How many Oscar winning movies do you really watch?

Old Salt

Old Salt

Senior Member
Location
New Brunswick, Canada!
It is a tradition in my house to watch the Oscars. I would really hate to miss one single year, yet I find that most of the winners (movies) leave me bored! The last winner of best movie I watched was Clint Eastwood's "The Unforgiven" and it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Of course, taste is subjective but I wonder how many others have problems enjoying the winners of best movie! I am a peasant, I know!!
 

I don’t watch the Oscars but I have been watching TCM movies recently as they’ve been showing Oscar nominated movies tonight I watched Interiors and Annie Hall with Diane Keaton Interiors was pretty serious but poignant. Annie Hall is just a hoot!
 
RadishRose said:
Few, but have no idea what they were since I'm not interested in the awards at all. I don't care for most of what Hollywood puts out these days.

Looks like I'm the peasant an not @Old Salt!
Click to expand...
I dispute your last sentence RadishRose, since I watch mostly Hollywood Movies. :) I threw out the question because the Academy has better taste than I and I usually dislike their more realistic choices. Just wondering if I had company! When I watch a movie I want to be taken away from it all for a few hours not intellectually, or even emotionally, challenged. In other words, I don't dispute their choices, I'm just saying light and undemanding is more my thing. Nevertheless, my wife and I got so used to watching the Oscars that I kept up with it after she passed away! We liked the hoopla and production numbers.
 
We are big/huge movie watchers. Dances With Wolves, 1997 Titanic, Green Book and some others. Because my wife was an "Extra" in a few movies, like Air Force One (at the Banquet Table while Harrison Ford was giving a speech)……...we are always watching some kind of awards show, like The Oscars, Golden Globes.
 
I do not remember when I have watched any award show. I do not base any of my viewing on awards, won, lost or not . I see a movie promo, and if it looks interesting to me, I watch.
I know that people feel they need to watch an award winning film, but unless it is one I had considered anyway then no.
 
The last film Hubby and I watched was 1917. It is an excellent film and has had some nominations. None for the actors though. I think it is worthy of an Oscar for direction and cinematography.

If a film has been nominated I am interested and would consider going to a theatre to view it if the genre is one I usually enjoy.
 
I have watched many award winning movies and some I agreed were good and some not as good as they say=my subjective opinion. I still love to watch movies but won't watch any that have less than 3 stars.
 
I actually avoid most Oscar winning movies.

I have found that, for me, Oscar winning movies are usually terrible. It's easy to understand why that's so: The movies that get nominated are, in fact, those that wage mega-million dollar ad campaigns in the trades, especially Variety. Pick up a copy around nomination time. It blew my mind, no lie. Later, around voting time for winners, the ads are double page extravaganzas, in their own right.

So, winners are not, necessarily, great movies. They're movies that have big, BIG bucks behind them. In fact, as I see it, the worse the movie, the more the investors push it so they can make a profit on their investment.

The same thing goes on within the music industry. Don't believe me? Pick up Billboard at voting time. A real eye opener!
 
My hubby is boss of the remote and we have watched most of the movies that have been nominated. He is a little disappointed with the selections this year but he is still watching the oscars tonight.
 
Ruthanne said:
I have watched many award winning movies and some I agreed were good and some not as good as they say=my subjective opinion. I still love to watch movies but won't watch any that have less than 3 stars.
Click to expand...
I divide the ratings into two. If a well known critic (with the exception of some) gave a movie 3, 4, or even 5 stars I steer clear of it because, chances are, I will be bored out of my mind half way through the movie. If the public gave it 3 stars I will watch it. LOL
 
Warrigal said:
The last film Hubby and I watched was 1917. It is an excellent film and has had some nominations. None for the actors though. I think it is worthy of an Oscar for direction and cinematography.

If a film has been nominated I am interested and would consider going to a theatre to view it if the genre is one I usually enjoy.
Click to expand...
OMG - -I read your post as, "The last film Hubby and I watched was in 1917. Had to do a double take on that statement. Have to learn to read s-l-o-w-e-r. 😄
 
One of my hobbies is going to the movies,go as much as I can
In '17,I saw the Oscar nominated movie'The Shape of Water I thought was stupid .I couldn't believe it won Best Picture I haven't watched Academy Award show in couple of yrs
 
moviequeen1 said:
One of my hobbies is going to the movies,go as much as I can
In '17,I saw the Oscar nominated movie'The Shape of Water I thought was stupid .I couldn't believe it won Best Picture I haven't watched Academy Award show in couple of yrs
Click to expand...
Thank you! I felt the same way. Just as I don't have any great hopes for this year's best picture. The critics rave so much about it that it just has to be bad ... to the average viewer. But here I am judging by the reviews and previews and am ready to be corrected by someone more enlightened.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top