I don’t know why I never got around to Gosford; I do enjoy Altman.
I’ll see the other two as well, one of these days.
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I went with 2000, even though none of the five is great, it’s the only year I like all five.
Just “Atonement,” no article.
I honestly can’t choose. Every year has some good choices and one or two movies where I think “Jesus, why that?”
I wanted to pick 2003, but “The Return of the King” just isn’t a very good movie. Of the 50 movies in the poll, there’s not a doubt in my mind it’s in the bottom five. I know that’s anathema to say, I know they gave it all the Oscars, and I loved the first two films, but I thought the picture was really weak-ass, and that really hurts that group.
Yup, seen all of them, and despite my absolute detestation of Atonement, I had to go w/2007 also, primarily because of the Coens & PTAnderson.
Not at all–I would dropkick 2008 and even 2000 before 2006
Well, it wasn’t really a conspiracy explicitly planned out, but the speculation that they wanted the trilogy to end before they really heaped the awards on isn’t without some foundation. FOTR (4 Oscars) made a huge splash, but left things open-ended. TTT (2 Oscars) didn’t get a Director’s nod, but still showed it had the chops to score a Picture nod. By the time ROTK (11 Oscars) came around, it seemed pretty clear that people simply voted for it across the board as a way to celebrate the entire series.
It’s interesting you bring up M&C:TFSOTW (which I find a much better film), because the 2 Oscars it did win that year were in categories where it didn’t have to compete against LOTR. Makes you wonder how many it would’ve won if it didn’t have that 800lb gorilla to compete against.
I would shitcan 2000, 2002 & 2004 before 2006.
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2006 was pretty damn weak. I liked The Queen the best of the bunch, but it’s not a movie I’d want to watch more than once. Every time I remember that The Departed won that year, I have to remind myself it’s only because 2006 was a pretty shitty year for movies, so it didn’t have much competition. 2006 was all about the “please give Scorsese his damn oscar already!” but I still don’t get just HOW Mark Walhburg won one for that film. I can play a pissed off Bostonion detective just as well as he can.
- Four solid films (not seen The Atonement). No message film. No film about the happy clappy mentally ill movies, no English period drama and no token foreign film that no one saw.
The Departed was just a notch above average; I’m sure I could find ten other films from '06 that deserved the nomination more.
I did like Babel and Letters from Iwo Jima quite a lot, though.
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