OT- What were they thinking???, the sequel - the return of lame Oscar picks

by sluggo 2.0 on Sep 9, 2009 5:54 PM EDT Comment 35 comments

Inspired by Titov's worst-pick-for-best-song thread, here's a thread to bark at the moon about bad Academy Award picks in general. I'm sure you all have your favourites, so I'll get the ball rolling with a particularly egregiuos case that in my mind stands out above all the others -

The 1968 winner for best picture was Oliver!, a musical based on the well known Dickens story. It's not a terrible movie, the performances are quality & there are some catchy tunes. But in the end it's just another mid-to-late 60s cast of thousands musical and was in no way deserving of best picture compared to 2 of that year's other offerings -

2001: A Space Odyssey. Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick team up to turn Clarke's novel into the ultimate head rush of a movie. The scene where Hal turns off the oxygen is more intense than any scene with a bunch of spaceships shooting at each other & more creepy than any monster ripping through someone's chest.

The Lion in Winter. King Henry & Queen Eleanor can't stand each other - or any of their 3 sons, Richard, Geoff & John. But one of them has to be the next king. And then there's King Philip of France looking to use this chaos to his own advantage... Cast full of super heavyweights. Peter O'Toole as Henry & Katherine Hepburn (best actress winner) as Eleanor, along with 2 newcomers who made nice careers for themselves afterwards, Anthony Hopkins as Richard & Timothy Dalton as Philip.

Well, that's my worst pick, have at it.

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The Dark Knight not getting nominated for Best Picture, Director, or Score. It had the best score out of any movie last year. And WALL-E not winning the sound awards.

There are a lot more, but those the fresh ones.

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by Markickass on Sep 10, 2009 1:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Re; score

im listening to that right now.

"Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me, I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out."-Ichiro

by WestcoastO'sFan on Sep 12, 2009 1:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

dark knight was the shit

even better on IMAX

by twistedlogic on Sep 12, 2009 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

I saw that shit opening night, in this really nice theater that is pretty small and has like nice seats and food. It also had a great screen and a mind blowing sound system that made that movie really good.

by WestcoastO'sFan on Sep 12, 2009 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

the IMAX was friggin awesome

they used the whole screen during some of those scenes where he was jumping outta buildings and planes and stuff and you felt like you were flying

by twistedlogic on Sep 17, 2009 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I might be the minority on this one but..

Lord of the Rings 3 beating Mystic River

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by Graham71681 on Sep 10, 2009 1:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yup, you're in the minority. :)

Jim Palmer: "I said to Nolan, 'Why do you run every ball out like that?' and he said, 'Why wouldn’t you?' "

by duck on Sep 10, 2009 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I liked Mystic River

and never saw Lord of the Rings.

I remember thinking it was pretty silly that Titanic won best picture, although I can’t remember what it beat.

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by Stacey on Sep 10, 2009 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

All 3 movies are quality

and Peter Jackson and his writing partner (his common-law wife) made a point to beef up the female parts of the story so it wouldn’t all be “short guys walking around a forest”. The trilogy is really, really good.

Jim Palmer: "I said to Nolan, 'Why do you run every ball out like that?' and he said, 'Why wouldn’t you?' "

by duck on Sep 10, 2009 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I dunno

I just thought all of them were super long, extremely pretty, bore-fests. Visually they were stunning I can’t deny that, they deserved any art or special effect award that they won but I guess when I read the books when I was younger the story was more fascinating in my head than it was on the big screen years later.

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by Graham71681 on Sep 11, 2009 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Titanic beat

As good as it gets
The Full Monty
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax ~ Mike Royko

by Graham71681 on Sep 11, 2009 9:11 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Snap out of it!

When Cher won best actress for Moonstruck I remember thinking that standards in the industry had fallen pretty low.

by typozzz on Sep 10, 2009 7:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ooooo

That movie is such a guilty pleasure. When I saw it the first time I was shocked, shocked that Nicholas Cage was actually attractive at one point in his life.

by O Nina on Sep 10, 2009 8:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and a decent actor, too.

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by j.q. higgins on Sep 12, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Another one, like said before in the other post

Forrest “stupid is what stupid does” Gump beat PULP FICTION and Robert Zemeckis beat Tarintino for best director. Don’t get me wrong forrest gump was a damn good movie but its Pulp FUCKING Fiction!

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax ~ Mike Royko

by Graham71681 on Sep 11, 2009 9:15 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I dunno

I liked Forrest Gump a lot better, but i’m no expert on oscar calibur movies

by stalkingbamby on Sep 13, 2009 10:27 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Absolutely

Forrest Gump is a good movie, but twas not better than Pulp Fiction. If it wasn’t going to be Pulp Fiction then it should have been Quiz Show or Hoop Dreams which wasn’t even nominated.

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by jobe on Sep 17, 2009 1:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

How about jai ho beating down to earth for best original movie song

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by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2009 10:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

or the fact that

36 mafia AND eminem both have oscars! ridiculous!

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax ~ Mike Royko

by Graham71681 on Sep 12, 2009 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

well its hard out there for a pimp....

by twistedlogic on Sep 12, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Three 6 Mafia is legitttttttttttttt

some great tunes by them: Sippin’ on some Sizzurp, Poppin’ my Collar, Stay Fly, Ridin’ Spinners, Doe Boy Fresh, etc.

I like them ‘cuz they are goofy as hell, and don’t really give a shit. They are cool in my book.

And who can argue with the coolness that is Project Pat?

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by Timmy L. on Sep 12, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A buddy and I used to get drunk and/or high and sing "Bin Laden Weed" a lot

by pipkin on Sep 12, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am not questioning coolness I myself enjoy some "tear da club up" and "late night tip"

but it doesn’t mean they should have been nominated let alone won an acadamy award.

Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax ~ Mike Royko

by Graham71681 on Sep 14, 2009 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A few disgraces:

-The French connection beats A Clockwork Orange.
-Kramer vs Kramer beats Apocolypse Now.
-Dances with wolves beats Good fellas, and in the sme year Godfather 3 was unfortunately nominated.
-Titanic beats Good Will Hunting.
-Chicago beats Gangs of New York.
-V for Vendetta was never nominated……okay that last one was a joke, but I just love that oppressive government/dystopia/hero/love story shit. What a great movie.

There’s probably even more misses when it comes to the best actor category.

When you're born into the human race you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us have notepads.-George Carlin

by Afghanistan Steve on Sep 12, 2009 12:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Love me some V for Vendetta

Jim Palmer: "I said to Nolan, 'Why do you run every ball out like that?' and he said, 'Why wouldn’t you?' "

by duck on Sep 12, 2009 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

REMEMBER REMEMBER.....

When you're born into the human race you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us have notepads.-George Carlin

by Afghanistan Steve on Sep 13, 2009 1:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Good film

But nothing close to the comic in terms of content or quality – I can see why Alan Moore hates it.

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Sep 14, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

and Watchmen, still have only seen little bits of that.

Comics just don’t work like they’re supposed to on film.

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by the fix is in on Sep 18, 2009 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Watchmen stays closer to the original than V... did

and as Moore said, “They’ve kept my name off this one, so I can remain indifferent.”

Strange that such a surley bastard would do a guest spot on The Simpsons, but his reaction to Milhouse wanting an autograph on a copy of “Watchmen Babies” is classic.

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Sep 19, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

The godfather 3 was a let down

by WestcoastO'sFan on Sep 12, 2009 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bit like Return of the Jedi or Alien III

You think, “they can’t possibly top the other 2”, and usually they can’t.

Return of the King was a rare exception.

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Sep 14, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Kramer vs. Kramer

I wouldn’t call it a “disgrace” that Kramer vs. Kramer won, both were wonderful films and although Apocalypse Now is hailed as one of, if not the best Vietnam War films of all time, Kramer vs. Kramer had a lot of cultural impact. Maybe it’s because I’m a woman, but the latter reflected the changing atmosphere of America in terms of motherhood versus fatherhood and feminism. These ideas weren’t demonstrated through cinema yet. So to say that it’s a kind of travesty that one great movie beat out another is unfair. They were both very different movies, and Kramer vs. Kramer also had a lot of really superb acting on its side (especially from Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman). I think the Academy may have chosen Kramer vs. Kramer due to the subject matter, which in the 1970s was fairly original, while the Vietnam War is, well, the Vietnam War.

This isn’t about wins but the real disgrace is The Reader beating out The Dark Knight for a Best Picture nod.

by DCO'sfan on Sep 14, 2009 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well I'm a male

and I liked Kramer vs. Kramer better. Huge cultural impact.

The Dark Knight for me has gotten better each time I saw it. The first time I saw it it was a bit confusing but still stuck with me like a good movie should. In subsequent viewings I got all the facets of the story and really enjoyed the great acting of Michael Caine(he doesn’t need much screen to leave an impact on a movie), Gary Oldman and Christian Bale. It still feels just a bit rushed but the movie is two and a half hours long so I may be nitpicking but certainly a great movie.

by jobe on Sep 17, 2009 2:03 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I normally hate

when I talk to guys and they say, “dude, why wasn’t (insert halfway decent action movie here) nomineted?” But The Dark Knight was certainly different. I think you could put it on terms of Silence of the Lambs in the way that one incredibly evil character propelled that movie into greatness. Ledger’s joker was so menacing, and the plot combined with the action, and the unapologetic murder of the main character’s love made that movie heads and shoulders above all the other super hero movies. It wasn’t a cheesey action movie, or an overly prudish hero movie to attract little kids into the theaters. The Dark Knight defeated a lot of the stereotypes, then it played into certain stereotypes, and did them better than anyone before.

Just a pisser that it wasn’t atleast nominated.

When you're born into the human race you're given a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us have notepads.-George Carlin

by Afghanistan Steve on Sep 17, 2009 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree

The Dark Knight definitely should have gotten a nomination, although it’s pretty far fetched to say it would have – or could have – won. Slumdog Millionaire rightfully deserved Best Picture.

The Reader, however, was awful compared to the Dark Knight other than Winslet’s performance. I read the book. It was really strange, and the movie wasn’t much better. Most people didn’t think so (Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 60 vs. Dark Knight which got a 93). I guess a holocaust movie always has to get nominated – that’s coming from a Jew.

by DCO'sfan on Sep 17, 2009 1:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs