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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
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"The fanboys are so serious about The Dark Knight being the best film of 2008 that if the Academy snubs the comic-book adaptation for a Best Picture nomination, they’re liable to storm the Kodak Theatre on February 22 in protest. But why should anyone be worried that it won’t get the nomination? It wouldn’t be much of a coup for the year’s top-grossing blockbuster to be named one of the five Best Picture candidates. In fact, since the very first Academy Awards, the top award has often been handed out to films that were #1 at the box office in their respective year. And the last time it happened was as recent as 2003, with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Thanks to popular and talented filmmakers like D.W. Griffith, Walt Disney, David Lean and Steven Spielberg, it’s hardly uncommon for films to make money and earn critical respect. But this isn’t an opportunity to spotlight overrated top-grossing Best Pictures like
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"What's the AFI project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx The Best Years of Our Lives is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#37)100 Most Inspiring Movies (#11)The Revised Top 100 (#37) The Best Years of Our Lives came to me via my weekly Netflix envelope, and I watched it a week ago, but business trips, being an actress, and a minor revisitation of the Killer Flu of 2008 (though really it's a much milder version) have prevented me from blogging about it until just now. This was another film that I knew very little about. I knew it won tons of Oscars, because I'm interested in that kind of trivia, but that's about it. Therefore, I had no expectations going in and was pleasantly surprised by what I saw coming out. This film tells the story of three military men who return home after decorated service in World War II. They meet on their trip home to ... "
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"This is a brashly realistic film examining the manner in which WWII veterans were treated when they returned home. It's especially bold for a film that came out in the mid-40's to take such a honest look at the way our government, work force, and the general public seemed to chew up these young (and old) men alike and spit them back out. What's especially striking is Harold Russell's performance - he's a real veteran of the war with a disability that would be devastating to most people, and even though they explore his difficulties settling back into everyday life, he seems to have things well under control. I could have done without the longing romance between Peggy and Fred, but Teresa Wright is pretty enough to suspend my disbelief long enough to understand how Dana Andrews could fall for her. All in all, a good film to see if you're the sort of anti-war type...and even better still to see if you are pro-war (because maybe then you'll begin to underst ... "
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