WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only the '90s Edition)

i have somehow seen EVERY SINGLE ONE of these films.

forrest gump in a fucking walk btw.

runner-up: titanic.

jerry maguire can get fucked too, though.

Maguire v cider v titanic v scent v life v ghost

jerry maguire can get fucked too, though.

why on earth would you impugn gays like that

Most of these are genuine horror films, worse than anything reocorded by Raimi, Barker, Romero, Cronenberg.

The worst:

Ghost
Awakenings
Scent of a Woman
Forrest Gump
Il Postino
The Cider House Rules
Life is Beautiful
The Green Mile

gump v titanic v dances w/wolves

Michael Caine's zombie act in TCHR is one of the more disgraceful wins in 80 years.

'96 nominees probably the best, and I don't hate The English Patient.

Disliked: Godfather III, Prince of Tides, Unforgiven (sorry), As Good as It Gets. There are probably a dozen I stayed clear away from (e.g., the excitable Italian man). Worst: I guess Godfather III.

movies that, despite having seen them, i remember not a single thing about

The Prince of Tides
The Postman (Il Postino)
Shakespeare in Love
The Cider House Rules

i woulda thrown four wedding and a funeral in there but i figure all i need to remember is in the title

you people haven't even mentioned The Shawshank Redemption

The only two I could kick it with now are The Fugitive, Babe and L.A. Confidential.

Green Mile is worse than Shawshank, but is eclipsed in awfulness by Forrest Gump

when i was eight my family took me to see 'ghost,' which completely bewildered me, not least because i'd had the impression we were going to see 'ghost dad' with bill cosby.

Ghost Dad didn't have a slow dance between Whoopi and Demi though.

people really really love the shawshank redemption

also bewildered me since my mom, who apparently hadn't known anything about the movie, frantically covered my eyes during all the 'important' scenes.

i have kind of a sneaking affection for the shawshank redemption

TSR made all its money on video and cable reruns and Rush Limbaugh references.

j/k

i saw l.a. confidential on a big screen the other day for the first time since whenever and was shocked to think it was p lame

yeah l.a. confidential was on tv a while back and it was kinda bad i thought

hammy but in the bad way

From our vantage point it looks like the '80s version of Oscar respectability still depended on a pre- and post-New Hollywood ideal whereas in the nineties Mike Ovitz is the most powerful person in the universe.

skipped 9 of these incl Gump & Braveheart.

so, Shawshank

I don't love or even like Fargo like most of y'all do

I went to a pre-screening of LA Confidential when it came out an my friend and I hated it so much I think we walked out and were pretty surprised when it actually came out and everybody thought it was great.

it's a more entertaining nostalgia piece (as in "Gee, we used to crank shit like this out every three days on Jack Warner's lot") than Argo.

A pox on Kim Basinger though.

i hated the piano when i saw it but it's prob fine i just have a crush on holly hunter's voice so it was a v frustrating movie for me

Titanic.

i feel like there was kind of a backlash against 'fargo' but it really is pretty great.

Pauline Kael's post-retirement dismissal in an interview: "We're supposed to believe Holly Hunter found her independence playing New Age trills?"

I'm more surprised by how many of these I love (none of them winners, natch) than by how many shitty ones there are.

oh I don't mind The Silence of the Lambs (queer mullet guy sewing skin costume listening to Colin Newman) and Howards End (eighties respectability returns!).

i believe you also enjoy jfk

oh see I didn't even notice it.

Fine: JFK best of the nominees.

so what's the appeal of Shawshank -- the last time Tim Robbins could wear Griffin Mill fringe hair?

SotL is great!

Scent Of A Woman is a bloody awful movie Hoo Aah.

Speaking of which, the '90s were the heyday of Seinfeld--I count at least six of these where there were either throwaway references or sometimes whole subplots (e.g., making out at Schindler's List).

i don't think i could be with someone who doesn't like the english patient. enjoy sack lunch.

4 weddings

Gump.

Titanic

The fugitive vs ghost

what's wrong with The Fugitive besides Ford dyeing his hair

the fugitive is fucking awesome

My experience of the fugitive is passing out after the first 30 minutes and then waking up for the last 30 minutes and thinking it was a super disjointed confusing short movie, but I believe in reader response criticism, so my vote will stand

Also the girl I was dating at the time yelled at me for getting drunk and super high beforehand and snoring during the movie, so basically f u the fugitive, no Oscar for u

The Fugitive is textbook Tommy Lee Jones awesomeness

This list doesn't look as bad as I thought it would, though that is probably because of how much worse the 00s norms were in comparison.

still kinda amazed i saw all of these. i guess i saw a lot more movies before the internet came along to fill my life with its required daily dose of inanity.

fugitive is def one of those yeah i'll watch this on cable because i'm too lazy to change the channel

and it's always on cable

I don't really HATE The English Patient--there's about 90 mins worth that would've made for a good 1940s studio genre pic in there somewhere--but it's bloated as hell and contains some truly groan-worthy writing.

Haven't seen The Fugitive since it was in theatres, when I remember not liking it as much as In The Line of Fire.

hmm this isn't too bad a list, all things considered. if forced to, i could endure most of these again, but the one that would cause me the most dread is Life is Beautiful.

I can't actually be the only one voting for American Beauty....? Though objectively Dances With Wolves might be worse, I danced between those two.

There are lots of these which I think must be bad but which I can't be sure whether I've seen them or not (e.g. Scent of a Woman,Awakenings,Beauty and the Beast) but my feeling is that if it were REALLY bad enough to compete with AB and DwW, I'd remember the unpleasantness of watching it.

Full disclosure: there are only 11 of these I'm sure I've seen, and maybe 5 more that I may well have seen.

american beauty would definitely make any shortlist i made

but gump is just out-and-out evil

i could stomach gump until the maudlin last 30 minutes or so. unforgivable.

let's make this painful:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1bUWWgsbLZM/TFMed7b_3BI/AAAAAAAAACk/_cXRnSc9B4s/s1600/american+beauty.jpeg

Gump is another one I haven't seen since it was in theatres, but I have a feeling that if I watched it again now it would be too weird for me to out and out hate. Really, if this weren't the hit it was, we'd remember it as a camp curio today.

I love Life is Beautiful. Mainly the first half, but the last half ain't half bad either.

i only have vague memories of it, to be honest. it's more the idea of seeing it again that i fear.

Awakenings. I just want to again remind you that this was nominated for Best Picture.

lots of terrible movies have won best pic tho

Kind of want to vote Apollo 13 because I remember sitting in a theatre full of adults who were laughing their asses off at the piss being ejected into space and feeling mortified.

Pretty great list.

I really need to see Gump again. I loved it at the time, but I was like ten so what the hell did I know. Has there ever been a movie that was praised so highly at the time and then suffered such a huge backlash since? It's the Be Here Now of movies.

Something like a quarter of this list is great movies that it's been too long since I watched. Totally missed The Fugitive! Which I did see recently and which kicked major ass.

American Beauty is definitely the winner on the list in terms of the u-turn of my first 'oh, wow' impression to a later 'ugh, no' impression.

you seriously cannot fuck with any of these:

The Silence of the Lambs
The Crying Game
The Fugitive
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Babe
Fargo
L.A. Confidential

"Quiz Show" is my vote for "movie on this list which is basically perfect and which the world seems to have forgotten."

rob morrow with worst boston accent evah

"WOY didn't ya TESTIFOY?"

life is beautiful, no contest. every other movie on the list does something better than life is beautiful, and none are even close to being as offensive

gump is way better than most of these. especially braveheart. you guys are really sleeping on braveheart. for example, you can't vote for titanic when braveheart's right there. you just can't.

Trying to remember whether Gump was better or worse than that Benjamin Button remake they did.

Actually, that's unfair. Gump and BB are more like those two Nickelback songs you can play simultaneously and hear the extent to which the exact same formula was employed twice with different words.

i voted from the heart: jerry maguire

If you watch Braveheart as pure fantasy instead of historical drama it's pretty good

Goodfellas
The Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Secrets & Lies

only ones i would rate highly or semi-highly, still haven't seen all of thin red line
another 7-8 i would rate as decent

Almost totally bad all around, but these are next level awful.

Awakenings
Scent of a Woman
The Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
Life Is Beautiful
The Green Mile

Haven't bothered with The Prince of Tides, no matter how many times it's been referenced on The Simpsons.

I don't love or even like Fargo like most of y'all do

Fargo and JFK are tied for my favorite from this group.

I think I'd rewatch a lot of these movies on their own and enjoy them but when they're put together on a list like this I feel like I hate all of them

Except Babe

That is, Babe is a great movie

It's kind of sad in retrospect how much I hoped Babe would win best picture.

JFK rules

There's about eight or nine decent-or-better flicks in here, rest can go to hell

Will probably have to vote Shawshank to offset the insane extent to which the rest of the world has overrated it.

Went the boring route and voted Gump

braveheart vs. hooo-ah and hooo-ah takes it

Oh damn, didn't see American Beauty on the list until after I voted.

The 2000s version of this poll will be sooooo easy. But I'm having a rough time with this one because I don't outright hate any of these. And I've avoided most of the ones that I probably would hate. Godfather 3 is tragic. Gump and American Beauty are pretty useless. I actually kinda like some of the more divisive flicks in the list (Good Will Hunting, Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets). As of the last time I saw them, anyway.

The Full Monty, all the way. i remember watching it as a teenager and being pretty pissed off the entire time. how anyone thought such classist, looksist garbage was worth a clump of cat litter is still beyond my ken.

The 2000s version of this poll will be sooooo easy.

I assume you mean because of Crash but there's like 10 more that are in the same league (remember The Reader?)

Wow, no. I genuinely don't.

forrest gump in a fucking walk btw.

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 5:20 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otfm

I've never seen Forrest Gump, guessing it's bad because it's reactionary bollox?

Voted for Awakenings, cos the source material wld make a good movie, just not one starring Robin Williams and directed by Penny Marshall.

American beauty

Gump, shawshank, braveheart are all good-to-ok movies to leave on while channelsurfing

its gotta be godfather 3 for me. it made me bored and angry.

"bored and angry" common reactions to these, as opposed to eighties winners, which were merely "boring."

Angry indicates some level of engagement, unless it's anger I'm so bored.

As for the best of this lot, I'd say Pulp Fiction or Fargo, cause I'm boring.

Prince of Tides I saw at the time but only remember that it was like an abuse survivor narrative for 2/3 of the running time before inexplicably turning into a Streisand romcom.

I will never not vote for 'american beauty' in a 'worst film of X' poll

xxpost

I would add The Crying Game to that pair for my own top three.

mind is blown rediscovering that the Fugitive was nominated but I easily picked The Godfather Part III. There are plenty of movies I enjoyed less on the list and many I haven't seen because of how bad they look. But holy fucking cow Godfather Part III is just...such a lol.

it's possible i would have voted for something else if worst wasn't in all caps in the thread title

Wait what's wrong with the Fugitive? I watched that a couple weeks ago and it's good!

Is American Beauty really that bad? I haven't seen it since it came out and don't really remember much about it. Now I'm tempted to rewatch just to see why it's so awful.

It's with little doubt the smuggest movie of all 50 of these.

sorry, i don't actually have a problem with The Fugitive, I'm just shocked to learn a decent action/adventure based on a TV franchise got a best picture nom. I knew Tommy Lee Jones won but I didn't think the academy affection went beyond that.

Cider House Rules being underrated (overlooked?) itt, truly dire film

yeah you'd have to pay me to watch that. this is definitely the kind of list where trying to figure out the worst worst would lead to such a soul-crushing vortex of despair that i just stuck with the best worst.

Why don't we drop this subject? It's one thing to engage in badinage with these youngsters, but this sort of thing could be so easily misunderstood.

people like you walk between the raindrops

It's been ages since I've seen most of these films. Voted for the worst one I could remember seeing, which was Schindler's List.

haha what. There's certainly rong in the film, but no way is it worse than the abortion politics of The Cider House Rules or Kevin Spacey working out.

Um, I even have doubts about ... this picture ... boss.

This is ILE, chief! I mean, how do you know who your daddy is? Because your mama told you so.

Saw Schindler's List with my church youth group. Some of them nearly got us all kicked out after they started laughing when the elderly prisoners were forced to run naked in the camps.

Schindler's List is in no way worse than Life Is Beautiful. My friend dragged me to that movie and I am still somewhat angry and resentful that I had to watch the whole thing.

A very tight competition, but I'm going with Life is Beautiful.

The Godfather Part III is not a bad film, merely a comedown.

Does any other country have its name used so often to evoke profundity?

AMERICAN BEAUTY

BRITISH STEEL

FRENCH FRIES

GERMAN SCHEISSE

Schindler's List is tortureporn with the point that everyone should just hope for rescue from rich white men. Life is Beautiful is funny.

Also, I haven't seen Life is Beautiful in ten years. It might be worse than I recall.

I fucking hate The Green Mile so much

funny like hot tar poured over your nuts

I remember the first 20 mins being funny, actually

then someone should have told Roberto "no"

actually I really hated Shakespeare In Love, too

Four Weddings and a Holocaust

more like Zyklon B

skipping movies I haven't seen/don't remember, these are the ones I hate the most ranked from "best" to worst:

Titanic
As Good as It Gets
Jerry Maguire
Forrest Gump
Shakespeare in Love
The Green Mile

shakespeare in love

I remember the first 20 mins being funny, actually

You don't get to attack my taste in comedy any longer.

The Godfather Part III is not a bad film, merely a comedown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8O5ZRFbyU8

ok

it's really george hamilton who makes that scene

Schindler's List is tortureporn with the point that everyone should just hope for rescue from rich white men.

This is the stupidest sentence I have ever read.

Phil otm

ypu ppl sure love talkin bout whats terrible

American politicians

xpost There's not a punch bowl you haven't taken a shit in.

oh? partly cuz ppl love cooing over shit. some of us have moved on from MST3K.

I'ma say these two words only one more time.

Try. Love.

It's like Morbs deriding people for hatin'
It's like raaayeeeaaaaaayyyn on your wedding day

i think schindler's list is fine -- as is kubrick's famous zing on it.

i'm more likely to shit in the punchbowl when the cancer drugs give me diarrhea

I don't remember Joe Pesci saying that in JFK!

It was in one of the faked suicide notes.

I regret that by the time you read this I will be quite shitting in the punch bowl.

Shakespeare in Love had a slow clap in it. Therefore, fuck Shakespeare in Love.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/24600000/Shakespeare-in-love-1998-judi-dench-24673166-630-390.jpg

lol Beauty and the Beast

i would like to throw some hate BeauBea's way because fuck that movie, man.

from what i remember:

Dances with Wolves - not really that bad, in fact pretty good iirc.
Ghost - not terrible but the best pic nom was a lol.
The Godfather Part III - terrible rep but there are some pretty gripping scenes and some of the sumptuous atmosphere goes a long way, as do a few of the lines ("ZAZA!")
Goodfellas - perfect film.
The Silence of the Lambs - pretty great. i feel like the tone of this movie is so unsettling in so many ways. it makes wish demme would direct more suspense pics.
Beauty and the Beast - i remember really enjoying this.
Bugsy - idk, ok i suppose.
JFK - stupid and amazingly entertaining.
Unforgiven - nice stolid western. idk, i thought 'a perfect world' was the better eastwood pic from this period.
A Few Good Men - sorkin wrote it, so...obvious and kind of stupid-clever.
Schindler's List - genuinely great though a couple of those ending scenes are really just hammering home points that didn't need hammering.
The Fugitive - amazing action film. andrew davis was so particularly good at capturing chicago in his films and populating them with little moments that felt vv real and skillfully incorporated into the story. much like mctiernan.
In the Name of the Father - i liked this! but i prefer 'the boxer' as far as DDL irish troubles pics go.
The Piano - i liked it i think.
Forrest Gump - eh
Four Weddings and a Funeral - great beginning iirc, then descends into bullshit.
Pulp Fiction - great but not really my thing these days. i saw it nine times in the theater though.
Quiz Show - fantastic.
The Shawshank Redemption - i do like this one but its following and the meaning ppl assign to it is vv boondock saintsy somehow.
Braveheart - solid flick.
Apollo 13 - it just makes me want to watch 'the right stuff'.
The English Patient - really good imo!
Fargo - i like it but i've always thought it was a couple cuts below some of the coens' films, in partic 'miller's crossing', 'barton fink', 'blood simple', NCFOM, and 'a serious man'.
Jerry Maguire - blah.
Secrets & Lies - wonderful imo, made me a leigh stan.
Titanic - once the iceberg hits it's pretty dope.
As Good as It Gets - entertaining but kind of idiotic.
The Full Monty - okay i guess.
Good Will Hunting - no memory of this.
L.A. Confidential - love it though it has some plot flaws.
Shakespeare in Love - one of those movies that i feel like no one is ever going to return to, it's just so uninteresting.
Saving Private Ryan - dreadful bookends and loads of spielberg malarkey. i still like it, but 'band of brothers' is so much better.
The Thin Red Line - lots of malick malarkey but still compelling. beautiful movie.
American Beauty - piece of shit.
The Green Mile - not bad but i can't think about this w/o thinking about how doug hutchison's role as a stereotypical blackhearted creep was maybe a role he didn't allow to leave him.
The Insider - amazing imo.
The Sixth Sense - who cares.

i feel like i didn't see the worst of these, but from what i did see i probably dislike 'american beauty' most of all.

Favorites:

Goodfellas
Quiz Show
Secrets and Lies
JFK
The Insider

none of these are as bad as Barton Fink, even Shawshank

Somehow avoided Quiz Show for years bc I assumed it was real generic Oscar-bait, but the relative praise in here kinda has me wanting to check it out

Fantastic script. One of the few films to use writers as characters without self-consciousness.

The role of Jules Winnfield proved difficult to cast, mainly because Samuel L. Jackson was under the impression the part was his, until he found out he was in danger of losing the role to Paul Calderon. Jackson flew out to L.A. for a last-ditch audition with Tarantino. “I sort of was angry, pissed, tired,” Jackson recalls. He was also hungry, so he bought a takeout burger on his way to the studio, only to find nobody there to greet him. “When they came back, a line producer or somebody who was with them said, ‘I love your work, Mr. Fishburne,’” says Jackson.

bugsy sucks imo

most of these that i suspect are bad ive not seen

Somehow avoided Quiz Show for years bc I assumed it was real generic Oscar-bait, but the relative praise in here kinda has me wanting to check it out

Cosine. Always seemed like it would be really boring, but now I'm interested.

Now you're off on a tangent.

ghost or american beauty for me

I dunno if I've ever been more annoyed by a movie than when I saw American Beauty. I ranted at my poor friend for 5 blocks after left the theater, I was so fucking mad that I had paid to see it

bugsy is probably worst in terms of pure dull ineptness.

but my vote is emotionally drawn to either braveheart or shawshank in strong measure due to the cloying bro-canonization of both.

is Bugsy inept or fitfully watchable?

one of the more old fashioned thing on this list

I don't even remember Bugsy, I always get it confused with Dick Tracy and start humming Hanky Panky

it could have used Madonna.

Bugsy is the version of Dick Tracy where all of the characters are played by children.

remember when Warren Beatty was in like, every movie

Haven't seen it since it came out--I remember the film as a whole being a little tepid, but there was a surprisingly good supporting performance from Bill Graham, the Fillmore guy.

braveheart and jfk are the only two three-ish-hour movies i know where i can do every line of dialogue

only one is a "good" film though

I honestly don't know which of the two that is.

(in your opinion, that is)

Quiz Show struck me as one of those films where, even if it were done to perfection, it wouldn't ever be a great film, but only a good small one.

that's about right!

you have to be a boring ass liberal newspaper critic to buy Redford's scenario: that the American public was truly horrified by the rigging of quiz shows.

More films should aim for 'small and good', imo. Most films should probably be like a solid short story.

it was a good movie but yeah, aimless otm

the Fiennes-Scofield father-son dynamic is one of the most painfully accurate I've seen in a movie.

I haven't seen all of these, and I have a feeling I might vote for Life Is Beautiful if I'd ever forced myself to watch it. But of the ones I've seen, definitely Gump. Runner-up: As Good As It Gets, which is pretty repulsive on every level.

One of the most inexplicable films ever. I have no idea why anyone in it does anything.

"Carol the waitress, Simon the fag."

what a big laugh that got in the theatre

Things on here I legitimately like a lot: Goodfellas, Unforgiven, The Crying Game, The Fugitive, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Babe, Fargo.

Secrets and Lies is pretty good, too. I think. I don't really remember it that well. Howard's End and The Remains of the Day both hit their marks fine. Elizabeth isn't a good movie, but Cate Blanchett is fun to watch.

xpost sometimes applause and cartwheels of glee

woof I forgot to include Babe and The Crying Game.

is there a scene in any of these that's dumber than the kooky three's company misunderstanding that serves as the inciting incident in american beauty:
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/th_ab_zpscad538ed.gif

i guess russell crowe showing up alive and well after clearly being shot to death in the face by james cromwell in la confidential would be close.

I don't even remember Bugsy, I always get it confused with Dick Tracy and start humming Hanky Panky

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i always get it mixed up with Oscar http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102603/

al leong 1000% otm

the thing about american beauty is, the script's not THAT bad and i really blame mendes for what it became. it should've just been modestly mediocre instead of the insistently Serious Important Movie that he made, which is why it was 1000x more annoying

with gump, again, i think it was meant at the outset as an apolitical satire about the american century and became something more fucked up in the execution, but this is kinda otm:

Gump is another one I haven't seen since it was in theatres, but I have a feeling that if I watched it again now it would be too weird for me to out and out hate. Really, if this weren't the hit it was, we'd remember it as a camp curio today.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

zemeckis is on such a higher level as a filmmaker than, i dunno, john madden that i cant put gump below the Ghosts and Shakespeares In love of the world

only ones i've seen:

Beauty and the Beast - good villain, good songs, unbelievably toxic message for children, OMG is this horrifying
The Fugitive - "a decent action/adventure based on a TV franchise" - yup, would like to see this again honestly
Forrest Gump - loathsome boomer self-congratulation crossed with hollywood "inspirational performance" by numbers, oof, at least it's pretty
Pulp Fiction - this was great fun, no desire to see it again though - exhausted by generations of college freshmen and their ilk
The Shawshank Redemption - finally saw this a couple years ago, thought it was a good yarn with a good payoff, no need to see it again
Babe - no memory of the details but i'm sure i liked it
The Postman (Il Postino) - had to look it up to realize i did, in fact, watch this. basically harmless though, right?
Sense and Sensibility - acceptable adaptation, arguably misses point of book, alan rickman unintentionally sinister because alan rickman
Fargo - this is damned good IIRC
Good Will Hunting - duuuuuumb
Life Is Beautiful - watched in high school english, remember thinking it was very good under ebert's influence... dunno?
American Beauty - haaaaaaaated this ponderous pretentious crap, remember nothing about it besides my disgruntlement

Best: Fargo, Pulp Fiction, probably Babe.

Worst: Tempted by American Beauty but gonna actually vote Beauty and the Beast on principle. It's pretty and more briskly watchable than most of these, but that just makes it a more efficient vehicle for training millions upon millions of little girls that the guy who screams at you and knocks things around is really a good guy underneath, you just have to get to know him! Fuck this. It should be consigned to the same limbo as Song of the South, not enshrined as a "timeless classic" or w/e.

American Beauty. An insulting piece of absolute shit.

I dunno if I've ever been more annoyed by a movie than when I saw American Beauty. I ranted at my poor friend for 5 blocks after left the theater, I was so fucking mad that I had paid to see it

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:35 PM (4 hours ago)

Almost my exact same reaction.

I've seen like 2/3 of these but don't really remember a lot of them. The only one that jumps out at me with pure evil hatred is As Good As It Gets, which was terrible. Godfather III is probably number two; I actually tried to watch it again recently and just couldn't keep watching it after the ridiculousness of the helicopter scene.

I watched Pulp Fiction again a couple weeks ago for the first time in at least ten years and expected to hate it or at least be really sick of its schtick as reflected by so many movies that ripped it off but was surprised at how much I liked it.

Pulp Fiction holds up pretty well, I think. The only part that's aged poorly imo is the date between Travolta and Uma Thurman.

Ultimately voted Jerry Maguire over American Beauty, but it was tough.

shakespeare in love over american beauty but only barely

zemeckis is on such a higher level as a filmmaker than, i dunno

yes exactly, u don't know.

Quiz Show is worth watching for Paul Scofield's performance alone - it's kind of LOL that they got two Brits to play American academics, but of course both actors are perfect at expressing nuances of class and intellectual snobbery

i feel like i kinda want to watch american beauty again to see if i might change my vote but i dunno if i'm up to that today

then again being ripped on cold meds might be the perfect time

I'm gonna rent American Beauty tonight just because of this thread.

If it turns out you love it, let me know and we'll start a support group.

I recall liking American Beauty fine when I watched it when I was in high school circa 2006. The part with the plastic bag was kind of rmde. I'm curious what the consensus read on its abject badness is; I have no idea if I'd like it now.

I watched it when I was in high school circa 2006

over-the-hill birthday cards can be sent to strongo hulkington c/o ilx retirement home

I guess i'm the only Babe hater.

life is beautiful is an atrocity

Elvis aside, Gump is solid until Vietnam but Beauty is p much awful from the get go imo.

Stoked about the love that The Fugitive is receiving itt

Only just occurred to me how basically absent Thora Birch has been for the last dozen years, even compared to Mena Suvari and Wes Bentley.

Ghost World was her last big role, besides that Limp Bizkit video...?

A lot of big names from the TRL era pretty much only existed within that bubble of time.

I have seen the cider house, I have been to the cider house, and it definitely does not rule!

Fugitive on tv last night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ11Ws3tqP0

as much as i'd like to see either of the shitty Darabont films "win" this pll, i had to go for sheer Robin Williams awfulness and voted for awakenings.

but boy or boy, there sure was a lotta crap nominated in the 1990s.

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Good job, American Beauty--proud to love only the fourth-worst.

Getting stuck on a cold Saturday night with the top three is like spending the weekend with Dahmer.

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Old Paul Edgecomb: We each owe a death - there are no exceptions - but, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.

Someone actually thinks The Piano is the worst film on this whole list?

I am grateful that to this day I have no idea what the Green Mile is about.

It's about the invention of the first hybrid car.

subtitle: iatee vs cars

Pulp Fiction 2

Two people in this thread live very charmed lives.

Seriously. Even if you don't care for it, you must've only seen, like, two other films on the list to think it's the worst.

Ditto Schindler's List, but I see what they were doing there.

American Beauty got robbed. Should've gotten bronze, at the very least.

That said, I voted Four Weddings and a Funeral before seeing the obvious choice.

even though neither shawshank redemption nor the green mile won this poll, both did "well" enough for me to take pride in belonging to a community with so many other Darabont haters. good show ILX.

I downloaded Life is Beautiful to check that it was good, but to my horror it was dubbed in English. Now, that was not the version which was released originally, right? That would have been awful.

I saw it in the theater, it was definitely subtitled.

(shrugs) Meh, I thought "The Green Mile" was an intersting enough time-killer, Magical Negroisms duly noted. But I probably need to see more films (or maybe fewer)

did Spike Lee really coin the term "magic negro" (as claimed in the Green Mile's wiki entry?)

No, I actually think that was the original title of Kazaam before the producers came to their senses.

The producers didn't come to their senses soon enough.

I'm surprised "The Cider House Rules" got 0 votes, it's what I would have voted for.

dude Cider House RULES

i definitely heard the term before the green mile came out. i think s.lee made it more popular.

What's the necessary length of time for critical distance on these things? Kinda antsy for the 00s version for whatever reason, even though I've probably seen the fewest films for that of any decade since the 60s.

Here's the Lord Sotosyn edition.

I won't defend anything on your shit list, but A Few Good Men and Scent of a Woman are two I don't mind, almost certainly owing to the fact that I was 14 when they came out and they looked and talked like real grown-up films that made me feel smart for enjoying them. Had they been released even five years later, I don't know that I would have even seen them, let alone liked them. As it stands, I still prefer either to Apollo 13 and Titanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjJzOpe9xEg

I had to get pretty deep into the list (L.A. Confidential, of which I only have very vague memories) before I found a movie I'd want to watch again.

Four Weddings and a Funeral is listed twice (a guilty pleasure of mine to be honest) and Scent of a Woman isn’t that bad. Shakespeare in Love, however, is war crime worthy.

wtf Apollo 13 is great

smdh @ you Ron Howard haters

Shakespeare In Love is a fine, frothy romcom with Stoppard jokes in

Sitting in a theatre as a bunch of adults crack up over the piss-in-space scene in Apollo 13 is one of the most mortified I've ever felt during a movie.

*cracked

Four Weddings and a Funeral is listed twice (a guilty pleasure of mine to be honest) and Scent of a Woman isn’t that bad. Shakespeare in Love, however, is war crime worthy.

― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, February 3, 2010

lol -- like I wrote on Facebook, that typo might be Freudian: I don't know what to think about that film.

It's definitely one of the two non-heinous theatrical films by Richard Curtis.

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Do you force yourself to watch all of them? I haven't done that to myself with The Green Mile yet (but I plan to watch the imdb top 250 this year), and a few minutes of Awakenings on TV were enough for me.

If we're judging on the basis of # of times watched and how frequently I feel the urge to revisit, The Fugitive is pretty much the hands-down winner of this lot for me. It's joined the Robocop/Dazed & Confused pantheon of 'movies I am never not in the mood to watch'.

Oh wait, this is a thread for the worst, how do I salvage my mistake...

The Fugitive ya right more like The F-U-gitive

Robocop: Dazed & Confused.

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I have only had 4 beers, I am not deterred from climbing MoonTower

xpost I don't know why I did a backslash instead of a comma. But I'm pretty sure that hypothetical movie mashup is in fact The Entertainment as featured in the novel Infinite Jest (i.e. I would watch it until I was dead from entertainment).

The Piano is pretentious twaddle. The Insider is fake grittiness.