The Hurt Locker cleaned up on Oscar night, taking home six trophies, including Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow (the first woman to win the award) and Best Picture. The Academy has spoken ? but what do the critics have to say? Where does The Hurt Locker rank with the pundits among the Best Picture winners?
Very highly, it turns out. At 97 percent, The Hurt Locker is the 13th best-reviewed Best Picture of all time ? one slot below Gone With the Wind and one above Casablanca (we?re shocked -- shocked! -- at that fact as well). It?s also the best-reviewed war film ever to win -- The Hurt Locker tops Schindler?s List (number 15), Patton (number 16), The Best Years of Our Lives (number 19) and All Quiet on the Western Front (number 20). In other words, The Hurt Locker is in the company of some undisputed classics. But there?s plenty more to explore ? take a tour of Oscar history with RT?s Best of the Best Pictures countdown!
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I was a bit underwhelmed by Hurt Locker,.It wasnt APOCALYPSE NOW and it wasnt PLATOON,. and it wasnt even close to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN,..all those movies had alott more depth of story and characters,...Heck im not even sure it was BLACK HAWK DOWN .I cant believe it beat AVATAR in some the sound and editing catergories either,..I mean the amount of work AVATAR took for sound and editing had to dwarf that of FOOT LOCKER,.In the end it was good,..BUT ITS NOT IN MY TOP 200 MOVIES,..NO WAY!
HELL,..IT WASNT HALF AS GOOD AS SCARFACE!
I dunno what you people are eating
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This is a joke! So, you're basing the "Best of the Best" on your tomatometer?! Despite the Oscar, The Hurt Locker wasn't even the best movie of the year. It was a good movie, not great and it only got the award because the director is a woman and it's a typical Hollywood "this is what war does to people" movie. C'mon...13th best of all time...you mean it's better than Casablanca, It Happened One Night, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? I don't think so. Seems there's a serious flaw in the ratings system. I could name another 30 or 40 movies in this list better than The Hurt Locker.
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easily one of the worst lists on RT, 'nuff said...the comment about casablanca being behind marty etc. gets the point. also, it may be overly sentimental, but it still touches people, hell, almost everyday is forrest gump...jus saying
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Now you're just making a list of all the films that have won Best Picture? This is complete fluff.
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Everyone here has good points to some degree. Here is an opinion from a long time movie fan. I go to the movies for what it is supposed to be, entertainment.
This is has some true heavy hitters. However, i mostly agree with the gentlemen about their impact years from now. No Country for Old Men. Good movie! Suspenseful... but not something I would be excited years from now I rush home and put in my DVD player. Movies that leave a long impression and replay ability are key with me. Example "Rocky"
Patton, Platoon in my opinion were better than The Hurt Locker. Saving Private Ryan is still the benchmark of how war footage should be shot to this day. Far better than Hurt Locker. I saw The Hurt Locker in Kuwait. Good movie, I really liked it..to a degree. It seemed like a documentary towards the middle. Better than Avatar? NO.... Years from now Avatar will be played over and over and over in homes all across the world.
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Ntrost: you call me an ignorant fool, yet don't give any reasons as to why. that my friend proves that you are the ignorant fool. Hurt Locker, was very disjointed. One thing that really gets me about it is when they would introduce someone who should have been the star of the film, they just kill them off(Guy Pearce, David Morse, and Ralph Fiennes), each of those 3 actors would have made the film more compelling to watch, and also would've been better suited for the lead role. and Avatar was a very solid story with a good script, yes it occasionally got bogged down my minor inconsistencies, but Hurt Locker had way more inconsistencies. and Camerons Direction in Avatar is some of the best ever, you are an utter fool if you think otherwise. He should have won the big 2, but alas the Academy screwed up. and the previous year, they gave it to Slumdog, that again proves how dumb the Academy has gotten.
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The Hurt Locker is one of the greatest films of the decade.
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I hated "The Hurt Locker". I thought "The Blind Side" should have won. It was one of the best movies I've ever seen.
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I like the whole concept of this list, however, I believe that this site should not completely base it off of the Oscars. Tons of films deserve to be showcased on this list, and I believe it should be up to the Internet users to determine what those movies are.
However, this years winner for Best Picture, the Hurt Locker, definately deserves to be near the top of this list. Even though Avatar caused a lot of controversy, I do believe that it deserves a spot on this list also. Perhaps a lot lower down, but it deserves recognition for what it has accomplished.
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I like the whole concept of this list, however, I believe that this site should not completely base it off of the Oscars. Tons of films deserve to be showcased on this list, and I believe it should be up to the Internet users to determine what those movies are.
However, this years winner for Best Picture, the Hurt Locker, definately deserves to be near the top of this list. Even though Avatar caused a lot of controversy, I do believe that it deserves a spot on this list also. Perhaps a lot lower down, but it deserves recognition for what it has accomplished.
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I don't think it was better than Schindler's List... that's just wrong
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I cannot believe that High Noon , Citizen Kane, The Third Man. The Maltese Falcon The African Queen Oh I could go on and on did not make the list. Avatar was a great special effects flick but plot and acting was routine. Hurt Locker was a three quarters good story but became, I what I call, hollywoodish toward the end.
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After watching the Hurt Locker, I was like, eh, that's it? After watching Avatar, I was like, wow! I mean it's true if you analyze these movies like they're some sort of art, Avatar will fall short, but how do you measure human reaction and feeling to what they just experienced? You can't.
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Hahaha, The Godfather as the BEST film ever made! Funny! Mr. Charles Chaplin made the greatest films this world has ever seen. Better films than "Godfather" also include "A Christmas Carol" (Alastair Sim), "Citizen Kane", "Seven Samurai", "Dr. Strangelove", "The Wizard of Oz", "Mary Poppins", "Psycho", "Metropolis" and "2001: A Space Odyssey"
But again, I am talking about artistry.
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Academy got it right with : Gone With The Wind, Rebecca, Casablanca, An American In Paris, The African Queen, Ben Hur, West Side Story, Lawrence of Arabia, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Midnight Cowboy, The Deer Hunter, Out of Africa, Platoon, Dances With Wolves, Forrest Gump, Titanic.
All other years, way off. Peace out.
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I don't understand how the critics could place Chicago above Platoon and Rain Man.But hey I'm not a musical fan,so maybe its just me.
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Yeah... Honestly, I didn't think Hurt Locker was all that great. Inglorious Basterds was a better film. I understand that this list is based on Rotten Tomato ratings, but Hurt Locker at 13 is a joke.
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