tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post3835677758797326133..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: My secret shame - the "Best Picture" Oscar movies I've never seenScott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-85599122175652411382012-02-27T06:15:34.591+00:002012-02-27T06:15:34.591+00:00Re Oscars. Well done on the "Artist". Th...Re Oscars. Well done on the "Artist". Thank God, my own powers of forecasting are as crap as ever. Saw "Ransom" with Mel Gibson last night. An excellent recommendation. Lots of claret at the end - just the ticket! Cheered me up a treat.SDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-76321089737610718602012-02-25T08:37:25.063+00:002012-02-25T08:37:25.063+00:00A footnote on "Schindler's List". Wh...A footnote on "Schindler's List". When I lived In Singapore in the 90s people used to come down from Kuala Lumpur to see the film because the Malaysian authorities banned it. It was adjudged to be an Israeli-financed piece of Jewish propaganda which distorted history. Which I thought was a pretty reasonable point of view so I gave it a miss at the time and went off to see "Dumb and Dumber" instead. This was not banned by Malaysia and rightly so.SDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-28576266349807010342012-02-25T08:18:50.426+00:002012-02-25T08:18:50.426+00:00Looking over the list of Oscar winning films in th...Looking over the list of Oscar winning films in the link, I seem to have been on a bit of a run between 1950 and 1974 with 100% but hit a very rocky patch after Godfather Part II, rather like Coppola I suppose, possibly because very little after that classic looked like being much cop in comparison. Most of the films I really enjoy, like Dirty Harry, would never trouble the scorers. This year however, I've seen three of the best film/actor nominations and would find it genuinely difficult to decide between The Artist, Tinker etc and The Descendants, for either category. I think The Artist just shades it for originality.<br /><br />Which reminds me that it"s at least 3 months since I last saw either The Lady Vanishes or The 39 Steps so I must hunt out the free DVDs that the Sunday Times gave away a few years ago...ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-36490082422954523642012-02-25T03:02:31.526+00:002012-02-25T03:02:31.526+00:00I should be more careful when writing 'copy...I should be more careful when writing 'copy'in conjunction with dvd's.<br />Its simply that I've found a pefectly above board shop,in a busy upmarket mall which from time to time has some real treasures on sale which the Great Unwashed seem to pass over in favour of the usual type of Hollywood blockbuster,and that suits me just fine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-59240274080083078832012-02-25T02:51:03.836+00:002012-02-25T02:51:03.836+00:00In that case a brand new copy of Sunset Boulevard ...In that case a brand new copy of Sunset Boulevard will be winging its way to you in the next month-unless of course you already have a copy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-54044450383519179582012-02-24T18:36:36.403+00:002012-02-24T18:36:36.403+00:00I envy you catching up with "Sunset Boulevard...I envy you catching up with "Sunset Boulevard" this late - possibly the best movie script of all time, I reckon.<br /><br />I suspect the Oscars have always been pretty damned trivial, SDG, but after the success of "The Queen" and "The King's Speech", I think we have to absolve them of any lingering anti-Britishness.<br /><br />I haven't seen "Terribly Long and Awfully Sentimental", but I've heard it described as the worst-reviewed film ever to be nominated for Best Picture, so I'm hoping the old farts who make up the Academy would be too embarrassed to vote for it, even with Tom Hanks playing a character with Hamburger's. I think Christopher Plummer is in line for the Oscar for Still Being Alive this year, but I guess Max will cop a lifetime achievement one some time (weirdly, he doesn't look that much older than he did in his late 50s, early 60s Ingmar Bergman artistic heyday).<br /><br />If "The Artist" doesn't win, I shall be turning down my own Lifetime Achivement award, which I believe I'm in line for next year.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-80841507675613751462012-02-24T10:17:38.201+00:002012-02-24T10:17:38.201+00:00Very interesting list. I have only seen "Plat...Very interesting list. I have only seen "Platoon", I am ashamed to say. Very flawed [well, Charlie Sheen for a start]. Many years later "Tropic Thunder" completely killed it off. I love war films, but because of Stiller& Co I can't watch American ones anymore.<br /><br />Three comments about the Oscars:<br /><br />1. They are increasingly about frocks and trinkets and screaming media interviews with not very interesting people { ie Daniel Radcliffe and the rest of the Harry Potter brats].<br /><br />2. The four Bitish screen actors [Mason, Finney,Burton and O'Toole] amassed 18 nominations between them but no wins. Deborah Kerr had six nominations, no wins. So the whole thing is a crock.<br /><br />3. I haven't seen any of this year's nominations inc "The Artist", but I have a feeling that the Oscar will be poached by "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" [or, "Terribly Long & Awfully Sentimental", as the Spectator has re-dubbed it]. It has 9/11, Tom Hanks, a central character with Asperger's ["Extremely Tiresome & Incredibly Hard To Take"] and Max von Sydow who Hollywood are seemingly desperate to honour at age 82 [see Henry Fonda]. All classic indicators.SDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-83147924666366964442012-02-24T06:20:51.356+00:002012-02-24T06:20:51.356+00:00Reading your blogs over the years I would have tho...Reading your blogs over the years I would have thought you were a film buff...<br />I also tend to approach the big oscar winner a bit late,or usually never,and in the case of Sunset Boulevard which I bought and watched last night,very late indeed.It was however worth the wait.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com