Sorry it isn't. It won Best Picture. I would of said that it was a bad year but it won over "ET" and "TOOTSIE". This is a case where the Academy got it wrong again. No wonder THE AWARD SHOW no longer gets a huge audience. They award films most people never want to see.
shareIt wasn't the best picture of 1982, but it was better than all the other nominees.
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So you liked Tootsie and ET better. Most people would disagree. Just saw Gandhi and I thought I might not like it that much, but it was a fantastic really well done film. Deserves to be on the top #200 right where it is, and definitely worthy of best picture Oscar.
shareIt gets a lot of flak. I will defend it however - it does feel "epic" in its scale - which can't be said of a lot of modern films(even some pretending to be epics like The English Patient). I am surprised that it wasn't filmed in 70 mm. The film does have integrity about dealing with the tricky subject of colonialism and Gandhi. It's certainly a biopic that is more cinematic than many others. Also there's a superb performance from Kingsley.
On the subject of best picture Oscar for 1982 - well, I'm going to get a lot of flak for this - I'm not a fan of ET. It's too sentimental for one thing. The film never really gelled with me. Tootsie isn't that great a film as well. It's alright - but nothing special. People going on about Hoffman's performance and so on - well, two men in drag was done better in Some Like It Hot. To me - for that year - I'd go with Das Boot. That was the standout film of that year. I suppose you could also say Blade Runner - but that is one of those films that got critically reappraised.
I'm going to get a lot of flak for this - I'm not a fan of ET. It's too sentimental for one thing. The film never really gelled with me.
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You have a title to your comment, 'This is not a good film'. You are then apologising - to who no-one knows. The rest of your post is about "the" Academy and other movies released in 1982. This then brings me back to your post's title. Well, it it 100% opinion. The film is what it is.
It was made, released and, okay, was put to some vote. It so happens that it also educated millions of people - myself included - on a life that changed the course of history. Leaving that aside, allow me to give you a tip: if you choose to write a post and want to be taken seriously, you may want to.. err.. actually write about the movie at hand.
You may think that I am a fan of the movie (which I am) and that is why I am replying to you here i.e. in the way that I am. That is not the case. Your title piqued my curiosity so I wanted to read what someone else, i.e. you, had to say about it.
I am only too happy to read alternative - even opposing - points of view. Disagreement is to be expected. It is - at least partly - what life is about. It is at this level that I was disappointed.
I can not believe I've still not seen this highly rated movie. It looks as brilliant as it's rated. It's actually on television now but I have missed too much. I will sit and watch it soon. It's only 34 years old.
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