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Originally posted by The Duck View Post
The war movie vote got split between Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line (which I love). Shakespeare in Love was a travesty. And one of the reasons I stopped watching the Oscars.
Side note... my buddy worked for Harvey when he acquired that script. Pete read it, picked up the phone, called Weinstein and said “it’s a forgettable piece of shit script”. Harvey fired him the next day.
I'm not going to respond to all the other war movie stuff individually ... To Hell and Back may have a legit war hero playing himself, but the movie is tame visually (obviously due to the time it was made) compared to Pvt. Ryan ... and Paths of Glory is a different kind of movie ... great movie, but it's more a legal case than a war movie.
BTW ... cool story about Weinstein ... I have one about Pvt. Ryan ... I was playing golf once as a single and I ended up with 3 old guys who had fought on D-Day as the rest of the foursome ... Pvt Ryan had just come out and I asked them what they thought. One guy (101st Airborne) said he thought the movie was terrific and the best visual he'd ever seen on film of WWII ... but he said there was one thing that bothered him about it. I asked him: "What?" He said "We had radios"
Last edited by slag; 02-11-2020, 07:07 PM.
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Originally posted by RSE View Post
The best war movie of all time is To Hell And Back. Audie Murphy, a modest man who came from dirt, felt that moviegoers would not believe that his feats of courage, bravery, and complete disregard for his own safety portrayed in the movie were true. Some contemporary reviewers didn’t believe it. But Americans loved the movie. I’d recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it do so.
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Originally posted by slag View Post1917 is a nice visual war movie with numerous head-scratching moments and IMO isn't a pimple on the ass of Saving Private Ryan.
And it appears, from listening to those who I trust and who've see Parasite (I haven't), that the Academy got it as right in giving the Best Picture Award to Parasite over a solid war movie as they fucked it up when they gave it to Shakespeare in Love over the war movie that IMO raised the bar on all war movies.
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Originally posted by slag View Post1917 is a nice visual war movie with numerous head-scratching moments and IMO isn't a pimple on the ass of Saving Private Ryan.
And it appears, from listening to those who I trust and who've see Parasite (I haven't), that the Academy got it as right in giving the Best Picture Award to Parasite over a solid war movie as they fucked it up when they gave it to Shakespeare in Love over the war movie that IMO raised the bar on all war movies.
Side note... my buddy worked for Harvey when he acquired that script. Pete read it, picked up the phone, called Weinstein and said “it’s a forgettable piece of shit script”. Harvey fired him the next day.
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Originally posted by slag View Post1917 is a nice visual war movie with numerous head-scratching moments and IMO isn't a pimple on the ass of Saving Private Ryan.
And it appears, from listening to those who I trust and who've see Parasite (I haven't), that the Academy got it as right in giving the Best Picture Award to Parasite over a solid war movie as they fucked it up when they gave it to Shakespeare in Love over the war movie that IMO raised the bar on all war movies.
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1917 is a nice visual war movie with numerous head-scratching moments and IMO isn't a pimple on the ass of Saving Private Ryan.
And it appears, from listening to those who I trust and who've see Parasite (I haven't), that the Academy got it as right in giving the Best Picture Award to Parasite over a solid war movie as they fucked it up when they gave it to Shakespeare in Love over the war movie that IMO raised the bar on all war movies.
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It was better when it was Saving Private Ryan. Nothing special.
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