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The 10 Least Deserving Wins in Oscar History.
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#10. Dances With Wolves - Best Picture (1991) over Goodfellas pic.twitter.com/adXfqHiHCH
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I like Scorcese but Goodfellas is overrated. It's a completely generic "rise and fall of a gangster" movie.
Saving Private Ryan is also overrated, how many people remember anything about it except the opening scene and the battle at the end? I haven't seen Shakespeare in Love, but Saving Private Ryan is probably better than a movie called Shakespeare in Love, though.
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I remember Vin Diesel getting sniped after Tom Hanks stopped him from molesting that little French girl
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Huh?
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I remember Diesel getting shot just dont recall the part where he molests a French slut
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Saving Private Ryan, sure, but how is Goodfellas generic? The best known gangster movies before then (like GF 1 & 2, Once Upon a Time in America) were long, drawn out, atmospheric, and the characters were mostly stoic and honorable. Much more opera than rock & roll. You can say Scarface invented the flashy, ugly, violent rock & roll gangster movie, but Goodfellas wasn't far behind.
This wiki bit on Goodfellas sums it up pretty well:
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Bruh, the scene where Giovanni rabisi died always bums me out.
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Shakespeare in Love is exactly what it says on the tin. To my recollection it's decent enough for a romance film but I'm shocked to see it won oscars lmao.
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