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In Reply to: Traffic- not even Oscar material! posted by EdM on July 24, 2001 at 16:04:22:
Gladiator was one of those same old cliched type movies - hero/heroin/villian, good vs bad, pointless/unprovocative, silly cheap emotional kicks, that I've seen about a million times. Granted it was pretty well done and a good action film but surely I would have been disappointed to have paid to see it. Traffic was provocative, refreshing and worthwhile, and I wouldn't have been disappointed if I had paid to see it.
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I agree. Traffic had something to say. I particularly liked the quasi-documentary style. Gladiator, though it appealed to the hero wannabe in me, had virtually nothing to say. Obviously awards have many and varied criteria.
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