Well, with one year in the books it only seems right to do some kind of summing up.
Awakenings
Dances With Wolves
Goodfellas
Ghost
Godfather III
Goodfellas was clearly the best of the lot. Head and shoulders better than the rest. The movie hooks you and fascinates you from the beginning. It's the only one on this list that can make that claim.
Awakenings and Ghost were both good movies. The storytelling was strong in each. They pulled at the heartstrings, but in different ways. Awakenings with fear of a horrible living death, and Ghost with a look at a perfect love.
The remaining pair are both epic and long. They both feature bad hair choices for their stars. They both feature beautiful camera work and they both overestimate how much story they really have.
The score to Awakenings caught my ear. I love a good score and this one is very good. The period music of Goodfellas is very well done and shapes the passage of time perfectly. And Ghost brought 'Unchained Melody' back to life.
I wasn't watching award shows at this time, but there should have been outrage. Goodfellas wuz robbed.
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