Unworthy Best Picture Winners - Page 3 - Blu-ray Forum

CZAR · 03-09-2010, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Secretagentnumber6

There is no such thing as an unworthy best picture winner. The academy picks its Best Picture, fans do not. You can all wine about the winners if you want but you have to remember, these awards are voted on by not movie fans, but men and women who study the art of filmmaking and are filmmakers themselves in most instances, not fans or fanboys. Avatar was never winning this year, it was lucky to even get a nomination because if there were not 10 it likely would not have, it was nominated in a clear ploy to get viewers, it never had a shot to win, that is not what the Academy is about.

Dog we dont need to remember anything. Someone made a thread asking which films we think are undeserving. We can give our opinion of which films we think arent deserving right? I think we understand how the choices are made but that doesnt mean we have to agree with it. No biggie. Remember its a forum for movie discussion. Im sure there are some films u felt shouldnt have won right? Got Em!!

CZAR · 03-09-2010, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by lifevicarious

I don't understand the general hate towards Crash. I absolutely love that movie. Why does everyone hate it?

+1 I love Crash! Got Em!!

mikejet · 03-09-2010, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by lifevicarious

I don't understand the general hate towards Crash. I absolutely love that movie. Why does everyone hate it?

I think for every movie that people think should NOT have won, they should tell us the movie from that year that should have won.

Crash is a very divisive movie. You either love it or hate it. A lot of people have problems with how convenient some of the situations are in the film like the officer saving the girl he molests or the cops brother being the fugitive that gets shot.

Fighter · 03-09-2010, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by CZAR

Dog we dont need to remember anything. Someone made a thread asking which films we think are undeserving. We can give our opinion of which films we think arent deserving right? I think we understand how the choices are made but that doesnt mean we have to agree with it. No biggie. Remember its a forum for movie discussion. Im sure there are some films u felt shouldnt have won right? Got Em!!

Fighter · 03-09-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mikejet

Crash is a very divisive movie. You either love it or hate it. A lot of people have problems with how convenient some of the situations are in the film like the officer saving the girl he molests or the cops brother being the fugitive that gets shot.

I liked Crash.....just didn't think it was the "Best Picture"

dmb70 · 03-09-2010, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Zero_Cool

Avatar..... oh wait.

no but really

The Godfather 1+2
Rocky

Then again I dont get to pick. So it really does not matter.

So what IYO should have won the best picture in 72 & 74 if not the Godfather films. I could definitely see that Taxi Driver should have taken it in 76, but Rocky is a great film & something that America need very much at that time period.

surfdude12 · 03-09-2010, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mikejet

Crash is a very divisive movie. You either love it or hate it. A lot of people have problems with how convenient some of the situations are in the film like the officer saving the girl he molests or the cops brother being the fugitive that gets shot.

#1 rented film on netflix. i dont think you can get more love than that. i still cant figure out why people are choosing it either.

Fighter · 03-09-2010, 03:47 PM

Transformers is up there on the top rented list.....'nuff said.

surfdude12 · 03-09-2010, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Fighter

Transformers is up there on the top rented list.....'nuff said.

lifevicarious · 03-09-2010, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by mikejet

Crash is a very divisive movie. You either love it or hate it. A lot of people have problems with how convenient some of the situations are in the film like the officer saving the girl he molests or the cops brother being the fugitive that gets shot.

But that is the whole point of the movie. There are coincidences like this every day. Everything IS connected, perhaps if more people understood this, the world would be a better place. Rant over

mikejet · 03-09-2010, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by lifevicarious

But that is the whole point of the movie. There are coincidences like this every day. Everything IS connected, perhaps if more people understood this, the world would be a better place. Rant over

Some people can accept that and others can't. Those that can't hate the movie. Those that can love it

lifevicarious · 03-09-2010, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Fighter

I liked Crash.....just didn't think it was the "Best Picture"

What should have won that year?

Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich

I think they got it right although I would have been just as happy with Brokeback.

Mahatma · 03-09-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by jadedeath

I agree with the first part, disagree with the second.

Up should have won.

Logan

Agree 100%.Wonder what it would take for an animated movie to get the oscar as best movie when Up didn't beat Hurt locker....

Fighter · 03-09-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by surfdude12

Meaning...just because it's a popular rental does that make it a best picture winner??

Come on now!

P@t_Mtl · 03-09-2010, 03:58 PM

All Best Picture winners are unworthy because someone somewhere thinks that other movies should have one.

All the movies that did not win are also unworhty because someone somewhere disagre that they should have been Best Picture wins.

In short in one way or another, all movies are unworthy of a Best Picture win.

toef · 03-09-2010, 03:59 PM

Whether I liked them or not, I think the ones that were somewhat controversial or surprising:

-The Hurt Locker
-Crash
-Shakespeare in Love
-Terms of Endearment
-Ordinary People
-Rocky
-Annie Hall

There are others that some would say weren't the best movie of that year (was Dances With Wolves better than Goodfellas? Was Titanic better than LA Confidential?, Was Forrest Gump better than Shawshank?), but I don't think the winners in these cases are shocking.

surfdude12 · 03-09-2010, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Fighter

Meaning...just because it's a popular rental does that make it a best picture winner??

Come on now!

oh, i see your point.

no, i didn't mean to suggest that. i was just responding to mikejet's specific point that crash is hated by many and loved by many, and that the rental stats tend to show it may not be hated by a lot. i wasn't trying to imply that "whatever is rented a lot is a good best picture"

DeeChizzle · 03-09-2010, 04:01 PM

Is this another, "Avatar should have won an Oscar for best movie ever", thread in disguise?

Fighter · 03-09-2010, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by surfdude12

oh, i see your point.

no, i didn't mean to suggest that. i was just responding to mikejet's specific point that crash is hated by many and loved by many, and that the rental stats tend to show it may not be hated by a lot. i wasn't trying to imply that "whatever is rented a lot is a good best picture"

It's all good....I liked Crash...very entertaining....If I had to pick one from that year, Munich, Brokeback.

mikejet · 03-09-2010, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by DeeChizzle

Is this another, "Avatar should have won an Oscar for best movie ever", thread in disguise?

Isn't that every thread here?

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03-09-2010, 03:47 PM	#48
Fighter Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Oct 2009 Location:☣☣☣☣☣ Blu-ray collection:14	Transformers is up there on the top rented list.....'nuff said.

03-09-2010, 03:58 PM	#55
P@t_Mtl Blu-ray Duke Member since:Sep 2008 Location:Montreal Home Theater Gallery:4 Blu-ray collection:452 DVD collection:513 Trading Score:3	All Best Picture winners are unworthy because someone somewhere thinks that other movies should have one. All the movies that did not win are also unworhty because someone somewhere disagre that they should have been Best Picture wins. In short in one way or another, all movies are unworthy of a Best Picture win.

03-09-2010, 03:59 PM	#56
toef Blu-ray Champion Member since:May 2008 Location:Isla Nublar 4K collection:230 Blu-ray collection:546 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:4	Whether I liked them or not, I think the ones that were somewhat controversial or surprising: -The Hurt Locker -Crash -Shakespeare in Love -Terms of Endearment -Ordinary People -Rocky -Annie Hall There are others that some would say weren't the best movie of that year (was Dances With Wolves better than Goodfellas? Was Titanic better than LA Confidential?, Was Forrest Gump better than Shawshank?), but I don't think the winners in these cases are shocking.

03-09-2010, 04:01 PM	#58
DeeChizzle Power Member Member since:Nov 2007 Location:The Last Frontier Blu-ray collection:188 Blu-ray reviews:74 Trading Score:47	Is this another, "Avatar should have won an Oscar for best movie ever", thread in disguise?

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