What was the last movie you watched?

[thebridge15]

Most Overrated: Hell or High Water
Most Underrated: Love and Friendship
Best Opening Scene: La La Land
Best Ending: Manchester by the Sea
Worst Ending: Arrival
Best Acting Ensemble: Moonlight
Best Performance (In A Bad Film): Taron Egerton (Eddie the Eagle)
Worst Performance (In A Good Film): Forrest Whitaker (Rogue One)
Best Poster: Moonlight
Best Action Sequence: Vader scene (Rogue One)
Best Musical Sequence: “Drive it Like You Stole It” (Sing Street); "A Lovely Night" (La La Land); "Finest Girl" (Popstar); "Rapper's Delight" (Everybody Wants Some)

[ExistenceNow]

Whitaker is a good call. Man, he was awful.

[Ascf33]

Love and Friendship was criminally underrated this year. I really recommend everyone watch it. Its on Amazon Prime.

[ExistenceNow]

Jane Austen? Blech.

[thebridge15]

it's great. loosely based on a jane austen novella. it's a comedy

[ExistenceNow]

Oh. Didn't realize it was a comedy.


I read the description:

Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.

And my testicles shriveled up and crawled up inside my body.

[Arby]

Wait why does Arrival have a bad ending? The General Chang phone call was a little overly Hollywood, but the rest was great

[BotheLaneFan]

It's amazing how 1986 got Picture and Director right, but every other major nominee wrong.

How it was...

Picture: Platoon (natch)
Actor: Paul Newman for Color of Money
Actress: Marlee Matlin for Children of a Lesser God
Supporting Actor: Michael Caine for Hannah and Her Sisters
Supporting Actress: Dianne Weist for Hannah and Her Sisters (two undeserved Oscars for Weist! Good for her!)
Director: Oliver Stone for Platoon (natch)

How it should have been...

Actor: Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa (See it. See it now. See it right now.)
Actress: Sigourney Weaver for Aliens
Supporting Actor: Dennis Hopper for "Hoosiers" (He really got nominated for Blue Velvet and everyone knows it. Hard to nominate someone who is THAT fucked up though. Best villain ever.)
Supporting Actress: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio for Color of Money

[jamband1]

gah, Bob Hoskins was the man!

But Paul Newman is fantastic, and Color of Money DOES have that great Clapton song in the soundtrack...

[dreamingrace]

Arrival - I loved it. Thought it to be one of the best movies I'd seen in a while. I love a good sci-if. I wasn't sure how long she had been seeing the future - I suppose that's a part of the mystery...

[thebridge15]

how did wiest get nominated for hannah and her sisters and not hershey

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

how did wiest get nominated for hannah and her sisters and not hershey

No idea. I'm equally as baffled as to how she won for Bullets Over Broadway instead of Uma for Pulp Fiction.

[BotheLaneFan]

1994 is the year they got everything wrong for major categories, save for original screenplay. They even fucked up Editing.

How it was...

Picture: Forrest Gump
Actor: Hanks for Gump
Actress: Jessica Lange for Blue Sky
Supporting Actor: Martin Landau for Ed Wood
Supporting Actress: Dianne Weist for Bullets Over Broadway
Director: Robert Zemeckis for Forrest Gump
OG Screenplay: Pulp Fiction
Adapted Screenplay: Forrest Gump
Cinematography: Legends of the Fall
Editing: Forrest Gump

How it should have been...

Picture: Pulp Fiction
Actor: Paul Newman for Nobody's Fool
Actress: Winona Ryder for Little Women
Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson for Pulp Fiction
Supporting Actress: Uma Thurman for Pulp Fiction
Director: Robert Redford for Quiz Show
Original Screenplay: Pulp Fiction (no shit, it's only the most important one ever written)
Adapted Screenplay: The Shawshank Redemption
Cinematography: Three Colors: Red
Editing: Hoop Dreams

[drop2d]

I've done zero research (other than look at the 1994 list of movies) on this so away if I'm off base here... was 1994 the best overall year for movies?

[zajDmB1]

Hell Or High Water is great, not overrated, mainly because besides being nominated for best picture, I haven't heard anyone talk about it for the most part. Besides some friends.

[thebridge15]

I think it was the only "prestige" movie a lot of people actually saw, so it got very highly touted

[ExistenceNow]

People in here were calling it great and amazing. Bridges performance was being touted as transcendent when all he really did was stuff some marbles in his mouth and sit in a chair mumbling for two hours.


It's a decent movie. Any praise beyond that, IMO, is overrating it.

[zajDmB1]

Strongly disagree. At the risk of sounding like a tool , there was a ton of subtleties in Bridges' performance. Just little movements and gestures he did here and there that fleshed his character out way more than the script did.

[DMBstandUP1984]

I've always thought Pulp Fiction was overrated garbage, maybe even more then Hacksaw Ridge

[jamband1]

Originally Posted by drop2d

I've done zero research (other than look at the 1994 list of movies) on this so away if I'm off base here... was 1994 the best overall year for movies?

2007 was pretty damn great. Look at the top 20 here:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?yea...moviemeter,asc

Originally Posted by DMBstandUP1984

I've always thought Pulp Fiction was overrated garbage, maybe even more then Hacksaw Ridge

You can get right the fuck outta here for blaspheming Tarantino!

[YouNeverKnow25]

pulp fiction is great but tarantino is far from infallible (see the worst movie of all time, The Hateful 8)

[DMBstandUP1984]

I can't stand Tarantino. I see almost every movie he puts out because everyone hypes it and I just can't get into it.

Well looking at his filmography....I really enjoyed True Romance, Natural Born Killers, From Desk till Dawn. So maybe it is just the movies he directs

[drop2d]

Originally Posted by jamband1

2007 was pretty damn great. Look at the top 20 here:
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?yea...moviemeter,asc



You can get right the fuck outta here for blaspheming Tarantino!

Yeah... I don't think 07 comes close to 94. I mean,

Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Natural Born Killers
Gump
Lion King
Dumb & Dumber

.... list just goes on and on

[bamadavefan15]

Originally Posted by DMBstandUP1984

I can't stand Tarantino. I see almost every movie he puts out because everyone hypes it and I just can't get into it.



Well looking at his filmography....I really enjoyed True Romance, Natural Born Killers, From Desk till Dawn. So maybe it is just the movies he directs

Yeah sounds like he just isn't for you. Pulp Fiction isn't overrated because you don't like Tarantino's style though.

[DMBstandUP1984]

good point.

[snow1868]

Originally Posted by drop2d

Yeah... I don't think 07 comes close to 94. I mean,

Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Natural Born Killers
Gump
Lion King
Dumb & Dumber

.... list just goes on and on

1982 would like a chat.

ET
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
First Blood
48 Hours
Tron
The Thing
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Poltergeist
Rocky III
Porky's

[drop2d]

Originally Posted by snow1868

1982 would like a chat.

ET
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
First Blood
48 Hours
Tron
The Thing
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Poltergeist
Rocky III
Porky's

Yup... fantastic... like I said, didn't do much research.

[Ascf33]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

it's great. loosely based on a jane austen novella. it's a comedy

[snow1868]

Originally Posted by drop2d

Yup... fantastic... like I said, didn't do much research.

No worries, 1994 was a great year as well. I just feel like I've seen lists stating that 1982 was the best year for movies ever.

[BotheLaneFan]

1967 and 1939 make a strong case, as does 74.