Nominees:
American Beauty
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
Winner:
American Beauty
American Beauty
The Cider House Rules
The Green Mile
The Insider
The Sixth Sense
Winner:
American Beauty
Story: Lester (Kevin Spacey) and Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane (Thora Birch) is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father. Hilarity ensues.Trivia: Thora Birch was only 17, so filming her brief nude scene required permission from her parents, who were both on the set during the filming along with child labor representatives.
So, tell me what you think? Did you like American Beauty? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
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American Beauty was a beauty of a film. Of course, I am a Kevin Spacey fan, but I really liked this one.
The Cider House Rules - A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
The Green Mile - The story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the execution of a wrongly accused man who has the power of faith healing.
The Insider - Based on a true story about a CBS 60 Minutes-episode in 1994 on malpractices in the tobacco industry, that was not aired because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected. Pacino plays the 60 Minutes producer.
The Sixth Sense - A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. "I see dead people" listening to the director's commentary they were amazed that nobody got the implications of that saying. They thought they had given it away, because he says it and then they show Bruce Willis.
This years was very hard for me. I loved both American Beauty and The Sixth Sense, but I would have to say the Sixth Sense would barely edge out American Beauty. Especially when you see it a second time and see how good M. Night Shyamalan crafted the movie. When you watch it again, and I suggest that you do, watch Bruce Willis. He never interacts with anything physically, and he never talks to anybody that responds to him except Haley Joel Osment.
I liked American Beauty, but I would have been split between The Sixth Sense and The Green Mile.
I read The Green Mile when Stephen King released it in serial form (one chapter every few weeks) a couple of years before the movie. It was the first movie I had ever seen of a book that I have read that I could actually say was exactly how the book was.
Of the two, I would go with Sixth Sense as well. A really good movie. You expect a twist now when you see a M. Night Shyamalan movie, but back then it was a complete suprise.
By the way...I add a twofifty.org buttong to my website. I'm only in the 90's.
Good Lord, I guess I shouldn't drink and type at the same time....
One guy I saw on the filmwise forum had 223
I added a few more that I've seen after I realized a few movies have un-translated titles listed. I've seen "Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi" for instance (Spirited Away). And I think I saw #11 on the list, "Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il" (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly). I'm not sure though. If it's the one where he's got the stove door under his pancho, then I've seen it.
This is a hard year for me. I've seen all but The Insider and the other four were great movies. The Green Mile like Mick said was exactly like the book and the book was excellent. Hmmmm, if you're really making me choose, I guess I'll go with....Darn I can't choose between American Beauty and Sixth Sense. Argh. They were both fantastic movies.
I just did the twofifty.org thing too and I've seen 97 of the 250 movies. I can't believe how many of these movies were Italian.
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