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What is the worst Oscars Best Picture winner that you have seen?
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BaronLundi
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Awful tier:
- Gigi
- Forrest Gump
- Chicago
Really bad tier:
- Shakespeare in love
- Crash
Not absolutely terrible but nowhere near any kind of sensible best movie list:
- Argo
- The Artist
- The King's speech
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Million dollar baby
- A beautiful mind
- Braveheart
... damn 90% of Oscar winners are not very good movies, now are they? A list of actual great oscar winners would be shorter.
- Gigi
- Forrest Gump
- Chicago
Really bad tier:
- Shakespeare in love
- Crash
Not absolutely terrible but nowhere near any kind of sensible best movie list:
- Argo
- The Artist
- The King's speech
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Million dollar baby
- A beautiful mind
- Braveheart
... damn 90% of Oscar winners are not very good movies, now are they? A list of actual great oscar winners would be shorter.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Crash is an awful fucking movie.
I remember we had to sit through it in some sociology elective I took and the professor kept going on and on about how its this great thing for learning that the academy recognized it for
That movie is so far up its own ass
I remember we had to sit through it in some sociology elective I took and the professor kept going on and on about how its this great thing for learning that the academy recognized it for
That movie is so far up its own ass
A Link to the Past
Banned
Yeah. Not only that, but if we're looking at movies that theoretically could have been nominated, 2005 had some pretty good films.
It's about which film pandered the hardest, not which film was actually the best.
Matt_
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Birdman. Didn't even finish it I hated it so much
Closely followed by Hurt Locker and godfather 2
edit; Ive seen
Titanic
Gladiator
Slumdog
Hurtlocker
Birdman
12 years a slave
argo
Kings speech
No country for old men
The departed
Million dollar baby
lotr
chicago
braveheart
forrest gump
silence of the lambs
dancing with wolves (it was a while ago but surprised this was best picture material)
driving miss daisy
godfather
godfather 2
Closely followed by Hurt Locker and godfather 2
edit; Ive seen
Titanic
Gladiator
Slumdog
Hurtlocker
Birdman
12 years a slave
argo
Kings speech
No country for old men
The departed
Million dollar baby
lotr
chicago
braveheart
forrest gump
silence of the lambs
dancing with wolves (it was a while ago but surprised this was best picture material)
driving miss daisy
godfather
godfather 2
Argo is hollywood circle jerking for two hours, and is just not that great of a movie. On top of that, the climax with the dude explaining what they do is straight up C-3PO talking to the Ewoks, and it really takes me out of the movie.
I don't hate it, but I don't understand why it's considered so great. It's essentially one long baby boomer back-slapping session
x Power Pad Death Stomp x
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Forrest Gump. Crash is a really close second.
Please explain to me the appeal of the movie. I honestly would like to know.
ratcliffja
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Argo and it's not even close. I was actually laughing with my wife about how bad one of the chase sequences was.
John Dunbar
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12 Years a Slave I think. Would probably be Crash but I think I only saw like half of it once on TV.
Transistor
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Or you just have bad taste. A Beautiful Mind? Argo? The King's Speech? Really???
Jeffolation
Banned
Hard to choose between Crash and Gump. At least Crash had Sandra Bullock falling down the stairs. That was pretty fun.
DontBeThatGuy
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The Greatest Show on Earth.
Terms of Endearment
Crash
Out of Africa
Argo
I'm really not into any of these topping any list. I could probably do more, but I'll just stick with 5, in no particular order. (outside of of Greatest Show)
Terms of Endearment
Crash
Out of Africa
Argo
I'm really not into any of these topping any list. I could probably do more, but I'll just stick with 5, in no particular order. (outside of of Greatest Show)
My god, these two sentences have to be a joke right? French Connection holds up extremely well, such a classic of 70s cinema.
And Crash best film of that year? The other nominees were: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Munich, and Good Night, and Good Luck. Come on
backflip10019
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It was completely ineffective for me. Much of the cast's performances were wooden (including Lupita Nyongo -- I have no idea how she won an Oscar for that performance). It was not a great film.
I expected so much more out of it. At least Ejiofor did a good job.
darkwing-buck
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Crash by a longshot.
The Greatest Show on Earth - Who wants to watch a goddamn Circus for two and a half hours?
Chicago - Show me something new. It's essentially just setting a camera on a stage and shooting the musical and doing little to really make it cinematic. Mediocre performances kill the movie for me. I'm very picky on film adaptation of musicals and this one felt lazy.
Crash - A heavy handed script and overacting doesn't make this a good movie.
Other winners wouldn't have been my choice (The Artist, King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love etc...) but I wouldn't necessarily call them bad. "Deserving" is debatable, but they're not bad films.
Chicago - Show me something new. It's essentially just setting a camera on a stage and shooting the musical and doing little to really make it cinematic. Mediocre performances kill the movie for me. I'm very picky on film adaptation of musicals and this one felt lazy.
Crash - A heavy handed script and overacting doesn't make this a good movie.
Other winners wouldn't have been my choice (The Artist, King's Speech, Shakespeare in Love etc...) but I wouldn't necessarily call them bad. "Deserving" is debatable, but they're not bad films.
Strangelove77
Member
Fucking "Crash".
I've seen over half of those movies and I don't think highly of a lot of them(or the Oscars for that matter), but I can safely say that Crash doesn't deserve any awards from anyone. Every other movie on that list is about 100 times better than that Lifetime movie. I wonder what the fuck happened.
I've seen over half of those movies and I don't think highly of a lot of them(or the Oscars for that matter), but I can safely say that Crash doesn't deserve any awards from anyone. Every other movie on that list is about 100 times better than that Lifetime movie. I wonder what the fuck happened.
Crash, Slumdog, Hurt Locker, Argo, King's Speech, Million Dollar Baby
I don't think any of them are offensively bad or anything. But those are the ones that stand out as being weak to me.
Edit: Judging by this thread Crash was probably offensively bad, I just haven't seen it since it came out and don't really remember.
I don't think any of them are offensively bad or anything. But those are the ones that stand out as being weak to me.
Edit: Judging by this thread Crash was probably offensively bad, I just haven't seen it since it came out and don't really remember.
There wasn't a wooden performance in the entire movie. The acting was one of the highlights in a film where pretty much every aspect was grade A. I have no clue what you're talking about.
DontBeThatGuy
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Yeah, sure thing. 12 Years is nowhere near the worst, NOWHERE. And oh yeah, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE. That's another one I was super disappointed with.
Wow, for me it is easily Crash and I love the French Connection looks like we are on opposite ends of the spectrum
veloxStrix
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Also, It's kind of hilarious that two of the films with the greatest influence on modern film making - Citizen Kane and Stagecoach - didn't win in their respective years.
Transistor
Banned
Let's not forget that there were other, better movies that could have been nominated in place of Crash:
Syriana
A History of Violence
Hell, even Walk the Line was a better picture than Crash
Syriana
A History of Violence
Hell, even Walk the Line was a better picture than Crash
Crash is bad and probably the most Oscar-baitish film on the list.
I also think 12 Years a Slave is guilty of the exact same crime - completely lacking in subtlety and nuance, another 'HERE'S A MESSAGE' movie. That said, I think Dallas Buyers Club, of the very same year, was equally Oscar bait material, albeit more the best actor nod than best film.
I also think 12 Years a Slave is guilty of the exact same crime - completely lacking in subtlety and nuance, another 'HERE'S A MESSAGE' movie. That said, I think Dallas Buyers Club, of the very same year, was equally Oscar bait material, albeit more the best actor nod than best film.
However hard people are trying, Crash was trying harder
Junior Asparagus
Member
Mine is Crash too.
Even though I'm very surprised they won Best Picture, I enjoyed Chicago and Shakespeare in Love when I saw them. I just didn't like Crash at all.
Driving Miss Daisy is just there. Totally unremarkable, but I didn't dislike it.
I didn't like Terms of Endearment very much. Didn't like Birdman very much either. Those probably round out my top 3.
Even though I'm very surprised they won Best Picture, I enjoyed Chicago and Shakespeare in Love when I saw them. I just didn't like Crash at all.
Driving Miss Daisy is just there. Totally unremarkable, but I didn't dislike it.
I didn't like Terms of Endearment very much. Didn't like Birdman very much either. Those probably round out my top 3.
RustyNails
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Syriana is overrated. However, A History of Violence is in my top 5 of last decade. Seriously too good of a movie.
bangbang i'm a timpani
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crash. jesus christ that was awful.
TheOrangeKid007
Member
12 Years a Slave. I feel asleep the first time I watched it but forced myself to watch it again and powered through. Found it very boring.
Demand slavery films with more subtlety and nuance. Nothing worse than when a director beats you over the head with messages of how awful slavery was.
maniac-kun
Member
Chariots of Fire. Its so boring.
Watched it because of that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU
Watched it because of that song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSav51fVlKU
veloxStrix
Banned
I forgot this even came out that year. That was also a really good one. Or maybe I enjoyed it because I had bought a massive bag of sour patch kids and snuck it in my boots when I went to go see it.
Squirrel Killer
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Definitely, Crash was an awful Best Picture winner, shouldn't have even been nominated.
FTR, here's my list of seen winners:
Casablanca (1943)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Apartment (1960)
West Side Story (1961) *
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
My Fair Lady (1964) *
The Sound of Music (1965) *
Oliver! (1968) *
Patton (1970) *
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Annie Hall (1977)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) *
Terms of Endearment (1983) *
Amadeus (1984)
Platoon (1986)
Rain Man (1988)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Schindler's List (1993)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
The English Patient (1996)
Titanic (1997)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
American Beauty (1999)
Gladiator (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Chicago (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Crash (2005)
The Departed (2006)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The King's Speech (2010)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
(* = I saw them before I became a film snob, so my impressions may be less than accurate)
The thing that stands out most in my recollection of Crash is the scene where Thandie Newton bitches out the police office for pulling her and Terrence Howard over because they're an interracial couple. I'm fine with that as a plot line, but they should've considered that when casting. It pulled me out of the movie, I was questioning everything the movie did after that scene, and I realized how manipulative it was being.
CopperPuppy
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Crash, without a doubt.
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