Worst Post-Crash Best Picture Winner

voted King's Speech because it was so mind numbingly boring. I mean I disliked Birdman for most of the same reasons as everyone else but I didn't walk out thinking, "I wasted 2 hours"

Green Book

Worst winner of the 21st century so far is A Beautiful Mind. Christ, I hated that film to its core

Ahh, the early 2000s

I've softened on Akiva Goldsman to the point where I can take his writing or directing if it's tempered by someone else, but A Beautiful Mind's pairing of his writing and Ron Howard's direction brought out the worst in both

I'd forgotten I'd seen Argo, why did that win? Such a nothing film.

To compensate for Ben Affleck's absence from Best Director.

sometimes i remember "argo fuck yourself" and laugh to myself it's truly one of the great bits of dialogue

Birdman Or is extremely silly and pretentious but I had fun watching it once. Completely ludicrous choice for Best Picture, but not offensive in and of itself.

remember when TKS was supposed to augur a new decade of Eighties Prestige Pictures

instead it added 20 years to Peter Morgan's career

this list could be markedly worse, there was a perceived momentum towards Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri taking the prize a couple years ago.

Birdman easy, just for the “Hollywood sucking itself off (while sucking itself off”) factor

Green Book, followed by the King's Speech and Argo.

Haven't seen Parasite yet. All of the other ones are OK or better.

I like Birdman.

Of the nine I've seen, The Artist--sheer torture.

the king's speech is a great demonstration of how the formula of 'man overcomes odds to achieve his goal through dedicated montage training' has been honed to such a fine art that it can even be effectively applied to the story of an inbred oaf overcoming the odds to talk into a microphone in an empty room

― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), 10. februar 2020 21:37 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is otm, and is kinda the reason why I can't hate the film. It sounds like a parody from Bojack Horseman.

Birdman seems to be one of those films where if you take it seriously it's bad, if you don't it's good. Whether it's meant to be taken seriously or not I couldn't say, but I thought it was funny.

I kinda liked Birdman.. bit self indulgent, but surprised it's so bad and hated.

Birdman easy, just for the “Hollywood sucking itself off (while sucking itself off”) factor

Argo even more so.

ben selffsuck

while we're bashing ben, i'll say that the town was even worse -- it's bigelow's point break with the fun stuff taken out.

the idea that movies that tackle serious subjects have to be utterly joyless is definitely a running theme

You the bomb at selfsuck, yo

i stopped watching movies after argo, it probably isn't argo's fault but man i hated that movie, it was fucking blatant cia propaganda

glad to see a lot of people bashing birdman, an easy vote (haven't seen green book), even though it did inspire a great episode of always sunny.

glad to see a lot of people bashing birdman

were you not on twitter in 2014

i'm just always glad to see people bashing it.

Birdman was dark and brooding, just like this bird, man:
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Slumdog Millionaire was a Final Jeopardy answer 4 or 5 years ago and no one got it.

I've never seen Birdman but I forgot about that parenthetical title and I must vote for it.

xpost TBF the rap album Garth Brooks released under that pseudonym disappeared almost immediately upon release.

Can I still find that on GhostTunes?

Jack Nicholson's reading of the Best Picture nominees of 2005 should be in a highlight reel as one of his best performances, particularly his pronouncement of CAH-PO-TAY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQs7WbVse8

such effortless disinterest in what he was reading! such a complete lack of sincerity or engagement! such pointless vocal modulations! a masterly performance indeed.

glad to see a lot of people bashing birdman

were you not on twitter in 2014

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 2:26 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

finally someone said it

i felt like i was the sole detractor

why would people walk out of Slumdog when it was in the theaters? The poop scene?

I like King's Speech because of the pretty wall. And people shot porn there too?

I also voted Green Book (have not seen either).

Is THAT why Josh Duhamel was changing a diaper in a shitty romcom and yelled "IT SMELLS LIKE SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE IN HERE"?

Shape Of Water bored the arse off me.

Jack Nicholson's reading of the Best Picture nominees of 2005 should be in a highlight reel as one of his best performances, particularly his pronouncement of CAH-PO-TAY.

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his best expression was after he announced the winner, understandable because it was kind of a shocking moment

I have seen all of these films, and just based on how enjoyable it was to watch them, The Shape of Water was the worst for me, even though it is probably a better film than some of the others

I don’t quite understand how people can interpret Argo as “blatant CIA propaganda” when it makes the CIA look fundamentally incompetent at almost every step of the way, requiring help from HOLLYWOOD and CANADIANS to get a small number of Americans out alive, after a military option has already failed spectacularly.

the pretty wall. And people shot porn there too?

yes.

Maybe it’s just the way I see it but Argo is fun for me because it’s like “holy shit, this entire business is rube goldberg machines, buttressed by w. heath robinson machines, etc”

They Shoot Porn There, Don't They?

I enjoyed watching most of these films, even if they weren’t great

I oppose Green Book on its principle.

King's Speech was a historical revisionist classic.

The entire premise that having a relatively unknown, recently elevated 'new' king speak on the radio without stuttering badly was of any real historic importance in WWII was a bit of twaddle designed to wring a few more drops of drama out of a situation containing very little drama of its own. He was a king at a time when being king was mostly irrelevant. And he stuttered. Compared to the reality of a nation involved in total war this amounted to less than nothing.

U mean he didn't say "tits"?

Given the length of his lifetime, I'm sure he managed to bust out a couple of "tits" before he died.