timbox129 wrote:
Well, my Top 10 Winners for the Academy Awards for Best Picture is as follows:
Number 10 is easy. No Country for Old Men. I really think The Coen Brothers deserves a Best Picture Oscar, having made movies like Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, and maybe even O Brother! Where Art Thou? (which is really, loosely based on Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, albeit set in the deep, dirty South right here in the USA!).
Creeping in at Numbah Nine was Ridley Scott's 2000 epic, Gladiator. I think Russel Crowe did a great job in the movie as the exiled general-turned slave-turned gladiator, Maximus. Well, at his signal, would you PLEASE unleash hell?
Numboo Eight is the one you should all pay close attention to: Forrest Gump. Not only Tom Hanks did a great job as a dim witted Southerner experiencing 30 years of history from the 1950's to the early 1980's, but the film also broke new ground with its digital effects and especially in raising people back from the dead like the slain president (from 1961 to 1963), John F. Kennedy, who shook Forrest Gump's hand at one point, and laughs when Forrest said that he needs to go to the bathroom.
Now, Seven is something that is a mass-culture phoenomenon of another era. David O. Selznick's epic adapation of the Margaret Mitchell novel, Gone with the Wind. Frankly, you guys, Clark Gable doesn't give a damn, but we do!
And-a Numba Six-a: Dances with Wolves, for its resurrection of the dead Western which is thought to be dead at the time thanks to that notorious flop that is Heaven's Gate, the one that bankrupt United Artists so that MGM could grab the studio in its lion's paws!
and Number Five: The Godfather: Part II. Francis Ford Coppola's sequel to the Godfather is probably the best sequel around before The Empire Strikes Back (which is considered by George Lucas to be the fifth Star Wars movie in chronological order, hence the subtitle, Episode V).
NUMBER FOUR! Is. The original Godfather movie, the movie that finally catapulted Francis Ford Coppola to the top directors' spot! Well, if you watch the Godfather Part I, you better watch out for that horse's head!
Ooh, now we're getting to the good ones. Number three is the third and biggest motion picture version of Ben-Hur. Better love that spectacular and action-packed chariot race scene!
Slumming in at Number Two is James Cameron's 1997 disaster love movie, Titanic, the one that catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio to the top when he screams to the whole wide world that he is KING of THAT world! I've heard the delay of Titanic's release from July 2 to December 19, 1997, causes everybody (especially the hollywood press) to panic and even predict Jimmy's downfall, but I think Jimmy Cameron have prove them all wrong about this movie, that clever bastard! I even like the music by James Horner and especially Celine Dion's song that ended the movie, "My heart will go on".
And, the Number One item on Tim Box's Top 10 movies to win the Best Picture Oscar is....
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING!!!!
Boy! I love Peter Jackson's epic three-part adapation of J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings, so very much! I think the third and last part have done a clean sweep at the Oscars winning 11 Academy Awards, especially Best Picture! I really think that it is Peter Jackson's three-part movie adaptation of Lord of the Rings is the three movies that pave the way to an all new fantasy movie renaissance! I love the Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings, so, very, much!
Okay. Here's my top 10 winners of the Best Picture Oscar list after the countdown:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Titanic
3. Ben Hur (1959)
4. The Godfather
5. The Godfather Part II
6. Dances with Wolves
7. Gone with the Wind
8. Forrest Gump
9. Gladiator
10. No Country for Old Men.
So, what did you think of my list?
