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#1513 – 1517: The Best Picture Showcase

Posted in Best Picture Project, Movies In General on February 23, 2009 | 22 Comments »

On Saturday, Ajay and I attended the Best Picture Showcase at AMC Northpark, which showed all five Best Picture nominees in one day.    This was made possible by the kind people at AMC who let me take along someone with me.
All in all, it was a fairly enjoyable day; and outside of the fact that [...]

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Best Picture Project: Chicago

Posted in Best Picture Project, Musical, Review, tagged , , , on September 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »

I had to check and re-check to make sure I was correct on this; I could’ve sworn that Chicago had not won Best Picture.   It did win back in 2002 but I kept thinking otherwise – surely this was wrong?

As I’m sure everyone and their dog knows, Chicago is based on the popular musical of [...]

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The Best Picture Project: Kramer vs. Kramer

Posted in Best Picture Project, Netflix, Review, tagged , , on April 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Oh God, don’t watch this movie unless you’re prepared to cry — especially if you’re a guy.

Ted Kramer is a career-minded businessman who’s obsessed with promotions and “bringing home the bacon”, while Joanne Kramer is an unsatisfied housewife who feels like her life is going nowhere. The film starts on “one of the five [...]

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Best Picture Project: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)

Posted in Action, Best Picture Project, Drama, Review, tagged on March 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Goodness, that’s an awful lot of colons.

I kind of view this award as a gimme. The LOTR films are kind of one big film in and of themselves, and I feel like the Academy kind of said, “Okay, you made three really good films, but we’ll wait until you’re all wrapped up to [...]

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Best Picture Project: The Godfather (1972)

Posted in Best Picture Project, Drama, tagged , , on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

For most people in my age range, from 20 to about 30, The Godfather is a quintessential element of American film. It’s really hard for me to picture movies without The Godfather somewhere in the background, and I’m not sure why.
Most people my age automatically associate Marlon Brando with this movie in particular, not [...]

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The Best Picture Project

Posted in Best Picture Project on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

While watching the Academy Awards this year, I noticed that quite a few of the Best Picture winners were movies I had actually never seen. Most of the movies from the ’70s onwards I’ve seen, but many of the movies that won previously I had never seen or had seen bits and [...]

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