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Oscar Winning Movies You Despise!

I don't hate too many films, but some get on my nerves.

'Annie Hall'. 'Star Wars' was iconic, ground-breaking, and changed the way moves were made. 'Annie Hall' was adequate. And yes, this is one of the reasons I am no fan of Woody Allen.

'Million Dollar Baby'. Lifetime meets Eastwood. woot.

'Crash'. Yawn. Pretentious Hollywood gets excited about racism - an issue that WAS controversial four decades ago.
 
Mutenroshi said:
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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Heh... yeah that's a great description of that scene and why it's more laughable than entertaining. :lol:

While I don't care for the pop hit, the overall soundtrack was very appealing. I've always enjoyed James Horner's work in whatever film he's scoring. In this case, the use of the Eulian pipes and various other instruments provided the sometimes ethereal appeal and other worldliness. Of course, in addiiton to his work, I like Gaelic Storm's too. :lol:
 
Chicago.

Not that I dislike musicals (because I don't), but I didn't care for this one at all. I'm still incredibly disappointed Gangs of New York lost the best picture award.
 
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Titanic is a glorified chick flick. The love story was teeny bopish but the ship sinking was really cool.

Gladiator was a good action movie, but Oscar worthy? I don't think so.

Crash was a collection of racial stereotypes forced to be thrown into a movie together. It was The Real World: The Movie.

Annie Hall. God The Academy sucks ass.
 
Not quite hate, but I was mostly underwhelmed, bored or annoyed by Shakespeare in Love, Brokeback Mountain and Chicago; I disliked the message of the latter and Forrest Gump.
 
Before I go to bed, might as well go to town on some recent winners.

Crash throws together a bunch of racial stereotypes with a moving tearjerker of a song (poor Kathleen York), but fails to say anything relevent or constructive about race.

The Departed is far inferior to the Hong Kong originals (Infernal Affairs 1, 2, and 3 in the U.S.), and not even Scorsese's best Oscar bait in the past ten years (I far prefer The Aviator).

A Beautiful Mind is all flash and no substance. Only a few years later, it's largely been forgotten, and rightfully so. Apollo 13 was a far better film by Ron Howard.
 
I can't really think of an Oscar movie I despise. Titanic I mostly laughed through, so that was fun. Gladiator, Ghandi and Braveheart I liked a lot. I also liked Shakespeare in love, but it didn't help that I was majoring in English in Uni at the time.
 
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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Yes I remember it.
I liked this a lot and it brought a tear to my eye.

Its an excellent film.
SPR is good too.
 
The one thing I dislike so greatly about "Gladiator" - and really, it's not the film's fault but the Academy's - is that Russell Crowe was given the Best Actor Oscar over Tom Hanks for "Cast Away". Crowe did a decent job, but his film isn't a showcase for acting talent so much as it is for action and special effects. IMHO, Hanks' turn in "Cast Away" was far more challenging.
 
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Titanic. I began to hate it while I was watching it. It's a bad Harlequin Romance Novel, full of cliched characters. Melodrama at its worst. They should have used the music played during a 1920s silent serial as the soundtrack.

Halfway through I wanted to yell "SINK THE DAMN SHIP ALREADY!"

My wife loves the film and Celine Dion. :(
 
Gladiator wasn't bad but it should have lost to either Crouching or Traffic. But the year 2000 was a poor one for film in general and there weren't many great choices overall.

Annie Hall was and is a great film. Against virtually any other movie it should have won. But it should have lost to Star Wars.

Despite being a crowd pleaser and a worthy nomination, Forrest Gump deserved to lose to either Shawshank or Pulp Fiction. That night it should have lost to Fiction. But in hindsight, it should have lost to Shawshank.

A Beautiful Mind losing to Fellowship was an absolute crime. Fellowship is the LOTR flick that was most deserving of an Oscar, not Return of the King.

Chicago's win can be attributed to obnoxious Miramax politicking. The Pianist should have run away with it.

The Return of the King deserved to win out of the films it was nominated against. It was a weak year.
 
Norrin Radd said:
A Beautiful Mind losing to Fellowship was an absolute crime. Fellowship is the LOTR flick that was most deserving of an Oscar, not Return of the King.
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I think you got that reversed. Didn't "A Beautiful Mind" win the Oscar that year?
 
Crash was poorly written preachy garbage that made me want to nap. It utterly failed at trying to make a point about racism.
Gone with the Wind puts me to sleep, as well. I don't see what is so great about that film.
Forrest Gump was utter trash. Irritating and pointless.
I can't watch more than a second of Chicago although keep in mind that I hate musicals.

On the Titanic debate I'm torn. Parts of the movie feels like melodramatic bullshit while other parts of it are pitch perfect (the end with Rose walking to see DiCaprio in the main hall of the Titanic after she died) that causea lump in the throat.
 
Chicago is sleazy, trashy, stupid satire that has one of the best Non-strip tease, strip teases ever. It's not something I'd watch all the time, and it's not Oscar worthy imo, but I don't hate it.

Forrest Gump was utter trash. Irritating and pointless
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It's the way The Baby Boomers see themselves. It's them patting themselves on the back for managing to get through the 60's and 70's. Forest represents America itself, caught in between the cultural upheaval of The Left and Right of this time period. As seen through that allegory, it's quite good.

The Departed if fucking awesome. Maybe not Oscar worthy, but damn good. Mark Wahlberg was a gem, Alec Baldwin was hilarious, and Jack was at his most evil and twisted. And it was the moment where I decided that I didn't hate Leo anymore, but instead thought he was one of the best actors around. "Ok, he's a badass now. He's gone the Brad Pitt route. Congrats Leo". I especially liked MATT DAY-MON's performance. How his whole life was a well acted lie to the point of it even affecting even minimal things like his relationships. Nothing he did was real. It was all devoid of passion and humanity. He was a machine not a person.
 
Titanic is supposed to be a melodramatic romance and it does what it's supposed to do well. Thats like complaining that Die Hard has too much action and not enough Christmas.

Crash is a failure because it was supposed to be a social commentary and instead we got a bunch of cliches as told by a rich white screenwriter.

I disagree about Return of the King. I think it's the best of the three and has the most emotional resonance. I don't buy into the "reward the trilogy" theory because each film got nominated and each film can be judged alone.
 
Thrall said:
The Departed if fucking awesome. Maybe not Oscar worthy, but damn good. Mark Wahlberg was a gem, Alec Baldwin was hilarious, and Jack was at his most evil and twisted. And it was the moment where I decided that I didn't hate Leo anymore, but instead thought he was one of the best actors around. "Ok, he's a badass now. He's gone the Brad Pitt route. Congrats Leo". I especially liked MATT DAY-MON's performance. How his whole life was a well acted lie to the point of it even affecting even minimal things like his relationships. Nothing he did was real. It was all devoid of passion and humanity. He was a machine not a person.
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Yeah, The Departed is an awesome film. Wahlberg's line about the feds being like mushrooms still cracks me up. ;)
 
Norrin Radd said:
The Return of the King deserved to win out of the films it was nominated against. It was a weak year.
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Fellowship should have won over A Beautiful Mind. Master & Commander should have won over Return of the King two years later. But Fellowship wasn't considered "finished," and Return won for the trilogy as a whole.
 
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