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Yes. It is absolutely necessary. The world needs an all-female ghostbuster team. When it comes to cleaning spaces, females can't be beat. They'll be way better at it than the male team was.

Nah. It's all been done. They should just re-release 'Dirty Little Billy' (1972). That's my favorite.

Can you imagine what the 26 minutes of footage extracted from Tod Browning's 'Freaks' (1932) would be worth? The 90 minute version ran for a week in San Diego, then the 64 minute cut ran everywhere else (where it wasn't banned outright). Anyone stumbling across a canister containing those 26 minutes would be a very fortunate person, I'd think.

By IMDb voting, 'Cavalcade' (1933) is more highly ranked than just one other Oscar winner. The lowest-rated Best Picture winner is 'Cimarron' (1931). 'Cimarron's score is 6.0, 'Cavalcade's score is 6.1

@Jlewis Well, you have had a great deal many more years to watch earlier winners "more than twice". I'm sure you'll do the same for the more recent winners as the decades pass.

Another lovely lost single. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB5LNGyCUoA

No, not in yet - skimpole has given us until Jan. 31 to get our lists in. I'm still thinking about mine.

Many thousands of people rate movies at IMDb. Hundreds of thousands, in fact. It's probably the broadest sampling of what "people in general" think about such a question as "10 best best-picture Oscar winners of all time" like what this poll is asking. The results, based on votes, would be: The Godfather - # 1 The Godfather Part II - # 2 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - # 3 Schindler's List - # 4 Forrest Gump - # 5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - # 6 The Silence of the Lambs - # 7 Casablanca - # 8 Gladiator - # 9 The Departed - # 10 Every one of these movies received better than half a million votes (except 'Casablanca' - it received less than 400,000). Some came close to 900,000. The lowest aggregate score is 8.5 (The Departed, Gladiator - with the tie broken by number of votes received). The highest aggregate score is 9.2 (The Godfather). Naturally, we here at TCM Forums vote differently than the general movie-going public - which I realize is what the poll is interested in - us. But I thought it would make for some interesting comparative information. By the way, based on aggregate scoring of best picture Oscars, the greatest decade for movies ever was the 70's. I'm gratified by that, as I've held that opinion myself for quite a long time.

Oops - I made a mistake - I have to remove 'American Beauty' from the list. 'Casablanca' was supposed to be on it. I corrected it and re-printed it above.

Not unrepresented. They just score lower. Some came close (All About Eve, Lawrence of Arabia, The Apartment).

Reprinted above after a correction was made.

It's a truly great movie. The book explores the thinking, plotting, rationalizing, and life experiencing of these mid-20th century Mafia people. It's fascinating and frightening. The movie just couldn't get it all in. But one thing the movie does have over the book - an exquisite performance by Marlon Brando.

Having not read the book, that's an uninformed "feeling". It's an excellent novel. I recommend reading it.

Well, I agree with almost everything you've said in this post. I just disagree with the answer to the thread title. That is to say, I definitely prefer to see the film first. That's because the film is slightly to greatly ruined for me if I read the book first. I don't worry at all about books being ruined - if I like the film enough, I'll still read the book. If the film doesn't strike me as all that good, I'll probably read something else.

Skimming doesn't count as reading. Let me amend my question - have you EVER read a MODERN novel and then seen the movie? And if so, DO YOU BELIEVE you enjoyed the movie as much as you would have had you not read the novel first?

Two questions, misswonderly. Have you EVER read a novel and then seen the movie? If the answer is "no", you may stop here - no need to answer the 2nd question. If "yes", do you believe you enjoyed the movie as much as you would have if you hadn't read the novel first?

Hey, at least you probably haven't seen them before.

I think my great grandmother might've thought Al Jolson movies were okay. Don't know anyone else who does, though.

Not mine. I hope someday you find a print of 'Nevada Smith' (1966) that has the word "breast" in it. But I don't believe you ever will.

No. He has admitted to me that I understand him. He just loves bugging people with never-ending argumentativeness.

And much less furry.

No, it hasn't. Not in my experience, anyway. My friends and I had read 'The Carpetbaggers' in the early 60's, so we were well aware of what was presented in the novel. The word used in the novel was "t it". In 1966, I was a 16 year old usher in my hometown's best movie theater and 'Nevada Smith' played there. My friends and I eagerly watched the movie at that time and when the word "dress" was used to explain where the tobacco pouch came from, we smirked knowingly. We knew that the producers of the movie had changed it from the novel's "t it" because, after all, censorship in movie content was what was done then. I watched the movie several times over the course of the week it played at the Capitol - in 1966, when it was a new movie. At no time did I hear the word "breast". It was always "dress". IF it had ever been "breast", it was quickly changed after the very first screenings. It's highly doubtful that there are any editions of the movie still in existence where "breast" is used - IF there ever were.

Never a good idea to get into a "discussion" with infinite1. I have a brother-in-law just like him - it's all about arguing for its own sake.

In 1967 (what a great year!), there was a western-comedy called 'Waterhole #3' that starred James Coburn. Good movie. Throughout the entire movie, Roger Miller would sing different verses - though all to the same tune - of a song called 'Code of the West'. After about verse #6, it did begin to grate a little. Still a good movie, though. I guess it's similar to the musical interjections that Stubby and Nat provided in 'Cat Ballou' - although Roger Miller was on the soundtrack for 'Waterhole' only - he didn't appear on screen.

I'd be all for that as well. But I won't call TCM cowardly or dishonest if it doesn't change its policy to that. It has never stated that it will show every movie ever made, so it cant be held to keeping a pledge it never made. If any station ever does makes that pledge, I'll probably switch to that station. It'd be interesting to see racist movies on Thursday mornings and porn on Friday nights, along with comedy Tuesdays, western Wednesdays, Noir Sundays and on and on and on. There are thousands of movies I'd like to see that nobody shows.