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

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.

[last lines]
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.