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Ranking the Best Pictures

Posted by Oscar Nazi on Friday, March 4, 2011,

Now that "The King's Speech" has officially beat out "The Social Netowrk" for Best Picture, it's time to add it to the age-old Best Picture bitch-fest that comes around every year: Is "Forrest Gump" really better that "Pulp Fiction?" Is Chicago" really better than "Lord of the Rings?" And - my personal fave: Is "Shakespeare in Love" really better than "Saving Private Ryan?" (Answers? No, Maybe and hell yes)

It seems a good time for whatever it's worth to suit all the Best Picture winners up...
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Why I don't Want to see "The Blind Side"

Posted by Oscar Nazi on Monday, February 22, 2010,

Now - in writing this - I fully & freely admit that I don't know much more about The Blind Side than I've picked up from the trailer, but The Blind Side just seems so disgustingly over-simplified and sappy—and let's not forget - racist. What's that you say? How can this movie about uplifting an impoverished black man possibly be racist? Well,it plays the same old tired "magical African