Best Picture
Should have won it but not even nominated. America as it should have been!
shareReally? I've never liked this movie much, and I adore old musicals! Yes, the film has some great points, the score is fabulous and "HYaMLC" is immortal, but the movie overall is kind of dull. It's told from the POV of someone whose mind is confined to the domestic world, it's just too overwhelmingly feminine for my tastes, and lacking in energy and fun. Even "Cover Girl" from the same year is more fun to watch now.
Maybe that's why some people like it, because it's intimate and personal and shuts out the troubles of the world, but I'd only have voted for it for Best Picture if "Going My Way" was the only alternative! Now there's a piece of sticky drivel that's unwatchable today, but it won.
"Going My Way" is a great movie, still very entertaining today. So is "Meet Me in St. Louis". Too bad you can't enjoy them.
shareMMISL is an incomparably better film than "Cover Girl." You can't even put the two in the same sentence. It's Minnelli's third film and his first masterpiece.
Yes, it should've been nominated for Best Picture, but so should have "Laura" and "Lifeboat." At least "Double Indemnity" was in the run, but America was at war and overly sentimental about priests and Der Bingle.
It's a beautifully crafted film, but I'll never love it. It's one of those films where I can see why other people like it, but I've never been sentimental or domestic enough to get emotionally involved with anything going on.
sharePoint taken. Not everyone likes every classic movie.
I like "Cover Girl", btw. Rita and Gene have some lovely musical moments.