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re: Movie fans pick the Top 10 Worst Best Picture Winners of All-Time
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:27 am to alajones
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:27 am to alajones
First v20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan triggered so much PTSD in vets the military has to make special announcements and programs for vets who saw the movie.
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Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:45 am to Napoleon
Annie Hall - Can't believe it beat out Star Wars: New Hope!
The Artist and "Fish Sex" were exceptionally bad.
The Artist and "Fish Sex" were exceptionally bad.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 8:48 am to RollTide1987
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2. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
It is a shame it won. It is actually a pretty good movie but gets hated on because it beat Saving Private Ryan.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:03 am to LSUDonMCO
quote:...said no one in 1978. No fantasy/sci-fi film won best picture until 2003. And then we've only had one (Shape of Water) since then. Just that it got nominated at all was a huge longshot. The closest thing to another sci-fi film nominated in the 70's was Clockwork Orange. 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn't nominated for best picture. Close Encounters didn't get nominated the year after Star Wars, and that's arguably the better Sci-fi film, and definitely more in line with what the Oscars would love at the time. People look back at the original Star Wars film and assume that the world knew that it was going to spawn a mega-franchise that would dominate half a century of media.
Annie Hall - Can't believe it beat out Star Wars: New Hope!
Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:14 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Just that it got nominated at all was a huge longshot.
Not really. The Academy up until the more recent past typically nominated films that were cultural phenomenons. Popular movies like Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, and E.T. were always among the five finalists for Best Picture. And Star Wars did well that night, winning six Oscars.
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Close Encounters didn't get nominated the year after Star Wars, and that's arguably the better Sci-fi film, and definitely more in line with what the Oscars would love at the time.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released the same year as Star Wars and received nine Academy Award nominations (including Steven Spielberg's first nomination for Best Director). Star Wars took its Best Picture nomination, however. One of my favorite anecdotes from the Steven Spielberg-George Lucas friendship was the bet they made while vacationing together in Hawaii. Spielberg was sure that Star Wars would do better at the box office than Close Encounters while Lucas (ever the pessimist) held the opposite view. So they each bet one another a percentage of the gross from their films. Spielberg ended up being right about Star Wars outgrossing Close Encounters and therefore got 2.5% of the gross profits from Star Wars.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:27 am to alajones
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What should have won in 1989?
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:31 am to Esquire
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Whiplash was robbed in broad daylight by Birdman, which should be #1
I'm still upset over this and Nightcrawler not even being nominated.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:48 am to Napoleon
quote:It’s pretty laughable seeing people on this board almost thirty years later repeating the Harvey Weinstein mantra “only the first twenty minutes are good.” That’s literally why SPR lost to SiL, because of his marketing campaign.
First v20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan triggered so much PTSD in vets the military has to make special announcements and programs for vets who saw the movie.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 9:59 am to RollTide1987
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4. Out of Africa (1985)
quote:Was bored by the first, and think the second is absolutely terrible.
1. Crash (2005)
Posted on 3/3/23 at 10:56 am to RollTide1987
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1. Crash (2005)
Before even opening the thread, I said it had to be this movie. Unreal.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 12:59 pm to tigerfan84
quote:Made me think about former Auburn center Mamadou N'diaye playing against LSU for the regular season title late one season. Must have been the 1999-2000 season.
Sack Lunch was better
An Auburn fan had a sign that said "Nobody packs a lunch like Mamadou".
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:03 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Do the Right Thing wasn’t even nominated
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:07 pm to A Menace to Sobriety
quote:The ending alone makes it worth watching.
I also liked Green Book.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:10 pm to RollTide1987
I got one like Shakespeare in Love. Was it the best that year. Maybe not. But I do sure enjoy it
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:23 pm to athenslife101
Joseph Fiennes can be irritating in large doses.
Not related to this conversation, but I think Anonymous (2011) is the most entertaining movie ever made about William Shakespeare.
Not related to this conversation, but I think Anonymous (2011) is the most entertaining movie ever made about William Shakespeare.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:35 pm to Gaggle
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hey what was that criticism against #1 Crash again?
I don’t know or really care
I also don’t understand why everything has to be about every thing else. I should have known the anti-woke crowd would down vote that post. I really meant DTRT was most likely the movie people picking Driving Miss Daisy was one of the worst winners would say should have won. Personally I would go with Dead Poets Society Field of Dreams of the nominees. Glory is another good one.
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the portrayal of race relations as simplistic and unsubtle
I’ve never seen Crash by why is being “unsubtle” a problem? DTRT came out in 1989, it was way ahead of its time, that’s 2 years before the Rodney King video and 3 decades before the current BLM stuff. My guess you are judging it in the current context. It did shed a light on problems and perspectives that were not covered before. That people now over exaggerate those problems 30+ years later doesn’t mean they weren’t valid.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:37 pm to RollTide1987
Forest Gump should be on there
A gimmick film taking Best Picture over Shawshank Redemption AND Pulp Fiction is as bad an Oscar crime as any.
A gimmick film taking Best Picture over Shawshank Redemption AND Pulp Fiction is as bad an Oscar crime as any.
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:37 pm to LSUDonMCO
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Annie Hall - Can't believe it beat out Star Wars: New Hope!
It was called Star Wars at the time, that’s it. And Annie Hall is great
Posted on 3/3/23 at 1:45 pm to alajones
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It’s pretty laughable seeing people on this board almost thirty years later repeating the Harvey Weinstein mantra “only the first twenty minutes are good.” That’s literally why SPR lost to SiL, because of his marketing campaign.
I literally never heard that quote from Weinstein and at the time I thought SPR should have won. Even though I did really like SIL (and Elizabeth)
He does however have a point. The opening scene is probably the greatest battle scene ever filmed. The ending battle the 2nd greatest, in between is 2 hours of meh. And you can just get rid of the “present day” old guy) The Thin Red Line (also nominated that year) imo is overall a better movie than SPR.
ETA don’t get me wrong SPR is a really good movie, however I do think it gets a little overrated because of that opening scen and the significance of that battle
This post was edited on 3/3/23 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 3/3/23 at 3:10 pm to H-Town Tiger
Those were not the first race riots. I saw the movie years before any of that.
quote:I think that's backwards. They show it in college to kids who didn't live during that time because they're the only ones who could believe it. At the time it was recognized more how absurd and over the top it is. It's extremely overwrought and unrealistic.
My guess you are judging it in the current context.
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