movie list

[firecat]

Via surelars, below is a list of all the films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award since 1970 (with the winning picture at the top of the list for each year, with the exception of 2006). Bold the ones you've seen.

As surelars said: Some of these I'm not sure if I've seen or not. When I doubt I left it as "not seen

Comments

[bastette_joyce]

Here's my list. Rather than bolding the ones I've seen, I just eliminated the ones I haven't seen. Makes for a shorter list

[firecat]

For amusement and movie taste calibration purposes, I've marked where I agree or disagree with your opinion. If I disagreed, I put my rating after the /. If I agreed, I left your rating

[bastette_joyce]

Annie Hall****/*

What??! Explain yourself, girl! :) (This is one of my faves of all time. No, I'm not insulted that you didn't like it. But I am surprised. You really hated it?)

The Shawshank Redemption**/****

This sort of surprises me, too - it doesn't seem like your kind of film. I gave it 2 stars mostly because I've seen it too many times. :-/ I did like it the first 3 or 4 times, though. :) And I liked the ending a lot, when Tim Robbins comes walking up to Morgan Freeman on the beach and you see them hug.

[firecat]

I saw Annie Hall several years after it came out, after I'd already gone off Woody Allen (as in, the personality of his characters in movies began to really irritate me). And although there are exceptions, I tend not to like movies about contemporary life, with characters who are a lot like people I know. I tend to feel alienated by them because I don't experience life the way the characters do.

I like Shawshank Redemption because, in Roger Ebert's words, it is "a movie about time, patience and loyalty" and "about continuity in a lifetime, based on friendship and hope." I like the slow pacing.

Ultimately though if I only see a movie once (I've only seen those movies once) whether I like it has a lot to do with my mood when I watched it.

[tedesson]

The anonymous comment recommending _Tempest_ instead of _All that Jazz_ was me, btw.