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- From: mattm@Apple.COM (Matthew Melmon)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: TOP TEN MOVIES, as of 23 December 1993
- Message-ID: <76028@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 22:36:12 GMT
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- nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder) writes:
-
- >Very good point. However,IF X does very well with the Academy nominations
- >and scores well at the Golden Globes the domestic box-office take
- >will definetly get a major pre-Oscar boost. Of course,that's a big IF
- >since there's so much outstanding competetion this season with
- >Chaplin and Lorenzo's Oil still in the wings and Scent of a Woman still
- >in a limitted release.
-
- You are right, twice - which is unfortunate for X. A strong
- showing at the Awards has always boosted receipts. But there
- is quite a bit of competition - and the fact that X was not
- a run-away box-office smash will lessen, considerably, the
- political pressure on the Academy to grant it Best Picture.
- If it had performed like Home Alone, I'm sure a sweep would
- have been likely. As it is, I'm not so sure.
-
- I think, however, that the failure of X to perfrom well is
- a surprise to a lot of people (myself included, actually).
-