How this beat private Ryan for best picture I'll never know, except the Oscars are rigged. This was utter crap
shareThe Thin Red Line is better than both, but between those two you mentioned I still think Shakespeare in Love is a better film.
For the record, I like Saving Private Ryan, but don't think it's quite the masterpiece a lot of others claim.
Agreed. This film is mediocre at best. It's actually an insult that SPR lost to this.
shareSiL is easily the wittiest film ever made about the theatre, and is a joyous spoof of the Shakespeare heritage business, historical films, and a whole lot more, as well as being possibly the biggest practical joke ever played on Gwyneth Paltrow.
SPR is just one breathtaking action scene tied to a monumentally sentimental and historically fake story. That scene is worth re-watching, yes, but watching the rest of SPR once is already enough time wasted out of my life.
50,000 almost identically worded posts from people of small vocabularies, however, indicate SiL may just have gone over more heads than any other film in history.
Entirely worthy of its place in the Top 5 comedy films ever made and one of a handful of original films strong enough to beat off award season competitors from the generic main stream. And to collect the gongs it deserved.
Sorry guys. It's simply not all that bright to call this film crap.
Other than the D-Day landing, SPR was quite pedestrian. The Academy got it right.
shareI disagree..the hand to hand fighting. The snipers, the power 1 tiger tank can do to a town .there were many great scenes..as a ww2 movie it was one of the best ever.
shareSPR was also one in which you didn't really need to engage your brain. Something you're obviously quite used to.
My favorite scene was the idiotic frontal attack on the radar site.
If you had a brain, not just a sorry excuse for one...a diminished capacity, you'd be understand and appreciate real films,not inane love stories based on some fuity Shakespeare parody. It's the pseudo intellectuals who think because the title has Shakespeare In it that they must act like they like the movie, not.knowing that even at his best shakespeare would choke on thr heights of nietzsches zarathsutra . Just like you would choke on my shaved low hanging ball sack ,biatcH. Go back to cartoons you imbecile, before I biatch slap you so hard yours balls actually will finally drop
shareWell, what a masterly prose style you employ, how impressive your rhetoric, how closely reasoned your arguments.
If you can answer the following questions, we might be able to take you more seriously -
1. Who is Ned, and to what is he referring when he says 'I am Hieronimo'?
2. Who is Kit, and whom did he meet in Deptford?
3. Who is Master Tilney, and in which surviving London landmark did he have his office?
4. Which line is a reference to Harold Pinter?
5. Who is the nasty boy with the mice, and what did he go on to do?
6. Who is Henslowe, and why are his financial affairs of importance to scholars?
Any answers, Nutmustard?
I couldn't give two hoots in a monkeys ass what your questions are or what they're referring to, you're attempting to get me to answer nonsensical quips so no matter what I answer you have some *beep* all ready to reply with, including this reply, so have it little person, what's your grand opus of rebuttal, amuse us all with your inane retort. When you actually have something intelligent to say let's hear it, it'd be amazing, if even by accident, someone with your limited education could actually sputter out something worthy of my time. Lol
shareYes, that's what I thought - you don't have the faintest idea what the film is about.
That's OK - some films are made for one type of audience, some for another. I wouldn't watch a film about baseball, because I wouldn't understand the jokes. All you need think or say is 'this one's not for me.'
Mongo?! Is that you?
shareI agree that Saving Private Ryan was robbed of the Academy Award in 1999 --- disgusting how floaters and poseurs can influence voting but he'll back in 1980 to me the hugest slight in film history giving Ordinary People the Oscar over Raging Bull ...
Oscars are a popularity contest --- I have dismissed them since 1980 but every now and then they get it right like in 2006 with Crash ...
Saving Private Ryan was the best movie (EASILY) of 1998-99 and you only need to each it to see ... Ordinary People strikes again with SIL ... Sad ---