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

and it's always on cable

I don't really HATE The English Patient--there's about 90 mins worth that would've made for a good 1940s studio genre pic in there somewhere--but it's bloated as hell and contains some truly groan-worthy writing.

Haven't seen The Fugitive since it was in theatres, when I remember not liking it as much as In The Line of Fire.

hmm this isn't too bad a list, all things considered. if forced to, i could endure most of these again, but the one that would cause me the most dread is Life is Beautiful.

I can't actually be the only one voting for American Beauty....? Though objectively Dances With Wolves might be worse, I danced between those two.

There are lots of these which I think must be bad but which I can't be sure whether I've seen them or not (e.g. Scent of a Woman,Awakenings,Beauty and the Beast) but my feeling is that if it were REALLY bad enough to compete with AB and DwW, I'd remember the unpleasantness of watching it.

Full disclosure: there are only 11 of these I'm sure I've seen, and maybe 5 more that I may well have seen.

american beauty would definitely make any shortlist i made

but gump is just out-and-out evil

i could stomach gump until the maudlin last 30 minutes or so. unforgivable.

let's make this painful:

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Gump is another one I haven't seen since it was in theatres, but I have a feeling that if I watched it again now it would be too weird for me to out and out hate. Really, if this weren't the hit it was, we'd remember it as a camp curio today.

I love Life is Beautiful. Mainly the first half, but the last half ain't half bad either.

i only have vague memories of it, to be honest. it's more the idea of seeing it again that i fear.

Awakenings. I just want to again remind you that this was nominated for Best Picture.

lots of terrible movies have won best pic tho

Kind of want to vote Apollo 13 because I remember sitting in a theatre full of adults who were laughing their asses off at the piss being ejected into space and feeling mortified.

Pretty great list.

I really need to see Gump again. I loved it at the time, but I was like ten so what the hell did I know. Has there ever been a movie that was praised so highly at the time and then suffered such a huge backlash since? It's the Be Here Now of movies.

Something like a quarter of this list is great movies that it's been too long since I watched. Totally missed The Fugitive! Which I did see recently and which kicked major ass.

American Beauty is definitely the winner on the list in terms of the u-turn of my first 'oh, wow' impression to a later 'ugh, no' impression.

you seriously cannot fuck with any of these:

The Silence of the Lambs
The Crying Game
The Fugitive
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Babe
Fargo
L.A. Confidential

"Quiz Show" is my vote for "movie on this list which is basically perfect and which the world seems to have forgotten."

rob morrow with worst boston accent evah

"WOY didn't ya TESTIFOY?"

life is beautiful, no contest. every other movie on the list does something better than life is beautiful, and none are even close to being as offensive

gump is way better than most of these. especially braveheart. you guys are really sleeping on braveheart. for example, you can't vote for titanic when braveheart's right there. you just can't.

Trying to remember whether Gump was better or worse than that Benjamin Button remake they did.

Actually, that's unfair. Gump and BB are more like those two Nickelback songs you can play simultaneously and hear the extent to which the exact same formula was employed twice with different words.

i voted from the heart: jerry maguire

If you watch Braveheart as pure fantasy instead of historical drama it's pretty good

Goodfellas
The Silence of the Lambs
Fargo
Secrets & Lies

only ones i would rate highly or semi-highly, still haven't seen all of thin red line
another 7-8 i would rate as decent

Almost totally bad all around, but these are next level awful.

Awakenings
Scent of a Woman
The Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
Life Is Beautiful
The Green Mile

Haven't bothered with The Prince of Tides, no matter how many times it's been referenced on The Simpsons.

I don't love or even like Fargo like most of y'all do

Fargo and JFK are tied for my favorite from this group.

I think I'd rewatch a lot of these movies on their own and enjoy them but when they're put together on a list like this I feel like I hate all of them

Except Babe

That is, Babe is a great movie

It's kind of sad in retrospect how much I hoped Babe would win best picture.

JFK rules

There's about eight or nine decent-or-better flicks in here, rest can go to hell

Will probably have to vote Shawshank to offset the insane extent to which the rest of the world has overrated it.

Went the boring route and voted Gump

braveheart vs. hooo-ah and hooo-ah takes it

Oh damn, didn't see American Beauty on the list until after I voted.

The 2000s version of this poll will be sooooo easy. But I'm having a rough time with this one because I don't outright hate any of these. And I've avoided most of the ones that I probably would hate. Godfather 3 is tragic. Gump and American Beauty are pretty useless. I actually kinda like some of the more divisive flicks in the list (Good Will Hunting, Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets). As of the last time I saw them, anyway.

The Full Monty, all the way. i remember watching it as a teenager and being pretty pissed off the entire time. how anyone thought such classist, looksist garbage was worth a clump of cat litter is still beyond my ken.

The 2000s version of this poll will be sooooo easy.

I assume you mean because of Crash but there's like 10 more that are in the same league (remember The Reader?)

Wow, no. I genuinely don't.

forrest gump in a fucking walk btw.

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I've never seen Forrest Gump, guessing it's bad because it's reactionary bollox?

Voted for Awakenings, cos the source material wld make a good movie, just not one starring Robin Williams and directed by Penny Marshall.

American beauty

Gump, shawshank, braveheart are all good-to-ok movies to leave on while channelsurfing

its gotta be godfather 3 for me. it made me bored and angry.

"bored and angry" common reactions to these, as opposed to eighties winners, which were merely "boring."