A find it a tad disappointing that so many people can't seem to appreciate Million Dollar Baby. Crash is a love it or hate it film, and I really understand people's varying opinions on that one but Million Dollar Baby is a solid film to me.
A find it a tad disappointing that so many people can't seem to appreciate Million Dollar Baby. Crash is a love it or hate it film, and I really understand people's varying opinions on that one but Million Dollar Baby is a solid film to me.
So please explain why you feel that Million Dollar Baby deserved an oscar over The Aviator?
Million Dollar Baby is a good film with solid performances but it's not half as great as The Aviator was.
I can't comment as to why it deserved it over The Aviator, reason being I haven't seen The Aviator. It's arguable that every movie that won for Best Picture wasn't certainly the best of that year. The only few that I don't hear too many people complain over are One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Casablanca, and even that is debatable.
Platoon with a vengeance.
The Silence of the Hams.
Forrest Gump.
Braveheart
Titanic
Gladiator
Chicago.
Million Dollar Bubby.
Slumdog Millionare Dollar Bubby.
Ok, I can see Titanic, I really wanted L.A. Confidential to win, I still go back to that movie to this day, and I've only seen Titanic all the way through once.
But why all the hate for Chicago? I loved that movie. It was smart, funny, had great songs and acting...I just can't see how so many people dislike it.
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But why all the hate for Chicago? I loved that movie. It was smart, funny, had great songs and acting...I just can't see how so many people dislike it.
Umm, it's a musical, that genre which seems to scare "macho men" because it's "more realistic" if some guy flies around shooting people with guns than if he actually just sings and dances to express his true emotions.
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Umm, it's a musical, that genre which seems to scare "macho men" because it's "more realistic" if some guy flies around shooting people with guns than if he actually just sings and dances to express his true emotions.
Shakespeare In Love- Saving Private Ryan should have won.
The Thin Red Line should have won.
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Compared to James Jones' original novel, the film of The Thin Red Line is absolute garbage. Saving Private Ryan may have been overly earnest, but at least it wasn't psuedo-poetic drivel. Just my two cents.