that rule.
Ditto, though I have more tolerance for pointlessly tasteful than you, I think.
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Love Story (1970) - Arthur Hiller
9/10
I really really liked this one. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal have great chemistry and are both luminous in this. The direction is also quite good. It didn't felt dated for a single second. This has become my new guilty pleasure. (you can start mocking me now...)
9/10
I really really liked this one. Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal have great chemistry and are both luminous in this. The direction is also quite good. It didn't felt dated for a single second. This has become my new guilty pleasure. (you can start mocking me now...)
I wasn't in love with any of those performances. I remember at the time being down with Marisa Tomei but that was mostly sentiment, I think. Her accent is really quite shakey. Winslet doesn't begin to register in Iris. She was better the previous year in Quills, and the year before that in Holy Smoke!. Were I to choose now, it would be Maggie Smith but that really is the kind of role she could do in her sleep. That doesn't make it any less delightful though. Mirren is quite good as well, but my favorite performances from Gosford Park were not nominated and I think that has some impact on it. When one considers how far superior Anjelica Huston and Gwyneth Paltrow were in The Royal Tenenbaums or Scarlett Johansson in Ghost World or Frances O'Connor in A.I. or Carrie-Ann Moss in Memento, it's hard to muster much enthusiasm.
"How's the despair?"
--Sabin wrote:The 2001 Best Supporting Actress lineup is the dullest in memory.
Really? I think Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith are both fantastic nominees for their Gosford Park work (in fact, their two completely different performances are partly what makes the film work so well). Marisa Tomei was in fine form in the otherwise dreary In the Bedroom and proved that she wasn't a one-hit wonder. Kate Winslet was sort of a throwaway nod for Iris (she's definitely been better elsewhere), but it was by no means a negligible performance. Connelly was simply the worst of the lot that year, so, of course, that meant she had to win.
Unfortunately I think the popular sentiment was that because she had been snubbed for "Requiem for a Dream" the year before (for which she definitely deserved a mention), it meant that she had to win for this piece of ****. It's shameful. And, if I recall correctly, she gave the dullest acceptance speech in history. Also that dress wasn't doing her any favors.
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"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Besides the fact that A Beautiful Mind is very dull, full of scenes that are just hilarious, and a twist that should not be celebrated but denegrated, is this: John Forbes Nash sucks. It's not an interesting character study in schizophrenia or a truly damaged man or the kind of abusive genius that could come up with his ideas. He just sucks. He places his family in genuine danger under the pretense that he has his shit under control, and then quick cut to: decades later, he still sees all those imaginary people, but he has it slightly better under control. That's his progress. He no longer smacks his wife or tries to drown his child. At least, not that we see in these final scenes.
At the end of A Beautiful Mind, I hate John Forbes Nash and I shouldn't. The film just fails. I think that Jennifer Connelly's win is probably the emptiest performance to win this decade. It's not bad or just grossly miscalculated like Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, but completely empty and the product of hype. Shame too, because she's such a talented actor. The 2001 Best Supporting Actress lineup is the dullest in memory.
At the end of A Beautiful Mind, I hate John Forbes Nash and I shouldn't. The film just fails. I think that Jennifer Connelly's win is probably the emptiest performance to win this decade. It's not bad or just grossly miscalculated like Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, but completely empty and the product of hype. Shame too, because she's such a talented actor. The 2001 Best Supporting Actress lineup is the dullest in memory.
"How's the despair?"
Crash is a mixed bag, and when it's bad its truly awful. But still it's a better film than several other Best Picture winners over the last decade: American Beauty, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, No Country For Old Men.
"Y'know, that's one of the things I like about Mitt Romney. He's been consistent since he changed his mind." -- Christine O'Donnell
--Sabin wrote:I'm human, but I still think [Crash] might be better than A Beautiful Mind.
Oh, it most definitely is. A Beautiful Mind is so mind-numbingly boring and awful it's hard to settle on just the right adjective. Jennifer Connelly should give her Oscar to Maggie Smith, too.
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"The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely in her shoulders. She was twenty five and looked it."
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
-Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
--Big Magilla wrote:A Touch of Class was a huge hit in 1973, but it appealed more to older audiences of the day who liked those titillating comedies where the characters flirted with having sex outside of marriage but didn't actually have it.
Adjusted for inflation, A Touch of Class grossed around $40 million, which, I suspect, made it the Four Weddings and a Funeral of its day and is pretty good for a British romantic comedy.
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"...it is the weak who are cruel, and...gentleness is only to be expected from the strong." - Leo Reston
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable." - Jodie Foster
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The Crash threads are still around, though they may take some digging to find.
My recollection is that the film was modestly liked by those who had seen it before it started winning awards. Its surprise Oscar win over Brokeback Mountain erupted in outright hostility that has still not calmed down. The most hated Oscar winners around here, though, are Braveheart and A Beautiful Mind with Gladiator and Crash probably not far behind.
A Touch of Class was a huge hit in 1973, but it appealed more to older audiences of the day who liked those titillating comedies where the characters flirted with having sex outside of marriage but didn't actually have it.
My recollection is that the film was modestly liked by those who had seen it before it started winning awards. Its surprise Oscar win over Brokeback Mountain erupted in outright hostility that has still not calmed down. The most hated Oscar winners around here, though, are Braveheart and A Beautiful Mind with Gladiator and Crash probably not far behind.
A Touch of Class was a huge hit in 1973, but it appealed more to older audiences of the day who liked those titillating comedies where the characters flirted with having sex outside of marriage but didn't actually have it.
--Reza wrote:--mlrg wrote:A Touch of Class (Melvin Frank) 1973
5/10
How was this movie received back in 1973?
Well for starters it was nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture so obviously it was rather well received.
Crash received 6 nominations three years ago... Was it well received around here?
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