A friend wants to watch it tonight. I haven't seen it in years. I remember it as a subtler middlebrow Oscar winner than its reputation suggests.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)
Alfred, I applaud your efforts at political correctness, but I'm not sure Gloria Steinem had made many inroads among the black working class in 1950s Atlanta.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)
I liked it, but it has been a long time since I saw it... I'm really fond of both Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, though. I'd see it again. (So I vote classic.)
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)
i'd rather watch it than 11 of the 17 films that have won the best picture oscar since.
― jed_, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)
Yeah, I am more fond of this one than almost all other BPs, but it's slight to a fault.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 29 August 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)
It appears I'm more fond of DMD than I am of all but 9 other BP winners.
― Eric H., Thursday, 30 August 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)
Let's try that again.
― Eric H., Thursday, 30 August 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)
Still surprised it won Best Picture when Born On The Fourth of July was the obvious abhorrent choice.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 30 August 2007 00:30 (nineteen years ago)
So I didn't watch it last night.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 30 August 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)
Thank you for providing closure.
― Deric W. Haircare, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)
i love this movie!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)
I remember basically zero about this film: is this a hint of its "slightness," or has it just been too long?
They have a pleasant friendship, I remember that.
― nabisco, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)
i think it's just been too long it's not THAT slight, she's so cool!
― Surmounter, Thursday, 30 August 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
Doing Ms. Daisy
― Heave Ho, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)
You're thinking of "Riding Miss Daisy," starring David Allen Grier and Kelly Coffield.
Ha, I think people missed the thrust of Jaymc's joke...
― nabisco, Thursday, 30 August 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)
this falls under the same category as winners like Going My Way - so lazy, ineffectual and bland that it's hard to actively hate it, more shrug worthy than anything.
― gershy, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:18 (nineteen years ago)
I got jaymc's joke.
― Eric H., Friday, 31 August 2007 03:45 (nineteen years ago)
ha! somehow that skit has replaced anything I ever knew about the actual movie (I never saw it).
― horseshoe, Friday, 31 August 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)
It's no Bangkok Chick Boys, that's for sure.
― JTS, Saturday, 1 September 2007 01:09 (nineteen years ago)