POLL- The WEAKEST LINK: BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS OF THE 1990s - ROUND 3

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Unforgiven
    F Me In The Brain said:
    hedonist said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    I don’t disagree with Gern, but THIS!

    Oh yeah, and Jenny :lol:

    I can't harsh on Princess Buttercup too much but yes, even Jenny was silly. 


    Chris, you don't find Gump to be cheesy? 
    I do not hate it.  Just cannot watch it again.

    Nah man, It's a feel good kind of story that shows all the headlines over the years.

    He got to speak at one of Abbey Hoffmans rallies.  Who wouldn't love that?
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Unforgiven
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Also....every time I hear someone try to speak like Hanks/Gump and say Life Is Like A Box Of....this is how I feel:


    Speaking of shit movies people love.
    Maybe this is a Swedish thing?

    That was most likely the funniest part of the movie that was improved and ya just shit all over it.

    I can no longer take what you say seriously...
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    Forrest Gump
    Gern Blansten said:
    Gump haters....let's not forget some of the horrid writing in Unforgiven.  The verbiage at the beginning and ending of the film looked like a 3rd grader wrote it.  It was rumored he was a fucking dry goods merchant?  That seems like pretty detailed information to me.

    William Munny had long since sold
	the place and disappeared with the
	children... some said to San
	Francisco where it was rumored he
	prospered as a dry goods merchant
	under a different name.
    I suspect that was done to try and be in the style of the westerns.....

    Like that people get as fired up about movies as they do about music.  :lol:.    

    Books get a shot at some point?  
    Guessing the responses might be very different.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,358
    Schindler's List
    Gern Blansten said:
    Gump haters....let's not forget some of the horrid writing in Unforgiven.  The verbiage at the beginning and ending of the film looked like a 3rd grader wrote it.  It was rumored he was a fucking dry goods merchant?  That seems like pretty detailed information to me.

    William Munny had long since sold
	the place and disappeared with the
	children... some said to San
	Francisco where it was rumored he
	prospered as a dry goods merchant
	under a different name.
    Totally sounds like something that would be said in the Old West...
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Braveheart
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,358
    Schindler's List
    mrussel1 said:

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    OMG look at this monarchist. I imagine you'd willingly surrender your bride for purposes of prima nocte and quarter the king's soldiers in your house. Now I'm all in for Braveheart.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Braveheart
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    mrussel1 said:

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    OMG look at this monarchist. I imagine you'd willingly surrender your bride for purposes of prima nocte and quarter the king's soldiers in your house. Now I'm all in for Braveheart.
    Pfft.. prima nocte is for the peasants and serfs.  The King would not dare try that with me, especially since my bride was his favorite niece.  
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,401
    Braveheart
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,358
    Schindler's List
    tbergs said:

    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    I thought he was miscast for the Dan Brown movies (DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons...) but generally he is just awesome. We had A League of Their Own on and my son hears him talking and says "That sounds like Woody!"  =)
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    edited May 2021
    Forrest Gump
    tbergs said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    Hanks shouldn't have had to play an HIV patient or touched-in-the-head benchwarmer to get Oscar consideration. Almost any actor will tell you good comedic performances (of the non-slapstick variety, that is) are much harder to pull off than tragic ones.

    He was much better in Big than he's been in anything else ever. That performance absolutely slays.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,380
    Braveheart
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...

    mel couldnt beat the king in braveheart so he did the patriot ....
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Braveheart
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...

    mel couldnt beat the king in braveheart so he did the patriot ....
    haha, good point.  
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,177
    Unforgiven
    tbergs said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    Take that back....TTYD was a great movie.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    Forrest Gump
    Oh man, that movie was so bad.  (Or at least I remember it as such -- did not watch it beyond the first/only viewing.  That song was horrid, as well.)
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Braveheart
    Gern Blansten said:
    tbergs said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    Take that back....TTYD was a great movie.
    Not "Joe Versus the Volcano" good... but good.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Forrest Gump
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    tbergs said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    Take that back....TTYD was a great movie.
    Not "Joe Versus the Volcano" good... but good.
    I have no response to that.
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  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,362
    Unforgiven
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Also....every time I hear someone try to speak like Hanks/Gump and say Life Is Like A Box Of....this is how I feel:


    - mental note taken....just in case we should ever meet in person.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Braveheart
    darwinstheory said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Also....every time I hear someone try to speak like Hanks/Gump and say Life Is Like A Box Of....this is how I feel:


    - mental note taken....just in case we should ever meet in person.
    I bought my girl a chicken...that had no bones.....
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,401
    edited May 2021
    Braveheart
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    tbergs said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    I don't hate it, but I thought it was silly.
    The story, some of the acting, the story, the story, the story - cheeseball stuff.  
    Also, it gave the world people trying to imitate Tom Hanks' diction, which is not a good thing.
    Soooo many bad imitation attempts.
    Also....Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants.
    It was a bit groundbreaking in the video department...inserting Gump into video with Kennedy, etc.  Also some great Vietnam scenes.
     I thought it was genius as a movie.  And to see Hanks go from that to a grizzled Captain storming Normandy is acting beyond compare.  I don't know that I love the story itself, but it's just really well done from end to end.  

    Braveheart sucked last round and it still sucks.  Why do I want to watch a movie about a bunch of splitters not recognizing full authority of the Crown?  I wouldn't...
    It was weird to watch Hanks go from goofball comedies of the 80's to the serious stuff he did in the 90's. He was good at it though. I liked pretty much everything he did besides the dud That Thing You Do. I remember rooting for another oscar worthy role each year.
    Take that back....TTYD was a great movie.
    Not "Joe Versus the Volcano" good... but good.
    As a kid with only access to the big 4 networks, and what ever iteration of UPN or WB format was in at that time, I feel like there was at least one Tom Hanks movie airing every weekend. I saw part or all of Dragnet, The Man with One Red Shoe, Mazes, Money Pit, Nothing in Common and Volunteers a bunch. Saturday afternoon movies were the best.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,808
    Forrest Gump
    darwinstheory said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Also....every time I hear someone try to speak like Hanks/Gump and say Life Is Like A Box Of....this is how I feel:


    - mental note taken....just in case we should ever meet in person.

    :lol:  You can alternate speaking like Gump to speaking like Coach Gump from Notre Lame.

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