The nominees were ...
Amadeus. It's gorgeous to look at and supplies us with generous amounts of some of the greatest music ever written, so perhaps we shouldn't complain that Peter Shaffer's Oscar-winning adaptation of his own stage play is full of false history and pretentious philosophizing.
... when it should have gone to ...
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| The Terminator |
Forget, if it bothers you, that this is the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a superstar or that it set writer and director James Cameron on the road to becoming king of the world. Because this is a remarkably entertaining and exciting movie, and at times that's all one wants. Linda Hamilton is terrific as the tough and resourceful object of the Terminator's implacably murderous rampage. And Cameron tells his story without the special-effects overkill that this film's success made possible in the sequels.
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