stupid is...still stupid

[ironymaiden]

Forrest Gump has been on TV lately (and i saw it mentioned elsewhere online today). i loathe that film, and it won an Academy Award for Best Picture. i decided to see what other best picture winners (that i've seen) are hours of my life that i will never get back.

Forrest Gump
Titanic
You Can't Take It With You

i'm aware that lots of people disagree with me on these. (certainly the academy did.) the full list is here. anyone else have a best picture or a few that they can't stand?

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Re: Off Topic! Yay!

[ironymaiden]

i dunno about the HP films. i saw the first one, and then the fourth one because my niece and nephew really wanted me to go with them. otherwise, i never need to see them. i'd rather read.

Potter films

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

The third Harry Potter film stands up pretty well as good film. The first two are great if your idea of "adaptation" is "audiobook with pictures", but as film they're duds. The fourth was better than the first two, but more a Potter-fanboy film than a film-geek film.

I haven't seen the fifth yet, because I want to go with my wife and she's in Norway. We have gone to some movies "together" by seeing them on the same day and comparing impressions by phone later. We're not doing that this time because it's out in Imax, but the Oslo Imax theater doesn't have it. Since we want to see it in Imax and the Seattle Imax has it for eight weeks, we can wait until she's home.