Originally posted by San Bernardhinault
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The Ringer does a regular feature where they get a few critics to reconsider the nominees from five years prior, as well as films that should have been nominated but weren’t.
No awards show would ever do it that way, but if they did, a lot more people would like the results. Or at least I would. Sometimes I really like a film when I see it, but then after further reflection, or reading about the subject matter, or rewatching it, it doesn’t seem quite that great. But sometimes it goes the other way. I’m reminded about a film I’d only seen once and mostly forgotten, so I watch it again and realize it’s one of my favorites.
Two years ago, The Shape of Water won, but it seems like the films from that year that have legs and will still be watched in a few years are Lady Bird and Get Out. (And maybe some high school history classes will watch The Post.) If the academy voted on 2018 again, one of those two would win, I’d bet.
Longevity isn’t the only measure of greatness, but it is one of them, I think.
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