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Originally Posted by eyebooger
I actually don't have a lot of problems with what you said in the first two paragraphs. I guess I just viewed those years' movies as weaker overall in general. If The Insider and Benjamin Button had won, I wouldn't be complaining.
I haven't seen Cuckoo's Nest. My familiarity with critically acclaimed movies maxes out this decade, and generally decays pretty linearly as you go further back in time.
Yeah I guess that kills a decent bit of our overlap, though I'm going to catch up on this past decade. I'm at least doing a free month of Netflix for this month, might bug out again for December since I'll spend half that month visiting family, but then pick it back up in 2016.
I once tried a second viewing of Cuckoo's Nest and still couldn't see the big deal. Had the same experience with Vertigo, and I love Hitchcock.
Couple of amendments to my list above:
I've seen Annie Hall and definitely enjoyed it, but would put it in the "symptomatic of a weak year" category.
I see that Rocky beat Taxi Driver, which is pretty loony, so I guess I would move Rocky to "good movie, but shouldn't have won."
Though I'm an obsessive Godfather fanatic, mostly films from the 70s just aren't really my thing. I love stuff from the 90s and forward, and I love classics from the 60s and before, but the 70s and 80s just didn't produce stuff to my taste nearly as much.