WORST of the Best Picture Oscar Noms (Only the '90s Edition)

xpost There's not a punch bowl you haven't taken a shit in.

oh? partly cuz ppl love cooing over shit. some of us have moved on from MST3K.

I'ma say these two words only one more time.

Try. Love.

It's like Morbs deriding people for hatin'
It's like raaayeeeaaaaaayyyn on your wedding day

i think schindler's list is fine -- as is kubrick's famous zing on it.

i'm more likely to shit in the punchbowl when the cancer drugs give me diarrhea

I don't remember Joe Pesci saying that in JFK!

It was in one of the faked suicide notes.

I regret that by the time you read this I will be quite shitting in the punch bowl.

Shakespeare in Love had a slow clap in it. Therefore, fuck Shakespeare in Love.

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/24600000/Shakespeare-in-love-1998-judi-dench-24673166-630-390.jpg

lol Beauty and the Beast

i would like to throw some hate BeauBea's way because fuck that movie, man.

from what i remember:

Dances with Wolves - not really that bad, in fact pretty good iirc.
Ghost - not terrible but the best pic nom was a lol.
The Godfather Part III - terrible rep but there are some pretty gripping scenes and some of the sumptuous atmosphere goes a long way, as do a few of the lines ("ZAZA!")
Goodfellas - perfect film.
The Silence of the Lambs - pretty great. i feel like the tone of this movie is so unsettling in so many ways. it makes wish demme would direct more suspense pics.
Beauty and the Beast - i remember really enjoying this.
Bugsy - idk, ok i suppose.
JFK - stupid and amazingly entertaining.
Unforgiven - nice stolid western. idk, i thought 'a perfect world' was the better eastwood pic from this period.
A Few Good Men - sorkin wrote it, so...obvious and kind of stupid-clever.
Schindler's List - genuinely great though a couple of those ending scenes are really just hammering home points that didn't need hammering.
The Fugitive - amazing action film. andrew davis was so particularly good at capturing chicago in his films and populating them with little moments that felt vv real and skillfully incorporated into the story. much like mctiernan.
In the Name of the Father - i liked this! but i prefer 'the boxer' as far as DDL irish troubles pics go.
The Piano - i liked it i think.
Forrest Gump - eh
Four Weddings and a Funeral - great beginning iirc, then descends into bullshit.
Pulp Fiction - great but not really my thing these days. i saw it nine times in the theater though.
Quiz Show - fantastic.
The Shawshank Redemption - i do like this one but its following and the meaning ppl assign to it is vv boondock saintsy somehow.
Braveheart - solid flick.
Apollo 13 - it just makes me want to watch 'the right stuff'.
The English Patient - really good imo!
Fargo - i like it but i've always thought it was a couple cuts below some of the coens' films, in partic 'miller's crossing', 'barton fink', 'blood simple', NCFOM, and 'a serious man'.
Jerry Maguire - blah.
Secrets & Lies - wonderful imo, made me a leigh stan.
Titanic - once the iceberg hits it's pretty dope.
As Good as It Gets - entertaining but kind of idiotic.
The Full Monty - okay i guess.
Good Will Hunting - no memory of this.
L.A. Confidential - love it though it has some plot flaws.
Shakespeare in Love - one of those movies that i feel like no one is ever going to return to, it's just so uninteresting.
Saving Private Ryan - dreadful bookends and loads of spielberg malarkey. i still like it, but 'band of brothers' is so much better.
The Thin Red Line - lots of malick malarkey but still compelling. beautiful movie.
American Beauty - piece of shit.
The Green Mile - not bad but i can't think about this w/o thinking about how doug hutchison's role as a stereotypical blackhearted creep was maybe a role he didn't allow to leave him.
The Insider - amazing imo.
The Sixth Sense - who cares.

i feel like i didn't see the worst of these, but from what i did see i probably dislike 'american beauty' most of all.

Favorites:

Goodfellas
Quiz Show
Secrets and Lies
JFK
The Insider

none of these are as bad as Barton Fink, even Shawshank

Somehow avoided Quiz Show for years bc I assumed it was real generic Oscar-bait, but the relative praise in here kinda has me wanting to check it out

Fantastic script. One of the few films to use writers as characters without self-consciousness.

The role of Jules Winnfield proved difficult to cast, mainly because Samuel L. Jackson was under the impression the part was his, until he found out he was in danger of losing the role to Paul Calderon. Jackson flew out to L.A. for a last-ditch audition with Tarantino. “I sort of was angry, pissed, tired,” Jackson recalls. He was also hungry, so he bought a takeout burger on his way to the studio, only to find nobody there to greet him. “When they came back, a line producer or somebody who was with them said, ‘I love your work, Mr. Fishburne,’” says Jackson.

bugsy sucks imo

most of these that i suspect are bad ive not seen

Somehow avoided Quiz Show for years bc I assumed it was real generic Oscar-bait, but the relative praise in here kinda has me wanting to check it out

Cosine. Always seemed like it would be really boring, but now I'm interested.

Now you're off on a tangent.

ghost or american beauty for me

I dunno if I've ever been more annoyed by a movie than when I saw American Beauty. I ranted at my poor friend for 5 blocks after left the theater, I was so fucking mad that I had paid to see it

bugsy is probably worst in terms of pure dull ineptness.

but my vote is emotionally drawn to either braveheart or shawshank in strong measure due to the cloying bro-canonization of both.

is Bugsy inept or fitfully watchable?

one of the more old fashioned thing on this list

I don't even remember Bugsy, I always get it confused with Dick Tracy and start humming Hanky Panky

it could have used Madonna.

Bugsy is the version of Dick Tracy where all of the characters are played by children.

remember when Warren Beatty was in like, every movie

Haven't seen it since it came out--I remember the film as a whole being a little tepid, but there was a surprisingly good supporting performance from Bill Graham, the Fillmore guy.

braveheart and jfk are the only two three-ish-hour movies i know where i can do every line of dialogue

only one is a "good" film though

I honestly don't know which of the two that is.

(in your opinion, that is)

Quiz Show struck me as one of those films where, even if it were done to perfection, it wouldn't ever be a great film, but only a good small one.

that's about right!

you have to be a boring ass liberal newspaper critic to buy Redford's scenario: that the American public was truly horrified by the rigging of quiz shows.

More films should aim for 'small and good', imo. Most films should probably be like a solid short story.

it was a good movie but yeah, aimless otm

the Fiennes-Scofield father-son dynamic is one of the most painfully accurate I've seen in a movie.

I haven't seen all of these, and I have a feeling I might vote for Life Is Beautiful if I'd ever forced myself to watch it. But of the ones I've seen, definitely Gump. Runner-up: As Good As It Gets, which is pretty repulsive on every level.

One of the most inexplicable films ever. I have no idea why anyone in it does anything.

"Carol the waitress, Simon the fag."

what a big laugh that got in the theatre

Things on here I legitimately like a lot: Goodfellas, Unforgiven, The Crying Game, The Fugitive, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Babe, Fargo.

Secrets and Lies is pretty good, too. I think. I don't really remember it that well. Howard's End and The Remains of the Day both hit their marks fine. Elizabeth isn't a good movie, but Cate Blanchett is fun to watch.

xpost sometimes applause and cartwheels of glee

woof I forgot to include Babe and The Crying Game.

is there a scene in any of these that's dumber than the kooky three's company misunderstanding that serves as the inciting incident in american beauty:
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/th_ab_zpscad538ed.gif

i guess russell crowe showing up alive and well after clearly being shot to death in the face by james cromwell in la confidential would be close.

I don't even remember Bugsy, I always get it confused with Dick Tracy and start humming Hanky Panky

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i always get it mixed up with Oscar http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102603/

al leong 1000% otm

the thing about american beauty is, the script's not THAT bad and i really blame mendes for what it became. it should've just been modestly mediocre instead of the insistently Serious Important Movie that he made, which is why it was 1000x more annoying

with gump, again, i think it was meant at the outset as an apolitical satire about the american century and became something more fucked up in the execution, but this is kinda otm:

Gump is another one I haven't seen since it was in theatres, but I have a feeling that if I watched it again now it would be too weird for me to out and out hate. Really, if this weren't the hit it was, we'd remember it as a camp curio today.

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

zemeckis is on such a higher level as a filmmaker than, i dunno, john madden that i cant put gump below the Ghosts and Shakespeares In love of the world