# Oscar Best Picture elimination thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924 "2010-03-09T23:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/61 "2010-03-10T19:59:57Z")
My prediction for the final 5: The Godfather films, Lawrence of Arabia, Casablanca, and Gone With the Wind (possibly No Country For Old Men, because there’s so much Cohen Bros. love here, but I know some people didn’t like that one, either). ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/62 "2010-03-10T20:02:01Z")
Mrs. Miniver. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/63 "2010-03-10T20:08:59Z")
Fuck the English Patient. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/64 "2010-03-10T20:14:39Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Fuck the English Patient. [Elaine Benes] I hated the English Patient![/Elaine Benes] Buh-bye. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/65 "2010-03-10T20:18:42Z")
I’m taking down Midnight Cowboy…just yechhhhh… ETA: Why? It hasn’t aged well at all, it was slow moving, the characters were unlikable and the story was awfully heavy-handed… ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/66 "2010-03-10T20:21:33Z")
I thought Annie Hall had some clever moments, but mostly a one-note inside joke to L.A. & Hollywood types and, even though I’m far from a Star Wars geek, didn’t have near the lasting impression. Suck it, Annie Hall! ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/67 "2010-03-10T20:59:40Z")
Has anyone even _seen_ “Wings”? Take it off the list. It’s like giving the Ivy League an automatic bid to the NCAA basketball tournament–they deserve to be on the list for historical reasons, but you know they’re not going to be there for the Final Four! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/68 "2010-03-10T21:01:25Z")
> [@Quercus\_alba](#): > > Has anyone even _seen_ “Wings”? I have. It’s pretty impressive for its time. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/69 "2010-03-10T21:02:56Z")
Ha! I thought that Wings might end up winning - just because no one hasd seen it! Take Godfather 2 off. I didn’t like the first Godfather either but can see it was a groundbreaking movie. I was just bored by this one. ---
**Author:** ![Marcus53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@Marcus53](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marcus53)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/70 "2010-03-10T21:05:22Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > How about some sort of “Vote Back In” rule where a certain number of votes for a movie already taken off the list can get it put back on? I don’t think this would affect anything already taken off but it could make this thread even more interesting. I second HelloNinja’s suggestion. How about 3 votes to reinstate (and you only get one opportunity to cast a “reinstating” vote)? While I’m here – so long, **Ordinary People.** (Not a bad movie but not up there with the true greats). ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/71 "2010-03-10T21:39:22Z")
Suck me **Amadeus**! Tom Hulce…so painful… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/72 "2010-03-10T21:40:33Z")
Here we are… All Quiet on the Western Front Grand Hotel It Happened One Night Mutiny on the Bounty Gone with the Wind Rebecca Casablanca The Lost Weekend The Best Years of Our Lives Hamlet All the King’s Men All about Eve An American in Paris From Here to Eternity On the Waterfront Around the World in 80 Days The Bridge on the River Kwai Gigi Ben-Hur West Side Story Lawrence of Arabia My Fair Lady A Man for All Seasons Patton The French Connection The Godfather The Sting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest The Deer Hunter Gandhi Terms of Endearment Platoon Rain Man The Silence of the Lambs Unforgiven Schindler’s List Million Dollar Baby The Departed No Country for Old Men Is this going to be like “American Idol,” where some mediocre movie wins, just because it’s not anybody’s LEAST favorite candidate? I went ahead and yanked _ **In the Heat of the Night** _. It may have been groundbreaking in its time, but its time is long past. Worst of all, the central mystery is not very interesting. Steiger and Poitier ARE great, though. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/73 "2010-03-10T21:41:59Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Is this going to be like “American Idol,” where some mediocre movie wins, just because it’s not anybody’s LEAST favorite candidate? Yes, it will, almost by definition for this kind of single-elimination, “just 'cause I don’t like it” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/74 "2010-03-10T21:45:37Z")
_Gigi_. I tried to watch that once. It was a crashing bore. The winner shouldn’t be a musical anyway. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/75 "2010-03-10T22:06:08Z")
Gotta pull “Around the World in 80 Days.” It was full of long boring “on location” sequences included in the movie just to show off the new [Todd-AO](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_AO)technology (a higher def widescreen format). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/76 "2010-03-10T22:11:33Z")
_It Happened One Night._ Overrated, not-very-funny comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/77 "2010-03-10T22:15:11Z")
I vote no votebacks, so that when I pull **No Country for Old Men** it can’t be reprieved. TIA. ETA: though I am not currently removing it ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/78 "2010-03-10T22:15:46Z")
I’ll go ahead and bounce No Country for Old Men. Good, not great movie in a weak field, and the ending was so badly bad it spoiled the rest of the movie for me. And yes, I’ve heard all the explanations and justifications for it. To me its a classic case of overthinking things. ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/79 "2010-03-10T22:37:55Z")
Changing vote - I thought Rain Man had gone. Tedious & impossible to sit the whole way through. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924/80 "2010-03-10T23:00:06Z")
I’ll yank _Million Dollar Baby_. I never thought it deserved to win. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-best-picture-elimination-thread/531924.md?page=5)