The worst Best Picture Oscar?
very close.
shareyeah, this was worse than Crash. How it was even nominated is mind boggling.
sharestrangely, I like both. This one and crash. I mean if you're going to look at the vast majority of bad ones that have won these are far from it.
shareName a few examples?
sharePersonally, I'd say Chicago for one.
shareWell I didn't see it, but I'd agree. Doesn't look like my cup of tea.
shareFor me, it also depends on what else was up for the prize that year. So, you might go, "Hey, what's American Beauty doing on this list?" but it was up against The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, and The Sixth Sense. So, is it worse than those films? If so, that's more of a point.
Chicago was up against Gangs of New York, the Pianist, and The Two Towers. But Chicago comes out on top?
True. The Pianist by a mile on that list.
Looking at 2018. I liked Phantom Thread best, but far from PTA's best work.
Neither The Post, Ladybird or Dunkirk were all that notable either. 3 Billboards was pretty good, but again not top shelf material. The quality of movies has been in steady decline.
Gotta add in the Woke factor, which is increasingly a higher portion of the vote.
Would you think differently of this movie if the protagonist was a male character bestiality fucking an alien female? On the surface it's ok as a movie, but when you really analyze it, it falls apart and seems silly. Plus the Hype factor.
If "Woke" was the factor, wouldn't Get Out have won? I'm struggling to think of what's so woke about Shape of Water.
What I liked about it was that it brought in this strange world and connected it to outsiders. The protagonist doesn't fit in, she's mute, she's pushed to the side. She connects with this strange creature, this mysterious thing, who she sympathizes with because they share realities in some way, even though they're worlds apart. ...or are they...? There's an insinuation in the film that they might be closer than appearances seem.
As for "What if it was a human male having sex with an alien?", well I don't know how I'd feel about the male being human and the female being nonhuman. I guess I'd have to think back to how I felt about Jake Sully, Sam Flynn, Tristram Thorn, Fred Kwan, James T. Kirk...how long do you want the list to be?
(...I should probably take back my complaints about American Beauty winning Best Picture now. lmao)
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