An American In Paris (1951)

This is a best picture-winning musical. This is about an American living in Paris. He's an artist and some rich lady wants to help him out. She is also romantically interested in him. He is interested in some other girl who is going to marry some guy she doesn't love because he did some favors for her. He has no idea that she isn't interested.

I hate musicals so it's no surprise I hated this film. Some musicals are tolerable, but this was terrible. The musical numbers weren't particularly memorable and I already can't think of a single song from this movie. The big finale at the end drug on for like 20 minutes and seemed to accomplish nothing. This was a terrible way to end the film in my estimation.

Overall, this was awful. I don't see what it accomplishes or how it won best picture, but it did. It's not like there was a dearth of quality cinema in 1951. This film somehow won 6 Oscars even though vastly superior films like A Streetcar Named Desire, The African Queen, A Place in the Sun, and Strangers On A Train were in the running for Oscars that year. Not only was this film terribly boring, but the characters weren't the least bit interesting. Nobody in this film was nominated for an acting Oscar. A Streetcar Named Desire had actors nominated in all 4 acting categories winning in 3 of them (Marlon Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart). I can't believe this film won best picture. This is by far the least-deserving winner of the best picture Oscar that I have seen.

52.5/100
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