Worst 'Best Picture' ever?

geezer9687 wrote:Watch Crash. I beg you. Seriously, do it. If you honestly think its better than Braveheart, then well, I don't know what to tell you. I just can't see that happening.

Even if Crash is as dreadful as Braveheart, it's only two hours long whereas Braveheart was three full hours of unrelenting awfulness. Other Best Pictures may have sucked as hard, but few have ever sucked as long.

Swedgin! wrote:
No... Only that the very LEAST deserving are all clustered, like hyperdimensional rat pellets, around the last two decades of the space-time continuum.

haha nice poster. nice to see the forums back

hollywood! (I'm like one of the Nips from Spielberg's 1941: "Hollywoo'! Hollywoo'!") GREAT to see ya, partner!

Erm, some explanation may in order: Let me put it to ya this way... Nothing remains, "as always," forever.

Or, if you prefer:


I have returned. Sort of

You can call me Swedge, btw. Welcome aboard, old friend. We missed ya.

There's a good article on this very topic over at Big Hollywood. Here's the link:

http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/blog/16-oscars-worst-best-pictures

I particularly love this little paragraph:

One of the great "What were they thinking?" moments of Oscardom. Instead of choosing the best-reviewed movie of the year -- "Brokeback Mountain" -- the Academy picked this contrived, hectoring paean to liberal guilt. What made Ryan Phillippe shoot that guy? Racism. What made Ludacris jack that car? Racism. What made Sandra Bullock fall down the stairs? Racism. The movie is about as nuanced as a hammer blow to the head, as enjoyable as listening to your parents fight, and about as honest as your average Enron executive.

Couldn't have said it better myself.