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This is the corollary to the other thread.
What are some movies that received very good reviews, or better yet, some major nominations, that you think suck. Bonus if the movie received any major Golden Globe or Oscar Nominations.
I will start:
The Master (2012) - Two of my favorite actors in Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix, but this movie is so boring, pretentious, and obviously Oscar bait that I was angry by the end of it. This movie sucks.
Towering Inferno (1974) - This movie has 3 Oscar WINS plus 4 more nominations. All for a movie that is essentially the Love Boat on fire. The dialogue is so cheesy and the whole movie is so melodramatic that this has to be one of the 2-3 worst movies ever nominated for Best Picture. I would have understood it if Coppola had turned down the Oscar for Godfather II that year just because he was embarrassed to be on the same list as this camp. Fun Fact: Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were fighting so much during filming about who was the lead that they had to make some edits to the script so the two of them would have exactly the same number of lines of dialogue.
Crash (2006) - This movie actually won Best Picture, and it seems so trite and over the top now. It is basically an R-rated after school special. The only thing this movie is missing is Mr. Drummond from Different Strokes to tell us the moral of the episode right before the credits rolled. It is a crime that this won the big prize over two masterpieces like Brokeback Mountain and Good Night, and Good Luck.
What are some movies that received very good reviews, or better yet, some major nominations, that you think suck. Bonus if the movie received any major Golden Globe or Oscar Nominations.
I will start:
The Master (2012) - Two of my favorite actors in Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix, but this movie is so boring, pretentious, and obviously Oscar bait that I was angry by the end of it. This movie sucks.
Towering Inferno (1974) - This movie has 3 Oscar WINS plus 4 more nominations. All for a movie that is essentially the Love Boat on fire. The dialogue is so cheesy and the whole movie is so melodramatic that this has to be one of the 2-3 worst movies ever nominated for Best Picture. I would have understood it if Coppola had turned down the Oscar for Godfather II that year just because he was embarrassed to be on the same list as this camp. Fun Fact: Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were fighting so much during filming about who was the lead that they had to make some edits to the script so the two of them would have exactly the same number of lines of dialogue.
Crash (2006) - This movie actually won Best Picture, and it seems so trite and over the top now. It is basically an R-rated after school special. The only thing this movie is missing is Mr. Drummond from Different Strokes to tell us the moral of the episode right before the credits rolled. It is a crime that this won the big prize over two masterpieces like Brokeback Mountain and Good Night, and Good Luck.