Quote Originally Posted by Mark TKO View Post
Most best picture winners are never entertaining - look at the list of winners over the past 20 years and tell me how many you actually really enjoyed. Very few for me. Certainly not on ones I’d watch again. I’m amazed looking back that return of the king actually won.

To win in most cases you have to be in an arty farty type film or a bit weird.

Of the last 20 Best Picture winners (not seen them all) I've enjoyed -

12 Years A Slave
Argo
The King's Speech
No Country For Old Men (Great film)
The Departed (Great film)
Crash
Million Dollar Baby
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
American Beauty

Others in there were decent too but not my thing - Slumdog Millionaire for eg. Also some in there I haven't seen but sound good - The Hurt Locker for eg.

Of the most recent 4 Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight and The Shape of Water I've only seen The Shape of Water. It was ok. The weirdness doesn't put me off but I think the reception for it was a bit 'Emperor's New Clothes'.