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Jedi Master Carr
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 Worst Best Picture Winner I wasn't sure to place this here or in the Oscar forum. If I was wrong it can be moved. I was curious to see what everybody thinks was the worst picture winner. I decided not to put Argo only because it just won (and don't think it is as bad as some of these), but that is what Other is there for. I tried to pick movies from different period that I have read were considered weak winners. I have a feeling what will win, but we shall see.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Other - Chicago
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Other:
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Forgot about those two but yeah they deserve to be up there.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner How Green Was My Valley is better than most best picture winners.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner You must really hate A Beautiful Mind  CRASH
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner movies35 wrote: You must really hate A Beautiful Mind  Crash
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner LeSamuraiDeL'Ombre wrote: How Green Was My Valley is better than most best picture winners. I have actually never seen it, but I have seen it on several lists where it said it should haven't won. And I was trying to pick films from earlier decades to balance it off.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner How Green Was My Valley gets shit on for defeating Citizen Kane.
I love it, Out of Africa, and The English Patient.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner I changed one of the two A Beautiful Mind options in the poll to Chicago  _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Dr. Lecter wrote: I changed one of the two A Beautiful Mind options in the poll to Chicago lol thanks not sure how I did that, and I agree Chicago is deserving to be on this list.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Return of the King
Getting it because the two films before it were great doesn't mean this one gets it by default.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Chicago with Crash a close second.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Chicago easily smashed its weak 2002 comp, lots of great films nothing legendary.
Fellowship easily should have won 2001, it was easily the best of the lord of the rings films, A Beautiful mind is a joke in comparison.
Return of the King is mediocre in the extreme and only given the award because the asscar voters robbed The Fellowship in 01.
Crash is Trash and easily the worst winner ever.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner The Hours should have won best picture instead of Chicago.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner The Pianist should have easily won in 2002.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner The Silence of the Lambs.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner On that list, there are quite a few good films that still should never have won. "How Green" isn't a bad film, but it never should have won. I think "Chicago" and "Shakespeare in Love" are great films, although I agree they should not have been Oscar winners, but that's mostly because there were better films in each of those years.
But then there are films that really suck and never even should have been nominated. I voted for "The Greatest Show on Earth". Couldn't even finish watching it. Close behind are "Around the World" and "Tom Jones" although in 1963 when Tom Jones won, the other films nominated were even worse. It was a terrible year for movies.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner The answer is and will always be CRASH.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Return of the King is easily the worst. LeSamuraiDeL'Ombre wrote: How Green Was My Valley is better than most best picture winners. +1
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Jedi Master Carr
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Thegun wrote: Return of the King
Getting it because the two films before it were great doesn't mean this one gets it by default. Well I don't think it is a worst movie than Crash, Chicago, Greatest Show on Earth, or Tom Jones. For me Return of the King is my favorite of the series, mainly because I am sucker for the big battle sequences. 2003 was also a weak year. And I don't think Master and Commander or Mystic River were more deserving to win best picture.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner Jedi Master Carr wrote: Thegun wrote: Return of the King
Getting it because the two films before it were great doesn't mean this one gets it by default. Well I don't think it is a worst movie than Crash, Chicago, Greatest Show on Earth, or Tom Jones. For me Return of the King is my favorite of the series, mainly because I am sucker for the big battle sequences. 2003 was also a weak year. And I don't think Master and Commander or Mystic River were more deserving to win best picture. Mystic River, Lost and Translation, and Seabiscuit were all better. ROTK was trash, well not really, but I can't give it anything better than a B- _________________Chippy wrote: As always, fuck Thegun. Chippy wrote: I want to live vicariously through you, Thegun!
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner When the 'Other' option has more than 30% of the vote, it's a badly designed poll.
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Re: Worst Best Picture Winner There's 85 options, kind of hard not for "Other" not to be used a lot. The last 10 years alone has had some very questionable winners.
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