Worst picture to have ever won the best picture oscar
Harvey Weinstein must have slipped some serious wads of cash to win over Saving Private Ryan
shareGood heavens, what an original comment. Nobody has ever mentioned that before.
I know a lot of senior citizens came out of the cinema weeping after watching SPR because they thought they were going to see a film about commercially funded Pension plans sponsored by Ryan O'Neal. Perhaps the bad publicity surrounding this put Oscar voters off. What do you think?
shareI just wish people would go and discuss SPR and how American won the war over on the SPR board, and leave this one for discussions about Elizabethan literary japes.
shareThe beauty (and the reason) for this and other democratic boards is that people can discuss and express their opinions freely, without offending or insulting anyone, which is what I did.
shareYes indeed - sorry for being snide. But it's worth browsing any board before you post, to see if you can join an existing conversation, before you start a new one.
The subject of SPR versus SIL has been done to death, and is kind of pointless anyway, because the two films are made for such different audiences that comparison is impossible - it's not a case of apples and oranges, it's more like chrysanthemums and chains-saws.
I don't think it is apples and oranges, if this was the case then awards and festivals would not take place. And also, I don't think movies are made for a particular audience, movies are just made and then it is up to the general public to embrace them or not. Of course it is my personal opinion that SPR should have won over SIL.
I guess the point of this thread is that Oscars is to a large extent influenced by political pressure.
If this topic has been already discussed then what can I say? Sorry for the inattention!
And also, I don't think movies are made for a particular audience, movies are just made and then it is up to the general public to embrace them or not.
Well, I don't know. This is quite an interesting question. Surely when someone is pitching an idea for a film to the backers, they must discuss whether there is an audience for it? and if so, what kind of audience? This must influence what you put in the film. It's no good having wry comments about sharp practice in the theatre, neat references to Harold Pinter's foibles or academic jokes about Jacobean dramatists in a film intended for a big-screen blockbuster,Saturday night type audience, any more than it would be worth having a wealth of period military detail, highly dramatic action scenes or appeals to American patriotism in a film designed for the London art-house cinema market.
And they must need to know whether the project is worthwhile, how to advertise it, where to have the trial screenings, the première, and so on.
Ideas, anyone? Anyone in the film production industry want to comment? share
I think the answer is to categorize movies into best drama, best comedy, etc. to avoid comparisons like this. But I agree with the OP, in that SPR is simply a better film making achievement over SIL - on technical production grounds alone there is no question. And remember the "Academy" picked "How Green was My Valley" over "Citizen Kane"!
shareThe beauty (and the reason) for this and other democratic boards is that people can add their comments to existing threads on the same topic. This is what is known as discussion.
Instead of starting new threads that are identical to 26,982 other threads that they have not troubled to notice.
Which is also what you did.
At one point, a few years back, 80% of the thread titles on the board had the words "worst", "picture" and "oscar" in them.
SiL is, in fact, one of the most original, witty, best-written and best directed pictures ever to have won the Oscar and people who can't see the justice in at least two of those claims have not understood it.
I guess the point of this thread is that Oscars is to a large extent influenced by political pressure.Same as all the others.
Anyway, spat over. But you have to understand why long term posters get a bit tee'd off with this behaviour. share