WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only the '00s Edition ... except 2009)

I've never seen so many people walk out midmovie as I did during Cronenberg's Crash.

Same here

this has to be crash

https://youtu.be/Mn9AYyjS_Es?t=15

never 4get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laI3WFQwyHk

I hate little miss sunshine but for me this absolutely has to be Chicago

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I’ve never seen the movie version, but I saw the musical with my family on a weekend matinee and an alternate took the lead. But said alternate was Sandy Duncan.

I also picked Chicago - I'm handicapped in that no-one pays me to see films, so I have missed ~50% if these, including obviously Crash.

Either Ray or Crash. I suppose Ray let Walk Hard happen which is a plus.

I thought Chicago was OK. Very retro and it pales next to Cabaret, but it kept me entertained.

I take it I'm the only person who hates Moulin Rouge like boiling acid being poured in my ears and eyes.

I'm not a fan but I don't care enough.

I admire it very much. But it gives me headaches, so I don't watch it.

Yeah, that's more or less my take. I admire its serious commitment to foolishness.

it's a monument to ADD, someone said

p sure i loathed Crash and Slumdog most, with the very dishonest Frost/Nixon close behind

of the ones I've seen, these are the ones I dislike the most:

Moulin Rouge! - interesting setup that eventually just tested my patience and made me wish they'd cast people who could sing as the leads
The Hours - while notable for having the only Julianne Moore performance I can tolerate, it's still dull and deep in the way a 13yo who just found out about Bauhaus is deep
Mystic River - I solved the whodunnit about 5 seconds after the murder happened and spent the rest of the movie irritated by the dummies onscreen who couldn't figure it out
Babel - I had high hopes for this but it made zero impact on me at all; I barely remember seeing it

I probably actually dislike The Hours more but I'm voting Mystic River because I was in the chorus that recorded the barely-inaudible "oooh-ahhhh" bits in the soundtrack and it is eternally frustrating to me that my voice is buried deep in the mix of this dumb-ass movie.

Beside forcing Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf to lie in the grass covered in snails to commune with snails, The Hours also had Ed Harris his first official terrible performance.

Babel is classic Oscarbuzz crap that vanishes the moment its moment does. But it's Innaritu's least memorable film, which is a plus.

Can't hate on Slumdog. It at least has Anthony Dod Mantle shooting the shit out of it, which is more than can be said for almost every one of these.

And, in one memorable scene, shooting shit.

And that is the best scene. It's still weird that a film with a triumphant scene where a kid swims through excrement won the Oscar as a feel good film.

a metaphor for that year in Oscar

If only there had been 10 nominees!

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As many awful movies as there are here ... Crash.

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Would be interested in hearing from the two Lost in Translation voters (understanding and conceding the most common complaint against it).

I think Crouching Tiger is my favourite here.

I broke this down for y'all.

I like more of the films in Good to Great and Meh each than 'Solid Sound Entertainments', which strikes me as about right.

Sorry for mangling your categories.

which films?

Moulin Rouge / Juno / District 19
Up / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Lost in Translation / No Country for Old Men / A Serious Man

I am a mark for 'We have some ideas, and some of them are bad!' which I think covers the first three. (but really my percentage watched across all categories is <50)