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Oscar Winning Movies You Despise!

If you're talkin' Best Picture winners:

Lawrence of Arabia

It's boring and I really can't stand Peter O'Toole.

Annie Hall

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton. 'nuf said.

Dances With Wolves

If anyone other than Kevin Costner had done this movie, I'd like it better.

The English Patient

Another boring British costume drama

Titanic

I really only watched it to see the special effects of sinking the ship. :)

and let's not forget...


Gone With the Wind

Despite Clark Gable, long and boring.



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Titanic. There's just no way anything could have been more undeserving of an Oscar. Guess it just goes to show how much influence hot, young women have over the people who influences such decisions.

Nothing else really ever earned my ire.
 
All of you Titanic-bashers are utterly wrong. James Cameron did a fantastic job with the film. It was far more than an impressive technical achievement.

I'm sorry that Titanic beat L.A. Confidential, which would have won without Titanic as competition. Die-hard fans of L.A. Confidential have never forgiven the Academy for giving the Oscar to another film.

I despised American Beauty. It was an ugly, pretentious piece of cinematic offal.
 
I actually think the Titanic-hate is at least as overrated as the movie itself.
Whether or not the movie was deserving of the Oscar, I don't know, although the Academy's taste seldom coincides with mine. But it wasn't a terrible movie, it was very well done actually. It's just a movie that was made for a different audience than people who frequent a Star Trek message board. ;)
 
I don't think any thing can compare to the travesty that is Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan - does ANYONE remember Shakespeare in Love? Anyone?
 
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

I really hated that years oscars. That movie pretty much represented 3 years worth of films and seemed unfair to those it was competing against. Also, the movie itself left a lot to be desired and was too damn long.

Crash

Not sure how that movie won.

I really liked Titanic and A Beautiful Mind, which seem to be not well liked here. I can understand Titanic, but don't with ABM. Crowe, other than his escapades in a hotel with a phone, is a great actor.
 
General Kang said:
I don't think any thing can compare to the travesty that is Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan - does ANYONE remember Shakespeare in Love? Anyone?
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I remember it, and enjoyed it greatly. Students of Shakespeare doubtless won't care for it, but as an entertaining film it's quite good. Joe Fiennes and Geoffrey Rush turn in some truly hilarious performances. The real tragedy associated with this film is that Gwynneth Paltrow was awarded the Best Actress Oscar instead of imho the more deserving Cate Blanchett for "Elizabeth". Yeah, I realize quality in comedy is quite challenging, but Blanchett seemed to have the more difficult role and pulled it off at least as well.



Bad Bishop said:
All of you Titanic-bashers are utterly wrong. James Cameron did a fantastic job with the film. It was far more than an impressive technical achievement.

I'm sorry that Titanic beat L.A. Confidential, which would have won without Titanic as competition. Die-hard fans of L.A. Confidential have never forgiven the Academy for giving the Oscar to another film.
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"Titanic" is like the New York Yankees. In many if not most cases the bashing stems from a tendency towards "taking the top dog down a notch". It's become almost fashionable to be iconoclastic towards the most successful entries in various categories. There's much to criticize about the movie - weak "love" story, overall far too long, an inspid "sex" scene - but it's still a movie I enjoy watching. And for other reasons than a nude Kate Winslet. ;)


tomalak301 said:
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

I really hated that years oscars. That movie pretty much represented 3 years worth of films and seemed unfair to those it was competing against. Also, the movie itself left a lot to be desired and was too damn long.
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I can see why you'd feel that way, but given that the first two films receive a pittance of awards, even if this was awarding the entire trilogy it was well deserving. The special effects raised the category at least another notch. Howard Shore's musical score was peerless and will always be one of the best ever. And you had the three films being made concurrently. Biased? A bit, I am... but to deny the trilogy/single film/whatever the recognition it deserved would have been utterly silly.
 
As for my personal entry in the thread's category - Annie Hall. Yes I freely confess that I'm affected by the fact it won the BPO over Star Wars that year. Plus, it's again a case of different films appealing to different kinds of audiences. However, as humorous as Annie Hall was supposed to have been, I didn't feel the effect from it the way I did from Star Wars and its virtually groundbreaking presence.
 
I think A Beautiful Mind is highly overrated.


However: I think a lot of people say they hate Titanic because it's fashionable to do so. I've always thought it was a stunning, beautifully acted and directed film from start to finish - and it certainly deserved its Oscars, IMO.
 
Neroon said:
tomalak301 said:
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

I really hated that years oscars. That movie pretty much represented 3 years worth of films and seemed unfair to those it was competing against. Also, the movie itself left a lot to be desired and was too damn long.
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I can see why you'd feel that way, but given that the first two films receive a pittance of awards, even if this was awarding the entire trilogy it was well deserving. The special effects raised the category at least another notch. Howard Shore's musical score was peerless and will always be one of the best ever. And you had the three films being made concurrently. Biased? A bit, I am... but to deny the trilogy/single film/whatever the recognition it deserved would have been utterly silly.
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I understand that, and I think in that sense it should have gotten a special award or something. Heck, I was fine with it winning musical score, or best visual effects, but it swept all the awards, including Best Picture (And the Academy doesn't give best picture to genre films) for 3 movies. Yes it was filmed concurrently, but the fact remains that they were three movies that came out in 3 different years. Everything that was up against it didn't even have a chance, and I remember that year being a pretty good year for movies. It was just a 3 and a half hour love fest for this one movie representing 3 movies and it was overblown.
 
I despise Titanic.

Back in 1997, Republican terrorists blew up our local cinema. The only saving grace was that Titanic was showing at the time.
 
Twilight said:
I think A Beautiful Mind is highly overrated.


However: I think a lot of people say they hate Titanic because it's fashionable to do so. I've always thought it was a stunning, beautifully acted and directed film from start to finish - and it certainly deserved its Oscars, IMO.
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Totally agree. "I Hate Titanic" is the cool thing to say. There's never any actual articulate argument behind the statement. I only know one person who hates Titanic and stated why in detail.

My big one: Driving Miss Daisy. It's embarrassing to watch Morgan Freeman in that Step N' Fetchit routine.
 
Barbados Slim said:
Totally agree. "I Hate Titanic" is the cool thing to say. There's never any actual articulate argument behind the statement. I only know one person who hates Titanic and stated why in detail.
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Meh, there are many, many good arguments against Titanic. I think the storyline is bland and formulaic, the dialogues are ridiculously cheesy and the characters are one-dimensional and flat; not to mention the pseudo-Romeo and Juliet class struggle bullshit. And what bothered me even more (and the sheer boredom, of the film) was the butchering of the actual history of that event, for example not showing the real acts of heroism that took place instead of things like the band playing until the boat goes down. When in doubt, the writers always went for the clichè and not for substance, from start to finish.

Yet it somehow worked with the intended audience. You can't argue against success, and it wasn't just hype that made the movie successful. I watched the film years after it was in the cinemas on tv to see what all the fuss was about, and it was better than I thought it would be. But I don't think the movie will hold up well in the future.
 
Actually, many of the smaller details you see in the film probably did happen, baed upon eyewitness accounts:.
- Men kicking around the chunks of ics on the deck after the impacy with the iceberg
- a little boy playing with his top on deck
- Capt Smith seen walking into the wheelhouse as the ship is going down
- an unidentified officer shooting himself, though I am less certain about that one.

What definitely was erroneous was that "class struggle" crap you mention. Not all that long ago I attended a travelling exhibit about the ship:
- The steerage accomodations while not exactly brimming in ornateness were considered to be a higher standard the middle class on most other ships.
- The reasons so many of the lower class travellers couldn't get up deck to escape was more due to their locations purchased.
- Andrews was seen in a lounge staring at a clock

The film was more historically accurate than most about the ship, but there's no denying the one-dimensional nature of most of these character portrayals such as you mention.

Was Titanic the best film that year? From a technical perspective, yes. From an aesthetic aspect, probably. Musically, yeah, I'd say so. But the script was VERY lacking, far moreso than I'd expect from a Best Picture Oscar.


Regarding Return of the King:
tomalak301 said:
Everything that was up against it didn't even have a chance, and I remember that year being a pretty good year for movies. It was just a 3 and a half hour love fest for this one movie representing 3 movies and it was overblown.
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Then we will have to agree to disagree. It wasn't so much overblown as it was giving the film(s) their due. Some of the awards you can definitely find questions, but overall I still feel it deserved everything it got, because it recognized the complete effort. You can't tell the whole story in one film, and I doubt in even two though I admit some of ROTK could have been trimmed and more efficiently applied.
 
Titanic-kinda vapid story. It felt trumped up.
A Beautiful Mind-couldn't even interest me enough to watch it
Shakespeare In Love-see Titanic(and Paltrow DID NOT deserve that! Elizabeth kicked ass!)-plus, it beat Saving Private Ryan? Are you kidding me?
Chicago-ok, so we did an ok musical for the first time in years-let's give it the Oscar! Brilliant idea! *raspberry*-I know I saw better movies that year....

Crash-left me with a "meh" feeling-too contrived and kinda short, leaving an incomplete feeling....

Gotta agree about Out Of Africa-compared to the competition that year, it should have come in sixth in a field of five...
 
The movie whose soundtrack was essentially a chick belting out movie long that her heart would go on and on and on and on and on and on...
I laughed out loud during the oh so steamy sex scene, you know what I mean, the one with *the hand* and then like 500 pairs of eyes stared at me frowning...
 
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