WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only The '80s Edition)

dressed to kill is a better movie than 90% of this list

I don't buy there are 5 movies on this list better than dressed to kill.

i don't either ; )

played iirc by the dad from that 70s show

must be tough to have boddicker for a father

Working Girl is great

chariots of fire is worth watching for Ian Charleson's amazing performance.

Driving Ms. Daisy vs. Dead Poets' Society for me... I can get along just fine with most of these films.

― the three stigmata of a (Viceroy), Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:49 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

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went w/ dps. even tho I liked it in lolhighschool, it has aged as unforgivable emotional pornography imo. Bonus points for being the point when Robin Fucking Williams started dealing almost exclusively in whatever the dadrock equivalent of movies is.

otm.

i feel like these are the movies my parents consider to be the best examples of quality, respectable filmmaking

You'd be correct.

I haven't seen soooo many of these because of their role in the 80s as "boring things adults liked." I couldn't imagine putting "Born on the Fourth of July" in my Netflix queue.

^^This. I've only seen 9 of these in full, and even then 1/3 of those I had to watch for school. OTOH, I've got a few more in my "to watch" pile.

It's kinda funny though, at least in comparison to, say the 70s, how few now recognized as canonical films got nominated. No Hughes, no Kubrick, the other two Star Wars flicks, only the first Indy Jones, only one Woody Allen, no Blue Velvet, Repo Man etc.

I would say missing Full Metal Jacket was a huge oversight on the Oscars part, but you're tripping if you think they really fucked up by not including Weird Science...

Also lol if you think Weird Science is a better movie than Amadeus...

OTOH, Pretty in Pink is a masterpiece, but Platoon is still better.

does anyone remember that upright citizens brigade sketch about the guy who claims he had the 'titular line' in out of africa?

Aww boy, Im just so tired of all this traffic, I can't wait until I get out of Africa.

I'm not tripping re:Hughes, i'm just saying that his key films (which AS isn't) are held in higher esteem today than many of those in this poll.

"AS"="WS" stupid phone autocorrect.

i always mix up real genius with weird science, just nominally

real genius deserves an oscar nod over most of these

well at least The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's are as bad as several of the nominees.

re:Hughes, i'm just saying that his key films are held in higher esteem today than many of those in this poll.

yes, bcz white '80s teenagers rule the country, so who the fuck cares?

went w/ dps. even tho I liked it in lolhighschool, it has aged as unforgivable emotional pornography imo. Bonus points for being the point when Robin Fucking Williams started dealing almost exclusively in whatever the dadrock equivalent of movies is.

― notes on camping (Pillbox), Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Well yeah of course it has but I think maybe it was different for girls who were my age at the time because those dudes were like our dreamy sensitive future teenage boyfriend ideals and for that (and because I was a corny little kid) I could never hate it.

i feel like these are the movies my parents consider to be the best examples of quality, respectable filmmaking

― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah. Also, it's sorta funny that nobody has even mentioned Moonstruck which I've seen more times than any one person every should because it's prob my mom's all time fav movie. :I

Moonstruck's a good movie.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it (Cher! Cage!) just that I've seen it way too many times. It does, however, seem like the kind of movie people would be apt to dismiss or complain about.

There's some ridiculous crap on here (and plenty I haven't seen because it looks like ridiculous crap), but I achieved rem sleep while watching Chariots Of Fire in class so I think that gets the nod.

Man I had no idea Fatal Attraction was a Best Picture nom before this poll. That's insane.

I still haven't seen Tess, by one of my favorite directors and one of my favorite novels. I just put it in my Netflix queue despite thumbing through Kael's dismissal. Nastassia Kinski was everywhere in the early eighties, wasn't she?

Field of Dreams is the worst one on here that I've seen. However, I didn't get to see all of it (a friend and I were thrown out for throwing wet gummy bears at the screen), so in theory it could have redeemed itself in the end.

Movies on this list I haven't seen a minute of:
Coal Miner's Daughter
Tess
On Golden Pond
Reds
Missing
The Dresser
Tender Mercies
The Killing Fields
A Passage To India
Places In The Heart
A Soldier's Story
Out Of Africa
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
The Mission
A Room With A View
The Last Emperor
The Accidental Tourist

I missed Fatal Attraction too when I first looked through the list. Which is good, because it saved me from putting it on the list of favourites I posted above! It goes with stuff like Disclosure or Pacific Heights for me--films I know are high-gloss junk, but which I always get hooked on whenever I come across them on TV. I also remember how Fatal Attraction really zeroed in (possibly by accident) on the AIDs panic that was prevalent at the time, which made it good for arguments.

haha oh I still would have voted for Chariots Of Fire, was just surprised it made the bar

Any movie that I can actually remember individual scenes from gets a pass on this list

really, the first five on this list from 1980 -- can any group from the last 20 years compare?

1980's the best group of nominees by far, 1984 the dullest, 1988 the most horrifying.

the accidental tourist is ok. its like the up in the air of its day

I'd almost think of the '80 list as the last '70s list, just after Heaven's Gate.

Geena Davis continued the tradition of receiving Supporting Actress trophies for playing kooks that make no sense on paper.

Then there's the well-intentioned/muddled/awful group of liberal films:

Missing
Reds
A Soldier's Story
Places in the Heart
Born on the Fourth of July

Woops fourth of july should be on my "never seen" list, aside from quick shots of Tom Cruise suffering

I'd almost think of the '80 list as the last '70s list, just after Heaven's Gate.

Michael Gebert pinned 1981's slate as the last '70s group.

Atlantic City and Reds definitely, COF and On Golden Pond coulda shown up any year, and Raiders is the future.

i've always wondered how it is that Beatty seemingly took zero shit at the time of release for making a movie that portrays the Soviet Union sympathetically.

Raiders is the future

The future is the past.

Retromania, et al

but he doesn't! Ronnie and Nancy loved the movie: old-fashioned enough for the Warners backlot. Remember: Zinoviev comes off as the worst of droning apparatchik.

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*worst kind