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I would like to make the following corrections:

the title of the film is Modern Times

The Rules of the Game- 1939

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Deer hunter suked. to rate that long winded overblown garbage as one of the best oscar movies of all time is absurd. The minute they showed them deer hunting in the "Pennsylvania hill", and instead it was the cascade mountains, and the deer was some european fallow deer it lost me. Just typical garbage by a lousy director.









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The list was "The Best of Oscar's Best" - meaning the best of the best pictures of the year. Movies like "Young Frankenstein", "Wizard of Oz", "Pulp Fiction", "True Grit", etc. were NOT best pictures!!!!!! I would have added "wEst Side Story" and "From Here to Eternity".

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Wizard of Oz lost to Gone with the Wind in 1939.

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You missed my all-time favorite film, "The Sting", with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Actually, it's tied in my mind with the Marx Bros. "A Day at the Races", but Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo never won an Oscar for anything. In your comments on the films, you repeatedly said "Oscar likes....". Well, I like con men. "The Sting" is all about them. In addition to Newwman and Redford, the late I-don't-remember-his-name was great as Kid Twist. As for the Marx Brothers, I'm a Chico fan. Chico: "I-i-i-c-e creaam! Getta yo' tootsie fruitsie ice cream!"/Groucho: "Two dollars on Sunup." is the funniest scene in all cinema, in my opinion. Also up there is Harpo's Porgie and Bess sendup, "Who dat man?", though it might not be viewed as politically correct today.

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West Side Story should be number 1...no doubt the finest drama/musical/love story ever made.

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The Grapes of Wrath
The Yearling
I Remember Mama
Father Goose
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Gone With the Wind
Romeo & Juliet
Forest Gump
Shawshank Redemption
Schlindler's List
E.T.
Star Wars
Indiana Jones
The Little Mermaid
Beauty & The Beast
Chocolat
Private Ryan

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Great movies. Casablanca is a timeless classic, and it gets better with each viewing; though, there is nothing like that first viewing. To add, Million Dollar Baby should not be shortchanged. That movie was astounding, as everyone in the theater was stunned and heartbroken at the conclusion. MDB deserves to be up there with the great-great movies; I mean 2004 was supposed to be the year of Scorsese, DiCaprio, and The Aviator. How quickly we forget what a spellbinding movie can do to leave another great movie in the dust. I hope MDB stands the test of time; I'm sure it will.

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For the cineaste who wanted to know why "The Wizard of Oz" wasn't on your Top 25:

Since I'm not part of the braintrust responsible for the list, let me just say I think the Best Picture statue taken home by the team who made this "Classic Baumbastic" is every bit as real as the infamous "man behind the curtain" was in the Emerald City.

Which, again ~ I cannot stress enough how little it is of which I profess to know ~ but, that there "Emerald City?"

Didn't exist.

That's right.

No "Snip snip, here! Snip snip, there!"

Let's see now (FOR THOSE KEEPING SCORE AT HOME)...

NO Dorothy.

NO Toto. Or Toto 2, the natural selection in the imaginary sequel, "Return of the Wizard: He's Back and Sad to Say ~ He's Gained Weight."

NO Scarecrow. There's a Sheryl Crow. But she's not all that scary. Of course, Lance Armstrong might beg to differ.

NO Cowardly Lion.

Oh, wait! I forgot about Mark McGwire testifying to Congress!

NO Tin Man.

NO WickedWitchOfTheWest. (ROSIE?)

NO Oscar.

The yellow brick road led that year to a li'l place...

Called Tara.

Well, if you have to come in second...

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Another film that didn't earn Oscar's attention, but is the single greatest film I've seen, is "The Great Santini."

I think it was one of those cases where the title of the film was off-putting or at the very least, misleading to film lovers.

If not for the persistence, and insistence of a new friend at the time, I too would never have gone to see a movie I figured was set in a circus. Hey, if I want to be surrounded by a bunch of foul-mouthed drunken carnies, I don't have to go sit in a dark theater for two hours. I'd just spend Thanksgiving with my family in Georgia.

As great as Robert Duvall has been in To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, Tender Mercies, Ramblin' Rose and my second-most fave in the Bobby Duvall catalogue, The Apostle, his Bull Meecham is to this day the most indelible image edged in my hard drive.

Just like another masterful, more recent work, Sexy Beast, sometimes a film title just works too hard or tries to be too cute. Just as there are no whips, chains OR Great Danes in Sexy Beast, there is nary a trapeze to be found in The Great Santini. Just great acting.

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It's time for studios to fire ALL writers and hire new non-union writers. Follow Pres. Reagan steps when he fired air traffic controllers, things got better.

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How about Patton, The French Connection, The Sting, From Here To Eternity, Ben-Hur, Platoon, Titanic and forget
Midnight Cowboy, In The Heat Of The Night, An American In Paris, Unforgiven, Lord Of The Rings, Annie Hall and My Fair Lady. Simply just better movies. If The English Patient made the list I was going to scream, that has to be the most boring movie ever made. Schindler's List was deserving but one oscar it should not have gotten, Best Musical Score to Randy Edelman for Gettysburg. I don't think it was even nominated but it sends chills up and down me everytime I hear it.

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Your omission of "From Here to Eternity" and inclusion of overblown nonsense like "Lord of the Rings" is, I think, silly.

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IMHO, the Best of the Best was "The Sting": great acting, sets, music and most of all... The Sting was as much on the audience as the "mark", Doyle Lonigan.
Peter Hess

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I would just like for ONCE to be able to view ALL the pictures OF The Pictures, when I select NEXT, instead the hit-and-miss one, which loads, and the next, which after about 45% or so just won't completely load. Very confusing as well quite annoying to me, and has become very routine as well.

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The list is ordinary.
Only On The Waterfront, Casablanca and The
Godfather films achieve greatness.
The Departed is Donnie Brasco (and no better).
The Unforgiven is an average film (with a tremend-
ous ending).
The Technicolor films have the weakness of that
style of presentation.
Annie Hall is not even Woody Allen's best.
This list is forgettable.

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unbelievably stupid people on here. "where's shawshank redemption?!?" etc.
anyway i think the unforgiven is overrated. malcolm x should've won that year

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