View Poll Results: Pulp Fiction, should it have won Best Picture
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Pulp Fiction, should it have won Best Picture [1994]
03-24-04, 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by baracine
Hmmm... tough call. A film that glorifies sadistic, nauseating violence as a form of mainstream family entertainment and another one that glorifies idiocy, unsophistication, illiteracy and ignorance as the Bushian philosophy of what the well-governed people of the richest country in the world should be like. I think I'll go with Shawshank Redemption.
Hmmm... tough call. A film that glorifies sadistic, nauseating violence as a form of mainstream family entertainment and another one that glorifies idiocy, unsophistication, illiteracy and ignorance as the Bushian philosophy of what the well-governed people of the richest country in the world should be like. I think I'll go with Shawshank Redemption.
Originally posted by baracine
Still, four straight couples get their freak on while the flamboyant, stereotypical, dress/kilt-wearing gay character has to cash in his chips before the end. Cliché, anyone?
Still, four straight couples get their freak on while the flamboyant, stereotypical, dress/kilt-wearing gay character has to cash in his chips before the end. Cliché, anyone?
03-24-04, 02:13 PM
#54
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Originally posted by baracine
The proper question is this: Name any successful English-language film drama prior to that year involving both straight and gay characters where at least one of the gay characters doesn't die or disappear mysteriously as a condition for the climax.
The proper question is this: Name any successful English-language film drama prior to that year involving both straight and gay characters where at least one of the gay characters doesn't die or disappear mysteriously as a condition for the climax.
03-24-04, 02:17 PM
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Definitely Pulp Fiction. One could almost argue that it was the most important movie made in the 90s.
In terms of why it lost to Gump, I myself was initially in the Gump Camp as I was about to start my Senior year in High School in rural Kentucky and schmaltz was a good thing to like at the time.
Upon reflection and maturation however, I realize that Pulp Fiction was the best movie.
P.S. Which dvdtalker was the one who went on a stupid tyrade about how The Mummy Returns was a better movie than Kill Bill Vol#1? Is he here right now?
In terms of why it lost to Gump, I myself was initially in the Gump Camp as I was about to start my Senior year in High School in rural Kentucky and schmaltz was a good thing to like at the time.
Upon reflection and maturation however, I realize that Pulp Fiction was the best movie.
P.S. Which dvdtalker was the one who went on a stupid tyrade about how The Mummy Returns was a better movie than Kill Bill Vol#1? Is he here right now?
03-24-04, 04:18 PM
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Originally posted by Groucho
The Crying Game
The Crying Game
03-24-04, 04:32 PM
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Um, Jaye Davidson's character in Stargate was an alien, not a homosexual. Where the hell are you getting this stuff?
03-24-04, 05:29 PM
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I just did some searching through the archives and baracine was the guy who started the whole Mummy Returns=good, Kill Bill=bad thread all those months ago.
I would attack him (actually his posts) if his comments regarding our president weren't so dead on the money. I hate his opinion in movies, but LOVE his political stance.
I would attack him (actually his posts) if his comments regarding our president weren't so dead on the money. I hate his opinion in movies, but LOVE his political stance.
03-24-04, 06:24 PM
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Well, baracine is Canadian, so any opinion he has about the U.S. gov't is purely theoretical, since he does not participate in our electoral process.
In any case, he failed to name even one film other than Four Weddings and a Funeral where the only gay character in the film died. So it's hardly a cliché.
In any case, he failed to name even one film other than Four Weddings and a Funeral where the only gay character in the film died. So it's hardly a cliché.
