Discuss: Which Best Pictures Do You Still Watch Re...
Discuss: Which Best Pictures Do You Still Watch Regularly?
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SexiVixxEN
321 days ago
It's Oscar week, which means dozens of retrospectives will be printed in every media format, and marathons of winners and nominees will be playing all week. I always have these grand plans to watch AMC until my eyeballs fall out, but though I dutifully set my DVR, I probably won't get around to Kramer vs Kramer until the summer television hiatus. That's the thing about Oscar winners: they're the Best Picture of a given year, but how many do we race to watch again and again? Glancing back over the winners since 1990, I can only find a few that I keep in constant rotation: Unforgiven, Braveheart, Shakespeare in Love, Gladiator, LOTR: The Return of the King, Titanic and Dances with Wolves are all occasional indulgences.
On the other hand, I've always loathed Forrest Gump, and never made it through Crash (one summer, a class next to the academic office in which I worked played it over and over again, so I've heard it more times than any living person should have). The Silence of the Lambs and Million Dollar Baby leave me wincing too much (the Q-Tip through Maggie's broken nose still makes me gag where a beheading never does). I have never been able to put myself through the anguish of watching Schindler's List again because that lone 1993 viewing is still so fresh in my mind.
Of course, that's just the 1990s through the 2000s, though a glance through the 1980s reveals I own only one Best Picture from that decade: Out of Africa. The 1960s and 70s make for a better showing with stuff like Rocky and Annie Hall.
Judging by all the lists, though, I watch the Best Picture nominees more than I ever watch the winners: L.A. Confidential, The Fugitive, Sense and Sensibility, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World all get a lot more play than Amadeus or The Last Emperor ever will. Am I alone? Should I be slapped upside the head with a copy of Ghandi? Or do you find yourself in a similar habit?
On the other hand, I've always loathed Forrest Gump, and never made it through Crash (one summer, a class next to the academic office in which I worked played it over and over again, so I've heard it more times than any living person should have). The Silence of the Lambs and Million Dollar Baby leave me wincing too much (the Q-Tip through Maggie's broken nose still makes me gag where a beheading never does). I have never been able to put myself through the anguish of watching Schindler's List again because that lone 1993 viewing is still so fresh in my mind.
Of course, that's just the 1990s through the 2000s, though a glance through the 1980s reveals I own only one Best Picture from that decade: Out of Africa. The 1960s and 70s make for a better showing with stuff like Rocky and Annie Hall.
Judging by all the lists, though, I watch the Best Picture nominees more than I ever watch the winners: L.A. Confidential, The Fugitive, Sense and Sensibility, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World all get a lot more play than Amadeus or The Last Emperor ever will. Am I alone? Should I be slapped upside the head with a copy of Ghandi? Or do you find yourself in a similar habit?
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