HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2001?

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.

Joey

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