Comments on: The 10 Best & 10 Worst Follow-Ups To Best Picture Oscar Winners

By: HARIHARAN

HARIHARAN — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Road To Perdition was criminally understated. Conrad Hall left with a bang, as most of the internet puts it. It should\’ve had a streak like Mendes\’ previous American Beauty.

By: TIMMY O'TOOLE

TIMMY O'TOOLE — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

* Hannibal is no that bad, but…

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Hair is a wonderful and woefully underappreciated musical. I stopped reading this article because you included it.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Whoa, whoa, whoa – Two For The Seesaw is an excellent movie. Shame on you.

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

gavin why not shut up and read the article?

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Actually, Joseph L Mankiewicz won best director in consecutive years, A Letter To Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950). You should probably update the article.

By: GC

GC — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

I will never get this hate for Hannibal. Never, really.

By: bohmer

bohmer — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

I loved Hannibal! Bryan Fuller said he was greatly influenced by Scott\’s version for the tv show…

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Daniel- if you mess with Gavin you are messing with me so I\’d suggest you watch your mouth and tread lightly.

By: Logan

Logan — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

I realize King Kong (2005) wasn\’t exactly best picture material, like lord of the rings, but to imply it\’s a failed follow up is ridiculous. Les miserables is respectable as well. Indiewire\’s gotta write something though, right?

By: bohmer

bohmer — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

One that so tragically didn\’t deserve to be left out is Stanley Kubrick who had he won best picture for either of his film, would\’ve follow up with masterpieces until death.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

So great to see the superb Anthony Minghella\’s best film \’Ripley\’ get its dues here. But – even better – after being incredulously missed off The Playlist\’s best 22 films about Hollywood last week – thank you for coming to your senses and praising \’The Bad and the Beautiful\’ here too.

By: Cameroon

Cameroon — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Jeeze, Indiewire commenters are just the worst. Such an ungrateful readership.

By: Harry Caul

Harry Caul — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

I hate to say this Playlist staffers, but for all the love you have for Joel & Ethan Coen, \’Burn After Reading\’ was not exactly their finest hour after \’No Country For Old Men\’. All things considered, "Burn After Reading\’ is a hapless mess of a film, and worse for all of the incredible talent involved (Coen Brothers, Carter Burwell, Emmanuel Lubezki, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, George Clooney – where could that go wrong? Well, wrong in a sort of Hollywood ego trip dressed up as off-beat, black comedic cinema light could go wrong way. Actors supposedly playing characters against type in an angry or superficially dumb manner with lines and attributes that wear off as quickly as a plot that isn\’t as ingenious as The Coen\’s think. It\’s easily the worst and most tiresome film ever made by film makers of their calibre coming off an Oscar win – with THAT ensemble. Sorry, Playlist staff – not e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g the Coen brothers can do is quite as fucking brilliant as you think.

By: PhotographicAmnesia

PhotographicAmnesia — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Oliver Lyttleton, (author of this article) I\’m beginning to wonder if you actually know what a good film is. Your worldview and what you value in it as it pertains to cinema seems to be aging quickly with a venomous and bitter heart. I\’ve started to look for your name on articles posted here on the playlist/indie wire and simply AVOID them. Sad 🙁

By: James

James — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Oliver, I love ya, don\’t change! The comment above reflects that person\’s opinion, and it\’s valid, but you clearly know and love film and have agift for expressing your strong opinions, with which I almost always agree.

By: James

James — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

RIPLEY is a masterpiece, but Ripley is hardly bisexual, he has every opportunity for sex with Cate Blanchett\’s character and has zero interest in her, no matter how much he dreams of recreating Dickie\’s relationship with Marge with her. He\’s clearly gay, but also clearly can\’t understand that element of himself because he lives in a world where the idea of being gay is inconceivable to him. Fascinatingly, however, Marge sees this and knowingly suggests he meet Peter, the film\’s one openly gay character. The fact that he pursues the love of someone who doesn\’t want him, to the destruction of the one man who does want hi, is the film\’s aching tragedy.

By: Ben Clinkenbeard

Ben Clinkenbeard — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

You have to put the Emperor Waltz into the context at the time it was made Crosby was voted the most "Admired Person in the World" behind him were the Pope and Jackie Robinson. Crosby was the top box office draw and on a 5 year streak. In 1949, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Music, as well as a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Musical. It was #14 for moneymakers the year it was released.

By: TIMMY O\'TOOLE

TIMMY O\'TOOLE — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Hannibal is not that, but if you don\’t like that\’s ok, but you guys are dead wrong that Ratner\’s Lecter film is better than Hannibal, no way.

FWIW, the Hannibal tv show is better than any of the movies.

By: TIMMY O\'TOOLE

TIMMY O\'TOOLE — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

* Hannibal is no that bad, but…

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

I think Hannibal is a great, highly underrated film, and 10,000x better than Red Dragon. Just my $0.02.

By: Leo

Leo — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

WORST:
Michael Cimino follows up "The Deer Hunter" with "Heaven\’s Gate"
Robert Benton follows up "Kramer vs. Kramer" with "Still of the Night"
Robert Redford: "Ordinary People" and then "The Milagro Beanfield War"
Richard Attenborough: "Gandhi" with "A Chorus Line"
Kevin Costner: "Dances with Wolves" with "The Postman"
Ron Howard: "A Beautiful Mind" with "The Missing"
Rob Marshall: "Chicago" with "Memoirs of a Geisha"

BEST:
Oliver Stone: "Platoon" with "Wall Street"
Barry Levinson: "Rain Man" with "Avalon"
Jonathan Demme: "The Silence of the Lambs" with "Philadelphia"
Robert Zemeckis: "Forrest Gump" with "Contact"
Paul Haggis: "Crash" with "In the Valley of the Elah"
Danny Boyle: "Slumdog Millionaire" with "127 Hours"

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

The Road To Perdition, a far better film than American Beauty and a fantastic send off for Paul Newman and cinematographer Conrad Hall.

By: Scandinavian dude

Scandinavian dude — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

Nice to see some love for "a Perfect World". On par with "Unforgiven" imho.

By: DARTAGNAN

DARTAGNAN — Mon, 23 May 2016 04:59:55 +0000

"It’s sour in the manner of “Temple Of Doom.”" I would argue that Temple of Doom is the best Indiana Jones sequel (or prequel). It\’s the only one that\’s not derivative of Raiders, and also, the only one of the series where the villains would have won without Indy\’s intervention. Also, I wouldn\’t call Lost World or Hannibal, or even Passion of the Christ bad movies.