POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS OF THE 1990s - ROUND 1

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  • tbergstbergs Posts: 10,106
    Shakespeare in Love
    I can't believe how old Clint was there and that was 30 years ago!
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,570
    The English Patient
    Unforgiven is a masterpiece as a Western.  Yes, it is slow - as most Westerns are. 
    The last however many minutes of the movie when Clint has some drinks and heads back into town are among my favorite that I've seen put to film.
    Absolutely amazing.
    No it is not...

    :lol:     You do not like it, either?

    Ahh well, that is why they make so many movies.  Some people love Gump and Saving Private Ryan.  Some people love Unforgiven.

    I'm surprised.  You dismissed MJ but hold true to Clint.
  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,346
    Shakespeare in Love
    Unforgiven is a masterpiece as a Western.  Yes, it is slow - as most Westerns are. 
    The last however many minutes of the movie when Clint has some drinks and heads back into town are among my favorite that I've seen put to film.
    Absolutely amazing.
    No it is not...
    Disagree....the dialogue is a little slow and cheap sometimes but it's a great movie.
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  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,600
    Titanic
    Unforgiven is a masterpiece as a Western.  Yes, it is slow - as most Westerns are. 
    The last however many minutes of the movie when Clint has some drinks and heads back into town are among my favorite that I've seen put to film.
    Absolutely amazing.
    No it is not...

    :lol:     You do not like it, either?

    Ahh well, that is why they make so many movies.  Some people love Gump and Saving Private Ryan.  Some people love Unforgiven.

    I'm surprised.  You dismissed MJ but hold true to Clint.

    Really?  Where are the reports of Clint being a child molester?

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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,456
    Shakespeare in Love
    Anything even remotely related to or referencing Shakespeare must automatically go.  
  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,226
    Shakespeare in Love
    Anything even remotely related to or referencing Shakespeare must automatically go.  
    Bad middle school experience?
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,600
    Titanic
    Anything even remotely related to or referencing Shakespeare must automatically go.  

    Ha.  I had multiple classes on Willie S in college -- nothing else in those classes, just the genius of Shakespeare. 
    Know very well that many people hated having to read his works.
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  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,456
    Shakespeare in Love
    mrussel1 said:
    Anything even remotely related to or referencing Shakespeare must automatically go.  
    Bad middle school experience?
    Every single year from 7th to 12th grade we had to read Shakespeare.  Sometimes two or three works in a school year.  I'll never understand the hard-on that the US education system has for that hack!
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    The English Patient
    Unforgiven is a masterpiece as a Western.  Yes, it is slow - as most Westerns are. 
    The last however many minutes of the movie when Clint has some drinks and heads back into town are among my favorite that I've seen put to film.
    Absolutely amazing.
    No it is not...

    :lol:     You do not like it, either?

    Ahh well, that is why they make so many movies.  Some people love Gump and Saving Private Ryan.  Some people love Unforgiven.

    I'm surprised.  You dismissed MJ but hold true to Clint.

    Really?  Where are the reports of Clint being a child molester?

    I have wonderful memories of Mr. Eastwood from childhood. Never once heard anything even smelling like that. 
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,600
    Titanic
    hedonist said:
    Unforgiven is a masterpiece as a Western.  Yes, it is slow - as most Westerns are. 
    The last however many minutes of the movie when Clint has some drinks and heads back into town are among my favorite that I've seen put to film.
    Absolutely amazing.
    No it is not...

    :lol:     You do not like it, either?

    Ahh well, that is why they make so many movies.  Some people love Gump and Saving Private Ryan.  Some people love Unforgiven.

    I'm surprised.  You dismissed MJ but hold true to Clint.

    Really?  Where are the reports of Clint being a child molester?

    I have wonderful memories of Mr. Eastwood from childhood. Never once heard anything even smelling like that. 

    So Eastwood is a bozo - I agree with that.  Haven't heard of him as a raper or kiddie diddler. 
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  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,964
    Shakespeare in Love
    Clint Eastwood was considered quite the veteran actor in 1992 when he acted in and directed Unforgiven. I don't know if anyone would've been expecting him to still be going 20-30 years later.
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Dances with Wolves
    mrussel1 said:
    Anything even remotely related to or referencing Shakespeare must automatically go.  
    Bad middle school experience?
    Haha!

    An old college friend of mine wrote a very derivative but still somewhat amusing play called Shakespeare's a Dick about a drunk guy whose hatred of Shakespeare is so strong that the spirit of Shakespeare notices and objects by cursing the drunkard to speaking only Shakespeare.
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Dances with Wolves
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
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  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,946
    Titanic
    dankind said:
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
    You must have been pissed off when The Last Samurai basically stole the whole movie and just placed it in Japan. 
  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,600
    edited April 2021
    Titanic
    eddiec said:
    dankind said:
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
    You must have been pissed off when The Last Samurai basically stole the whole movie and just placed it in Japan. 

    Hahaha.  I liked that movie as well. 
    Also, Avatar.  Dances with Blue Monkeys
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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,226
    Shakespeare in Love
    dankind said:
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
    It'll be gone next round I'm sure. 
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Dances with Wolves
    eddiec said:
    dankind said:
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
    You must have been pissed off when The Last Samurai basically stole the whole movie and just placed it in Japan. 
    I was hardened enough to just not bother by the time that one came out.
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  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,744
    edited April 2021
    Unforgiven
    tbergs said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Unforgiven was one big pile of dog crap.  I hated that movie.  
    Who the hell are you?! Grab a few trays of ice and a nice bottle of cab and try again.
    Garbage I say! 
    By the way, just had a glass of rose with lots of ice. ;) 
    Post edited by mcgruff10 on
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  • mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 30,226
    Shakespeare in Love
    mcgruff10 said:
    tbergs said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Unforgiven was one big pile of dog crap.  I hated that movie.  
    Who the hell are you?! Grab a few trays of ice and a nice bottle of cab and try again.
    Garbage I say! 
    By the way, just had a glass of rose with lots of ice. ;) 
    ROSE??? Dude..
  • mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 28,744
    edited April 2021
    Unforgiven
    mrussel1 said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    tbergs said:
    mcgruff10 said:
    Unforgiven was one big pile of dog crap.  I hated that movie.  
    Who the hell are you?! Grab a few trays of ice and a nice bottle of cab and try again.
    Garbage I say! 
    By the way, just had a glass of rose with lots of ice. ;) 
    ROSE??? Dude..
    Sorry it was a Grenache!  Definitely not manly but good! Lol
    Post edited by mcgruff10 on
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  • oftenreadingoftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,848
    edited April 2021
    Dances with Wolves
    dankind said:
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
    I will happily vote out Dancing With the Wolves.  Will go do it right now.

    Edit: Also hate the fucking Eagles.
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  • 1ThoughtKnown1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Dances with Wolves
    dankind said:
    Wait, I just looked at the totals. How the fuck are there only two votes for Dances With Wolves? Somebody tell me something redeeming about that film.

    It's a goddamn episodic mess with no thread. Melodramatic and cliched as fuck from the script to the score to the cinematography to the lighting. Awful lead actors. Narcissistic direction. Just an empty waste of time on what was the point again, with some lovely "consensual" cultural rape appropriation to top it all off.

    Hate this fuckin' movie like the Dude hates the fuckin' Eagles.
    I will happily vote out Dancing With the Wolves.  Will go do it right now.

    Edit: Also hate the fucking Eagles.
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  • tbergstbergs Posts: 10,106
    edited April 2021
    Shakespeare in Love
    I remember when Dances came out on VHS and the price was insane, like almost $100. It was near impossible to rent too. I think when we finally got our turn on the list, the copy we rented was shit due to someone else messing up the tape. Took it back and had to wait like another 2 weeks until they got a replacement copy.

    Found this old article which was a fun trip down memory lane.

    https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-08-28-1991240185-story.html

    Hunt for Red October was one of my favorites as well. Barely makes the 90's, but the best of the Jack Ryan films.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • MedozKMedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    The English Patient
    With 12 votes Shakespeare in Love and with 9 vote tie The English Patient and Titanic have all been eliminated in Round 1
  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 11,964
    Shakespeare in Love
    MedozK said:
    With 12 votes Shakespeare in Love and with 9 vote tie The English Patient and Titanic have all been eliminated in Round 1
    I think this is a good indicator of the demographic that's voting on this.
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  • HobbesHobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,433
    Shakespeare in Love
    MedozK said:
    With 12 votes Shakespeare in Love and with 9 vote tie The English Patient and Titanic have all been eliminated in Round 1
    I think this is a good indicator of the demographic that's voting on this.
    Evenbros?
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