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

Love in Translation is just so well made. Every image, every sound, the acting. A great, great film. And I'm not sure Coppola has done anything even slightly as good, but I'm willing to find out.

A Beautiful Mind

With Crash, at least Terrence Howard and Matt Dillon were really strong,

Erin Brockovich j is actually one of my least favorites of the erin brockovich anime sequels, ahead of only Erin Brockovich 2Rz Wing and Erin Brockovich j-ReSquared W

pretty easy, it's Good Night, and Good Luck. George Clooney passion project is already a non-starter, but man this was insufferable. I remember it came out a year after Bush was reelected and it was just the most anodyne, toothless indictment of cable news. and he was horrible as ERM

well, David Strathairn played Murrow

Clooney was great as David Strathairn, but terrible as Murrow.

lol whoops this is like when I thought William H. Macy was in The Clearing. movie was still shit

loads of garbage here but tbh kinda wanna vote for Fellowship of the Ring

good move. i would've voted for one of the LOTRs but didn't want to split the vote

would also accept Gosford Park, No Country, Lost in Translation, maybe a couple others. The Departed is fun but p stupid/pointless

lol wait we're voting for WORST whoops my bad - reverse all that!

I avoided most of these movies surely CRASH is the worst of the ones I've seen tho

why the hell did Master and Commander end up with that run-on title? It sounds more like the third video game in a series than a feature film

loads of garbage here but tbh kinda wanna vote for Fellowship of the Ring

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 10, 2017 5:35 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good move. i would've voted for one of the LOTRs but didn't want to split the vote

― flappy bird, Monday, July 10, 2017 5:36 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Same as Flappy but I'll join Shakey in voting FotR. That ring garbage is detestable.

I have never seen Crash but its only redeeming aspect, to me, is the number of people who searched it out and accidentally ended up with the Cronenberg movie

xxp i think it was 3 of the books compressed into one movie. i was in 5th grade when it came out and my history teacher was so hyped on it, had the poster in his classroom and everything. p sure we watched maybe the first 30 minutes in class one day.

Yeah, there may have been some idea of starting a Master & Commander franchise because there's something like 482 books in the series.

the first LOTR is fantastic, 2nd is p good, the 3rd (and Oscar winning one) is ok but botches the ending(s)

it needed another five to ten endings, just to really end the series

The Queen <- Haven't seen too many of these but god this fucking sucked.

I crack up thinking about the rat on the windowsill at the end of The Departed far too often.

Yeah, there may have been some idea of starting a Master & Commander franchise because there's something like 482 books in the series.

― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Monday, July 10, 2017 1:48 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that was the intention, and my history teacher was SO excited about it and SO bummed when it obviously wasn't going to happen.

What kind of dirt on the nominators does Scorsese have that nearly every one of his films gets nominated

flappy making me justifiably feel old, here

yet Silence wasn't!

Academy compensating for ignoring Scorsese for many years now that his movies made money at box office

I crack up thinking about the rat on the windowsill at the end of The Departed far too often.

Really good bit this, and the camera is looking through the window at the city hall

What kind of dirt on the nominators does Scorsese have that nearly every one of his films gets nominated

― mh, Monday, July 10, 2017 1:51 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

clearly not enough since it took him until 2007 to win best director.

and yeah Silence imo is his best of the century so far, it's not even close. incredible movie that got passed over and ignored

I have never seen Crash but its only redeeming aspect, to me, is the number of people who searched it out and accidentally ended up with the Cronenberg movie

Clearly the title is cursed, as the Cronenberg is one of the only movies I've ever walked out of (and I'm a fan of his work generally; this one and Spider are the only ones I disavow).

the first LOTR is fantastic, 2nd is p good, the 3rd (and Oscar winning one) is ok but botches the ending(s)

I saw one of these in the cinema, I think it was the first one - that's the one with Gollum isn't it? I found it very boring but in a peculiar sort of way, it didn't annoy me or send me to sleep it just sort of rolled relentlessly on and on and on in a completely unengaging way.

I love Siskel & Ebert arguing over Cronenberg's Crash:

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

that's the one with Gollum isn't it?

no, it isn't

What's the one with Gollum?

That's a great clip :) xxp

I thought Fellowship of the Ring was the first one. Carry on.

Fellowship is the first one. Gollum is in 2 Towers and ROTK

man, do I ever miss Siskel and Ebert arguing

He's in all of them!

he is in one shot in the first movie

Crash is probably going to win this, but "A Beautiful Mind" is so much worse. (I think, it's not like I'm going to rewatch to make sure).

around 2000 Marty finally started to make AMPAS' kind of movie: slick shit

xp Akiva Goldsman is such a hack writer

Siskel and Ebert are v fun to watch even when neither of them is saying anything particularly insightful. Ebert is right about what Cronenberg (and to a greater, more successful extent, Ballard) were trying to do, but he's wrong about the movie succeeding imo

xp

for sure

A thousand percent with Siskel there. "Because it's too tough for them to take"--just the silliest possible thing you can say, above and beyond the fact it's always a bad idea to try to tell someone why they didn't like something. I could take Crash, just found it laughably solemn. (Tried to imagine an SCTV remake in something I tacked onto a year-end music ballot that year.)

i remember Master & Commander as being both an excellent movie (best old timey boat movie of the past couple decades at least!) and the movie that broke nabisco's brain.

the scorsese movies here i'd rank departed >>> aviator >>> GoNY. going from excellent to "it has its awe-inspiring moments."

Munich and LOTR are both awesome though the former has some poorly executed bits.

the one from this list i thought was surprisingly good was Michael Clayton.

I'd vote for Gladiator here, though. it's not just pretty bad, but kind of pointless and tedious.

are you saying that you were not... amused

lolling so hard at that Siskel/Ebert debate. I at least finished Crash, although it was terrible. I gave up trying to watch Fellowship of the Ring. Three hours of epic journey, battle, epic journey, battle, epic journey... yeah, I really need a four hour Blu-Ray extended version of that.

you left out all the yammering

would love to see a spinoff about a hobbit brothel done in the style of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie