Which of these last ten Best Picture Oscar winners least deserved it?

[elperromagico]

[Beaverhausen]

1. Who the hell voted for Lord of the Rings? are you kidding?

did you even see that film? Let alone the two leading up to it?

[hollywood926]

9. I didn't pick Bored of the Rings,

but I hated it. What a long drawn-out yawnfest!

Hated The English Patient more, however!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

38. Loved "The English Patient" on Seinfeld.

Die already!

[Fenris]

2. Oh! So torn between "Titanic" and "Braveheart"!

Titanic. As much as I hate "Braveheart," the dialogue beats the shit out of the cardboard that Cameron made Kate Winslet spew.

[Richardo]

3. Man, you look at that list and it's a celebration of mediocrity

Will any of these movies stand as the 'Casablanca' or 'Citizen Kane' or even the 'Gone With the Wind' of its day?

I don't think so.

[meganmonkey]

4. I voted for the Titanic, which really isn't fair

since I haven't ever seen it. I just have this feeling...

[MuseRider]

15. Lol, me too.

My feeling is that if certain women I know were soooo into it that they were going to it 7 or 8 times it has to be a pukefest. Ooohhh, lets all go together. We should have dinner and some drinks and go every Friday night. Jeeze, no thanks.

[Hans Delbrook]

36. Oh, you are indeed blessed

If you did not lose three hours of your life to that drek. It was bad enough when some "friends" convinced me to go but I was also stupid enough to take my poor husband w/ me and do it on our birthday w/e! Then when it won Best Picture, well... it was the last straw. I've never forgiven James Cameron and I don't think I ever will. I only recently forgave Leo and only because he's so Blue!

[djeseru]

5. My Oscar WTF moment...

...came when they gave it to Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.


Edited for spelling error...

[elperromagico]

8. Especially after Spielberg won for Best Director, right?

That was a shocker.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. There was some MAJOR lobbying going on.

I think some slept with every academy member that year.

"Private Ryan" should have won.

[djeseru]

14. Oh my yes.

I enjoyed Shakespeare in Love but I thought that Saving Private Ryan was more powerful. For me, it brought home what the b&w D-Day footage never could, nor some history books.

[stopbush]

23. Mine came when they gave it to Ordinary People over

The Elephant Man. WTF???

[terrya]

6. "Gladiator"

Did I miss something here? "Gladiator" was this...blah kind of movie. Great looking movie...but that's it. And Russell Crowe SHOULD have won Best Actor for "A Beautiful Man" instead of "Gladiator"

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[Hans Delbrook]

40. Actually

He should have won for "The Insider" and I always felt they knew in their hearts they fucked up (I think Hanks won for the 2nd time that year?) and "gave" it to him for "Gladiator" to make up for it. And yes, he should have won his 2nd for "A Beautiful Mind."

(Even though he was as hot as molten metal in "Gladiator." :evilgrin: )

[derby378]

7. Braveheart

Parts of it were stirring and very well executed, but the beginning of the film had too many technical problems, including a very visible film flub where a bagpiper at a funeral fingered the chanter out of sync with the music being played. Plus, there was the flub where King Edward kicked his son using a pair of boots that wouldn't be invented for another 500+ years.

[stopbush]

24. How about the Battle of Stirling Bridge...without the bridge?

The battle was lost because the King's forces got trapped on the bridge, except in Mel's "an open field=same as a bridge" flick.

I guess they spent most of the productoin $ on his hairdo...

[jdonaldball]

31. Braveheart was historically bankrupt. More errors:

1. The Scots did not paint themselves with woad in the Middle Ages.
2. William Wallace was a relatively wealthy Knight of some means, and he would have worn chain mail.
3. Bagpipes were not used as military instruments at that time.
They were used mostly by shepherds, to frighten the sheep. And they came from the Middle East, brought to Scotland by returning Crusaders.
4. Edward the First did not die contemporaneously with Wallace.
5. Most of Wallace's followers were from the Lowlands or the Borders, where kilts and "tartans" and such garb were not worn, ever.
Damn you Sir Walter Scott, for turning Scotland into a theme park!
6. Edward the First (Longshanks) and most of his knights and barons, spoke French and identified more with the French-speaking feudal aristocracy than with "England". They were oppressors of the English, even more than of the Scots.
7. Robert Bruce was a Norman Overlord of Scotland, closer in language and culture to the "English" aristocracy than to the Scots.
8. The "Irish" comrade of Mel Gibson in that movie, was eager to "kill English." This is an anachronism. No Irishman in year 1300 would think of "The English" as his enemies. "The English" had not even coalesced as a nation at that time, and neither had "The Irish."
9. It was not a war between Nations in any modern sense. It was a feudal war between competing feudal powers. And at that time (as is still the case in many ways) the common Lowland and Border Scots had more in common with the "English" than either of them had in common with their feudal overlords.

[derby378]

42. #5 reminds me of a Brian MacNeill song

I can just hear your laughter
You always get what you're after
You've been trying to make us a theme park
Since the Romans built the Wall

[msgadget]

10. Shakespeare in Love

It was hard choosing just one.

[AmandaRuth]

11. titanic

one of my closest friends got kicked out of the theater, for losing patience with the film midway, and asking them to sink the effing boat already a little louder than she realized. After seeing the film, i understand her sentiment.

[swimmernsecretsea]

25. Oh, I hate this film! Sink already! Sheesh

And they mucked it up with that crappy love story, that stupid blue-diamond caper, and those hideous drawings that are the key to the whole stinko story. Ewww! I broke into applause when it cracked in half, thinking that the story's gonna move faster. Did it? Ha!

[sundog]

13. none deserved it! The best movies never get anything.

Oscars are bought & sold. It's all political shit.

[flamingyouth]

16. I've never seen "Titanic" or "Braveheart" and don't plan to

As a matter of fact, I've never seen "Shakespeare in Love" either, nor do I plan to.

I did actually like "American Beauty" and "Chicago," but I'm not sure if they were worthy of being named best picture. I love "LOTR:ROTK," though.

[Liberal In Texas]

17. Forrest Gump, one of the worst movies EVER. n/t

[webjamn]

28. Don't think so

Forrest Gump was a very good film but The Shawshank Redemption should have won Best Picture that year

[fishwax]

35. Absolutely agree that Shawshank should have won

Actually, looking over that list, I'm not convinced that any of them should have won. I don't think I would have voted for any of them for that particular year.

On Edit: I do probably agree with American Beauty.

[Balbus]

18. Why isn't Chariots of Fire on there?

God-awful movie!

[ronnykmarshall]

19. Only the last ten years.

[Balbus]

21. Doh!

I guess I should've read the message instead of scan it.

[ronnykmarshall]

20. Void one vote.

I mis-read the topic and voted for "Chicago". I ment to vote for "Braveheart".

[davidinalameda]

22. The English Patient

HATED that movie

I watched maybe half if that much and gave up

[mcscajun]

32. A more boring movie would be Very Difficult to imagine…

…or produce.

Worst thing about it was a friend of mine wanted to see it, I didn't. We went. She said she enjoyed it; I said I loathed it. That was then. Fast forward to last year; brought it up and she said she never liked it!

Two hours of my life gone for nothing! I could have strangled her. :)

[DrGonzoLives]

26. Tossup: Forrest Gump or Titanic

But I give the edge to Forrest Gump, as at least Titanic can put some women in the mood...

[SarahB]

33. Not necessarily.

Never underestimate the power of the Gump.

[deadparrot]

27. Titanic. Overhyped, overrated "chick flick."

[Seabiscuit]

29. Why are there so many "Titanic" bashers in the DU Lounge???

Neither "Titanic" nor "Lord of the Rings" nor "Forrest Gump" should be on such a list.

[Withywindle]

30. Very tough call

between the tedious, pretentious, melodramatic Titanic and the loathsome, cloying patronizing Forrest Gump.

The latter "wins" in the end, though, because it's offensive on so many more levels than the boat flick, which at least has really cool sinking-and-screaming scenes.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. So much mediocrity and only one vote!

I couldn't settle on just one.

[Beware the Beast Man]

37. Titanic, by far.

Probably won for the simple fact that it was a hugely successful period piece that was a long shot to break even at the box office. "Braveheart" was great despite the glaring historical inaccuracies, and historical fiction ususally wanks, but "Gladiator" was deserving as well.

[Downtown Hound]

39. Chicago

I really could not figure out what the big deal about that movie was. Okay it had some good dancing. Big deal. The story was at best decent. Not a bad film in any sense but by no means the best picture of the year.

[Bok_Tukalo]

43. I saw the show in New York before I saw the movie

The movie seemed flat and completely uninteresting compared with the stage production.

[NNadir]

41. Of the 5 I've seen in the list, "Titanic" was definitely the worst.

Some of the others were pretty bad though.

"American Beauty," however is one of my favorite movies ever.

[bigwillq]

44. Forrest Gump

Awful, awful cheesy inaccurate movie. Bad acting too.

[PBR me]

45. titanic blows