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[Mudd]

I stopped paying attention to the Oscars when the first SW film was beaten out by a movie by Woody Allen and his girlfriend, about Woody Allen and his girlfriend, starring Woody Allen and his girlfriend as Woody Allen and his girlfriend (what an acting stretch that must have been).

Be that as it may, . . . So Dickens wrote serialized stuff. So what. So did Doyle. So did a lot of excellent writers. Kind of demonstrates my point that nobody who expects to be paid writes intentionally unpopular fiction; therefore the distinction between "popular" and "literary" fiction is even more artificial than the distinction between "popular" and "classical" music. (Folk music, genuine folk music, the kind for which the composer of any given piece, assuming it even has a single composer, is lost to history, is another animal entirely, although occasionally a composer will crib off what he assumed was a folk tune, only to find out that the original composer is not only known but still alive and still enforcing the copyright.)

But Annie Hall was the better movie.

 

[Greg Cox]

Yeah, Annie Hall gets a bum rap from SF fans. I mean, I get that some of us will never forgive it for beating Star Wars for Best Picture, but it's a fine film that was certainly worthy of its accolades. Its only crime, from what I can see, is not being an iconic SF movie.

Is it better or worse than Star Wars? Hard to say. We're talking apples and orange here.

Personally, I've always been impressed by both.


(For the record, I also thought Shakespeare in Love was a fine film, even though some folks will never forgive it for "stealing" Best Picture from Saving Private Ryan.)

 

[bdub76]

Yeah, Annie Hall gets a bum rap from SF fans. I mean, I get that some of us will never forgive it for beating Star Wars for Best Picture, but it's a fine film that was certainly worthy of its accolades. Its only crime, from what I can see, is not being an iconic SF movie.

Is it better or worse than Star Wars? Hard to say. We're talking apples and orange here.

Personally, I've always been impressed by both.


(For the record, I also thought Shakespeare in Love was a fine film, even though some folks will never forgive it for "stealing" Best Picture from Saving Private Ryan.)

Check out the film Sorcerer.

Sorcerer (film) - Wikipedia

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Star Wars did a number on that one too. Changed the industry.

 

[Tosk]

Its only crime, from what I can see, is not being an iconic SF movie.

Depending on the viewer's stance on separating art from artist, the director and star might also be a strike against it.