HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture of 1993
HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture of 1993 30 votes
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Jurassic ParkSkronger year than I recalled. Jurassic Park is an all-tim sci-fi movie. Schlinder/Tombstone/D&C/Groundhog
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Dazed and Confused
1993 isn't quite 1994, but still I could vote for 4 or 5 of these flicks. Schindler's List is probably the most historically important in this bunch, but I've only watched it once and that's enough for me. I can watch D&C or Tombstone hundreds of times. And at the end of the day, I watch movies to be entertained.GrundleStiltzkin said:Skronger year than I recalled. Jurassic Park is an all-tim sci-fi movie. Schlinder/Tombstone/D&C/Groundhog
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Jurassic ParkImpressive run by Speilly
1993 - Jurassic Park
1993 - Schindler's List
1997 - Jurassic Lost World (haven't seen, won't see, but I'm sure it made a lot of money)
1997 - Amistad (might have seen? I think people love this though)
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
5 movies in 5 years, 3 of which are all-timmers.
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Tombstone
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TombstoneI lived Dazed and Confused and love it but it is not best picture material
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Dazed and Confused
It's not best picture material. But for this exercise I vote with my heart and not my brain.RaceBannon said:I lived Dazed and Confused and love it but it is not best picture material
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Jurassic ParkNot even close. Jurassic Park was, quite possibly, the coolest addition of CGI of all-tim. It made things that humans could only conceive of as fossils or drawings in a book look like they really were roaming the Earth again. I haven't seen the OG Jurassic Park in years, so maybe some of this is 12 y.o. me opining, but this is in my all-time top 10.
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Jurassic Park
It's one of the 10 or so movies that I cannot turn off if I run across on Dish. I've seen several times in the last couple years. It holds up. Really good movie.BleachedAnusDawg said:Not even close. Jurassic Park was, quite possibly, the coolest addition of CGI of all-tim. It made things that humans could only conceive of as fossils or drawings in a book look like they really were roaming the Earth again. I haven't seen the OG Jurassic Park in years, so maybe some of this is 12 y.o. me opining, but this is in my all-time top 10.
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TombstoneHave to admit I have forgotten how ground breaking Jurassic was at the time. I always assumed it didn't hold up so haven't watched it again. In my desperate quest for content I now will
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Dazed and Confused
Jurassic Park was an amazing achievement. It's just that my confirmation bias leans against the "make believe" and sci fi genres. Tombstone and Dazed are way more in my wheelhouse.RaceBannon said:Have to admit I have forgotten how ground breaking Jurassic was at the time. I always assumed it didn't hold up so haven't watched it again. In my desperate quest for content I now will
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Dazed and ConfusedI never got the appeal of Tombstone at all.
Shindler is the easy winner here. It really shouldn't be close, but I felt like keeping it light and that is not very light.
Dazed holds up incredibly well. It's actually funnier now than when I saw it in 1993. One of the problems with the "best picture worthy" requirement is that it rewards too many of the wrong things...hype, budget size, social-political impact, etc.
Was the movie original, well written, well acted, and successful at conveying what they set out to convey? Thats what I try to evaluate. Dazed definitely checks those boxes as well as any of the choices. It helped launch a bunch of successful careers which tells you they casted it well.
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Dazed and Confused
I mostly love Tombstone and probably quote it as much as any movie. There's a few chees ball parts- e.g., Doc Holiday firing like 40 shots from 2 six shooters, but overall I think it holds up well.chuck said:I never got the appeal of Tombstone at all.
Shindler is the easy winner here. It really shouldn't be close, but I felt like keeping it light and that is not very light.
Dazed holds up incredibly well. It's actually funnier now than when I saw it in 1993. One of the problems with the "best picture worthy" requirement is that it rewards too many of the wrong things...hype, budget size, social-political impact, etc.
Was the movie original, well written, well acted, and successful at conveying what they set out to convey? Thats what I try to evaluate. Dazed definitely checks those boxes as well as any of the choices. It helped launch a bunch of successful careers which tells you they casted it well.
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Groundhog DayI think Wyatt Earp coming around a year later kind of diluted Tombstone.
Jurassic Park is an all-timer sci-fi
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Tombstone
I still watch Wyatt Earp for Costner killing the guy with the cue ball but that's about it.greenblood said:I think Wyatt Earp coming around a year later kind of diluted Tombstone.
Jurassic Park is an all-timer sci-fi
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TombstoneJurassic, D&C are both epic, but Doc Hollidays lines alone in Tombstone make it a bulldozer. Tough call. Three way coin flip for me.
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Schindler's ListSchindler's List is an amazing work of art, but I have no desire to watch it again. Once was enough. Lot's of other movies this year that aren't on the level of '94 or '95 but are really good. Can't really pick a best.
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Dazed and Confused
My high school highly encouraged every kid go see it in the theater. They organized field trips with groups of 30. I was glad I saw it that way, but once was enough.1to392831weretaken said:Schindler's List is an amazing work of art, but I have no desire to watch it again. Once was enough. Lot's of other movies this year that aren't on the level of '94 or '95 but are really good. Can't really pick a best.
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TombstoneUnlike Jerry Seinfeld, I did not make out during Schindler's List.
I slept through it in world history class.
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TombstoneIs Schindler where Liam Neeson saves his daughter from East Germans?
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Dazed and ConfusedI completely thought Dazed would be a throw away vote but I guess I'm part of the cool crowd!
No?
My bad.
I was going to vote Jurassic but if given the choice I'd watch Dazed.
Things to love:
Blatant sexual harassment. (I AM for this)
Hazing. (I AM for this)
Soul Pole and Fah Q. (I AM for this)
Barely legal hotties. (I AM for this)
Soundtrack. (I AM for this)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrtQ5uIOcKY
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Memorable lines. (I AM for this)
Too many to list
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Schindler's List
Same, but not optional. Whole school went to see it.YellowSnow said:
My high school highly encouraged every kid go see it in the theater. They organized field trips with groups of 30. I was glad I saw it that way, but once was enough.1to392831weretaken said:Schindler's List is an amazing work of art, but I have no desire to watch it again. Once was enough. Lot's of other movies this year that aren't on the level of '94 or '95 but are really good. Can't really pick a best.
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Schindler's List
Just remembered the best/worst part:1to392831weretaken said:
Same, but not optional. Whole school went to see it.YellowSnow said:
My high school highly encouraged every kid go see it in the theater. They organized field trips with groups of 30. I was glad I saw it that way, but once was enough.1to392831weretaken said:Schindler's List is an amazing work of art, but I have no desire to watch it again. Once was enough. Lot's of other movies this year that aren't on the level of '94 or '95 but are really good. Can't really pick a best.
When we got back to school from seeing the movie, it happened to be during my chemistry class. So class picks up where we'd left off the previous day, which was learning about hydrocarbon combustion reactions. Teacher asks the class if anything in the movie reminded anybody of anything we'd learned in chemistry class that year. My hand shoots up, and she calls on me.
"Well, when they burned the Jews, that was a hydrocarbon combustion reaction."
Dead. Fucking. Silence. For about 30 whole seconds, while the teacher drills holes into my skull with her eyeballs. Before I even finished the joke, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. Eventually, the tension breaks, and everybody in the class starts laughing at once. Not at my horrible joke, but at me for being a big enough dumbass to think that it would be even remotely acceptable or funny and for how red my cheeks had gotten and how stupid I surely felt. I had to stay after class and apologize to the teacher. And I meant it. With the benefit of a half-hour's hindsight and the whole class laughing at me, it was a pretty tasteless joke, but those kinds of things just never occurred to me back then until it was too late.
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Schindler's ListA lot of anti-semites in this thread.
Schindler's list is actually my 1993 favorite but I live Jurassic park and tombstone too. -
Dazed and ConfusedCould have easily voted Tombstone, which I love, but Dazed and Confused is such a great movie I can’t go against it...so fry you freshmen bitchez. Plus, Woodson being my best Halloween costume ever I got congratulated by a Whole Foods cashier the next day on my “sweet” (temporary sharpie drawn) dragon tattoo on the inside of my forearm.
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Dazed and ConfusedI had not seen Dazed and Confused for years. Watched it with my daughters over Christmas, and was shocked at how much it reminded me of me, at that age, in that time...
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Dazed and ConfusedBronx Tale is underrated IMO. When Sonny tells the Hells Angels "Now yous can't leanve" is one of my favorite mob flick scenes.
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Schindler's ListI actually think the Academy made the right call. Schindler's List, from the acting, to the cinematography, to the script - it is cinematic art. While I have zero interest in rewatching it because of the difficult subject matter, it deserved to win.
That being said, it’s a film like this that demonstrates why the Golden Globes is superior. They have separate categories for best Drama, best Comedy/Musical. Studios and film makers who don’t make “heavy” films should be awarded for being at the top of their craft too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUZi-Ftcs9Y
