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In Search of Best Picture
17, Feb 2011
by Nigel Druitt
As the Oscar telecast creeps up on us again, it begs the question: How many times has the Academy really gotten this “Best Picture” thing right, anyway?
Think about it. How many controversial decisions are there in the Academy’s history? How many times is a movie other than Best Picture long remembered as the best of the year?
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What’s the greatest western ever made? More times than not, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly will be near the top of that list. It is heralded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest western of all-time. So what happens when a Korean film-maker decides to remake the film and change some things around? We get The Good, The Bad, The Weird. Let us get our ringside seats and watch a shoot-out, knock-down, good ol’ western brawl.
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Rank the week of December 14th’s Blu-ray and DVD releases against the best movies ever made
The Town (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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How would you rank it amongst the best crime movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #625
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Has Affleck taken the #2 spot in the list of top actor/directors working today (behind Clint Eastwood of course)? I’m beginning to think so…
Released on Friday the 17th
The A-Team (DVD and Blu-ray | PG-13 | 2010)
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How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #1249
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What do your fellow Flickcharters have to say?
willhunting – “Aren’t these pretty much the same movie? Either way, The A-Team was actually damn fun. Just turn off your brain and enjoy. I was afraid of how Rampage was going to do but I thought he did great. Every character, even the bad guys are enjoyable in some way. ”
Avenger7 – “The A-Team is what The Losers was trying to be but failed. The Hannibal character said it best with one line of dialogue, “Overkill is underrated” and in this case, it’s probably true.”
(From The A-Team vs. The Losers discussion)
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by Dan
Rank this week’s Blu-ray and DVD releases against the best movies of all-time
Toy Story 3 (DVD and Blu-ray | G | 2010)
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How would you rank it amongst the best animated movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #1571
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Toy Story 3 currently sits in the top 6% of my Flickchart, so I preface the next statement by saying I do really like it. I do think it will drop a bit over time though. I don’t want to spoil too much but if it had ended about 7 minutes earlier, Toy Story 3 would have been an absolute masterpiece. Thelma and Louise is memorable because it doesn’t end with the characters magically sprouting parachutes after they drive off the cliff and then having a tacked on ending to make you reach for the tissues even more. I know it’s unrealistic because it’s ultimately a kids movie but part of me wishes Toy Story 3 could have just ended in the dump.
Centurion (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #7095
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An excellent looking, bad-ass Romans fighting barbarians movie from director Neil Marshall (The Descent).
Winnebago Man (DVD | NR | 2010)
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How would you rank it amongst the best documentaries of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #12976
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The internet phenomenon becomes a documentary.
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New Movies in Theaters: October 15, 2010
15, Oct 2010by Dan
How do October 15th’s new films stack up against some of the best movies of all time?
Red – PG-13 – watch the trailer ►
Red has a great cast (Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, etc) and is getting pretty strong reviews. Be sure to watch Zach Galifianakis’s “Between Two Ferns” with Bruce. It’s perfect in every way and includes the best back-to-back Diff’rent Strokes/Look Who’s Talking joke known to man.
Jackass 3D – R – watch the trailer ►
The first one made me throw up in my mouth but I was able to choke it all down.
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