Posted on 01/03/2018 9:27:46 AM PST by Simon Green
Perhaps if the Acadamy Awards picked Best Pictures that anyone actually saw, they'd be more relevant. Here's a list of the box office rankings of the winner of the Best Picture awardvfor the last ten years:
2016 Moonlight: #101
2015 Spotlight: #62
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): #78
2013 12 Years a Slave: #62
2012 Argo: #22
2011 The Artist: #71
2010 The King's Speech: #18
2009 The Hurt Locker: #116
2008 Slumdog Millionairee: #16
2007 No Country for Old Men: #36
To get to a year in which a Best Picture winner cracked the Top 10, you have to go back to 2003's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King".
These may well be good films. I couldn't say, as I haven't seen a single one of them.
“Birdman” was an absolute piece of garbage.
I'm out of my element here.
Fake likenesses!
Which explains why the only recent movies I like tend to come from overseas.
“He’s a pederast, dude.”
“Hurt Locker” and “No Country for Old Men” were a bit odd, but not bad.
I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.
Tommy Lee Jones is related to that hag?
LOL Thanks. I was going to do my own response to each, but... what you said is perfect.
Mine is the exact same except, I saw Spotlight, and wish I hadn’t. Thankfully, I didn’t pay for it.
I really hated Birdman. When I’m sitting in a theater, watching a movie, and the ONLY THINK I’m thinking about is, “How’d they shoot this?” It’s a FAIL!
http://screenprism.com/insights/article/no-country-for-old-men-ending-explained
Excellent explanation of the ending.
Nothing by Hitchcock
Dirty, bloody and lots of sex': how Denis Villeneuve's Cleopatra will rip up Hollywood's rule book
2006 - The Departed - #15 (USA)
So, it would have been the best performing winner in the last eleven years.
However, the cast and director were all superstars, so maybe the film actually underperformed expectations?
Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, directed by Martin Scorsese.
"Dirty, bloody, lots of people swearing and having sex and all of that other stuff and just treat it as a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations. Just going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go."
He also said that his version of Cleopatra could offer a more feminist look at the Egyptian queen.
Yech....
Re: “Hurt Locker” and “No Country for Old Men” were a bit odd, but not bad.
I agree.
I have a relatively small list of movies that I have watched more than once, and both of those films are on it.
Possibly a “guy” thing.
Almost all my favorites tend to be military, crime, espionage, and action related films.
The only one of these I’ve seen is The Hurt Locker. Good flick.
What are the criteria for best picture? It appears that box office rank is not one of them. And who decides what the criteria are?
i though Hurt Locker was excellent - maybe the last really good movie made ...
Saw The King’s Sppech and loved it.
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