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

I am grateful that to this day I have no idea what the Green Mile is about.

It's about the invention of the first hybrid car.

subtitle: iatee vs cars

Pulp Fiction 2

Two people in this thread live very charmed lives.

Seriously. Even if you don't care for it, you must've only seen, like, two other films on the list to think it's the worst.

Ditto Schindler's List, but I see what they were doing there.

American Beauty got robbed. Should've gotten bronze, at the very least.

That said, I voted Four Weddings and a Funeral before seeing the obvious choice.

even though neither shawshank redemption nor the green mile won this poll, both did "well" enough for me to take pride in belonging to a community with so many other Darabont haters. good show ILX.

I downloaded Life is Beautiful to check that it was good, but to my horror it was dubbed in English. Now, that was not the version which was released originally, right? That would have been awful.

I saw it in the theater, it was definitely subtitled.

(shrugs) Meh, I thought "The Green Mile" was an intersting enough time-killer, Magical Negroisms duly noted. But I probably need to see more films (or maybe fewer)

did Spike Lee really coin the term "magic negro" (as claimed in the Green Mile's wiki entry?)

No, I actually think that was the original title of Kazaam before the producers came to their senses.

The producers didn't come to their senses soon enough.

I'm surprised "The Cider House Rules" got 0 votes, it's what I would have voted for.

dude Cider House RULES

i definitely heard the term before the green mile came out. i think s.lee made it more popular.

What's the necessary length of time for critical distance on these things? Kinda antsy for the 00s version for whatever reason, even though I've probably seen the fewest films for that of any decade since the 60s.

Here's the Lord Sotosyn edition.

I won't defend anything on your shit list, but A Few Good Men and Scent of a Woman are two I don't mind, almost certainly owing to the fact that I was 14 when they came out and they looked and talked like real grown-up films that made me feel smart for enjoying them. Had they been released even five years later, I don't know that I would have even seen them, let alone liked them. As it stands, I still prefer either to Apollo 13 and Titanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjJzOpe9xEg

I had to get pretty deep into the list (L.A. Confidential, of which I only have very vague memories) before I found a movie I'd want to watch again.

Four Weddings and a Funeral is listed twice (a guilty pleasure of mine to be honest) and Scent of a Woman isn’t that bad. Shakespeare in Love, however, is war crime worthy.

wtf Apollo 13 is great

smdh @ you Ron Howard haters

Shakespeare In Love is a fine, frothy romcom with Stoppard jokes in

Sitting in a theatre as a bunch of adults crack up over the piss-in-space scene in Apollo 13 is one of the most mortified I've ever felt during a movie.

*cracked

Four Weddings and a Funeral is listed twice (a guilty pleasure of mine to be honest) and Scent of a Woman isn’t that bad. Shakespeare in Love, however, is war crime worthy.

― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Sunday, February 3, 2010

lol -- like I wrote on Facebook, that typo might be Freudian: I don't know what to think about that film.

It's definitely one of the two non-heinous theatrical films by Richard Curtis.

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Do you force yourself to watch all of them? I haven't done that to myself with The Green Mile yet (but I plan to watch the imdb top 250 this year), and a few minutes of Awakenings on TV were enough for me.

If we're judging on the basis of # of times watched and how frequently I feel the urge to revisit, The Fugitive is pretty much the hands-down winner of this lot for me. It's joined the Robocop/Dazed & Confused pantheon of 'movies I am never not in the mood to watch'.

Oh wait, this is a thread for the worst, how do I salvage my mistake...

The Fugitive ya right more like The F-U-gitive

Robocop: Dazed & Confused.

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I have only had 4 beers, I am not deterred from climbing MoonTower

xpost I don't know why I did a backslash instead of a comma. But I'm pretty sure that hypothetical movie mashup is in fact The Entertainment as featured in the novel Infinite Jest (i.e. I would watch it until I was dead from entertainment).

The Piano is pretentious twaddle. The Insider is fake grittiness.