L.A confidential is probably the best of it's kind, yet Titanic was a milestone and was a film made by a true visionary.
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freddie73 — 10 years ago(January 19, 2016 11:36 AM)
A thousand times yes! I am one of the those young girls that went to the movies to see "Titanic" twice, prayed that it won every single award, and jumped up and down when it did! Then I got a brain and watched this one day and just love it! It is one of my all time favorite movies and YES YES YES it should have won all the Oscars and "Titanic" had probably the cheesiest dialog ever written. This is one of the greatest films of all time, and it lost to a sinking boat Soap Opera. lol I was part of the problem back then! lol
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degree7 — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 07:52 PM)
I don't think either film was necessarily better or worse than the other. Titanic may have a straightforward, "cliched" love triangle. Well LA Confidential has a tired good cop / bad cop routine we've all seen before a million times. Sure the plot is certainly more complex (duh, it's a mystery), but it's standard fare in any noir style film to have a complicated story. The reason people went to see both films in droves was because what they did they did well. Titanic has amazing disaster set pieces and a sense of historical tragedy that hold up to this day, and LA Confidential has great action and suspense. At the end of the day, Titanic won because the Academy likes period costume melodramas, as well as epic movies, and James Cameron was a Hollywood heavyweight. The appeal of Titanic was its notoriety as much as the film itself.
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DracTarashV — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 07:21 PM)
Nah. Titanic winning seemed convenient, since it basically had everything that makes a Best Picture winner, well, a Best Picture winner. It was an epic that was bound to please the Academy.
Now I prefer L.A. Confidential myself, and I don't think all the other nominees that year were that strong, but as I say: the cooler - and arguably better - film is most of the time better off not winning an award given by a bunch of uncool dudes. Heh.
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aidankost — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 05:25 PM)
I think everyone is forgetting Boogie Nights. I don't know why, but I appear to be the minority here (or maybe Jackie Brown supporters?) Titanic is a masterpiece, but wasn't the best movie of the year. I haven't seen L.A., but I've recently ordered it from Amazon. Good Will Hunting is a great movie, as well as Jackie Brown, but they aren't anywhere near as good as Boogie Nights, the true big bright shining star of 1997, a brilliant year for movies.