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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2023 3:27:50 GMT
The most reviled year ever for the category (give or take 1999)? What would you have chosen from the nominees?
I haven't seen Kiss of the Spider Woman (I'll try to amend soon), but I'd rank the others as follows:
1. Out of Africa
2. The Color Purple
3. Witness
4. Prizzi's Honor
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Post by Martin Stett on Jan 12, 2023 3:37:47 GMT
I'm boycotting. Literally not one of these movies is any good.
(But if I must choose, Out of Africa is ever so slightly less awful than the others.)
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Jan 12, 2023 3:51:22 GMT
The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Witness are all quite good. Shame about the other two.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 12, 2023 3:55:58 GMT
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Post by SZilla on Jan 12, 2023 4:19:36 GMT
N/S Kiss of the Spider Woman or Prizzi's Honor, but I'd go with Witness I suppose.
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Post by JangoB on Jan 12, 2023 10:33:26 GMT
The Color Purple. Who could've guessed?
I actually like this lineup though...
1. The Color Purple
2. Out of Africa
3. Prizzi's Honor
4. Witness
5. Kiss of the Spider Woman
Only #1 is a masterpiece but the rest are all 8/10s for me.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jan 12, 2023 12:32:47 GMT
What a dire bunch......really got to love a year that left out - off the top of my head - Purple Rose of Cairo, Ran, Brazil, After Hours for THAT lineup  Call me crazy but Prizzi's Honor - significant flaws and all - genuinely has some laughs, sex and an appropriately on point (attempted anyway) tone as opposed to at least 3 of the other 4 - maybe all 4 - which - while not entirely bad films - are certainly tiresome exercises in deep solemnity when you group them together like that .....and all are quite rote except for the wit and brio in Kiss of the Spider Woman's performances ...........which I think (?) may be considered "offensive" in our age of reconsidering everything everywhere all at once (REEAAO) I'll just be over here being jovial, laughing from time to time, arching my eyebrows and listening to Foghat thx |
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Jan 12, 2023 13:17:04 GMT
The Color Purple is one of my favorite movies of all time, so this is very easy for me to decide.  I like Out of Africa too (a solid 7/10) and find the hate that it gets here a bit exaggerated. Kiss of the Spider Woman needs a rewatch, but I remeber enjoying it when I first saw it (which was still in my teens, and I haven't seen it since). Haven't seen the other two. |
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Post by stephen on Jan 12, 2023 13:56:35 GMT
1. Kiss of the Spider Woman. Two herculean all-timer performances (and very, very strong supporting turn(s) from Sonia Braga), plus Babenco's confident direction that breaks conventional theatrical trappings to create a poignant, mesmerizing performance. Should've swept out of the nominated films.
2. Witness. I don't love it as much as others but it's a pretty solid thriller.
3. The Color Purple. Again, I don't love it as much as others but Goldberg is terrific and the craft is impressive.
4. Out of Africa. Not dead last only by virtue of Prizzi's Honor being one of the trashiest nominees in this category for the decade. But I think it's a crushing bore of a movie with John Barry's score (and to a lesser extent, Klaus Maria Brandauer) being its only saving graces. Redford and Streep are awful.
5. Prizzi's Honor. I hate everything about this film.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2023 14:24:21 GMT
4. Out of Africa. Not dead last only by virtue of Prizzi's Honor being one of the trashiest nominees in this category for the decade. But I think it's a crushing bore of a movie with John Barry's score (and to a lesser extent, Klaus Maria Brandauer) being its only saving graces. Redford and Streep are awful. One of the first proposed adaptations of Blixen's book had Nicolas Roeg in the director's chair and Julie Christie and Ryan O'Neal in Streep and Redford's roles... Can you imagine this at all? |
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Post by stephen on Jan 12, 2023 14:26:11 GMT
4. Out of Africa. Not dead last only by virtue of Prizzi's Honor being one of the trashiest nominees in this category for the decade. But I think it's a crushing bore of a movie with John Barry's score (and to a lesser extent, Klaus Maria Brandauer) being its only saving graces. Redford and Streep are awful. One of the first proposed adaptations of Blixen's book had Nicolas Roeg in the director's chair and Julie Christie and Ryan O'Neal in Streep and Redford's roles... Can you imagine this at all? I mean, Ryan O'Neal is a massive downgrade from Redford as far as acting goes, but Roeg would've been interesting and I could see Christie in the role . . . but it means nothing if they don't have chemistry. A movie like this lives and dies on it. |
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Post by dadsburgers on Jan 15, 2023 21:06:05 GMT
Should have been Clue.
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