Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Our favorite and least favorite films

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Callie's top Best movies: 1. My Fair Lady 2. Godfather 3. Rebecca 4. The King's Speech 5. Rain Man Worst movies: 1. How Gr...

2000s Wrap Up

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Y2K brought about another huge shift in movies. The 70s were the era of great acting. The 80s centered on family relationships. The 90s cent...

2012 - Argo: "If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus"

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2012 Best Picture Premiered October 4, 2012 in Beverly Hills Budget $44.5 Million Gross $136 Million Watching The Arti...

2011 - The Artist: "With Pleasure"

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2011 Best Picture Premiered No American Premier Budget $15 Million Gross $44 Million We've now come full circle in ...

2010 - The King's Speech: "Vulgar, but fluent. You don't stammer when you swear."

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2010 Best Picture Premiered No American premier Budget $15 Million Gross $138.7 Million The King's Speech is a very inspi...

2009 - The Hurt Locker: "If I'm gonna die, I want to be comfortable"

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2009 Best Picture Premiered June 5, 2009 in Hollywood Budget $15 million Gross $17 Million It was the Best Picture that no o...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

2008 - Slumdog Millionaire: "I knew you'd be watching"

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2008 Best Picture Premiered No American premier Budget $15 Million Gross $141 Million This is like the little movie that could...

2006 - The Departed: "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."

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2006 Best Picture Premiered September 26, 2006 in New York Budget $90 Million Gross $132.3 Million This movie is a cross betwe...

2007 - No Country For Old Men: "It's your lucky quarter."

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2007 Best Picture Premiered November 4, 2007 in Hollywood Budget $25 Million Gross $74 Million The Coen brothers wrote and dir...
Sunday, October 6, 2013

2005 - Crash: "I want the locks changed again in the morning"

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2005 Best Picture Premiered April 26, 2005 in Beverly Hills Budget $6.5 Million Gross $53.4 Million This movie has one message...
Monday, September 30, 2013

2004 - Million Dollar Baby: "Mo cushle means my darling, my blood"

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2004 Best Picture Premiered December 15, 2004 Budget $30 Million Gross $100 Million Clint Eastwood did everything in this movi...

2003 - The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King: "The ring is mine!"

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2003 Best Picture Premiered December 17, 2003 Budget $94 Million Gross $378 Million This was the toughest movie to evaluate s...
Monday, September 9, 2013

2002 - Chicago: "The trial...the whole world...it's all...show business"

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2002 Best Picture Premiered December 10, 2002 Budget $45 Million Gross $171 Million We could not help but compare this movie ...

2001 - A Beautiful Mind: "Nash, who's winning - you or you?"

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2001 Best Picture Premiered December 13, 2001 in Beverly Hills Budget $60 Million Gross $171 Million We had both seen this mo...

2000 - Gladiator: "Strength and Honor"

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2000 Best Picture Premiered May 1, 2000 in Los Angeles Budget $103 Million Gross $188 Million Gladiator is as close to the...

1990s wrap up

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Since the 70s we are seeing decade long themes in the Best Picture winners. The 90s seem to be the decade of romance (and sex and nudity). M...

1999 - American Beauty: "Welcome to American's weirdest home videos"

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1999 Best Picture Premiered September 8, 1999 in Los Angeles Budget $15 Million Gross $130 Million American Beauty  is great ...

1998 - Shakespeare in Love: "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter."

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1998 Best Picture Premiered December 3, 1998 in New York Budget $25 Million Gross $100 Million This turned out to be a decent ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

1997 - Titanic: "You ever been to Wisconsin?"

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Premiered December 14, 1997 in Los Angeles Budget $200 Million Gross $657.7 Million History has not been kind to this movie. Ma...