1982's Oscar Nominees

Tootsie no contest

I've only seen two of these...disgraceful.

I was a stand-up tomato: a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato! Nobody does vegetables like me! I did an evening of vegetables off-Broadway! I did the best tomato, the best cucumber... I did an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Morbs and I are voting the same on this one.

I'd join you guys, but Tootsie is the only Oscar-nominated comedy besides Annie Hall that deserved to win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOUWQBDbtso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0u__fj14Tg

I used to think Tootsie/Hoffman was crazy smug, but I like it a little better now. Still, gets awfully drippy in the last hour.

Well, that last half hour also has one final hilarious Bill Murray routine, Michael Dorsey knocking over the mime in the park, and George Gaynes' great last line.

OK, that still leaves 59 minutes of Hoffman making nice with misty Lange and grumpy Durning. (Or maybe it's just the music score that really bothers me.)

Yeah, the score is treacly. I have more patience with the farm scenes because they're so well acted. If the movie had been about a lesbian soap opera actress who falls in love with her costar it still would have worked.

yeah I watched Tootsie again recently and the sappiness at the end is hard to take. But all of E.T.'s sappiness is awesome.

Blech! Tootsie, I guess. Completely forgot about the existence of The Verdict until this very moment.

David Mamet wrote The Verdict's script, but you wouldn't know it. It's an ok movie with a preposterous conclusion. Mason is at his silken best.

Y'know waht annoys me about "Tootsie"? The scene where Hoffman and Durning meet in a bar and Hoffman orders a couple of "beers" - without even specifying any brand. Why are some filmmakers loath to allow the faintest whiff of innocuous product placement at the expense of virisimilitude?

A movie in which everyone is fooled into believing a preposterous drag queen is a real woman, and you're criticising its verisimilitude because Hoffman doesn't specify a beer brand?

i watched tootsie recently and liked it just fine, not as much as i remembered liking it. i was struck by how fast it moves. too fast, i think. although if they made it now it would be 2h45m so i guess we have to be thankful for small mercies.

i vote ET

E.T. no contest, Gandhi last

artlessly professional craftsmanship (ideally set in and around the courtroom),

So artless [sic] it's beyond the maker of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

No arguments here.

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None of this have aged well, have they?

BE GOOD

Still comparing to this years Oscar winners these seem positively brilliant.

nominees, ahem

Voting Tootsie, I guess. I wish I remembered Missing better.

Morbius and Eric OTM.

Barely remember Gandhi, and only saw Missing once when it was out originally. The Verdict still pretty good for at least supplying a decent Newman monologue and Mason's performance. And Miles O'Shea and Charlotte Rampling shore things up nicely.

Tootsie. About the first half of ET is great though.

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The Verdict is better than Missing, goddamn it.

the verdict is kinda silly, but i like how small-scale and grubby it all is, even its conspiracy. newman, mason and jack warden are all grizzled and great. the hardest part to swallow is charlotte rampling's character -- but still, it's charlotte rampling.

and yeah it's definitely better than missing, which is fine but not interesting.

The hardest part, among many, to swallow in The Verdict is the ludicrous ending, and the judge, who might as well have a mustache to twirl for the audience's sake.

I like it fine, and will not change it if it's on, but it's not a great movie.

I do like the scenes with Mason cross-examining the black "expert witness." Very well done.

Morbs and I obviously doth protested too much on other threads.

Do the year Barry Lyndon was nominated cuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

OK, will do.