HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2001?

YellowSnow

YellowSnow

The Royal Tenenbaums

Now we're getting into the real @Gladstone nerd shit.

YellowSnow

The Royal Tenenbaums

I'm getting to the point where I can correctly predict 81% of the Tim how many of our posters will vote- e.g., felt confident in @GrundleStiltzkin opting October and Black Hawk Down.

RaceBannon

Training Day

My ------

GrundleStiltzkin

Black Hawk Down

RaceBannon said:

My ------

Go on?

GrundleStiltzkin

Black Hawk Down

YellowSnow said:

I'm getting to the point where I can correctly predict 81% of the Tim how many of our posters will vote- e.g., felt confident in @GrundleStiltzkin opting October and Black Hawk Down.

Black Hawk Down is one of the greatest war/battle movies ever. Training Day is great, didn't see it until 10 years later. Mulholland Drive, don't remember a thing about it. Couldn't make it through Tenenbaums. Never seen the rest.

biak1

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

My nerd bias makes it impossible not to pick LOTR. But Training Day and Black Hawk Down are top notch and can’t argue against anyone picking those.

chuck

A Beautiful Mind

Russell Crowe man crush strikes again.

Came down to this or Training Day for me. I cant stand Ethan Hawke though, and even a relatively good performance in a great movie isn't enough to change my mind.

RaceBannon

Training Day

GrundleStiltzkin said:

RaceBannon said:

My ------

Go on?

Wouldn't be prudent

GrundleStiltzkin

Black Hawk Down

RaceBannon said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

RaceBannon said:

My ------

Go on?

Wouldn't be prudent

OK. I didn't know @MikeDamone was censored here.

1to392831weretaken

Amelie

I had to put down my dog in August. Her name was Amelie. Visually, the most beautiful movie ever made. That director is an artist. Great movie, too. It's like the French Wes Anderson. This would be my vote in this year. By a C-hair.

Close second for me is Vanilla Sky. IIRC, this movie didn't blow up many skirts, but I fucking loved it. Soundtrack is amazing. This movie alerted me to the existence of Sigur Ros.

Monsters Inc, IMO, is possibly the best Pixar movie. I'm not the kind of adult that loves Disney movies like some. I usually suffer through them. I have zero problems when my kids want to watch Monsters Inc.

I'm surprised Zoolander isn't in the pole. This is highest-level comedy movie execution. Who doesn't quote something from this movie at least once per week? I have a hard time choosing a comedy movie for "best picture" on just about any year, but this at least deserves best-of billing.

Black Hawk Down is incredible. One of the few war movies I've watched multiple times.

As cheesy and bad as it is, it's hard to argue that Fast and Furious wasn't a cultural phenomenon. Not a great movie (although fun to watch), but boy did it have an impact on popular culture.

What a strange year. Again, there's no Shawshank or Good Will Hunting or whatnot here that you have to vote for, just a bunch of really, really well executed movies spread across very different genres. It's hard to compare one movie to another, as they're all trying to do very different things.

Gladstone

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Far and away my favorite movie of all time, so real shocker here. @Swaye I am lighting the beacons for reinforcement on this one.

I also want to shoutout Spirited Away, which also came out this year. I'd probably vote it over 90% of the winners of the other years. Yes, I am a supreme dork obfuscated only by my decidedly aryan/jock exterior.

YellowSnow

The Royal Tenenbaums

Gladstone said:

Far and away my favorite movie of all time, so real shocker here. @Swaye I am lighting the beacons for reinforcement on this one.

I also want to shoutout Spirited Away, which also came out this year. I'd probably vote it over 90% of the winners of the other years. Yes, I am a supreme dork obfuscated only by my decidedly aryan/jock exterior.

Can confirm.

dnc

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Black Hawk Down made me reconsider my life choices. I had serious "never served in the military" guilt after watching that one. Extremely powerful shit. Obviously aided by the fact it was inspired by real events or however they say it now.

But LOTR was an incomparable achievement and is as captivating a story as any ever written.

YellowSnow

The Royal Tenenbaums

1to392831weretaken said:

I had to put down my dog in August. Her name was Amelie. Visually, the most beautiful movie ever made. That director is an artist. Great movie, too. It's like the French Wes Anderson. This would be my vote in this year. By a C-hair.

Close second for me is Vanilla Sky. IIRC, this movie didn't blow up many skirts, but I fucking loved it. Soundtrack is amazing. This movie alerted me to the existence of Sigur Ros.

Monsters Inc, IMO, is possibly the best Pixar movie. I'm not the kind of adult that loves Disney movies like some. I usually suffer through them. I have zero problems when my kids want to watch Monsters Inc.

I'm surprised Zoolander isn't in the pole. This is highest-level comedy movie execution. Who doesn't quote something from this movie at least once per week? I have a hard time choosing a comedy movie for "best picture" on just about any year, but this at least deserves best-of billing.

Black Hawk Down is incredible. One of the few war movies I've watched multiple times.

As cheesy and bad as it is, it's hard to argue that Fast and Furious wasn't a cultural phenomenon. Not a great movie (although fun to watch), but boy did it have an impact on popular culture.

What a strange year. Again, there's no Shawshank or Good Will Hunting or whatnot here that you have to vote for, just a bunch of really, really well executed movies spread across very different genres. It's hard to compare one movie to another, as they're all trying to do very different things.

dflea

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I waited for LOTR since I was a kid, fully anticipating that I'd be disappointed in it. But I wasn't. It was great.

GrundleStiltzkin

Black Hawk Down

dflea said:

I waited for LOTR since I was a kid, fully anticipating that I'd be disappointed in it. But I wasn't. It was great.

Wow, and I thought I was sad for waiting for Red October and reading Alaska Bear Tales.

Now, don’t go aggro on me.

JoeEDangerously

Black Hawk Down

I thought Training Day was overrated. Good, I didn’t understand the hype though. Black Hawk Down was pretty much balls out the whole way

Gladstone

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Words to live by, now and forever, 2:00 timestamp specifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrOqnZdvI6M

I've always said Ian McKellen as Gandalf is the strongest argument for theism I've ever seen. Unimaginably perfect.

dflea

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

GrundleStiltzkin said:

dflea said:

I waited for LOTR since I was a kid, fully anticipating that I'd be disappointed in it. But I wasn't. It was great.

Wow, and I thought I was sad for waiting for Red October and reading Alaska Bear Tales.

Now, don’t go aggro on me.

I already have the indica going. You'll be fine.

lol

Swaye

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

dnc said:

Black Hawk Down made me reconsider my life choices. I had serious "never served in the military" guilt after watching that one. Extremely powerful shit. Obviously aided by the fact it was inspired by real events or however they say it now.

But LOTR was an incomparable achievement and is as captivating a story as any ever written.

This sums up my feeling as well. In most years, Blackhawk Down wins going away as one of a small handful of truly remarkable war films, but LOTR is so next level from a storytelling, acting and visual perspective that it almost has no peer - nerd flick or not.

@Gladstone I got you fam