It wasn't a horrendous film, I just don't get how it won an Oscar when it was nothing special. It beat out Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Capote and Walk the Line for example.

Agree about a lot of the most recent ones though. Feels like quite a lot of the winners over the past 15 years have been made for the sole purpose of winning the Oscar's.

I finally got around to watching Lawrence Of Arabia at the weekend. Probably the best oscar winning film I've seen from the 60's. In fact possibly the only one I have seen!!!

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

It wasn't a horrendous film, I just don't get how it won an Oscar when it was nothing special. It beat out Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Capote and Walk the Line for example.
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Aah fair enough, I haven't seen Capote or Brokeback Mountain, Walk the Line was good though. My favourite movie from 2005 is "V for Vendetta" and I don't think that even got nominated.

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

Agree about a lot of the most recent ones though. Feels like quite a lot of the winners over the past 15 years have been made for the sole purpose of winning the Oscar's.
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Totally agree, they are not memorable at all, only talked about a lot during Oscar season and then forgotten about.

comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

I finally got around to watching Lawrence Of Arabia at the weekend. Probably the best oscar winning film I've seen from the 60's. In fact possibly the only one I have seen!!!
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Great movie, great cast.

60s seems to be the decade where a lot of the classic musicals won with West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Sound of Music and Oliver.

Lawrence of Arabia and In the Heat of the Night were 2 of my favourite Oscar winners from the 60s, but chose Sound of Music due to watching and enjoying it every year with the family.

LOA would have been a great film to see at the cinema.

comment by Barefoot (U19770)
posted 53 minutes ago
LOA would have been a great film to see at the cinema.
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The opening scene (at the well, not the motorbike crash) is one of the best of any movie. The desert landscape with the sun rising iirc, and gradually a speck which turns into Shariff appearing on a camel in the horizon and the camera follows him for about two minutes against that backdrop with the occasional cut to Peter O'Toole's face filling the screen. It's just sublime, defo one for the cinema.

comment by JustTrue (U13155)
posted 8 hours, 41 minutes ago
lol very wrong,

I have English Patient as my 2nd worst of the 90s. Well made, but not nearly as memorable as the winners of the 90s. Just my opinion though.

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I think it's brilliant It's all subjective as you say. Maybe I just like trajedies with some element of tedemption thrown in.

*redemption