Doctor Venkman;161194
And by the way, you shouldn't be giving me advice about using “it's a classic” as a point in my argument, when you actually just used “I grew up watching MTV, I need things to be fast paced.”

I wont even waste my time with such a unsound argument. You even after quoting what I said miss understood me. I didn't have MTV when I was growing up. I didn't even have cable till 2005.

and lets face it, a lot of us grew up during or after the time of MTV videos and things having to be fast paced.

“A Lot of Us” doesn't have to mean the person that actually made the comment, it means that a majority of people I knew unlike you had watched to a degree MTV to the point that they felt that everything should be fast paced like it. This has been a general argument for years about the changes in pacing in industry media such as TV, Movies and other forms of entertainment.

Kingpin;161196
Compared to some of the movies of the 40s and 50s, The Godfather probably is faster-paced.

Heck, I'm not particularly interested in The Godfather trilogy… but I know, as it's part of universal knowledge… that its a classic movie.

You know that if they were preserving movies from the destruction of the Earth, The Godfather would have a guaranteed space… The House Bunny, Observe and Report and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle would be left to burn as the planet was reduced to a crisp.

Depends on who, however I have never been a big movie fan myself. But yeah The Godfather is liked by many people.

“Shakespeare in Love” for best picture while it was a good movie i felt that “The Thin Red Line” was better and should have won heck even citizen kane lost at the oscars

devilmanozzy;161197
I wont even waste my time with such a unsound argument. You even after quoting what I said miss understood me. I didn't have MTV when I was growing up. I didn't even have cable till 2005.

“A Lot of Us” doesn't have to mean the person that actually made the comment, it means that a majority of people I knew unlike you had watched to a degree MTV to the point that they felt that everything should be fast paced like it. This has been a general argument for years about the changes in pacing in industry media such as TV, Movies and other forms of entertainment.

Unfortunately for you, “us” does mean the person typing the statement is including themselves. “Us” is the objective case of we. I highly doubt you'd be saying “We grew up with MTV” and be intending to not include yourself. If you didn't mean to include yourself, then that's fine, but don't act like I was supposed to infer from “us” that you meant “the majority of people you knew had watched MTV to the point that they felt that everything should be fast paced like it,” because that's simply not being truthful.

And your point about a general argument for years about the changes in pacing in industry media being made because of a generation that grew up with MTV and likes things fast paced does not mean that movies that are considered classics are no longer good movies because of their lack of pandering to an ADD obsessed generation. Wanting things to be fast paced is not looked upon by the majority of people. Its frowned upon, due to the lack of respect for the art form. That's like saying Michaelangelo's David isn't worth your time because he took too long to sculpt it and it doesn't have flashing lights. Its an art form, in all respects. Criticizing a movie soley based on its pacing “not fitting in with the MTV crowd” isn't going to prove much.

I just want you guys to know that Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies. It really deserved to win everything else including Best picture, best director, and Best actor in a leading role, and it should've won Gary Sinise an oscar since Martin Landau was more of a leading role anyway compared to the amount of screentime that Sinise got.
Also how could one not know it was CGI? Do people really think they actually had Arnold (who has no flight expericne what so ever) fly a military jet aircraft like that? Not to mention that there is no way the US Airforce is going lend a military jet like that to a director and crew for a movie. Anyways, I tend to like more action movies and comedies than dramas. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. And just to let you know I'd give Godfather a 5 not a 1 like those idiots on imdb.com do just to lower the rating so that The Dark Knight is in the top 250. And while I'm at it I'm glad Hurt Locker won all the major awards instead of Avatar this year. Much better movie than Avatar.

Jiminy Christmas, all you guys need to stop slap fighting over movies. This is getting redonkulous.

Come on! None of you have disagreements with awards the academy has given?

That's the point of contention, I'm sure there's plenty of opinions on films that people felt should've won over others, but just because one lost to another doesn't mean that was a “disaster”.

Kingpin;161451
That's the point of contention, I'm sure there's plenty of opinions on films that people felt should've won over others, but just because one lost to another doesn't mean that was a “disaster”.

I guess you're right. It's just I was more impressed with Fienesse's and Malkovich's performances than Jones. Jones pretty much plays the same person in every movie. Except for J.F.K.