In Reply to: Who should have won the Oscar? posted by tinear on August 20, 2003 at 05:22:44:
That was 1998 and was a fairly weak.The films I saw in 1998 rated(Out of five): *** or better recommended:
Affliction **
American History X ***1/2
Antz ****
Armageddon **
Avengers, The *
Blade ***
Central Station ***1/2
City Of Angels **1/2
Civil Action, A ***
Croupier ***1/2
Elizabeth ***
Enemy Of The State ***
Fallen **
Gods and Monsters ***1/2
Godzilla **
Great Expectations *1/2
Halloween: H2O **1/2
Hard Rain *
He Got Game ***
Hilary and Jackie ***
Horse Whisperer, The ***
Jack Frost **
John Carpenter's Vampires *
Les Miserables **
Lethal Weapon 4 **
Life Is Beautiful ****
Little Voice ***
Lock , Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels **1/2
Major League: Back to the Minors *1/2
Negotiator, The ***1/2
Patch Adams *1/2
Pleasantville ***1/2
Red Violin, The **1/2
Saving Private Ryan ****1/2
Shakespeare In Love ****
Simple Plan, A ***
Sliding Doors **1/2
Spanish Prisoner, The **
Sphere *
Star Trek: Insurrection **1/2
There's Something About Mary ****
Truman Show, The ***
Wild Things **1/2
Zero Effect ***
Pretty weak year...all in all I was not too upset with Shakespeare in Love winning. The More Shakespeare you know...the more fun you'll have with this film...and since actors are voters...it was not too too surprising. Saving Private Ryan despite the bookends of the film is the best film on the subject, intelligent with the Hanks character amd an insightful and complex aspects of field heroism combined with the most heartfelt spectacular battle sequences ever shot...even eclipsing the work of the great Kurosawa vibrancy of the Seven Samurai.
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