Oscar Best Pictures I Agree With (And Some I Don’t) 

Always prefered The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line is also fantastic, either way both are more deserving of the Oscar

@@thecinematicmind I prefer it too honestly, but I think saving private Ryan is the more Oscar type pick

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These are always the best part as in shows his humility and intelligence.

Yes

Ahh here, the Nerd is a RU-vid legend

Board James were his best videos.

Man that movie gave me nightmares as a kid

Who would've imagined that a middle age nurse could give you nightmares?! Nobody could have pulled that off the way she did.

Can highly recommend listening to Misery on Audible too. Has a real Kathy Bates vibe.

I had an Aunt I used to say reminded me of her.

She won best actress over Julia roberts pretty woman lol

He's gone from Angry to the Most Chill these days. He knows what we need.

He’s the chilled out movie reviewing nerd

Yes.... it feels like we're chatting with an old , wise friend 😊

Especially with that relaxing background music.

@@I0NIZE you took the words outta my head

ikr ! some how i feel comfortable watching james talk about movies !

Same. I think it’s because reviews tend to be more formulated and have an air of being “scripted” for lack of a better term. These sorts of videos have more of an air of honesty, because they’re just a person’s perspective and opinion. Just a guy saying what he thinks about movies and nothing more. Almost quaint in a way lol

Do you value opinions over facts?

@@Dime_time333 here we go

Always enjoyable to hear James share movie commentary, just as much as his AVGN series

Yep. They're the best. He's really passionate about film.

It's such a treat.

It's great, but AVGN does have a rather old fashioned take on film, probably because that's the limit of what he learned in film school. I love anything he puts out though, so long as AVGN is the focus of the video

Ye

My favourite Best Picture winner. Alongside its Best Picture nominate Barry Lyndon.

Christopher Lloyd was in it also

@@thecinematicmind Barry Lyndon is in my top ten ever.

Agreed, Barney's movie had heart sure, but football on the groin had a football in the groin. Should've won

It was put under the rug and quickly forgotten right after it's remake, "Man getting hit by Will Smith", was released

Hans Moleman is the best actor ever. Barney’s Pukahontas is the best picture every year from 1995 on.

It works on so many levels

The Hans Moleman original or the George C Scott reboot? Argghhh my groin!!!

I second this.

I'd defiantly watch a full 1+ hour video on him looking at the whole AFI Top 100 lists.

@@teh_supar_hackr Are you prepared to be that opposed to him in opinion?

@@teh_supar_hackr DEFIANTLY

This X 1000

The killing blow for me is when said institution shows no consistency in overall choices or obviously pushes for a certain side in politics. That's when I cease to give them the benefit of the doubt.

@@nozoto What you mean by that??

That applies to all award shows of any media,that’s a fact.

Sounds like a Big Lewbowski quote, man.

@@nozoto and you don't push for a side. It's a group so that might explain the inconsistency.

When he is confident about the answer, he loves to participate in class.

The sequel has one of the best endings ever

@@jlassh What a sequel it is.

You must not know much about 70's cinema if you find it odd that it was made in the 70s. It's a very 70s movie in every way, and perfectly encapsulates that decade.

Ah yes!! The chase Is one of the best

Great movie even better car chase.

What an awesome movie

That's without a doubt my favorite Jack Lemmon movie.

Billy Wilder is the GOAT. All of his movies are amazing

Very true imo. I prefer hearing modern James Rolfe over modern AVGN nowadays.

See also: Leo winning for The Revenant

Towers is and will always be my favorite. I always liked King but it's kind of a hot mess imo.

Agreed, they seemed to treat it as such. It was filmed as one movie, so RotK was the end of that movie.

I personally would have liked to see Fellowship win. I feel it's overall a more important movie

@@TheSpaceBrosShow Again, it was filmed as one movie, and really is one movie. It seemed pretty clear they waited till the last one in order to award the entire trilogy.

Do you usually watch many movie reviews?

Couldn't agree more. I don't care about movies like... at all, at all. And yet I absolutely love listening to/watching his content.

I'm still sour about Scorsese having only one award after Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Aviator, Hugo, The Wolf lf Wall Street and The Irishman. And to lose with phony, talentless hacks as Robert Redford and Kevin Costner is the biggest insult.

No one remembers "The Aviator".

@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 And he won it for his worst movie

@@TimmyTickle Which is still superior to 95% of most films so…

@@TimmyTickle which one?

You can blame Harvey Weinstein and his aggressive (not to mention inappropriate) campaigning techniques for that

Losing. I still love the entire EE LOTR Trilogy and was too so happy for ROTK sweeping the Oscars!:)

ROTK won 11 Oscars, which was achieved previously already by Titanic and Ben Hur.

Usually horror, sci-fi, and fantasy get ignored. I was surprised to learn that The Exorcist was nominated for Best Picture in 1973 (lost to The Sting).

@@robinanwaldt The difference is that Titanic had 14 nominations and lost 3 of them, Ben Hur had 12 nominations and lost one, ROTK won every nomination they received, also known as a “sweep”, and set the record for the biggest sweep in academy award history, which many people consider more impressive than the former two.

Gotta agree. That movie is actually very clever. The only person to understand the greatness of Mozart was the one who despised him.

@@bastih.5264 It's impossible not to identify at some level with Salieri's character. It's truly a very "humane" story.

Twelve angry men

Never heard about this movie. Should watch it probably.

@@torrvic1156 If you like cinema, you should. It was a great film. Both Mozart and Salieri are amazing on it.

Disagree

One of my favorites for sure, F Murray Abraham gave a performance for the ages

Amadeus might be the best movie of the 80s

Amadeus isn't better than Ghosbusters and vice versa. They're just different movies that both excel at what they set out to do.

Amadeus is the best movie I have seen. Deserve the 8 Oscars they won.

King Kong is still better, though.

Maybe. I’ve only watched it once in a film history course I took about 6 years ago. I enjoyed it but best movie ever I’m still skeptical about that

@@KDubb-ws9zc It's only called the greatest film ever made because of how influential it is, filmmaking-wise, on literally every film that followed it. It innovated new film techniques and changed the way movies are made. So, in that context, it IS the greatest film ever. Now, is it the most entertaining, engrossing etc? Not really. However, its importance in film history can't be overstated.

@@rustincohle2135 but there are so many movies like that pre-1950 that were highly influential and innovative with their techniques. King Kong 1933 is one of them but I wouldn’t call that the greatest movie ever made

@@KDubb-ws9zc and phantom menace was groundbreaking as well but people domt regard it that well

He is constantly being challenged to learn new words every day in the classroom.

A true underdog Best Picture winner. Though Taxi Driver is still my favourite.

@@thecinematicmind Taxi driver is excellent, I agree. However I do prefer Rocky.

@@bigkmoviesandgames It still is a moving underdog story to this day.

@@thecinematicmind absolutely.

Same

Reasoning?

@Greta Thanos 🤡

Nah, it was a low key game changer topic-wise, but more relevantly it was just an entertaining movie with a seamless build up and flow

@Greta Thanos any reasoning?

@Greta Thanos That's how I feel about Rocky...

Amadeus is a great movie

To me Goodfellas IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE followed by LOTR.

Twelve angry men

Absolutely a masterpiece

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I enjoy when he participates in class.

Well said. I personally couldn't stand it. It wasn't clever or funny, and it's definitely not in the class of best picture films lol.

‘Old’ should be best picture for sure

@@idontwritecomments m night isn't ever getting best picture going forward lol

So far I’ve watched Drive My Car, CODA, Belfast, King Richard & Don’t Look Up. The most deserving to me is Drive My Car and Don’t Look Up is the least deserving so far.

I am in the worst movie of the year camp when it comes to Don’t look up. Also I DO NOT think we should be using DONT in a formal title. So zero stars for that.

How do you like all the Rocky sequels overall?

@@megamikethemovieman perhaps the best Rocky film I've seen since the 1980's is a documentary about all of the Rocky movies & what it took to make them. I believe it's called "Going to fly now "(?). It's about 2 hrs long & shows all the success & blunders that occurred to make the movies. Sylvester Stallone ALWAYS got hurt, BAD while making each one. So much so, it was worked into the plot of Rocky 2 because he tore his bicep but couldn't delay filming. I highly recommend this documentary! If you like Rocky, you'll love it!

Without a doubt Rocky is my favorite. I saw it in 1976 when I was 13. I'm not sure why but that movie touched my soul like no other movie. After seeing it I went home and told my mom about it and that she had to see it. She told me she didn't want to see a movie about boxing, I said it wasn't, I told her it was a movie about a boxer. That's all I remember telling her. We went and saw it that next weekend.

Even though Network was also a great mo is that predicted news turning into sensationalism stories about dogs playing frisbee

Funny since I hate most of those and think far superior films should've been rewarded. But I guess it's just a matter of opinions.

Get well soon

just imagine how insane it is that jeff bezos could theoretically rent the most expensive hotelroom for 2000 million days straight (5480 years)

Will always say to this day that Anomalisa should had won over Inside Out. Including Best Actor and Best Actress nominations.

None of Satoshi Kon's movies got so much as a nomination, either, which I feel is an even bigger travesty.

As much as isle of I Love Dogs

Song of the Sea is brilliant. My 4 year old loves that. Meanwhile, I haven't even thought twice about Big Hero 6 since seeing it when it came out...

@@Jogwheel I've rewatched Big Hero 6 recently and, honestly, I think I would've preferred if the movie focused on Hiro going to that tech school instead of the superhero shenanigans. But it did have some impressive action scenes.

Miss your videos

Bring back movie night ya shmuck! :)

James, I became a fan because of the AVGN. Howevery when you do these types of videos where you're just talking about movies, your passion for film really shows, and these are really awesome to watch. Looking forward to more of these.

Wheres the microwaves???

@Jogwheel

Although it's a shame Hitchcock wasn't recognised for his work in Rebecca.

Rebecca is great! You a big Hitchcock fan?

@@megamikethemovieman Yes, I am.

He has learned a lot of new vocabulary through the class readings and our lessons.

@Greta Thanos Wrong year, dude or dudette. He’s talking about the 2006 Oscars for movies of 2005.

He is usually quite cheerful in class.

As long as he stays focused in his studies, [This student] will improve steadily.

He seems to be gradually picking up a natural speaking grammar from listening English-speaking in class, which is great.

It's funny because that album isn't even well known (especially amongst non-Floyd fans). Dark Side Of the Moon, The Wall, etc are all so much more famous.

The fact that he flew all the way to India for just for a 30 second clip really shows the dedication he puts into his videos. Mad respect for Jimmy

Is it true people died in the chariot race scene?

Wow, never realized how many great films came out in 94.

@@brandonjones3306 And why it was a hard decision too to pick best picture!

95 and 93 had better films.

@@alissa6 What did 95 have? Die hard with a vengeance and toy story? lol

I actually La nueva voz de MrBeast en español se me hace super extraña jajaja Ya estaba acostumbrada a la otra, pero igual amo ❤saw that hotel room underground in a cave on the news the other day; apparently some people got trapped down there somehow and survived off of what the previous inhabitants left down there.

You've outdone yourself bro, this is unfathomable...yet here we are. BRAIN BURSTTTING!!! AMAZINGG!! THANK YOU!

When he is focused, he works very diligently.

Muito bom, seus vídeos são os melhores,muito obrigado por ainda continuar sendo o melhor youtuber que eu já vi.

I am excited about [This student]'s potential and I can't wait to see how he will grow in the future.

What’s your favorite best picture winner?

Especially in a year with Brokeback Mountain. I distinctly remember that year being the year that people were legitimately angry about the Oscars.

@@HellecticMojo and Jack Nicholson felt that reaction in that ceremony.

@@HellecticMojo and Munich

If won because the ' so called' elites and Oscar academy wanted that narrative pushed not because it was the best movie.

"Grand Canyon" (1991) was a much better movie than "Crash" (2004).

Drive 2011 ....best movie ever.

Both are literally me

What about Gremlins as well?

It's always great to see him work well with the other children.

Usually though The Best Picture is verrrry deserving

He has demonstrated that he is able to learn new vocabulary quite quickly when he studies hard.

He has shown the ability to adjust his pronunciation based on listening to native English pronunciation in my class.

It certainly should have gotten a nomination for best effects.

I love the movie. But its understandable it didnt get nominated for Best Picture. Its a great horror film but not Best Picture material

The real crime was deciding to release it against ET. They should have waited or _something._

Well, it definitely helped it was more like a really long movie split into 3 parts. Rather than the usual scenario of each movie being written separately. That kind of situation where you know for sure you're getting 3 movies is super rare. And sometimes they squander it anyway (Star Wars sequels).

Titanic is 25 years old this year. ;-)

LA Confidential is way better than Titanic

He is able to read at a speed that is ideal for his learning.

evíamos ser ensinados a não esperar por inspiração para começar alguma coisa. Ação sempre gera inspiração. Inspiração raramente vão gera ação.

John Williams has won 5 other Oscars and has been nominated almost 50 times. I think he’ll be okay.

its the same with modern gaming its all politics now

I love to see him well-behaved in my class.