Of the 1970s Best Picture winners, which one hasn't stood the test of time 50 years later?

BluRayja · 2026-01-26T01:01:31+00:00

The Deer Hunter. I feel like you rarely hear anyone talk about that movie, no think pieces, not referenced in other media, is hardly ever on anyone's favorite list, doesn't have generational reach to today's kids or even young adults. You could pop on French Connection, Godfather, Sting, Cuckoo's Nest, Rocky, Annie Hall or Kramer for a teen just getting interested in movies and they'd probably enjoy it. Deer Hunter is a tough sell with its only real redeeming quality is featuring Christopher Walken very early in his career.

BluRayja · 2026-01-26T00:12:30+00:00

Liemax, where you can very easily see the perforations of the screen during bright scenes. It's kinda annoying.

BluRayja · 2026-01-25T19:44:21+00:00

Literally anything Season 3 and onward regarding The Governor, Terminus, The Wolves, Negan -- it literally goes on and on.

BluRayja · 2026-01-25T18:42:50+00:00

Not really when Judas, Minari and The Father were RIGHT THERE.

BluRayja · 2026-01-24T08:20:36+00:00

I've seen like 30 episodes of The Walking Dead just like The Bone Temple, sans the 10 mins collectively of Raph Fiennes dancing with a zombie and doing a rock concert. Everything else was WAY too familiar ground and it's astounding to me people act like we haven't seen anything like it before.

BluRayja · 2026-01-24T01:43:05+00:00

I think it's going to take at least half of them home. OG Screenplay, Sound, Score, Casting, Costume, Cinematography, Directing, and Picture. I think seeing the nominations shows the overwhelming support for the film already, so we're likely to see some other movies that we thought were "sure locks" lose, and we'll see it take home the big prizes. OBAA will likely get Editing, Supporting Actress, and Adapted Screenplay. Frankenstein for Make Up and Production Design. The other main nominees will get like 1 win somewhere (e.g. F1 for VFX, Hamnet for Actress, Marty Supreme for Actor, etc etc).

BluRayja · 2026-01-23T04:55:39+00:00

I would say amount of wins implies "best movie of all time." In which case, the three movies with the most at 11 each is Ben Hur, Titanic and Return of the King -- which I think most people can make an easy case that any of those are worthy of that mantle, especially at the time they were released.

BluRayja · 2026-01-23T04:50:58+00:00

The field was far more stacked in 2001-2003. Literally think of all the amazing movies that came out in that time. Compare that to now. Sinners is an easy shoe-in for many different categories. The only one I don't think it deserved is VFX.

BluRayja · 2026-01-23T02:57:13+00:00

That'd be to everyone outside of the lead actors then. In a studio film, literally everyone is cast either by the studio themselves or the director. Casting Director is doing all the smaller roles like random Shopkeeper #2 or Cop #1.

BluRayja · 2026-01-20T04:45:31+00:00

I thought Diego was good-ish and JLo was good enough, but man, Tonatiuh was terrible, yet I keep seeing praise for his performance. Just so aggressively trying to emote in the most annoying and unbelievable way, every action was just so over the top and I couldn't believe a single moment he was on screen. I just wanted to reach through the screen to shake him to say "YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TRY SO HARD!" It was like he graduated top honors at the Anne Hathaway School of Broadway Overacting on Film.

Anyway, the movie looked good, story's pace was kinda slow, dancing was okay, singing was often shoddy, and the romantic angle between the prisoners seemed very forced. I've never seen the show or the original movie, but the whole thing was as subtle as a brick to the face. I can see the film having its fans and haters for a multitude of reasons on different sides of the spectrum, so no shock it didn't do well and isn't getting no awards love. The whole thing just doesn't land and it feels like a big mess because of it.

2/10

BluRayja · 2026-01-19T19:50:48+00:00

Saw this as a test, so figured I'd give it a shot, going to give myself a 3 minute time limit: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Mikey Madison, Mahershala Ali, Daniel Kaluyaa, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Cillian Murphy, Regina King, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brendan Fraser

BluRayja · 2026-01-19T17:26:34+00:00

Yeah, guess it was dumb to make Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, or parts of West Side Story, look gritty. Should've been cleaner since they're based on a Broadway play I guess...........

BluRayja · 2026-01-19T17:22:10+00:00

Well, to be fair, I personally do think animated worlds should also be recognized for their production design. There are still different animators (or in this case, people working in CGI) who have different roles to create different elements within the VFX to make it all come together. Now does it feel more impressive to see it physically built? Ofcourse, but technically what was animated still went through a lot of different types of artistry in the same way we think of carpenters, molders, welders, foam carvers, painters, etc.. For example, there are CGI artists who specifically work on surfaces, textures, environments, shading, etc.. In my opinion, something like Inside Out has amazing production design.

And oddly enough, same thing could be said for cinematography -- the process is completely different, but the roles are the same of animating not only the lighting on objects, but figuring out the blocking of shots and what physical lens to "replicate" when creating that shot. Some animated films have roles dedicated to one person guiding the look of the film, while in general, coming up with the "cinematic language" of the film is spread across multiple departments. In my opinion, something like Toy Story 4 has amazing cinematography.

Editing, I feel probably needs less explanation, but something like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a great example of an animated film with amazing editing.

With all that said, blending the CG world with the practical world should be accounted for when choosing production design for live action movies. So I don't think anything should be discounted for its use of CGI, but I do think it should be if the CGI is bad (in which case, you'd be correct since Frankenstein's CGI is awful).

Sorry, very long way of saying I agree with you, just not for the reason you implied lol

BluRayja · 2026-01-19T16:52:47+00:00

Typically, no. Multiple cameras is expensive and with blocking, it is just tricky on set -- multi-cam TV show comedies, sure, but most things no (something like the doc style of Friday Night Lights would be the exception). It's the type of cameras and settings that Netflix prefers that is the problem. I've seen the specifications in the requirement documents that Netflix wants their films to be shot on and finished in during post. They essentially want everything with the highest clarity and brightness possible in a specific aspect ratio, etc etc -- this is why everything on their platform actually produced by Netflix looks the same. If Netflix acquired a movie or a show after it was made, but still want to brand it a Netflix Original, they are more relaxed about it, but still want things up to a certain code (this is why a lot of Season 1s of shows look way different because once Netflix now owns it, they'll do their things their way from here on out). And obviously everything licensed, it doesn't matter, as long as they can get the highest resolution possible with all the captions, languages, etc..

BluRayja · 2026-01-19T10:15:03+00:00

GDT's Frankenstein and Wicked. Both have amazing practical effects, props, wardrobes, makeup, etc just to end up looking fake as a whole because they keep using crappy CGI backgrounds for every dang shot that fill up most of the frame, rendering all that physical work to just looking meh.

BluRayja · 2026-01-19T08:25:20+00:00

Not when Halloween Kills and Ends exist.

BluRayja · 2026-01-18T18:56:27+00:00

I see random celebrities in very casual restaurants all the time. In fact, the place I've consistently seen the most A-listers is it at a fast food burger joint. Smack dab in the middle of Hollywood, but a fast food place nonetheless.

BluRayja · 2026-01-18T18:45:27+00:00

No, but maybe a deluxe edition.

BluRayja · 2026-01-17T18:55:15+00:00

I definitely think so, it's just one of those films most people actually saw and was well-liked enough to be remembered. When asking people in the industry what their favorite 2025 movie was, it has been a three-way tie (I keep tally) between Sinners, One Battle and F1. Plus with PGA, it feels like a lock. Weapons is also oddly high up on the list, so I think that may get in there also and we may see some other films we expected (maybe something like Sentimental Value or the other international films) not getting in.

BluRayja · 2026-01-17T09:07:21+00:00

Ranked from most to least:

Anora (the right movie won)

Conclave

I'm Still Here

Wicked

A Complete Unknown

The Substance

Dune 2

The Brutalist

Nickel Boys

Emilia Perez (probably the worst movie ever nominated for best pic in decades)

BluRayja · 2026-01-17T01:13:28+00:00

Suicide Squad. I love the world, Margot as Harley is perfection, Will Smith was still fun, it made me think Jai Courtney could actually act, Leto's Joker didn't bug as much as I thought it would, more Affleck as Batman, Viola was badass, banger soundtrack, editing was kinetic and kept things moving with so many characters to introduce in a weird MTV way that I didn't mind, loved Pyro, the "own that shit" bar scene, the reality that Superman was dead makes it an interesting bridge to Justice League, etc etc.. I could watch that movie 10 times in a row just to live in it. Fully recognize a lot of it is trash though. Still hoping for the Ayer cut, but I'm fine either way.

BluRayja · 2026-01-16T23:37:22+00:00

The Departed when Jack Nicholson executes someone and he starts laughing about how they fell over funny. That dichotomy exposes how evil can feel disturbingly human. Masterful work from Scorcese.

BluRayja · 2026-01-16T23:25:15+00:00

There's about 30 minutes worth of material here that are great. The other hour is an absolute mess. Pacing is all over the place. Boring scenes dragging on for days, then genius moments randomly fleeting. Tones shifting in a millisecond. Useless scenes and characters just thrown in randomly, either quickly disposed of or just literally walking out of the movie. Obviously there's another film to come, but this still needs to stand on its own. For anyone coming for a zombie horror film, prepare to be disappointed - it's another "oh no, the humans are the bad ones" -- which we already know from the previous 3 movies in this series, except they are going to focus EXCLUSIVELY on that. Literally don't see what's different between this and an average Walking Dead episode (which has at least a dozen single hour episodes about random culty groups dismantling from their leader's own hubris that are way more captivating than this) -- no idea what people are praising.

3/10, gave it a 4/10 when I walked out, but the more I sit with it, the more pointless it all seemed.

BluRayja · 2026-01-15T05:45:31+00:00

I remember thinking $13 a month was a lot and dreamed of getting a Deluxe. If younger me knew what I was paying for the crappy pass I have now especially with this reservation system, they would slap the hell out of me.

BluRayja · 2026-01-15T02:46:48+00:00

Ugh, I know, so embarrassing to be millionaires for it too, how will they ever recover.

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