I was bored so I made a list. :mellow:
Recipients of the Peter Wiggin Outstanding Film of the Year*:
2008- Frost/Nixon
2007- No Country for Old Men
2006- Pan's Labyrinth
2005- Brokeback Mountain
2004- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2003- Mystic River
2002- Adaptation
2001- Amelie
2000- Memento
1999- American Beauty
1998- Life is Beautiful
1997- As Good As it Gets
1996- The English Patient
1995- The Usual Suspects
1994- Pulp Fiction
1993- Schindler's List
1992- Unforgiven
1991- The Silence of the Lambs
1990- Goodfellas
1989- Glory
1988- Mississippi Burning
1987- The Last Emperor
1986- The Mission
1985- Back to the Future
1984- Amadeus
1983- The Right Stuff
1982- Gandhi
1981- Raiders of the Lost Ark
1980- Empire Strikes Back
1979- Life of Brian
1978- The Deer Hunter
1977- Star Wars
1976- Taxi Driver
1975- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1974- Godfather Part II
1973- American Graffiti
1972- Godfather
1971- Fiddler on the Roof
1970- Patton
1969- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
1968- 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967- The Graduate
1966- The Good, The Bad & the Ugly
1965- Dr. Zhivago
1964- Goldfinger
1963- The Great Escape
1962- Lawrence of Arabia
1961- West Side Story
1960- Psycho
1959- Some Like it Hot
1958- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1957- Bridge on the River Kwai
1956- The King and I
1955- Night of the Hunter
1954- On the Waterfront
1953- From Here to Eternity
1952- Singin' in the Rain
1951- A Streetcar Named Desire
1950- All About Eve
1949- All the King's Men
1948- Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947- Gentleman's Agreement
1946- It's a Wonderful Life
1945- Spellbound
1944- Double Indemnity
1943- Casablanca
1942- Mrs. Miniver
1941- Citizen Kane
1940- Rebecca
1939- Gone With the Wind
1938- Jezebel
1937- Lost Horizon
1936- Mr. Deeds Goest to Town
1935-
1933- King Kong
*Note that these are films I've judged the "best" and not necessarily my personal favorites. For instance, I enjoyed Dark Knight more than Frost/Nixon, but the latter film had pretty much perfect execution for what it was.
Further note that my decisions are arbitrary, that I haven't seen every great movie that's been made, and that I keep an idol of Dagon in my bedroom, which I pray to daily.
You should take a walk sometime. :P
Quote from: garbon on May 08, 2009, 11:24:51 AM
You should take a walk sometime. :P
You're averaging 7 times as many posts per day as I am. :blurgh:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:29:24 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 08, 2009, 11:24:51 AM
You should take a walk sometime. :P
You're averaging 7 times as many posts per day as I am. :blurgh:
Yeah, but all of them are ':P' ':x' ':rolleyes:' or some kind of oneliner.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:29:24 AM
You're averaging 7 times as many posts per day as I am. :blurgh:
I'm sorry that you speak so slowly?:unsure:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:23:27 AM
Further note that my decisions are arbitrary, that I haven't seen every great movie that's been made, and that I keep an idol of Dagon in my bedroom, which I pray to daily.
Please explain why Stuart Gordon's film DAGON didn't win in 2001 then. :ultra:
I liked it better when it was the "Teaches".
Quote from: Razgovory on May 08, 2009, 11:47:43 AM
I liked it better when it was the "Teaches".
You and the unbroken Siege both.
Quote from: Caliga on May 08, 2009, 11:43:07 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:23:27 AM
Further note that my decisions are arbitrary, that I haven't seen every great movie that's been made, and that I keep an idol of Dagon in my bedroom, which I pray to daily.
Please explain why Stuart Gordon's film DAGON didn't win in 2001 then. :ultra:
because it was blasphemously bad?
Quote from: BuddhaRhubarb on May 08, 2009, 12:22:45 PMbecause it was blasphemously bad?
I liked the part where you got to see the hott Spanish chick's boobs. I don't remember the other 99.99999% of the movie. Oh wait, there was that part where they peeled the old dude's face off. That was neat. :)
Quote2005- Brokeback Mountain
fag.
You've too much time.
There's no way I could do that much checking. And pre 1960 I'd really just be listing films from that period that I have seen, not necessarily good ones.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:23:27 AM
2005- Brokeback Mountain
WTF? The list is great, but that ruins it.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 08, 2009, 02:07:42 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:23:27 AM
2005- Brokeback Mountain
WTF? The list is great, but that ruins it.
Look at the other nominees that year: Crash, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich. It was an awful year.
Quote1964- ?
GOLDFINGER! DR STRANGELOVE!
Quote from: Syt on May 08, 2009, 02:11:11 PM
Quote1964- ?
GOLDFINGER! DR STRANGELOVE!
I didn't care for Strangelove.
Goldfinger wasn't one of the nominees and somehow missed getting on the top 250 at imdb so I missed it before.
no City of God? no Goodfellas? no Zulu? :cry:
Quote from: saskganesh on May 08, 2009, 03:43:51 PM
no Goodfellas?
:huh:
Zulu was an ok movie I don't remember well and wasn't in either of my references. Haven't seen City of God.
Fabulous list ET/PW. :yes:
Here are the HABSY winners for Best Motion Picture:
2008 - Che
2007 - There Will Be Blood
2006 - Children of Men
2005 - The New World
2004 - Der Untergang
2003 - Lost in Translation
2002 - Far From Heaven
2001 - Gosford Park
2000 - In the Mood for Love
1999 - The Insider
1998 - The Thin Red Line
1997 - LA Confidential
1996 - The English Patient
1995 - Apollo 13
1994 - Bullets Over Broadway
1993 - The Age of Innocence
1992 - Unforgiven
1991 - JFK
1990 - Goodfellas
1987 - The Last Emperor
1986 - The Mission
1985 - Ran
1982 - Gandhi
1981 - Ragtime
1980 - Ordinary People
1979 - Apocalypse Now
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1977 - Star Wars
1976 - Taxi Driver
1975 - Nashville
1974 - Chinatown
1973 - Cries & Whispers
1972 - The Godfather
1971 - The Last Picture Show
1970 - Five Easy Pieces
1969 - Z
1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
1967 - The Graduate
1966 - The Sand Pebbles
1965 - Doctor Zhivago
1964 - Doctor Strangelove
1963 - Il Gattopardo
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia
1961 - Judgment at Nuernberg
1960 - The Apartment
1959 - Room at the Top
1958 - Vertigo
1957 - Kumonosu jô
1956 - The Searchers
1955 - Ordet
1954 - Rear Window
1953 - From Here to Eternity
1952 - High Noon
1951 - An American in Paris
1950 - All About Eve
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on May 08, 2009, 11:23:27 AM
1933- King Kong
Thanks, Tim :rolleyes:
;)
Personally I'd give Duck Soup the award for 1933; Triumph of the Will for 1934; The Bride of Frankenstein for 1935, and Popyeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor for 1936. I don't know film thoroughly enough after that to comment.
Why did you pick 1933 as the start year?
1962 :yes:
Quote from: Savonarola on May 08, 2009, 10:26:54 PM
Personally I'd give Duck Soup the award for 1933; Triumph of the Will for 1934; The Bride of Frankenstein for 1935, and Popyeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor for 1936. I don't know film thoroughly enough after that to comment.
Why did you pick 1933 as the start year?
Year I was born. ;)
But really it's that my knowledge was getting too fuzzy to make reasonable selections. To me the golden age of cinema began in '39 and that's where I was originally going to end(working backwards).
Quote from: Syt on May 08, 2009, 02:11:11 PM
Quote1964- ?
GOLDFINGER! DR STRANGELOVE!
Never seen either.
What are they about?
I think Goldfinger is a 007 movie, but I don't know about the other one.
What's the plot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_strangelove
No Oz? Fuck you Wiggin. Fuck you to hell.
Is Wiggin afraid of subtitles btw?
Very nice and detailed. Will surely check all the movies out. At least the ones that I haven't watched yet. :)
Quote from: The Brain on May 10, 2009, 02:48:27 AM
Is Wiggin afraid of subtitles btw?
He speaks English. Why would he need subtitles?
Quote from: Siege on May 10, 2009, 02:12:28 AM
I think Goldfinger is a 007 movie, but I don't know about the other one.
What's the plot?
It's not a bond film. It's art film about finger fucking an old lady while she pisses. Very controversial. Also weird.
Bergman has done a couple of high quality projects, however I consider his work somewhat overrated. I do love me some OMGRed! (aka Cries & Whispers), Through the Glass Darkly, and Wild Strawberries.