HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2003?

YellowSnow

RaceBannon

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander is WAY under rated

Just watched Open Range again and its a close second. Tip to bad guys - don't shoot the good guy's dog. It won't end well for you

In a Valley of Violence same. Why is he trying to kill us? Uh, we shot his dog

GrundleStiltzkin

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Shout out Bubba Hotep tho, I chortled.

chuck

Kill Bill Vol. I

This or Mystic River.

Kill Bill has a high entertainment per brain cell required quotient...not as high as ROTK but right in the comfort zone. I seem to watch at least parts of it a couple of times per year.

YellowSnow

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander is WAY under rated

Just watched Open Range again and its a close second. Tip to bad guys - don't shoot the good guy's dog. It won't end well for you

In a Valley of Violence same. Why is he trying to kill us? Uh, we shot his dog

Rolling Stone on the film...

"4. Master and Commander: It takes a director as dogged and brilliant as Peter Weir to persuade a studio to spend $135 million on a sea adventure that doesn’t go in for Hollywood heroics or romantic mush. Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as ship surgeon Stephen Maturin power their roles with non-bogus gusto as the good ship Surprise takes to the high seas, circa 1807, to bring down the French and taste sweet victory."

Open Range was fantastic and Duvall is the finest western actor of all time not name Clint. It's not a perfect 10 though. They had to through in some bullshit Hollywood romantical crap with Costner and Diane.

RaceBannon

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

Gladstone

Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King

Master and Commander fucking ruled, I'm glad to see it getting the love it deserves. Probably in my top 50 all time. KB V1 is Tarantino at his best. Pirates 1 is a classic. Mystic River got me into Clint in general both as a director and writer. I've seen Lost in Translation probably 10 times. What a year! I can't hereticize myself and go against ROTK of course but I forgot how many films released in '03 have stayed with me. Formative years, I suppose.

YellowSnow

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

@RaceBannon you may already be aware but for the price of admission to the Star of India, you can also venture on the Master and Commander ship used in the movie. I took the kids there back in 2019 to do what I did as a kid.

Hold Fast is what @swaye used to tell all the young sea-mens.

Swaye

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

ROK in most years, but come on, M&C is just crazy good. When ships were wooden and the men were steel. Hardcore shit. A sea battle with cannons at 50 yards is about as intense as combat can be. I'd take a foxhole over a broadside any day.

YellowSnow

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Swaye said:

ROK in most years, but come on, M&C is just crazy good. When ships were wooden and the men were steel. Hardcore shit. A sea battle with cannons at 50 yards is about as intense as combat can be. I'd take a foxhole over a broadside any day.

We? are an independent country because French ships of the line actually won a YUGE battle against the Royal Navy.

1to392831weretaken

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Changed my life more than any other movie. Helps that this is a pretty shit year for choices (with the caveat that I haven't seen the movie that's winning).

Swaye

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

I've always sort of pictured @RaceBannon as the HOLD FAST guy. He's still alive. Holding fast works I guess.

YellowSnow

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

Das Boot is really the only other naval warfare film to me that really made you feel like you were on the ship.

Swaye

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

Das Boot is really the only other naval warfare film to me that really made you feel like you were on the ship.

The depth charge sequences were straight up pulse pounding.

edit: Top Gun made me feel like I was there.

1to392831weretaken

F.O. Row Peter Puffer, you left off...

Swaye said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

Das Boot is really the only other naval warfare film to me that really made you feel like you were on the ship.

The depth charge sequences were straight up pulse pounding.

edit: Top Gun made me feel like I was there.

YellowSnow

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Swaye said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

Das Boot is really the only other naval warfare film to me that really made you feel like you were on the ship.

The depth charge sequences were straight up pulse pounding.

edit: Top Gun made me feel like I was there.

Lulz

RaceBannon

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

@RaceBannon you may already be aware but for the price of admission to the Star of India, you can also venture on the Master and Commander ship used in the movie. I took the kids there back in 2019 to do what I did as a kid.

Hold Fast is what @swaye used to tell all the young sea-mens.

Any of you guys take advantage of the Mighty Mo tours when it was in Bremerton? To walk where the Japs surrendered was pretty cool for a kid. And we called them Japs back then too. And Krauts.

BearsWiin

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

I've read about half of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin books, enjoyed them all. Couldn't vote for ROTK since it was too long, bloated, oh look Peter Jackson wants to play army, and even without the Scouring of the Shire there were still too many endings. Sappy Elrond still pisses me off nearly 20 years later

greenblood

Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King

This was easily the best film of the trilogy

chuck

Kill Bill Vol. I

BearsWiin said:

I've read about half of the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey-Maturin books, enjoyed them all. Couldn't vote for ROTK since it was too long, bloated, oh look Peter Jackson wants to play army, and even without the Scouring of the Shire there were still too many endings. Sappy Elrond still pisses me off nearly 20 years later

Come on! Legolas and Aragon did some damn fine posing and the giant elephants and ghosts were so scary but cute too!

YellowSnow

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

Master and Commander made you feel like you were on the ship. Imagining what that would have been like.

@RaceBannon you may already be aware but for the price of admission to the Star of India, you can also venture on the Master and Commander ship used in the movie. I took the kids there back in 2019 to do what I did as a kid.

Hold Fast is what @swaye used to tell all the young sea-mens.

Any of you guys take advantage of the Mighty Mo tours when it was in Bremerton? To walk where the Japs surrendered was pretty cool for a kid. And we called them Japs back then too. And Krauts.

I've driven off the stern of the MO and NJ in a ski boat back in the late 90s when they were still at Bremerton. More on this in the history bored I think.