Five Easy Pieces - What the hell was that?

[Songbird]

Same as A Bronx Tale. Can't go more than a few Facebook Reels without seeing the famous "Now you's can't leave" bar scene ... so I gave the movie a watch last month and when it was over was like And?

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Always appreciate an appearance from How About No bear. He is eternal.

Never have seen "Five Easy Pieces". Never really wanted to. There are, of course a ton of movies nominated for Best Picture where you kind of had to be there. Those coming-of-age movies involving Boomers haven't aged very well, but they're a reflection of the mores of the time, dated or not.

I'd start a thread about Overrated Movies, but you'd have people nominating stupid **** like superhero flicks and the like.

That would still happen even if the thread title was refined to Overrated Movies Nominated For Best Picture, because guidelines are too hard for many. Or you'd have folks griping about "How are they an arbiter for taste? If I think 'Fast And The Furious 16' is the greatest flick evah, then who are they to judge?"

You've clearly been spending a lot of time at the Hoffman forums.

 

[Bubbler]

You've clearly been spending a lot of time at the Hoffman forums.

Guilty. I've been pondering all that is Don Felder's solo career and hoping I can reach 200 pages if I start a thread.

 

[DanOregon]

Go back the last 20 years of Best Picture nominees and you get "movies of the moment" - films that were "buzzy" for the six weeks of Oscar voting then forgotten about, or films movie nerds sought to "promote" because they felt they deserved more attention.

 

[britwrit]

It also was a different time. Five Easy Pieces made $18.1 million at the box office, which translates to - wow - around $148 million today.

So, why was it nominated? A whole lot of people saw it and it had some artistic cred.

 

[Songbird]

Is the the British 5 Easy Pieces?