Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Back To...1985
The most fun part about looking back at all the old Academy Awards is seeing that some of my favorite films were nominated for awards that I either don't remember or never knew about. Example: Did you know that "Back To The Future" was nominated for 4 Oscars? Me neither (for the record: Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Song, and Original Screenplay). To be fair, two of those are technical, and one is really for Huey Lewis, but it's still not bad. One of these days Thomas F. Wilson will get an honorary Oscar for his portrayal of Biff Tannen, since he got ripped off in '85.
"Out Of Africa" won the big one this year, beating out "Witness," "Prizzi's Honor," "Kiss Of The Spider Woman," and "The Color Purple." I never have and never will see "Out Of Africa," so I can't comment on it. "Witness" was pretty fantastic, though. While looking over the other categories, I noticed "Mask" came out this year also. I really can't believe that didn't get more attention from the Academy. Cher and Eric Stoltz were both phenomenal, and I certainly think it should have at least been nominated for Best Picture.
The only other thing I remember from this year is that the Burger King by my school had a contest where if you picked the most Oscar winners you won a prize. I don't remember the details or what the prize was, but I know I didn't win. Anybody who's been paying attention to these last few posts shouldn't be surprised by my complete failure to predict the Oscar winners.
For all those who performed poorly in math class, next time out we'll be in 1986.
"Out Of Africa" won the big one this year, beating out "Witness," "Prizzi's Honor," "Kiss Of The Spider Woman," and "The Color Purple." I never have and never will see "Out Of Africa," so I can't comment on it. "Witness" was pretty fantastic, though. While looking over the other categories, I noticed "Mask" came out this year also. I really can't believe that didn't get more attention from the Academy. Cher and Eric Stoltz were both phenomenal, and I certainly think it should have at least been nominated for Best Picture.
The only other thing I remember from this year is that the Burger King by my school had a contest where if you picked the most Oscar winners you won a prize. I don't remember the details or what the prize was, but I know I didn't win. Anybody who's been paying attention to these last few posts shouldn't be surprised by my complete failure to predict the Oscar winners.
For all those who performed poorly in math class, next time out we'll be in 1986.
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I have never seen Out of Africa. I did like Witness and The Color Purple. Back to the future is one of my favorite movies of 1985. View to a kill came out that year and it was one of the worst Bond films of all time.
Yeah, "View" was definitely a low light for good ol' 007. Despite the presence of Christopher Walken.
Enjoying your year by year critique of the Oscars.
As the resident Bond fanatic I have to step to the plate and defend "A View to a KIll." It is a fine entry in the franchise and suffers most from Roger Moore being way too old for the role. If we want to talk bad Bond films I would say that "Live and Let Die," "Moonraker," and "You Only Live Twice" are all subpar in relation to "View."
"A Veiw to a KIll" also had that awesome Duran Duran song and video. Was that nominated for best song?
As the resident Bond fanatic I have to step to the plate and defend "A View to a KIll." It is a fine entry in the franchise and suffers most from Roger Moore being way too old for the role. If we want to talk bad Bond films I would say that "Live and Let Die," "Moonraker," and "You Only Live Twice" are all subpar in relation to "View."
"A Veiw to a KIll" also had that awesome Duran Duran song and video. Was that nominated for best song?
Moonraker might be worse than View to a kill. You are right about Moore being to old in View. His stuntman was in the movie as much as Roger was.
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