Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
Originally Posted By: olivant
I know that most of us on this Board think that the GF is the best movie ever made, but I just finished watching the Raging Bull and it is one hell of a great movie. DeNiro's perfomance surpasses his in GFII and Pesci's suprasses his in Casino or Goodfellas.


No doubt, Oli. Amazing that it was voted best film of the '80s on virtually every major critic's forum, yet it was beat out by "Ordinary People" for the Oscar in 1980. How's that possible? That's why I don't even watch the Academy Awards. They're all about politics and political correctness.

"Who's an animal? Your mother's an animal, you son of a bitch!"


Raging Bull is #4 on the AFI's 2007 list of 100 best American movies ever, behind only Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and Casablanca.

There are numerous cases of one movie beating another at the Oscars and/or the box office, yet turning out to be not as highly regarded in the long run as it's competitor. Some examples (the first movie represents the Best Picture winner that year, the second the one that's more popular today):

1941-How Green Is My Valley/Citizen Kane

1968-Oliver!/2001: A Space Odyssey

1980-Ordinary People/Raging Bull

1981-Chariots of Fire/Raiders of the Lost Ark

1990-Dances with Wolves/GoodFellas

1994-Forrest Gump/The Shawshank Redemption (and Pulp Fiction as well)

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