Hey, I used to look like the kid in Oliver!: http://paisley.presys.com/graphics/oliver.jpg
I’ll evict The Apartment. Boring, whiny and self-pitying.
Going My Way…out!
Interesting comment, with which I could not disagree more. May I ask what about it you feel hasn’t stood the test of time?
Sorry, Tom Jones.
Still in the running…
Wings
The Broadway Melody
All Quiet on the Western Front
Grand Hotel
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Great Ziegfeld
You Can’t Take It With You
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
How Green Was My Valley
Mrs. Miniver
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
Marty
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
In the Heat of the Night
Midnight Cowboy
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
Ordinary People
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Platoon
Rain Man
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler’s List
The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
The Hurt Locker
I picked Gladiator because it was a simply an enjoyable action film and that’s it, no different from the pile of action films with big name stars that is released every year. Years later, it remains still, just an action film. Most everyone in the film’s beginning is the exact same at the film’s end. There was little that made it stand out.
I was rooting for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon that year because, while also filled with typical Hong Kong-style martial arts, there was a genuine growth of characters, it wasn’t like every other movie out there (at least in American cinema), and broke some ground. Gladiator didn’t do any of that.
So… do we each get a second vote, or only one per person for the life of the thread?
Not saying it’s not a good film, just that the themes and whatnot that it reflects of the time (1999) don’t really resonate the same way they did then. It certainly isn’t the best Best Picture winner of all time, so may as well take it off the list sooner than later.
…and I’d disagree about Gladiator; it wasn’t a one-dimensional action film, IMHO. We first see Crowe’s character, Maximus, eager for the war to end and to return to his family’s embrace. Then he suffers terrible tragedy and is consumed by the desire for revenge, but still does his best to set his beloved Rome again on track towards a republic at the end. The evil emperor seems to regret the “need” to kill his own father, and struggles with his attraction to his sister. The sister apparently has an unrequited love for Maximus and must watch him die just when she might have hoped they had a future together. I think they each have a character-development arc over the course of the movie. Then there are the great battle scenes, impressive cinematography, soaring score, etc.
How Green Was My Valley.
I should not have to explain why.
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.
**Return of the King **just wasn’t as good as Fellowship of the Ring. Fellowship deserved Best Picture. Return didn’t.
:: wincing ::
But I agree with you.
The Broadway Melody.
Update:
Wings
All Quiet on the Western Front
Grand Hotel
It Happened One Night
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Great Ziegfeld
You Can’t Take It With You
Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind
Rebecca
Mrs. Miniver
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
Marty
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
In the Heat of the Night
Midnight Cowboy
Patton
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Sting
The Godfather Part II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Annie Hall
The Deer Hunter
Ordinary People
Gandhi
Terms of Endearment
Amadeus
Platoon
Rain Man
The Silence of the Lambs
Unforgiven
Schindler’s List
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
No Country for Old Men
The Hurt Locker
Ugh. Can’t believe The far-from-great Great Ziegfeld has lasted this long.
Seconding this. I don’t think it held up ten years ago. Overrated and pretentious.
***You Can’t Take It with You ***was Capra corn at its worst. Maybe, while the Great Depression was still going on, the message of “Don’t worry about money, just enjoy life” resonated with people. But the eccentric family that’s SUPPOSED to be charming just annoys me.
That one needs to go.
Bye HURT LOCKER!
MArty is MAwkish and MAudlin.
Farewell Ernie Borgnine.