What's the worst flick to win the Oscar for Best Picture?
OP is correct.
Any other choice is wrong. Period.
>>64561776
You already posted it
What problem do people have with The Hurt Locker? I thought it was a great fucking movie.
>>64561776
>>64561837
>>64561894
What about Driving Miss Daisy?
>>64561926
I liked it when I was 16. That is definitive proof that it was bad. Good art should alienate casuals.
>>64561926
OP's pic is Crash.
>>64561926
It just pains me to see The Hurt Locker would win Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan, a much superior war film
fuck off Shakespeare in Love
>>64562005
Shakespeare in Love is fucking fantastic, also The Thin Red Line is better.
>>64561926
it was absolutely just kind of ok
Argofuck yourself
The Artist
holy shit what a forgettable piece of trash besides it's """""""gimmick"""""""""
there's tons of actual silent-era movies that are a million times better
![the-english-patient[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qdj4YRE.jpg "the-english-patient[1].jpg")
>>64562377
it was a really weak field that year
>>64562005
>>64561926
weak field in 2009 too
I'll submit, The English Patient from 1996, which somehow beat out Fargo. I have never met a single person who says they enjoyed The English Patient, whereas Fargo is one of the best films of the 90s
Argo
>>64561776
my utterly liberal parents recommended me this film and it has to be the apex of white guilt
>>64562005
Saving private ryan is overrated and has shit acting mugfog
>>64562661
>shit acting
Not really
>>64561776
Your favorite movie, OP
>>64561776
Crash, Shakespeare in Love, 12 years a slave, The Artist, English Patient, and even though it didn't win Inception getting a nomination is the greatest tragedy in the history of the Academy
>>64562770
But Dude, Where's My Car? didn't win any Oscars.
![Forrest_Gump_poster[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BfhiZus.jpg "Forrest_Gump_poster[1].jpg")
Forrest Gump
Not kidding. Film takes place over several decades and manages to say nothing about any of them or any of the historically significant people in them. It's not as if the cinematography, writing, or directing are spectacular either. This is even more suprising becauseHanks, Zemeckis, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, and Sally Fieldare all proven talents that have made great movies and proven they can save bad films. Hate to sound edgy but holy shit the academy are fucking overemotional children sometimes.
>>64562852
further proof the Academy knows nothing
>>64562377
>they actually had Michelle Obama present the award
I like how unsubtle they are about being as bad as the Clintons with giving celebs political power
>>64561926
It was the worst movie nominated for Best Picture that year. It was boring, with an insufferable main character and a one-tone script ("fuck fuck shit that fucking fuck").
>>64561776
Argo was pretty terrible.
>>64563054
>It was the worst movie nominated for Best Picture that year.
Avatar – James Cameron and Jon Landau
The Blind Side – Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove, and Broderick Johnson
District 9 – Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
An Education – Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
Inglourious Basterds – Lawrence Bender
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness
A Serious Man – Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Up – Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air – Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, and Jason Reitman
Was it really?
Was it really?
>>64563294
Yes
>>64563294
I don't know what than anon is talking about, fucking The Blind Side was nominated for Best Picture
>>64562484
That's probably the most forgettable academy award for best picture
>>64563424
Worse than District 9, Avatar, Inglorious Basterds, The Blind Side, Up and Precious?
Really?
>>64561977
>Good art should alienate casuals.
Spoken like a true casual
>>64563548
The casuals are destroying the western world. If you give them something that makes them happy then you are complicit in that destruction. If you make something to bore and confuse them then you're fighting the good fight.
>>64563294
>A Serious Man
Go fuck yourself.
Crash was probably the worst I've seen, but the English Patient and Forrest Gump come pretty close.
>>64563661
It's probably top 3 worst Coen Brothers friend
>>64562484
Argo was more forgettable. At least the artist had a gimmick. Argo had nothing
>>64563661
I posted the entire nominations list. I wasn't implying that Hurt Locker was the best movie on there. But it's certainly not the worst thing nominated.
>>64563294
A Serious Man and Inglourious Basterds are better.
>>64563685
Their top 3 worst are The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty and The Hudsucker Proxy, friend.
>>64563524
Well I can certainly agree with The Blind Side and Precious
>>64563685
Top 3 best, plebbo. I bet you like the big lebowski. Top kek.
>>64562933
The main message of the movie seems to be that if you're dumb and clueless through blind luck all your problems will be resolved.
>>64563816
God takes watches out for fools and drunks.
>>64561977
Goodfellas was my favorite movie at 13 so you're wrong
>>64565356
Goodfellas is complete mediocrity that marked the artistic death of Scorcese. Any person who likes Goodfellas is juvenile about cinema. I hope you aren't much older than 13 now if you still think that's a quality film.
>>64565553
it's good art, not incredible or profound
Crash is an easy target. It was a mistake. Birdman is a disaster. Lubezki deserves all the credit for his photography but it's in service of a shitty script and a director who is a fucking moron.
This bloated garbage won best picture too.
>>64566580
Fuck off.
Birdman >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Crash
>>64566752
Sure, it's got the edge in photography at least. It's still a piece of shit.
>>64561776
>all these choices from 10 years ago
And many of these movies are acceptable or even good.
Going My Way, The Broadway Melody, Cavalcade and The Greatest Show on Earth are all far worse than Crash.
>>64561776
BIRDCRAP is a bad movie that most people hated.
>>64566748
I was wondering when /pol/ would make an entrance
>>64566752
Really??? I'd sit though CRASH before I'd ever watch another frame of BIRDMAN
>>64567452
>most people hated.
What are you basing this on? Go look at the user reviews on any website and you'll see most people liked it.
>>64567455
Hello reddit
The King's Speech was less of an issue with the movie itself then winning over Black Swan or The Social Network.
Even by Academy standards that was some wacky tobacky.
>>64567452
Birdman was fine. It wasn't fantastic, it wasn't terrible, it was just fine.
I knew Whiplash wasn't going to win Best Picture so I was checked out of the proceedings at that point.
>>64567640
Hello
>>64563707
Argo was a good movie. You are wrong.
>>64567667
whiplash was, and I don't say this lightly, an unadulterated piece of shit film that should never have been expanded past the 15 minute short it was meant to be.
>>64567610
Normal people didn't think much about it, they don't care about camerawork and irony and cinema language, they just care about simple things like relatability, interesting characters and emotional impact, and Birdman doesn't provide a lot of these things.
I can't blame them too much cause I myself didnt think much of the film. If the award was for merit and quality Boyhood should have won
>>64562597
fuck you i liked it
>>64562005
And it pained me to see Saving Private Ryan win over The Thin Red Line
>>64561776
you already posted it
>>64566748
The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. ‘Schindler’s List’ is about 600 who don’t.
>>64562597
JUST DIE ALREADY
>>64567937
did you know Boyhood took 12 years to make?!
>>64567667
>Black Swan
literal 0/10
>>64567937
>If the award was for merit and quality Boyhood should have won
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>>64562197
no it is not
>>64567937
>If the award was for merit and quality Boyhood should have won
“Hipster Patriarchy” might be a better title for Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Depicting a white American male from childhood to adolescence, it celebrates the emblematic figure of American social power. Starting with youth’s inherent innocence and appeal, Linklater gives his protagonist, Mason (Ellar Coltrane), centrality in the passing parade of his Texas family (including a sister and divorced parents) and then, ultimately, confers importance upon Mason and his “normalcy.”
Sure enough, the cultural media have responded on cue: Praising the deliberately mundane Boyhood fits the pattern unconsciously followed by most culture writers (who also tend to be white males) seeking to confirm their own privilege and importance — but without examining it. Some women and men of other races also worship this unscrutinized authority, which partly explains why Linklater’s lackluster filmmaking (from Suburbia, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight to School of Rock and the atrocious Bernie) almost always gets overrated.
As much as fanboys falling for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Linklater’s think-alike idolators seem to have forgotten the significant films Boyhood imitates. The widely hyped story of Boyhood’s twelve-year production ignores the similar periodic method English director Michael Apted employed on the documentary series 7 Up (he filmed a group of British schoolkids at seven-year intervals); the hype also ignores how François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series (from The 400 Blows, Love at Twenty, and Stolen Kisses to Bed and Board and Love on the Run) encompassed a 20-year span in the fictional youth’s life.
>>64568022
The Omaha Beach scene alone > The Thin Red Line
and I liked The Thin Red Line
>>64561926
It was a good movie.
>>64567937
>merit
The word people use to make the quality of their subjective work sound objective.
>quality
I've seen better looking Tyler Perry movies.
>>64568262
Based Armond.
>>64563707
It had a sharp and well written script by Chris Terrio. It had a good story and strong performances from its entire cast. Its a good film.
>>64567937
Normal people don't vote in the Oscars. It's voting base includes professional art critics and past nominees.
>>64566580
The script is one of Birdmans' strengths. You probably didnt like it because the ideas it explored went over your head. Cant really blame you for not liking it though since your a fat fuck mediocre human being.
>>64566580
>>64567452
>>64567507
>>64567937
Go back to your Star Wars threads guys. Were discussing actual films here. No one cares about your objectively wrong opinions.
>>64566748
>not liking Schindlers List
You're either a massive pleb or a /pol/tard who needs to shout his opinion every he goes
>>64568262
Armond is great but he just failed to see the beauty in the romanticized aesthetic of sophisticated rawness in Boyhood.
>>64568473
How'd you know I was Scott Tobias?
>>64568648
Who could be behind this post?
>>64561776
OP is close
But Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan takes the cake
Argo
The English Patient
Chicago
A beautiful Mind
All are travesties.
If this is an osar snub thread here it goes: the best casting in history LOTR received 0 acting academy awards despite 3 best picture nominations and 1 win.
Ian Mckellen
Sean Aston
Viggo
Sean Bean
Hugo
Lee
Serkis
John Rhys Davies
John Noble
>>64568822
>The best casting in history
Hardly, most likely you're underage.
>>64568129
Nah I agree its better than The Kings Speech and it was a shit year like many
>>64568905
Tree of Life was better.
>>64568899
Don't be a faggot a theatrical LOTR was anticipated for decades and they knocked it out the park, partly due to perfect casting. I forgot Theoden fuck.
>>64561926
Well for one, it's unrealistic as fuck. I have a buddy on the bomb squad, and the fella who trained them wouldn't even let them have that shit in their quarters. Total nonsense.
>>64562933
>not liking forrest gump
>not liking it ain't me
go fuck yourself
>>64569238
As if the Oscars care about realism. Braveheart (which is great) is one of the most historically inaccurate films ever made and it won Best Picture
>>64563758
>hudsucker proxy
>worse than burn after reading
>>64568905
The Social Network and Inception were considerably better than the rest of the competition I think, 2010 was not a very good year but these two movies were hyped up and delivered
King Speech was still a deserving winner though, comfy with great performances, extremely likeable oscar bait.
American Beauty
>>64569533
I don't think inception deserved a best picture nom let alone a win. The prestige is nolans only best picture worthy.
The social network was very well done and tightly done but I just felt meh about it. Probably bc I like many other Fincher films. I don't think it deserved best picture but maybe that's because I just really hate Jewbook
>>64569299
This. Schindler's List won after all.
>>64568822
They won Sag ensemble though
>>64567937
I am sorry that not everyone who watches movie is a superior movie critic like yourself.
>>64569299
The question was what problem do people have with the squirt locker, not the lame ass Oscars.
>>64569954
The thread is about the Oscars you tard
The worst thing about Crash is not even the best movie named Crash. Every time I tell someone I love Crash, they think I'm talking about that piece of shit Oscar bait and not the Cronenberg masterpiece. Fuck Crash.
The English Patient was worse, though.
>>64570111
Paul Haggis' Crash could have used someone fucking someone else's leg wound. Would have livened things up a little at least.
>>64561776
>mfw Crash also got nominated for best screenplay
Surprised no one's said Slumdog Millionaire yet.
>>64570353
POOi actually liked it
>>64570353
I'm more pissed that Gran Torino didn't get nominated for anything that year while Milk got a shitload of nominations for being another "Sean Penn goes into Oscar bait for the 1295th time despite being a horrible actor" movie
>>64570058
And the question wasn't, because clearly the Oscar's liked it, you tard.
>>64561926
Jarhead for plebs.
>>64561776
Not that it was worse than clash but Gladiator didn't deserve an Oscar.
>>64570353
It wasn't a bad movie.
>>64571018
And what did? Soderbergh's Filters?
>>64571121
>talking shit about Traffic
>ever
>>64571121
Different anon here, I think Cast Away should have at least been nominated for best picture.
>Some irrelevant documentary about muh nostalgic entertainment industry beat The Act of Killing
Actually made me care about the Oscars for 5 seconds.
>>64571190
Traffic is good but Soderbergh only won Best Director just for filters.
I can think of many more Soderbergh films that are more deserving
>>64571121
It just wasn't a strong enough movie to get an Oscar. The characters were all weak except Commodus, and they still squandered his potential. It got lucky.
>>64571198
>Some irrelevant documentary about muh nostalgic entertainment industry
Which one was that?
I honestly haven't watched a Best Picture winner in years
>>64568717
I too wonder
>>64571258
I disagree, but fair enough
>>64571192
Agreed. Not that it really deserves it either, 2000 was just a shit year for American flicks.
>>64571296
20 Feet from Stardom, which nobody remembers or cares about. It beat The Square too.
>>64571497
The Square was 50% staged bullshit and 50% designated shitting street allahu akbar propaganda
>>64570111
>Cronenberg crash
>That scene of Spader eating out the asian bitch
I had so many teen boners
