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Cimarron

Cimarron

1931
Drama, Western
2h 3m
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind... (imdb)
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Cimarron

1931
Drama, Western
2h 3m
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Rated 08 Sep 2014
64
18th
This early Best Picture winner is generally regarded as one of the weakest, and it's certainly got issues; from the often-obnoxious characters (Irene Dunne's Sabra is shockingly unlikable), to the weird mixture of progressive attitudes (toward the Native Americans) and horrible stereotypes (the character of Isaiah), to the hammy acting and clumsy pacing, it looks pretty crude. But some scenes, like the opening reenactment of the 1889 land rush, remain quite vivid, and it has a certain bravado.
Rated 02 Jun 2010
2
10th
Yet another reminder that, with very few exceptions, the Oscars have always been uniformly terrible.
Rated 12 May 2011
20
3rd
Wow that was boring...
Rated 12 Jun 2011
30
10th
No no no... The only somewhat redeeming feature is that it has some ambition in the attempt to tell a story covering many years. It's a positively dry and uninspired movie and - while I'm at it - why would you cast someone who looks like a retarded Tom Berenger? Okay, so maybe that's not fair but, hey, neither is the fact that this film is a Best Picture winner!
Rated 19 May 2018
55
21st
This film had a lot going for it. There were times when it felt simply huge, such as the land-grab race and later town shots, which was fun to watch. Interesting themes of western growth and social ideology were dealt with over a movie-span of 40 years. There was good stuff there. But the main characters were unintentionally unlikable and inconsistent. Cravat's abandoning his family for years on end was out of the blue and especially awful. Overall, the movie felt completely disjointed.
Rated 23 Oct 2007
50
14th
Definitely in the running for the worst Best Picture winner of all time. At two hours, it feels more like four--unengaging, dramatically limp, and far too scattered to feel cohesive.
Rated 05 Apr 2008
62
24th
It's Yancy! The greatest hero of them all. Good for a laugh.
Rated 12 May 2010
40
5th
I'm sorry but, this movie bored the shit out of me. In a historical context, this was an interesting look at how films were done and a look at characterization. But otherwise, it was just boring.
Rated 11 Jul 2010
35
2nd
A mess of a film with conflicting themes and attitudes that could be interestingly contrasted in a better picture but here are just presented and discarded as they serve the tedious plot. Not to mention the terrible acting and editing and sound, it's just a confluence of bad production. How this won an Oscar is beyond me.
Rated 18 Dec 2012
30
34th
3 Oscars for this?! Including the prestigious Best Picture award (plus Best Writing, Adaptation and Best Art Direction)!!! Well, the picks the Academy made that year was pretty disappointing anyway. Cimarron was an attempt at making an epic about the pioneers, and at times there was some good moments, but most of the time it was just dull and emotionless, including when they attempted emotional scenes. So not even close to being one of the greatest films of 1931. Not by a long shot.
Rated 02 Sep 2013
35
17th
The characters make almost no sense. It shows them doing a bunch of stuff over the span of a bunch of years, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why they were doing most of it.
Rated 08 Oct 2020
60
29th
One of the weaker Best Picture winners for sure, but I credit it for having tons of ambition & scale. The story is interesting, but the pacing is just terrible. Way too slow in the first half; way too fast in the second (skipping large chunks of time eliminating character development). I'm certain it was seen as progressive in 1931 in respect to Native rights and giving a Black child an important role, but viewed through a modern lens you still see tons of stereotypes and offensive caricatures.
Rated 27 Jan 2023
56
16th
1931's Best Picture, an ambitious sprawling western epic family drama in the style of Giant, does not hold up well at all. Some of the large scale filmmaking is impressive, but it's mostly boring and the acting is so bad it kind of feels like a parody of the genre at times. Even the normally reliable Irene Dunne is bad. It just feels all over the place. It's watchable enough, I suppose--I didn't actively despise it--but it's not good.
Rated 25 May 2023
78
49th
Perfectly watchable despite its absurd ending and Yancey being a bit of a Mary Sue. But you probably need to come into it already interested in this historical period.
Rated 27 Jan 2024
41
62nd
A big, pretty, meandering mess, and rather silly. Ferber's novel was the latest top seller in an era when the public loved decades-sprawling historical epics, and they're giving it the big expensive treatment you'd figure. Spends half or more of the time playing for comedy—perhaps for the best, given the performances. At least Dix is fine (the role calls for ham, and he delivers).

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