Thursday, January 4, 2018

Best Picture Challenge Review

Dear lord that was a lot of movies in a short amount of time...

Well, when I went into this I thought I was going to be let in on some secret of what makes a Best Picture really a Best Picture. Was it a theme? Similar storyline? Was it something else entirely? What I did find is really shocking.

There's nothing in common....

Yes, there are some Best Pictures that felt similar to other movies, or were sequels, but there was no theme....

I was really shocked to find how much range in the Best Pictures there were! Most of them are drama but even all of the dramas were not the same type of drama. Some were comedy dramas, some were mysteries. Some were even lighthearted dramas that no one thought would do any good. You had several musicals, comedy, and you even had a scary film in there! You dealt with war, harassment, history, sexuality, race, and you even had some real shock thrown your way!

Before I did my Year of Review I would be on of the many people who said that Hollywood has no new ideas. They have no new stories to tell. In reality that is not true.. It's the same story that is being told over and over again that is what is selling tickets and that is what people are dishing out the big bucks to see every years. It's the movies that get overlooked that are the movies that people are begging to see. Original ideas, and amazingly true stories of people we did know they existed. In reality when you look at the nominations in the last five or six years or so you start to see that the ones winning Best Picture were not films that were wildly publicized across the U.S.. They were movies that were so under the radar sometimes you never even heard of them.

I am glad for that. I am glad for that because that means that there are still stories being told and people getting recognized for them. Movie studios know that superhero movies are making them money now but it's stories told with a purpose that will go down in history.

Friends, I don't think I have been more happy about being more wrong in my life.

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