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

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

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

― devvvine, Monday, July 10, 2017 12:50 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always kinda wish there'd been a flashing subtitle that said 'RAT EQUALS SYMBOLISM FOR CORRUPTION'.

lmao holy shit

I hope that's in the closed captions

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8f/4c/4c/8f4c4cd0cd1bd3fcc7a74dc60f021af3.jpg

(Huh...did Dolenz always play Cagney like he was having an epileptic fit?)

His performances were usually so subtle and restrained too.

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

otm

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.