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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:20 pm
by HarryGoldfarb
Ended up picking The Departed
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:20 am
by anonymous1980
No Country for Old Men and Return of the King were neck-in-neck. I decided to pick No Country for Old Men because it's probably one of the least Best Picture-like Best Picture winners at least in recent history.
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:40 am
by mlrg
The Departed
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 12:27 pm
by Damien
Million Dollar Baby
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:22 am
by HarryGoldfarb
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...
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:32 pm
by Eric
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:51 pm
by Mister Tee
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.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:54 pm
by rudeboy
This lot could be worse. A Beautiful Mind is nonsense, Crash sucks and No Country is a mess, but all of the others at least have something to offer. I voted for The Lord of the Rings.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:45 pm
by The Original BJ
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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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 2:26 pm
by Sabin
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.