My vote is hands down "Crash" (2004).
Utterly horrendous film
My vote is hands down "Crash" (2004).
Utterly horrendous film
Agreed. So trite and manipulative.I also hated "American Beauty" and "Dances With Wolves" was dreck.
seriosi wrote:
My vote is hands down "Crash" (2004).
Utterly horrendous film
seriosi wrote:
My vote is hands down "Crash" (2004).
Utterly horrendous film
Nailed it. End of thread.
Shaskespeare in Love
I saw it, then never saw it again.
It beat Life is Beautiful and Saving Private Ryan.
I liked Crash (2005).
I didn't feel like a best picture but I did buy and have watched it again.
People wanted Brokeback Mountain to win.
Driving Miss Daisy
Chicago
Crash was sappy and simplstic and Good Night and Good Luck should have won, in my opinion, but Chicago was a mediocre production of an okay musical with poor-to-middling celebro-actors who couldn't really sing. Weinstein magic.
Why do people use words like "dreck" when they are critiquing films, as if that is a comment you'd actually say in every day speaking? People need to quit reading film reviews and trying to copy the condescending terminology they read in the reviews. Just say, "The film f'ing sucked." Be a human being.
"Crash" was terrible.
I only managed a few minutes of "Chicago" before having to turn it off -- I just can't handle musicals.
"American Beauty" was also complete rubbish.
"Argo" was also junk.
Shaskespeare in Love & Titanic. Utter garbage.
I never understood how people could stomach the 80s sob-fests like Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment. Everybody keeps attempting or committing suicide in Ordinary People. Terms of Endearment kills off Debra Winger with cancer just to get people to cry during the movie. Both movies are totally manipulative melodramas. I am particularly pissed at Ordinary People because it beat out far superior films like Elephant Man and Raging Bull.
Titanic was/is/will always be shttt. In retrospect, it was a good year for movies and they awarded the biggest spender and grosser. As Good As It Gets and LA Confidential weren't good, either. Films they skipped on to award Titanic:
Children of Heaven
Boogie Nights
Wag the Dog
Donnie Brasco
Fifth Element
The Ice Storm
In the Company of Men
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Starship Troopers (which was great satire)
and one of the greatest movies of all time,
Good Burger.
agreed on Titanic! Titanic is by far the worst winner in the past 25 yearsbut LA confidential was a fantastic film. Crash was also a great film.
9 wrote:
Titanic was/is/will always be shttt. In retrospect, it was a good year for movies and they awarded the biggest spender and grosser. As Good As It Gets and LA Confidential weren't good, either. Films they skipped on to award Titanic:
Children of Heaven
Boogie Nights
Wag the Dog
Donnie Brasco
Fifth Element
The Ice Storm
In the Company of Men
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Starship Troopers (which was great satire)
and one of the greatest movies of all time,
Good Burger.
thats just silly wrote:
but LA confidential was a fantastic film.
I watched it again a few weeks ago and couldn't really get past Guy Pearce's performance, which I didn't remember as that hammy when it was new. And as attractive as Kim Bassinger always was, she is a horrible actress.
Chicago, maybe. I also didn't think much of Gladiator, compared to the classic Spartacus. But if you're really talking "all time," you have to go back to overblown snoozefests like Around the World in 80 Days and Greatest Show on Earth
OK "Dances With Wolves" fan! It sucked!
dsfadfsfds wrote:
Why do people use words like "dreck" when they are critiquing films, as if that is a comment you'd actually say in every day speaking? People need to quit reading film reviews and trying to copy the condescending terminology they read in the reviews. Just say, "The film f'ing sucked." Be a human being.
My vote too. Chicago.
9 wrote:
Starship Troopers (which was great satire)
It was also a great prophecy that predicted 9/11 and its aftermath.
Titanic won because it was a tearjerker.
LOOK AT ME, I HATE POPULAR, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED FILMS, I'M SO EDGY, SMART AND DIFFERENT.
"Rocky." It was a classic B movie, but didn't deserve best picture, especially against "Taxi Driver."
Chariots of Fire