Showing posts with label Best Picture Marathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best Picture Marathon. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2009

1935 Mutiny in the Bounty

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.


  • “That guy is mean.”
  • “There’s too much happiness going on here.”
  • “We’re awfully far into a movie called Mutiny on the Bounty, with no mutiny.”
  • “Clark Gable kind of looks like George Clooney.”
  • “This movie is really homoerotic.”
  • “Two good ones in a row. Wow.”

Monday, May 4, 2009

1934 It Happened One Night

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “They’re in love.” “Not yet!”
  • “He probably shouldn’t be smoking near all that hay.”
  • “Is it just me or are his pants really high?”
  • “Yay. Finally a good one.”

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

1932-33 Cavalcade

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “This movie is awfully British.”
  • “This isn’t very good.”
  • “Noel Coward wrote this, didn’t he!.”

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

1931-32 Grand Hotel

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “I can’t believe the performances got overlooked.” 
  • “Is [Lionel Barrymore] mentally retarded?”
  • “I love all the smoke.”
  • “This movie sucks.”
  • “I’m sick of the fake fucking accents all these movies have.” 

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

1930-31 Cimarron

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “There are some unfortunate stereotypes here.”
  • “I’m embarrassed for the movie.”
  • “This isn’t good.”
  • “I think I’d rather watch Broadway Melody again.” 
  • “Why are there so many stuttering people in these movies?”
  • [Various guffaws from the unchecked racism.]
  • “Are we sure this won an Oscar?”
  • “That movie was forty years long.” 

Monday, February 23, 2009

1929-1930 All Quiet on the Western Front

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “Not even German accents!?”
  • “Ew.”
  • “Gross.”
  • “They like to open doors and windows to note transitions.”
  • “Do the French speak English, too?
  • “Ahhh. He was my favorite.”
  • “He’s doing a good job of not blinking.” / “His eyes moved a second ago.” / “Oh, did they?”
  • “There’s a bug on the bed. There’s another one.”
  • “Blech!”
  • “That was a pretty good movie.”

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

1929-30 Broadway Melody

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “I don’t think I can take a hundred minutes of this. Do you have any aspirin?”
  • “That was some . . . interesting editing.”
  • “I keep thinking of Mahoney from Police Academy.”
  • “There’s sound and we *still* have to read titles!”
  • “Songs and a comic stutter. The promise of sound fulfilled.”
  • “There must not have been a lot of competition for Best Picture that year.”
  • “Of the three, Sunrise is my favorite.”
  • “The ending is a downer.” / “What are you talking about? Everybody’s happy!”

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

1928-29 Wings

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “I’m having a hard timing telling Jack and David apart.”
  • “There’s a lot more dialogue than in the other one.”
  • “[Clara Bow] is like a stalker.”
  • “I’m impressed with the special effects, for the twenties.”
  • “I’m tired of this music.”
  • “Is this movie four hours long?”
  • “The shit in the air was cool.”

Monday, January 26, 2009

1928-29 Sunrise

A friend of mine has decided to watch all the Best Picture Oscar Winners in chronological order. A small group of people are joining him - including myself. Here are a few of the comments made at this year's movie.
  • “I thought it was framed really well and stuff.”
  • “He has bad posture.”
  • “The special effects are great for 1927!”
  • “I think this part is supposed to be funny.”
  • “It was better than I thought, but better-than-I-thought still isn’t . . .”