WORST PICTURE

gump?

crash?

lotr

I haven't seen most of what came before about 1960 or so, but none of them (or anything since) can be worse than Crash.

'the greatest show on earth' is some bullshit.

Braveheart

'the greatest show on earth' is some bullshit.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, February 25, 2008 8:36 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

YOU SHOULD SUE THEM FOR FALSE ADVERTISING.

lotr

-- tremendoid, Monday, February 25, 2008 2:26 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Gladiator. stop fucking mumbling. and turn the music down while you're there.

WORST CASE SINCE 'THE NEVERENDING STORY'

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cimarron

Out of the one I've seen, I gotta go for Forrest Gump. Gladiator is probably worse on objective terms, but at least it's a harmless romp, whereas FG's politics are totally cringeworthy. Amadeus is very much overrated too.

vote for the worst Oscar-winning Best Pictures of all time!!

lotr was at least a good movie in its genre, gladiator and braveheart were some bullshit

i haven't seen crash (from what i gather fortunately)

crash thread 1000x better than most of these movies

crash easily.

I forgot I was going to do this, but yeah, Crash better win this.

"By the end of this movie I'll be dead, and you'll wish you were"

For some reason I can't start a poll. Someone should do the mirror BEST PICTURE poll.

haven't seen a lot of these films tbh, including 'crash'.

If I had managed to successfully avoid Crash, my vote probably would've gone to Rocky.

I haven't seen a lot of these. I might watch them all in order [/blog idea]

when did the oscars become "a big deal"?

Exactly three years ago.

"Titanic", easily, though I haven't seen "Crash". Of the oldies, "Gone With The Wind".

"1929 *Broadway Melody, The, NR"

Bastards. "Gold Diggers of Broadway" was robbed!

havent seen 'crash'. some of the recent winners were dreadful like 'million dollar baby' and 'a beautiful mind'.

There's a thread with this discussion.

Most winners are at worst average, expensive, and dull; they've only gotten really offensive in the last 10 years. Calvacade, Gentleman's Agreement, The Greatest Show on Earth are as awful as Crash though.

out of africa maybe

bore fest american beauty takes it from bore fest a beautiful mind

great run there from mid 50's for a decade or so, compared to 94 onwards.

chicago

Gladiator. stop fucking mumbling. and turn the music down while you're there.

Agreed. And the ending. And everything else in the film.

I would vote for Around the World in 80 days but it's kind of fun watching out for add cameos and stuff. Or it would be if it wasn't seventeen hours too long.

Not as bad as their reputations suggest: In the Heat of the Night, Driving Miss Daisy.

I would say, for the recent films, Gump. Pre-1960, of the ones I've seen, Marty was definitely overrated (as was Ernest Borgnine's Best Actor for it), though I don't know if I'd say it sucked.

The ones that have reps for being really bad, like Crash, I've avoided seeing. So it wouldn't really be right to vote.

Actually this poll reminds me of the hilarious Albom column this weekend:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802240635

He actually kind of has a point about the nominees being depressing until he big ups The Bucket List.

MINIVER

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I voted for Crash. Not seen it, but isn't Patton supposed to be pretty bad?

2003 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The, PG-13

patton is lol-y

Not as bad as their reputations suggest: In the Heat of the Night, Driving Miss Daisy.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 25 February 2008 14:53

'kay proper rube question: what's bad about "In the Heat.." ?

guess i'd go for Braveheart

of the ones I've seen, Gump vs. Crash in a tie

Shakespeare in Love has no redeeming qualities. Except maybe boobs.

Chicago by a million pointless crappy cringeworthy miles

god i hate that movie

"Shakespeare in Love" is surprisingly good. Seriously I was absolutely shoicked when i saw it. I blame Stoppard.

no dances with wolves un-love so far!

where's that 'vote for the BEST picture' thread? the archives are no use!

i just voted for dances w/wolfs!

i'm sure it's not American Beauty but that's the one i voted for cos i fucking hate it.

I know people who liked Chicago. I really don't get it. It was like fingers on a chalkboard bolted to the inside of my skull.

Gladiator was totally non-accolade-worthy but wholly entertaining.

Chicago and Gladiator are 2 of my 3 or 4 favorite of the last 15 years (b.p. winners). Chicago has CZJ looking maybe as hot as anyone has ever looked in the history of cinema; and Gladiator was, yeah entertaining.

Film snobs: God, this movie is sooo unsophisticated.
Me: Give me a break, it's fucking Gladiator!
Academy: And the Oscar goes to...
Me: Give me a break, it's fucking Gladiator!

Gladiator stank.

enlightening movie discussion pre-empt

gladiator roolz

Gladiator stank.

-- Frogman Henry

were you not entertained?!?? WERE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?????

wtf people, "Titanic" is on this list; are you all actually vaginas?

"titanic" is at least better than "american beauty"

So, that's one vagina. Anyone else?

what kind of vagina are you that you even watched it?

dude a boat flips over and like a million people drown. also there's fucking in cars. what's vagina-ish about that?

I am a guy who got duped into seeing it by his then-girlfriend. No labia majoris here, my friend.

xpost: Did you miss the 300 hours before that??????? "Oh, I must marry this lout, but my ladybits are all aquiver for the young lady I mean lad from the rough side of the boat! Oh whatsoever shall I do? *swoon*"

dude a boat flips over and like a million people drown. also there's fucking in cars. what's vagina-ish about that?

-- moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, February 27, 2008 10:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah good save

you're not manly enough to appreciate true love

The fucking in cars scene was the least male-friendly fucking in cars scene ever filmed. It was completely ROMANTIC TRUE WUV AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW bullshit as opposed to raunchy I NEED TO BUST NOW sex.

(xpost! Clearly your conception of manliness is distorted by you being a giant vagina. Also, the movie is the cinematic equivalent of Diet Coke: empty of substance, a little too sickly sweet compared to its counterparts, and obviously manufactured with something that leaves an awful aftertaste.)

if there was any justice every copy of Titanic would be destroyed and replaced with A Night To Remember.

lotr

-- tremendoid, Monday, February 25, 2008 2:26 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

-- J0rdan S., Monday, February 25, 2008 3:48 AM (Monday, February 25, 2008 3:48 AM) Bookmark Link

so bad i turned it off halfway through bc i was bored.

jhoshea u brake haert with wolfs hate :(

Shakespeare in love, lotr, gump, crash, chicago are the worst.

If the top 10 vote getters aren't from the last 15 years, it will be a miracle.

Oh I dunno, there's a lot of ILX hatred for "The Life of Emile Zola"

how many people here have seen the first 10 winners? there's a good 3-4 pix worthy of your consideration

i totally wept for hours after titanic:-/

I gotta go with Gump. It's the one movie on the list (I haven't seen Crash, either) that isn't just boring or obvious or treacly or whatever, it actually turns my stomach. It's wrongheaded, foul, and an insult to history, morality, and maybe humankind in general. So so so so BAD.

Hey there, Tuomas -- no reason to hate on Amadeus! It shouldn't have beaten The Killing Fields, I don't think, but it's fine and funny and one of the few movies I loved when I was a kid that still totally holds up.

Re: Patton -- I would not call it "bad" by any stretch. But boy, talk about mixed feelings. Is this movie actually... sentimental about this colossal sunuvabitch? But hey, whatever, Scott is amazing and it's exciting as hell. War is fun!

(Then again, I walked out of "The Fog of War" kind of grudgingly admiring Robert McNamara, so your stomach for this kind of thing may be really different from mine.)

I'm sure there are worse ones on here, but I have a personal boredom against Tom Jones.

yes! My folks insisted I watch it and I was not all that amused.

I walked out of "The Fog of War" kind of grudgingly admiring Robert McNamara

KENAN FOR WORST MOVIEGOER

"a personal boredom"? What's this – a Depeche Mode parody?

jhoshea u brake haert with wolfs hate :(

sry i just have a cold little spot in my heart for whiteman indian street cred grubbing. and for kevin costner too. and for sentimental historically inaccurate bullshit. actually fuck it im not sorry.

i mean in a way crash was worse (and i havent seen a lot of these movies). but crash was impressively bad. like it actually has a lot of potency animating its incredible awfulness. whereas dances is just flaccid.

I caught "Dances" on cable a few months ago. Hadn't seen it since it came out, and didn't really remember it. It's way worse than I remembered. I heckled it (just to myself, no one was around to appreciate my enormous wit).

I walked out of "The Fog of War" kind of grudgingly admiring Robert McNamara

KENAN FOR WORST MOVIEGOER

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Morbs, you know I posted that little caveat just to wind you up, don't you? :)

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Who thinks Rocky is the worst best picture? Rocky is awesome.

if you saw the pg-13 version of godfather part II i can understand why you voted for it.

surprised at the long tail of this poll

ok who voted gf2 and annie hall. WHO.

WORST PICTURE

oops -- some meta there

I don't even know if I voted in this one, but it would've been just another one on the gangpile.

who voted for gentleman's agreement?????

also alfred, u are so wrong that it is as bad as crash

In that there is no such thing as "as bad as Crash," yes.

tbh i can't imagine any pre-1950 nominee being as worthless as anything from the last 20 years; even the worst one is likely to have some redeeming value. like, i've seen 'the great ziegfeld' and it's nothing great, but i'm still glad i saw it, but i'm not glad i saw 'forrest gump' or 'chicago.'

When I was much younger, I had trouble reconciling instances of an organization giving a Best ________ award to a creative work that I didn't care for. Like, it made me assume that the problem was mine, that there was something wrong with my tastes. If Crash had won a Best Picture Oscar during that period of my life, I'm pretty sure the cognitive dissonance would have destroyed a portion of my brain.

The esteemed Academy seems lately to be working from a distinctly different definition of 'Best' than the one with which I'm familiar.

When I was much younger, I had trouble reconciling instances of an organization giving a Best ________ award to a creative work that I didn't care for. Like, it made me assume that the problem was mine, that there was something wrong with my tastes. If Crash had won a Best Picture Oscar during that period of my life, I'm pretty sure the cognitive dissonance would have destroyed a portion of my brain.

Well, it happened to me, bub, when Forrest Gump and Braveheart won consecutively.

had no idea Chicago was SO hated. what was folks' beef with it?

No one could sing or dance.

imo Chicago had a tin ear for satire and the songs and dancing were off-the-rack. but there are worse films out there.

The Hours was far worse: empowerment kitsch with Ed Harris wearing a shitty beret

Yeah, my awareness of the Oscars and the destruction of the notion that it could have any real authority on taste happened in the span of two years -- Schindler's List unto Forrest Gump.

Chicago was faux-Fosse without his flair for sexual dessication.

"sexually dessicated" is what I felt watching Zellweger.

However bad Crash mit be overall, Matt Dillon and Terrence Howard fully committed themselves to it and gave good performances.

I'd vote A Beautiful Mind.

A Beautiful Mind has that cow-licking-its-own-nostril touch that only Ron Howard can bring to a film.

can someone sum up what makes crash so bad? i haven't seen it but it looks interesting from the wiki article

Why spoil the surprise?

White people have problems we can surmount by hugging our brown-skinned maids.

1998 Shakespeare in Love, R 1

surprisingly low!

1940s had some real stinkers: Mrs. Miniver, Going My Way, Gentleman's Agreement

ugh watched crash w/ girlfriend one night in high school, so so wrong