HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture of 2000?

YellowSnow

RaceBannon

Gladiator

And if you find yourself walking through a field.....

GrundleStiltzkin

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Brother/Gladiator/Memento and Cast Away is a great comfort food movie.

YellowSnow

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Brother/Gladiator/Memento and Cast Away is a great comfort food movie.

Toss up for me between Glad and Brother. The old timey wackiness of Brother is the tie-breaker for me.

Swaye

Gladiator

Swaye

Gladiator

I really wish my name was Maximum Decimus Meridius. I'd walk into parties and and be like "I'm Maximus Decimus Meridius, but you can call me Pup."

Tequilla

Almost Famous

Gladiator is the obvious choice ...

But it doesn’t have Kate Hudson’s tits

Gladstone

Gladiator

Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate, it's the sand of the coliseum.

10/10. Also I want to shout out Oliver Reed. This was the last completed scene he filmed before dying on set, and I think it's one of the best acting showcases I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xeCBPRmF4Y

Of the many all time great scenes in that movie, that speech is probably my favorite.

alumni94

Gladiator

Almost went with Almost Famous.

YellowSnow

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

alumni94 said:

Almost went with Almost Famous.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs was fucking amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3mufU58bk

chuck

American Psycho

Really it's Gladiator, but I love this movie. Christian Bale is a genius. The barely contained rage when the gay guy out does his business card is one of my favorite acting scenes.

1to392831weretaken

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...

Shit year, relatively speaking. Gladiator was really good, but this is a year I'll actually go with a comedy. High Fidelity and Snatch are both way-up-there for me, but Me, Myself & Irene is comic gold. Funniest Jim Carey movie, IMO.

Gladiator was great, but not, say, Shawshank great.

Doog_de_Jour

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...

“Gladiator” is amazing, and I don’t begrudge it winning the Oscar for best picture, but “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, which took home the best foreign film prize, was truly groundbreaking.



It leveled up the martial arts / wuxia genre into an art form and popularized the genre in the West.

Gladstone

Gladiator

Did it though? Has Wuxia ever caught on here? I wish it did. Fantastic movie.

huskyhooligan

Snatch

You like dags?

JoeEDangerously

Gladiator

Gladiator is a mans movie but the plane crash in Castaway was actually pretty intense in the movie theater

dflea

Gladiator

I went with Gladiator because it made me want to gut Commodus like a fish so fucking bad I could taste it. I know some of you think that may be an everyday occurrence for me, but it isn't.

And the opening war scene and the gladiator battles? Epic.

Doog_de_Jour

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...

Gladstone said:

Did it though? Has Wuxia ever caught on here? I wish it did. Fantastic movie.

It did for a bit. “Hero” and “House of Flying Daggers” were released in mainstream theaters, IIRC.

But you’re making a good point, the momentum died off.

RaceBannon

Gladiator

dflea said:

I went with Gladiator because it made me want to gut Commodus like a fish so fucking bad I could taste it. I know some of you think that may be an everyday occurrence for me, but it isn't.

And the opening war scene and the gladiator battles? Epic.

The first time I saw the opening battle was impressive

FireCohen

Cast Away

I don’t know why, everytime it is on I end up watching it

GrundleStiltzkin

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

FireCohen said:

I don’t know why, everytime it is on I end up watching it

#MeToo

Along with Apollo 13