Worst Best Picture Winner of the Decade
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I take BJ's point, that the very fact Gladiator was reclassified as an Oscar contender at year end, when all it ever was was a sumer movie with literary pretensions, is enough to tempt one to vote for it. But A Beautiful Mind is just so silly by the end -- and so manifestly inferior to some strong co-nominees -- that i couldn't resist it.
And, to the despair of Eric, I just can't work up that level of hate for Crash.
And, to the despair of Eric, I just can't work up that level of hate for Crash.
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As much as I would love to vote for Crash, A Beautiful Mind is so much worse a film. I mean, Braveheart might be the only worse Best Picture winner since I started watching the Oscars.
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A Beautiful Mind and No Country For Old Men are awful, and Crash and The Hurt Locker are pretty bad, too. But none of them is as ludicrous a Best Picture winner as Gladiator. Ye gods, other than Joaquin Phoenix's performance, that movie is putrid. Another beaut from Ridley Scott.
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