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This isn't a bad movie, but it's almost criminal that it beat 2001: A Space Odyssey for 'Best Picture'.
12 years 4 months ago
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This has the fourth lowest IMDb rating of the 'Best Picture' winners, and came out the same year as Singin’ in the Rain (#84 on the top 250), which wasn't even nominated.

That said, I personally considered this an okay movie.

Lowest rated winners:
1. Cimarron (1931) 6.1
2. Cavalcade (1933) 6.4
3. The Broadway Melody (1929) 6.5
4. The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) 6.7
5. Around the World In 80 Days (1956) 6.8
12 years 4 months ago
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Back to the Future wasn't even nominated that year, but which movie do people still remember?
12 years 4 months ago
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7.0 on imdb. 8th worst 'Best Picture' winner. 'The Great Escape' (#110 on the top 250) wasn't even nominated.
12 years 4 months ago
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One of the worst 'best picture' winners. Came out the same year as Vertigo, which wasn't even nominated. Hitchcock snubbed again.
12 years 4 months ago
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13:10-13:22

pre-Hays code toplessness! There's something that won't come back for 50 years.
12 years 4 months ago
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This is possibly the best movie of the 1950s.
12 years 4 months ago
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City Lights (1931) is the highest rated comedy on IMDb (#46 on the top 250) , but wasn't even nominated for best picture. Meanwhile Cimarron (1931) has the lowest rating of any Best Picture winner by an embarrassingly comfortable margin:

1. Cimarron (1931) 6.1
2. Cavalcade (1933) 6.4
3. The Broadway Melody (1929) 6.5
4. Around the World In 80 Days (1956) 6.8
5. The Greatest Show On Earth (1952) 6.7
6. Gigi (1958) 6.9
7. The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 6.9
8. Tom Jones (1963) 7.0
9. Out of Africa (1985) 7.0
10.
-- An American In Paris (1951) 7.2
-- Chicago (2002) 7.2
-- Chariots of Fire (1981) 7.2
12 years 4 months ago
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Mediocre and over-long. My pick for 1956 would've been Kubrick's The Killing, or Baby Doll.
12 years 4 months ago
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How did this win the Oscar and City Lights not even get nominated??
12 years 4 months ago
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Double Indemnity obviously deserved the Oscar.
12 years 4 months ago
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Throw like an atheist?
12 years 4 months ago
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I initially thought the balloons were all like 'forget this place' and returning to their home planet.

I like my ending better.
12 years 4 months ago
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Animal rights is an important topic, but I was disappointed in this movie given its high rating. Disturbing imagery requires more context, focus, and finesse. This was not a balanced or deep look into how animals are or should be used for food and research. Nor was it at least edu-taining like The Cove.
12 years 4 months ago
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If you want to see a dog get its entire skin ripped off its body like a shirt while its still alive, and then have nightmares about it for the rest of your life, then this is the movie for you.
12 years 4 months ago
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I can see what's in it for him, but as usual I'm not sure what's supposed to be in it for the Manic Pixie Dream Girl? A painfully awkward cubicle drone. Hooray.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

At least the guy in Validation (the other "heartwarming" short on the top 50) did stuff to plausibly justify an attraction.
12 years 4 months ago
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Hollywood blockbusters haven't had much nudity since... well since Paul Verhoeven left Hollywood.
12 years 4 months ago
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Hm, youtube has three chapters, but I suppose this check requires only "Chapter 1: In which we meet Winnie-the-Pooh and some suspicious bees", which is the youtube link.
12 years 4 months ago
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I don't think the youtube link is the right cartoon.
both imdb and this link say the right cartoon is 10 minutes 42 seconds.

http://www.animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=2279&sp=0
12 years 4 months ago
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I know the imdb link lists a certain video with 3 Westinghouse films, but you can't check this unless you watch all 21 films in the National Film Registry collection. (sorry rohit, no shortcuts)

Follow the links on the wikipedia page

1. Assembling a generator
2. Assembling and testing turbines
3. Casting a guide box
4. Coil winding machines
5. Coil winding section E
6. Girls taking time checks
7. Girls winding armatures
8. Panorama exterior
9. Panorama of Machine Co. aisle
10. Panorama view street car motor room
11. Panoramic view aisle B
12. Steam hammer
13. Steam whistle
14. Taping coils
15. Tapping a furnace
16. Testing a rotary
17. Testing large turbines
18. Welding the big ring
19. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (casting scene)
20. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (moulding scene)
21. Westinghouse Air Brake Co.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Works,_1904
12 years 4 months ago
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Süt kardesler
Hababam sinifi uyaniyor
Hababam sinifi sinifta kaldi
Maratonci trce pocasni krug
Filantropica
Dil Chahta Hai
Munnabhai M.B.B.S.

o_0

DO NOT WANT
12 years 5 months ago
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Venomous anti-atheist propaganda. A cinematic Chick tract.

We can put this on a high dusty shelf with Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will, two other early works of embarrassing hate speech that movie critics like to gush about.
12 years 6 months ago
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Pearl Harbor: The movie everybody sees, and nobody likes.
12 years 8 months ago
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If you've watched a subtitled version of this where did you come across it?
12 years 10 months ago
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6/10

Not objectively worse than any Mel Brooks movie.

Also... is that a Trololo reference?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-C-tSD8NgI#t=3m49s
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