Academy Award Nominations for Best Original Screenplay: '80s edition

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fanny and alexander vs back to the future

tootsie over do the right thing, broadcast news

we're voting for the screenplay right (from what we can tell from what's on screen)? for best pic i'd go e.t. over do the right thing

will probably go with Tootsie, a survivor of multiple writing teams but a model of concision and wit.

John Guare's Atlantic City is damn good too ("The Atlantic Ocean used to be something...").

Tootsie or Broadcast News feel like studio-era classics, Sex, Lies, and Videotape feels like a '70s classic. One of those three.

sorta surprised not up there: my favorite year, blue velvet, house of games, ghostbusters (i mean beverly hills cop is up there)

Sex, Lies has aged poorly.

Brazil

List sucks vs seventies. Tootsie.

Diner is the only competition. Maybe Hope and Glory.

Broadcast News changed TV comedy/drama forever.

really, was it influential? i bloody LOVE that film.

HUH? It was kinda Mary Tyler Moore with a layer of pretension.

That movie wasting time over William Hurt faking tears made me wish for Joseph Stalin and his merry band of Bolsheviks.

It's a nice entertainment, period.

there was a little more his girl friday (only cary grant turns out to be ralph bellamy). dramedy wave hits fall of 87 so not sure how much or what influence is there (unless it just means 'gave brooks enough weight to get the simpsons made and to get fox to agree not to mess with it'). note: not in any way suggesting broadcast news is in his girl friday's league.

Moonstruck better.

His Girl Friday being a sex-reversal of The Front Page, which BN cannot TOUCH in edge and cynicism.

HUH? It was kinda Mary Tyler Moore with a layer of pretension.

As was TV dramedy after Broadcast News!

I don't have the attachment to studio-era comedies that some of you have--sorry, but I'd rather watch Broadcast News than His Girl Friday or Bringing Up Baby. (I like them fine, I just don't think they're inherently better, or funnier, than Brooks's film.)

but those eighties comedies ARE studio-era comedies

Classic studio-era--'30s, '40s, what people usually think of when they think studio-era.

I'd rather watch Broadcast News than His Girl Friday or Bringing Up Baby

get thee behind me

morbs otm

I won't argue with your preferences, and while I like BN as a comedy about shallow people it makes a grievous mistake by pretending it's Saying Something about TV and people. At least the thirties comedies you mentioned treated its people like the cartoons they are AND kept their bizarre psychosexual crosscurrents.

i don' think it's as pronounced or crippling as you do but there definitely is a bit of the old cinema tut tutting over the crass capitalism of television, cf quiz show.

the eighties equivalent of Gary Merrill going "THE THEE-AH-TER THE THEEE-AHTERRR!" in All About Eve?

It's been a while since I watched His Girl Friday, but doesn't every era have its pretensions? Didn't it pretend to say something about hardboiled journalism, and All About Eve pretended to say something about theatre, etc., etc. It doesn't bother me in Broadcast News--Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter more than makes up for any of that, as does Lois Chiles reassigned to Alaska.

plus the 'well this is what you career woman bitches get. enjoy yr trophy, you're gonna die alone' bs coda.

Lois Chiles reassigned to Alaska.

a good bit. Like Jack Nicholson's Peter Jennings impersonation.

I think of Nicholson every time they cut from one of CNN's field reporters to Wolf Blitzer's solemn approval of what he's just seen.

hey, a little pimping

http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/broadcast-news/1923

kinda amazing that the guy who made as good as it gets could use nicholson so well in this and terms of endearment (pretty much the only good thing about the latter movie).

I am not an As Good As It Gets hater; the only thing I found distractingly useless was Greg Kinnear's role.

morbs did you see this is 40?

Greg Kinnear was okay but Cuba Gooding Jnr was *terrible*, chewing scenery and mugging like there's no tomorrow. it's like they filmed all his scenes the morning after he won the Oscar for Jerry Mcguire.

I'd rather watch Broadcast News than His Girl Friday or Bringing Up Baby

I would rather watch His Girl Friday than pretty much any other film ever so I don't think I can be fair abt this question

the only part of as good as it gets i like is when he says 'what if this is as good as it gets', top five 'character says the title of the movie' for me. maybe it hurt that i saw deconstructing harry the same week and that was a much better 'get a load of this asshole!' movie but i don't think that's it, pretty sure as good as it gets is fucking awful.

If only Harrison Ford had said "Deconstructing Harry..." at some point.

Oh, wait, that's not Harrison Ford. Make that Harrison Ford saying "Regarding Henry..."

jjusten OTM.

'fanny and alexander' and 'BTTF' are by far my fav things here but i can't really separate the screenplays from the finished films. maybe 'crimes and misdemeanors.'

I just want to say that Dead Poets Society should be dropped down the memory hole for all eternity and all trace of its major contributors expunged from the physical universe. ASAP.

has there ever been a good 'inspirational teacher' movie?

? Bad Education?

fanny and alexander vs back to the future

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Not a big fan of Broadcast News. Seriously, did anyone buy that Hunter would actually be naive enough to be shocked by Hurt's sellout?

the only part of as good as it gets i like is when he says 'what if this is as good as it gets', top five 'character says the title of the movie' for me.

i think about this line and the intonation and hear it in my head all the time; no fucking idea why

has there ever been a good 'inspirational teacher' movie?

To Sir with Love--yes, I honestly think it's great.

The Corn Is Green?

no, i have not seen This Is 40, and they mailed it to me.

Mon oncle d'Amérique is a fine Resnais film btw

^otm

Fanny and Alexander should have been retitled Alexander.

Good inspirational-teacher movies: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Class.

Être et avoir if documentary's count.

(Or documentaries--evidently I'm in need of an inspirational teacher.)

187 is a fun inspirational teacher movie

Cosign, clemenza. One of my favorite films period.

Good inspirational-teacher movies: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

lol Mussolini

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jesus what a fucking atrocious decade for film

hollywood film, even, apologies

*thinks*

wait, where WAS the good 80's shit? was El Sur 1980? guess Metropolitan then (why isn't it here btw)

Cant watch brazil ;_;

ah, metropolitan wisely held back until 1990, wanting to distance itself from the festering shitheap that was 1980s film

Would that the stone roses had been so wise eh

Jesus we need a thread for how appallingly shit the 80's were in every way

ah, guess cronenberg and lynch had their moments. think Akira might be the best movie of the decade though. actually wtf am I on about of COURSE it's the best movie of the decade. along with Local Hero. fucksake.

ive tried brazil multiple times & never made it; gilliam + stoppard = shoot me in the face

heathers is the best film of the 80s

oh, just remembered Cutter's Way - hell yeah, that's the best American movie of the 80s that I've seen, no sweat

u guys p much reacting like the Oscars didnt overlook anything huh

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Sok we have an all encompasser now

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