Revisiting the 1988 Oscars -- What They Got Wrong, and What Should Win Best Picture

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  • Опубліковано 27 сер 2024

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  • @kitkatzyy
    @kitkatzyy Місяць тому +6

    “Does the younger generation like The Princess Bride?”
    Yes, the younger generation does in fact like The Princess Bride (or at least my friends do).

  • @davidcote5637
    @davidcote5637 Місяць тому +5

    You certainly cost me a lot of money, Josh! Every time I watch one of your videos praising a movie I don't have (I've been collecting physical discs for years), I go and buy it. I have bought dozens of discs these past few years because of your recommendations. My wife keeps saying, when did you get that? And I say, after I went to my movie class. You have certainly enriched my collection! Thank you.

  • @adrianhough5059
    @adrianhough5059 Місяць тому +1

    What a great year for movies….that was the most difficult to decide a winner so far

  • @krosewall
    @krosewall Місяць тому +1

    Oscar eligibility is based on when you get a theatrical release in the US. Come and See only received a theatrical release in the US in 1987. You can see the original reviews from NY Times and Washington Post are dated 1987, not 1985. A more recent example is The Hurt Locker. It is listed as a 2008 film online because that is when it premiered in film festivals. But it didn't receive a theatrical release until 2009, so that is when it became eligible for Oscars.

  • @davidcote5637
    @davidcote5637 Місяць тому +2

    I would add Roxanne and The Untouchables to your Worth Mentioning List.

  • @pelarinbacosiii448
    @pelarinbacosiii448 Місяць тому

    I love the adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's pair of novels by director, Claude Berri. The tragedy revealed by the blind woman, Delphine, at the ending of Manon is heartbreaking.
    If you don't already know them, check out another pair of movies based on a pair of memoirs of childhood by Marcel Pagnol: My Father's Glory (La gloire de mon père) and My Mother's Castle (La château de ma mère), directed by Yves Robert in 1990. They're much lighter remembrances of summers spent in the French countryside (Provence).

  • @IMACKS31
    @IMACKS31 Місяць тому +2

    I think my top 5 of 1987, at this moment, would be: Au Revoir Les Enfants, Full Metal Jacket, Cobra Verde, Wings Of Desire, and Good Morning Vietnam.

    • @r4h4al
      @r4h4al Місяць тому

      Yeah Good Morning Vietnam deserved a mention.

  • @krosewall
    @krosewall Місяць тому

    Babette's Feast is an interesting case re Oscar eligibility. It didn't get at theatrical release until 1988, so that was the year it was eligible for Best Picture. But in 1987 it was eligible for Best Foreign Language(which it won) since rules for that category are different - the Academy can only nominate films submitted by that particular country. Denmark submitted Babette's Feast. It's likely that Academy members were the only people in the country who saw Babette's Feast in 1987, since it wasn't in theaters yet. There have been many foreign films that got nominated for best foreign film over the years that hadn't yet gotten a release in the US.

  • @benjamindover4337
    @benjamindover4337 Місяць тому +2

    It would be pretty funny if Predator won best picture. Of course its a huge crowd pleaser, as pulp as it is. Its also interesting to think about Predator as being nearly a silent film. The little dialog it has isn't even necessary. The sound effects add a lot though.

    • @Wolfman1491
      @Wolfman1491 Місяць тому

      I would say the dialogue is a good case of less is more, they don't have throw away lines, everything is meant for maximum impact and much of the dialogue is endlessly quotable. I've been yelling "GET TO DA CHOPPA!!" And "come on kill me, I'm here" at my friends and family for over 2 decades.

  • @drdavid1963
    @drdavid1963 Місяць тому +3

    Not being aware that Where is My Friend's House? was a 1987 movie, I would put that above Matewan but, of course, the Oscar eligibility is different which calls for a different list.
    Draft of Nominees
    Where is My Friend's House (not eligible)
    Babette's Feast (not eligible)
    Pelle The Conqueror (not eligible)
    Wings of Desire (not eligible)
    The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (not eligible)
    Matewan
    Evil Dead 2
    Withnail and I
    Come and See
    Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
    The Last Emperor (best of nominees - Hope and Glory, solid, Fatal Attraction overwrought, Moonstruck, unremarkable)
    My Life As A Dog
    Broadcast News
    Worth Mentioning
    Angel Heart
    Bad Taste
    Full Metal Jacket
    House of Games
    Made in Heaven
    No Way Out
    Raising Arizona
    Final nominations
    Come and See
    Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources*
    The Last Emperor
    Matewan
    My Life As A Dog
    WINNER: COME AND SEE (* if this was counted as an individual film it would be my winner)

  • @igorknezovic3967
    @igorknezovic3967 8 днів тому

    PREDATOR by John McTiernan
    FULL METAL JACKET ( Winner ) by Stanley Kubrick
    HELLRAISER by Clive Barker
    EMPIRE OF THE SUN by Steven Spielberg
    WINGS OF DESIRE by Wim Wenders
    honorable mention
    Radio Days
    The Dead

  • @ageofmich
    @ageofmich Місяць тому

    i had manon of the spring on my criterion watchlist, while browsing trough catalogue. This bumps it way up in my planned to watch. I have seen suprisingly few 88' movies, but Robocop would be up there for sure. with full metal jacket, Opera and the untouchables.

  • @r4h4al
    @r4h4al Місяць тому

    I think I'd give it to Withnail & I.

  • @beyondz55
    @beyondz55 Місяць тому

    Last Emperor as cinema is top notch but my personal issue with it now is how much influence did the CCP have over the production? It mirrors today where they have massive influence now over the industry. Not good.

  • @lbbotpn5429
    @lbbotpn5429 Місяць тому +1

    Looking at your list of nominees / mentionables makes me weep for the present.

  • @frankieholmes1565
    @frankieholmes1565 Місяць тому

    Wait why did you start this series in 81'? Please do the 70s oscars too!!!

  • @KrisVickers-wn6dd
    @KrisVickers-wn6dd Місяць тому

    Have you saw Perfect days yet?

  • @BadClamsVideos
    @BadClamsVideos Місяць тому

    Bagdad Cafe is the easy winner for me!