The English Patient

[geo175]

It's on TV tonight so I'm going to check out why Elaine hated it so much. I'm looking for the scene when Elaine screamed out at the film "Die already,Die"!!

[Maestro]

One reason was that everybody else loved it so much, the Queen of Confrontation had to hate it.
'Lainey always pulled that shnit, she liked to be the devil's advocate.

Let us know what you think after your viewing.

[geo175]

I have to agree with Elaine, thought the movie sucked. I did find my self laughing and waiting for the patient to die. Now I understand what Elaine meant by her out burst at the movie with Peterman at her side.


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[Kitt]

I agree with Elaine too. I didn't think that there was any devils advocate reasoning behind her opinion of the movie. I think she sincerely and understandably hated it for it's overblown drama and it's twisted, unlikely plot line. What doesn't make sense is that Jerry, George or Kramer would have liked it.

[snl75]

my mother and her friend went to see it and my mother hated it her friend loved it and kept trying to explain why she was wrong to hate the movie everytime i see that ep. it reminds me of my mother her friend and that argurement

[Orville Kruger]

"Sack Lunch" was a much better movie.



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[TMC]

http://lebeauleblog.com/2016/01/25/m...ient-vs-fargo/

The big winner that night was Anthony Minghella’s romantic epic, The English Patient. The film won Best Picture and Minghella took home Best Director. Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas were both nominated in the lead acting categories and Juliette Binoche beat out the favorite (Lauren Bacall) for Best Supporting Actress. In all, The English Patient won nine statues out of twelve nominations.

Must be a great movie, right? I’m going to let our guest critic, Elaine, field this one.

The Coen Brothers crime drama, Fargo, was nominated for a relatively paltry five Oscars. Those five nominations yielded but two wins. Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for Joel and Ethan Coen. The writing awards tend to be a way for the Academy to acknowledge the real best picture of the year that was too edgy or quirky for Academy voters to fully endorse.

While both The English Patient and Fargo received mostly positive reviews, critics voice a preference for the Academy’s runner-up. Both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert named Fargo the best picture of 1996. Siskel ranked The English Patient in fourth place and it didn’t make Ebert’s top ten at all. In his review of Fargo, Ebert raved that it was “one of the best films I’ve ever seen” and that dude watched a lot of movies!

Twenty years ago, The English Patient eclipsed Fargo both at the box office and at the Oscars. But today, Fargo is more fondly remembered. It’s even spawned a critically acclaimed TV drama. Should you be watching the Fargo series? You betcha.

[Will Dockery]

Originally Posted by TMC

http://lebeauleblog.com/2016/01/25/m...ient-vs-fargo/

Agreed, Far was a great film... although I've still yet to see The English Patient, it does sound like it would be too boring for my taste.

[TMC]

https://lebeauleblog.com/2018/02/26/...ven-1994-1999/

Fargo (1996)

We gen-Xers really got a raw deal, didn’t we? Two years after watching Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption lose to a cynical movie pretending to be an inspirational movie we got to see one of the Coen brothers’ masterpieces come up short against what many of us thought was one of the most bloated and unappealing films we’d ever seen, The English Patient. Based on where this year’s ceremony appears to be going, it looks like the Academy might wish they could have that one back. While it’s true that the Academy does not have a strong history of awarding violent crime pictures in major categories, I think it can be pretty accurately argued that Fargo is actually a repudiation of those movies some viewers might think romanticize crime. Although the movie’s hero character, Marge Gunderson, is pretty square, by the end of the movie it’s very clear that she has deserved our backing from the beginning. The criminals are either squirrelly and incompetent or psychopathic and devoid of personal charm. Marge, on the other hand, is a kind person who maneuvers awkward situations with grace and does her job methodically and effectively while she’s seven months pregnant. Her aghast lecture to one of the criminals as she drives him to jail is one of the choice “crime doesn’t pay” moments in all of cinema.

Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Film Editing
Oscar Wins: Best Actress, Original Screenplay