This is the worst movie to have won an Oscar for Best Picture
Moonlight is 100x better than this.
shareWas "the Greatest Show on Earth" better?
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Birdman was a poor Best Picture winner as well...
shareThis is the first Best Picture winner that actually deserved it in about ten years IMO. But I think the real victory is that anything besides Three Shitstains won.
shareMidnight Cowboy is worse by far. SoW had its moments but was not a good movie. It had the quality del Toro visuals but bumped itself off the hayride pretty quick. I feel like no less than 40% of the winners didn't deserve it.
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Shakespeare in Love was worse...
shareAnyone who thinks that shit film "Moonlight" is better needs to have their head examined. And I can think if quite a few films that were absolute dog crap that didn't deserve Best Picture Oscar, but got it anyway.
shareTons of winners that should have lost to the competition (the majority) but then there are the films that were actually not even good enough to be nominated at all.
Unforgiven: Rams the Wizard of Oz symbolism down our throats and tries to call it art. It's a two color painting with one decent shootout at the end. C+ at best.
Platoon: Much like coming into a movie late and leaving early, we get a series of events that don't have any meaning in the end. Lots of emotional venting, drug abuse, and faux drama instead of actual plot. The iconic ending is the summation of the whole thing. The viewer could be just as informed and edified if they only watched the final few minutes (like a basketball game)
Kramer vs Kramer: One of the many winners who won strictly for topic. This movie is irritating and bad.
Midnight Cowboy: This film is trash. I have nothing good to say about it at all.
Lawrence of Arabia: People were wowed by movies that had hundreds of hired extras. It was like a trivia measurement that got folks excited before they had special effects to shift their drooling gaze toward. LoA is overly long and written with an odd mix of trite and poignant. One or two times in this 24 hour long movie you will get an inspired exchange. The rest is throw-away scrap scattered in between dazzling scenery. B- at best. One of the supreme overrated movies of all time.
Casablanca: Great setting. Too bad nothing of note happens on camera. Entire thing comes off like it should have been a 20 minute epilogue to a superior, unseen movie. C grade. Joins LoA on the supreme overrated wall.
Gone With the Wind: A bunch of assholes. I kept saying "now what?!" throughout this looong boring movie. Not even a good romance. Driven purely by strength of celebrity worship and the "amazing number of extras" phenomenon. This might be the most mystifying case of overrated. D+
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There are way worst movies that won best picture. Here are a few
"Chicago" (2002)
"Argo" (2012)
"Dances with Wolves" (1990)
"How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
"Shakespeare in Love" (1998)
"Around the World in 80 Days" (1956)
"Ordinary People" (1980)
"Titanic" (1997)
"The King's Speech" (2010)
"Dances with Wolves" (1990)
Chicago was excellent. Never saw the musical so I don't know if it is disrespectful to the original. Though maybe not the "best" of the year, at least it was good. The Pianist or Adaptation should have won for sure.
I have yet to see Argo. I hear so many contradictory opinions. What do you give it on a scal of 1-10?
Dances with Wolves is actually one of Costner's best films. I speak of the film itself, not Costner's performance. He does passably well, though. Great movie ... but yeah, maybe not "best" Yes, I like it very much but I loved other nominees more that year like Goodfellas, Misery, Ghost, and Total Recall. Goodfellas should have won that year.
Shakespeare in Love was surprisingly better than I expected. It was not shit. Although, neither was it anywhere near deserving a nomination. Complete idiocy that it beat Saving Pvt Ryan and Life is Beautiful.
Around the World in 80 days was fun. Even good. But not "best" for sure. Hard to know though. I was not attending movies in that era.
Ordinary People was powerful and raw and well done ... but still sucked. So agreed! How Empire Strikes Back didn't win is among the billion reasons I don't watch award shows anymore.
Titanic was great. Never understood the hate. It wasn't see-it-twice good like so many teenage girls, though. I could understand thinking that As Good as it Gets or LA Confidential should have beat it but they are close enough IMO.
The Kings Speech was very good. What do you think should have beat it? Inception? I loved Inception but it was no "best picture"
An entirely different subject of disagreement could be "good movies that won but still shouldn't have." Like Braveheart. Great movie but Apollo 13 came out that year.