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2001: A Space Odyssey wasn't even NOMINATED for Best Picture that year. Incredible.
1968 was one of the greatest years for films ever, though you wouldn't know it from most of the winners at the Oscars.
I never understood the reverence for Tarkovsky. Andrei Rublev and My Name is, Ivan were tolerable. The rest are unwatchable.
Klaatu barada nikto
Imagine this movie poster: "In space, no one can see you follow protocol... it's too boring to watch."
So, every celebrity who dies is going to have a "The vaccine!" message deposited like an enema, before you even know how they died, or if they were even vaccinated? And let's just suppose you are right and the vaccine is killing people. You come across as an obsessive crank, and this actually undermines the credibility of your claim.
Fuck off with this "vaccine" bullshit.
Oscar was also a remake of a 1960s French comedy.
Ok... three things... or four if you count both cheeks.
Professor Jennings from Howard the Duck. The only good thing about that movie aside from the John Barry score.
The Force Awakens itself was not a very good movie. It never deserved the love it got in the first place.
" No More Lockdown" by Van Morrison:
https://youtu.be/K45rNKfBmUY?si=pMvSRZRjbpYHJnN-
"Stand and Deliver" by Eric Clapton and Van Morrison:
https://youtu.be/DirL4RI1448?si=p0XOV0vA2JN_2Ne3
(All of this is my own opinion, so take it for what it's worth).
As much as I like Kobayashi I just don't think he made enough truly great ones to be considered an equal, let alone better, director than Kurosawa. Kobayashi made two indisputable cinemic classics whch do indeed equal Kurosawa's best (Hara-Kiri and Kwaidan), two very good films (Human Condition and Samurai Rebellion) and three solid films (Black River, Hymn to a Tired Man, and Inn of Evil), and a lot of lesser stuff. His early 50's works are pretty forgettable, and his last few were glorified tv miniseries. By contrast, Kurosawa made at least 12 classics (Rashomon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, The Lower Depths, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, High and Low, Red Beard, Kagemusha and Ran) plus several other very solid films (Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Dersu Uzala, and Dreams), although he had his misfires too (The Quiet Duel, Scandal, The Idiot, Record of a Living Being, The Bad Sleep Well, Dodes ka-den, Rhapsody in August and Madadayo). Most of his early pre-Mifune films, aside from one or two, aren't that great either. Still, at his best he was unbeatable. If Kurosawa had a true rival among his countrymen, it was Mizoguchi.
A bit of Streets of Fire in there as well.
Some people over the years have claimed that Imperial Japan was provoked into bombing Pearl Harbor because of the oil embargo the USA imposed on them after the invasion of Manchuria.
Should I see Nosfera 1 before seeing Nosfera 2? Asking for a friend.
He may or may not become a violent cop, but he will most likely become a co-opted servant of the state one way or another, whether he even realizes it or not. You don't think the final image of him engaging in his old puruits of "a bit of ultraviolence and the old in/out" in front of a crowd of "sophistos" seems to indicate this?
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The Pious Bird of Good Omen: Fleetwood Mac compilation album. Not sure how the Devil fits in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pious_Bird_of_Good_Omen
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think 2001 was even NOMINATED for Best Picture. However, in addition to winning for Best SFX, it was nominated (and won) for Best Original Screenplay (by Clarke and Kubrick).