WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only the '90s Edition)

This is ILE, chief! I mean, how do you know who your daddy is? Because your mama told you so.

Saw Schindler's List with my church youth group. Some of them nearly got us all kicked out after they started laughing when the elderly prisoners were forced to run naked in the camps.

Schindler's List is in no way worse than Life Is Beautiful. My friend dragged me to that movie and I am still somewhat angry and resentful that I had to watch the whole thing.

A very tight competition, but I'm going with Life is Beautiful.

The Godfather Part III is not a bad film, merely a comedown.

Does any other country have its name used so often to evoke profundity?

AMERICAN BEAUTY

BRITISH STEEL

FRENCH FRIES

GERMAN SCHEISSE

Schindler's List is tortureporn with the point that everyone should just hope for rescue from rich white men. Life is Beautiful is funny.

Also, I haven't seen Life is Beautiful in ten years. It might be worse than I recall.

I fucking hate The Green Mile so much

funny like hot tar poured over your nuts

I remember the first 20 mins being funny, actually

then someone should have told Roberto "no"

actually I really hated Shakespeare In Love, too

Four Weddings and a Holocaust

more like Zyklon B

skipping movies I haven't seen/don't remember, these are the ones I hate the most ranked from "best" to worst:

Titanic
As Good as It Gets
Jerry Maguire
Forrest Gump
Shakespeare in Love
The Green Mile

shakespeare in love

I remember the first 20 mins being funny, actually

You don't get to attack my taste in comedy any longer.

The Godfather Part III is not a bad film, merely a comedown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8O5ZRFbyU8

ok

it's really george hamilton who makes that scene

Schindler's List is tortureporn with the point that everyone should just hope for rescue from rich white men.

This is the stupidest sentence I have ever read.

Phil otm

ypu ppl sure love talkin bout whats terrible

American politicians

xpost There's not a punch bowl you haven't taken a shit in.

oh? partly cuz ppl love cooing over shit. some of us have moved on from MST3K.

I'ma say these two words only one more time.

Try. Love.

It's like Morbs deriding people for hatin'
It's like raaayeeeaaaaaayyyn on your wedding day

i think schindler's list is fine -- as is kubrick's famous zing on it.

i'm more likely to shit in the punchbowl when the cancer drugs give me diarrhea

I don't remember Joe Pesci saying that in JFK!

It was in one of the faked suicide notes.

I regret that by the time you read this I will be quite shitting in the punch bowl.

Shakespeare in Love had a slow clap in it. Therefore, fuck Shakespeare in Love.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/24600000/Shakespeare-in-love-1998-judi-dench-24673166-630-390.jpg

lol Beauty and the Beast

i would like to throw some hate BeauBea's way because fuck that movie, man.

from what i remember:

Dances with Wolves - not really that bad, in fact pretty good iirc.
Ghost - not terrible but the best pic nom was a lol.
The Godfather Part III - terrible rep but there are some pretty gripping scenes and some of the sumptuous atmosphere goes a long way, as do a few of the lines ("ZAZA!")
Goodfellas - perfect film.
The Silence of the Lambs - pretty great. i feel like the tone of this movie is so unsettling in so many ways. it makes wish demme would direct more suspense pics.
Beauty and the Beast - i remember really enjoying this.
Bugsy - idk, ok i suppose.
JFK - stupid and amazingly entertaining.
Unforgiven - nice stolid western. idk, i thought 'a perfect world' was the better eastwood pic from this period.
A Few Good Men - sorkin wrote it, so...obvious and kind of stupid-clever.
Schindler's List - genuinely great though a couple of those ending scenes are really just hammering home points that didn't need hammering.
The Fugitive - amazing action film. andrew davis was so particularly good at capturing chicago in his films and populating them with little moments that felt vv real and skillfully incorporated into the story. much like mctiernan.
In the Name of the Father - i liked this! but i prefer 'the boxer' as far as DDL irish troubles pics go.
The Piano - i liked it i think.
Forrest Gump - eh
Four Weddings and a Funeral - great beginning iirc, then descends into bullshit.
Pulp Fiction - great but not really my thing these days. i saw it nine times in the theater though.
Quiz Show - fantastic.
The Shawshank Redemption - i do like this one but its following and the meaning ppl assign to it is vv boondock saintsy somehow.
Braveheart - solid flick.
Apollo 13 - it just makes me want to watch 'the right stuff'.
The English Patient - really good imo!
Fargo - i like it but i've always thought it was a couple cuts below some of the coens' films, in partic 'miller's crossing', 'barton fink', 'blood simple', NCFOM, and 'a serious man'.
Jerry Maguire - blah.
Secrets & Lies - wonderful imo, made me a leigh stan.
Titanic - once the iceberg hits it's pretty dope.
As Good as It Gets - entertaining but kind of idiotic.
The Full Monty - okay i guess.
Good Will Hunting - no memory of this.
L.A. Confidential - love it though it has some plot flaws.
Shakespeare in Love - one of those movies that i feel like no one is ever going to return to, it's just so uninteresting.
Saving Private Ryan - dreadful bookends and loads of spielberg malarkey. i still like it, but 'band of brothers' is so much better.
The Thin Red Line - lots of malick malarkey but still compelling. beautiful movie.
American Beauty - piece of shit.
The Green Mile - not bad but i can't think about this w/o thinking about how doug hutchison's role as a stereotypical blackhearted creep was maybe a role he didn't allow to leave him.
The Insider - amazing imo.
The Sixth Sense - who cares.

i feel like i didn't see the worst of these, but from what i did see i probably dislike 'american beauty' most of all.

Favorites:

Goodfellas
Quiz Show
Secrets and Lies
JFK
The Insider

none of these are as bad as Barton Fink, even Shawshank

Somehow avoided Quiz Show for years bc I assumed it was real generic Oscar-bait, but the relative praise in here kinda has me wanting to check it out

Fantastic script. One of the few films to use writers as characters without self-consciousness.

The role of Jules Winnfield proved difficult to cast, mainly because Samuel L. Jackson was under the impression the part was his, until he found out he was in danger of losing the role to Paul Calderon. Jackson flew out to L.A. for a last-ditch audition with Tarantino. “I sort of was angry, pissed, tired,” Jackson recalls. He was also hungry, so he bought a takeout burger on his way to the studio, only to find nobody there to greet him. “When they came back, a line producer or somebody who was with them said, ‘I love your work, Mr. Fishburne,’” says Jackson.

bugsy sucks imo

most of these that i suspect are bad ive not seen

Somehow avoided Quiz Show for years bc I assumed it was real generic Oscar-bait, but the relative praise in here kinda has me wanting to check it out

Cosine. Always seemed like it would be really boring, but now I'm interested.

Now you're off on a tangent.

ghost or american beauty for me

I dunno if I've ever been more annoyed by a movie than when I saw American Beauty. I ranted at my poor friend for 5 blocks after left the theater, I was so fucking mad that I had paid to see it

bugsy is probably worst in terms of pure dull ineptness.

but my vote is emotionally drawn to either braveheart or shawshank in strong measure due to the cloying bro-canonization of both.

is Bugsy inept or fitfully watchable?