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Not sure what has my current vote for worst. I guess I would have to strongly consider The English Patient. You quit a movie after 45 minutes - it has to be in the running.

The Broadway Melody is really bad. I want to take pity on it, being from like the 2nd year of talkies. But if someone told me I had to watch either it or The English Patient right now, I would probably go with EP.

Crash. Ugh. I wonder which has the higher imdb rating. The Oscar winner or Cronenberg's. Lemme see . . .

Okay it is the Oscar winner by a good margin. 7.9 it is rated. Dayum.


Watched some more of Tom Jones with dinner. It is really bad. Just total simpleton level stuff.
 
I have seen Marty, yes. I feel exactly the same as you. Okay movie, nothing more.

From what I have observed, a lot of buffs feel that way.

It's not really seen as a case of some far superior movie being robbed though, like how many people feel about Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan or Dances With Wolves beating Goodfellas.

Just a slow year for movies.
 
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I have seen Marty, yes. I feel exactly the same as you. Okay movie, nothing more.

From what I have observed, a lot of buffs feel that way.

It's not really seen as a case of some far superior movie being robbed though, like how many people feel about Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan or Dances With Wolves beating Goodfellas.

Just a slow year for movies.
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Ok good. I'm not much of a movie buff and was wondering if I was missing some greater theme or something. I have to admit I got a little crush on Ernest Borgnine in that part.

The other thing I think about with Marty is how Howard Stempel can't remember if it was On the Waterfront or Marty as best picture in whatever year it was. I assume you have seen Quiz Show so you probably remember what I mean.
 
I LOL'D when I saw The Hurt Locker on that list. I didn't know it won Best Picture. Must have been a slow year. :dunno:

Yeah Crash was very meh but I seem to remember liking The English Patient but I saw it once in the theaters what seems like almost 2 decades ago.
 
The Hurt Locker beat Avatar among others. That was the big splashy thing that year. Katheryn Bigelow versus her ex, James Cameron.

I liked The Hurt Locker and didn't mind it beating Avatar for best picture, but Bigelow winning best director over Cameron kinda blew my mind with retardedness.

Looking now at the list of nominees from that year, there were a handful of good-not-great movies. The Hurt Locker, Precious, Up In The Air, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds. The Basterds would have been an easy pick for me except for that stupid ending. Maybe I would vote for Avatar. I only saw that once when it first came out. Feel like I need to see it again.


Here is the full list of nominees from that year:


“Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
“The Blind Side” Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Producers
“District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
“An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
“The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers
“Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
“A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
“Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
“Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
 
Looking at when shows are coming back. Looks like 3 weeks until Mad Men. Nurse Jackie comes back same day (not that I'm on the edge of my seat after that last weaksauce season). Veep is in fact a week before that, 2 weeks from now.

Louis - it's saying May 5

Masters of Sex - June 13

Boardwalk Empire - who knows? Same with South Park

And the big one: Better Call Saul. It's just saying November 2014 at this point.


Downton just ended, True Detective, same. Damn I miss Dexter.

No but seriously man, what else do I watch???


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Looking at when shows are coming back. Looks like 3 weeks until Mad Men. Nurse Jackie comes back same day (not that I'm on the edge of my seat after that last weaksauce season). Veep is in fact a week before that, 2 weeks from now.

Louis - it's saying May 5

Masters of Sex - June 13

Boardwalk Empire - who knows? Same with South Park

And the big one: Better Call Saul. It's just saying November 2014 at this point.


Downton just ended, True Detective, same. Damn I miss Dexter.

No but seriously man, what else do I watch???


:thinking:
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+1

Fucking sucks. They could spread shit out a little to make life more tolerable but no let's give people all or nothing, then football comes back too.
 
Masters of Sex is a period drama about Dr William Masters and Virginia Johnson - Masters and Johnson - the sex researchers. Season 1 was looking at how they met and started to become the team which has gone on to be somewhat famous.

Episodes are 1 hour.

There are a whole bunch of subplots thrown in. No idea how much of it is factual.

It's about the same era as when Mad Men started, I believe ??? Early 50's ???

It started off slow and with a high concentration of missteps, but I thought it found its stride as season 1 went along so I am anxious to pick it up again.
 
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