- “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.”
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.
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 . . .”
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