Comments on: The Ten Worst Best Picture Winners Of All Time http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php A Website About Movies Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:57:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: le cochon bleu http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-2#comment-245007 le cochon bleu Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-245007 Mind and Ordinary People, ..... I remember liking a Beautiful Mind, and I love Mind and Ordinary People, ….. I remember liking a Beautiful Mind, and I love

]]> By: BD http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160009 BD Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:24:40 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160009 You people are insane. The Departed? Really? The Queen was a terrible movie; I have no idea what planet any of you are from. The Departed gets better and better every time you watch it...<br><br>I'll admit I don't have a lot of issues with your other 9 choices... but Shakespeare In Love is a glaring omission. Just switch that out with The Departed and I'll give you a pass. You people are insane. The Departed? Really? The Queen was a terrible movie; I have no idea what planet any of you are from. The Departed gets better and better every time you watch it…

I'll admit I don't have a lot of issues with your other 9 choices… but Shakespeare In Love is a glaring omission. Just switch that out with The Departed and I'll give you a pass.

]]> By: Tim http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160010 Tim Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:25:27 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160010 I remember liking a Beautiful Mind, and I love The Departed. But yah, Ordinary People over Raging Bull is probably the biggest mistake, another mistake being Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas. Also Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction. Oh, I also think Eternal Sunshine should have won. And There Will Be Blood, though I don't think No Country was that bad of a decision. I remember liking a Beautiful Mind, and I love The Departed. But yah, Ordinary People over Raging Bull is probably the biggest mistake, another mistake being Dances With Wolves over Goodfellas. Also Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction. Oh, I also think Eternal Sunshine should have won. And There Will Be Blood, though I don't think No Country was that bad of a decision.

]]> By: Scott http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160011 Scott Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:05:48 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160011 Any list of this sort must include "Forrest Gump". I mean really, better than Pulp Fiction? Not that year or any year. What a turd of a movie. Any list of this sort must include “Forrest Gump”. I mean really, better than Pulp Fiction? Not that year or any year. What a turd of a movie.

]]> By: Ron http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160012 Ron Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:12:14 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160012 Out of Africa should be right up there. That was a terrible film. The only Best Picture winner I can say that for. Out of Africa should be right up there. That was a terrible film. The only Best Picture winner I can say that for.

]]> By: mattlove1 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160016 mattlove1 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:28:11 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160016 Good. As Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain or somebody or other once said, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Good. As Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain or somebody or other once said, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

]]> By: Nan2 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160013 Nan2 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:35:47 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160013 i also disagree about Beautiful Mind and Ordinary People. I thought Russel Crowe was fantastic portraying John Nash. I also loved Jennifer Conelley's performance. This movie was exciting and suspenseful and certainly kept my interest. Now with Ordinary People, again the acting performances by Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore were exceptional. I was rivetted by Moore's scenes with her son (Hutton) -- she was so cold and completely devoid of emotional feelings toward him. I have known of families who faced this tragedy and watching Ordinary People really hit close to home. <br><br>I also disagree with Driving Miss Daisy's poor rating in list. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie too. I do not agree that Jessica Tandy's portrayal of Miss Daisy showed no empathy for this character. She was harsh and probably very rigid and definitely narrow-minded and I believe Jessica Tandy's acting got this character right on target. Of course this movie is not trying to send a message about civil rights during the 1950's, it is just trying to portray life in the 1950's and that is how things were in the 1950's living in the deep South. i also disagree about Beautiful Mind and Ordinary People. I thought Russel Crowe was fantastic portraying John Nash. I also loved Jennifer Conelley's performance. This movie was exciting and suspenseful and certainly kept my interest. Now with Ordinary People, again the acting performances by Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore were exceptional. I was rivetted by Moore's scenes with her son (Hutton) — she was so cold and completely devoid of emotional feelings toward him. I have known of families who faced this tragedy and watching Ordinary People really hit close to home.

I also disagree with Driving Miss Daisy's poor rating in list. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie too. I do not agree that Jessica Tandy's portrayal of Miss Daisy showed no empathy for this character. She was harsh and probably very rigid and definitely narrow-minded and I believe Jessica Tandy's acting got this character right on target. Of course this movie is not trying to send a message about civil rights during the 1950's, it is just trying to portray life in the 1950's and that is how things were in the 1950's living in the deep South.

]]> By: Eldorado66 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160015 Eldorado66 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:39:10 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160015 Mystic River and Flags of our Fathers are terrible,terrible films? Wow. That is so ridiculous I dont know what to say. Mystic River and Flags of our Fathers are terrible,terrible films? Wow. That is so ridiculous I dont know what to say.

]]> By: Eldorado66 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-160014 Eldorado66 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:31:06 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-160014 Yes its too bad Raging Bull didnt win but that doesnt mean Ordinary People belongs on this list. Its one of the most gripping films ive seen and comparing it to a Lifetime movie leads me to the conclusion you dont know what you are talking about. Yes its too bad Raging Bull didnt win but that doesnt mean Ordinary People belongs on this list. Its one of the most gripping films ive seen and comparing it to a Lifetime movie leads me to the conclusion you dont know what you are talking about.

]]> By: Guest http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-152777 Guest Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:23:40 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-152777 Marlo Thomas was "That Girl" - MTM was Laura Petre and Mary Richards. <br><br>Oh, never mind - i see that correction was already issued - a year ago. I'd delete this comment, but don't see that option, so I'll just add this comment instead Marlo Thomas was “That Girl” – MTM was Laura Petre and Mary Richards.

Oh, never mind – i see that correction was already issued – a year ago. I'd delete this comment, but don't see that option, so I'll just add this comment instead

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-229175 Anonymous Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-229175 oh testify! I like the same kind of films Rob does - and hate the same kind of films he does. But this movie falls so short... its ponderous, cringe inducing, boring, pretentious, clunky... but most critics love it and rank it highly (like the awful children's film "Thief of Bagdad." I'm surprised to learn that you aren't making a bold statement by saying this film is no good. That's the case, but few are bold enough to say it, in my experience. oh testify! I like the same kind of films Rob does – and hate the same kind of films he does. But this movie falls so short… its ponderous, cringe inducing, boring, pretentious, clunky… but most critics love it and rank it highly (like the awful children’s film “Thief of Bagdad.” I’m surprised to learn that you aren’t making a bold statement by saying this film is no good. That’s the case, but few are bold enough to say it, in my experience.

]]> By: mattlove1 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-147829 mattlove1 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:23:40 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-147829 Marlo Thomas was "That Girl" - MTM was Laura Petre and Mary Richards. Marlo Thomas was “That Girl” – MTM was Laura Petre and Mary Richards.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-229174 Anonymous Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:14:00 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-229174 How did giving an academy award to "Million Dollar Baby" stick it to conservatives? Seems to me that film sticks it to disabled people, not conservatives, by telling them if they should just go die. Since the reactionary Clint Eastwood went to court to try to resist providing wheelchair access to his restaurant, we can have some intelligent speculation about his motiviations. What was the motivation of the Academy? Who knows. Eastwood makes terrible, terrible films. How did giving an academy award to “Million Dollar Baby” stick it to conservatives? Seems to me that film sticks it to disabled people, not conservatives, by telling them if they should just go die. Since the reactionary Clint Eastwood went to court to try to resist providing wheelchair access to his restaurant, we can have some intelligent speculation about his motiviations. What was the motivation of the Academy? Who knows. Eastwood makes terrible, terrible films.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-228847 Anonymous Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:15:00 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-228847 You have to base the quality on the time it was made. Yes Richard Dix is the worst actor ever, but when he was making films, the silent era type acting was accepted and expected. Watch more of these movies from 29 to 32 and you will see what I mean. In Jean Harlow's first performance in Public Enemy was the worse piece of single acting I have ever seen yet she progressed as acting standards progressed. I also believe that if it was not for this ham type acting, sound would never have taken off. Granted, the inability to speak had to be replaced with physical gestures during the silent era, theatre actors were able to use there voice but still used these gestures because that was how acting was done. As camera and sound technology improved, they could use better methods to create and explain a particular scene thereby lifting the burden on the actor to act their part through voice and expression. That is why during the late 30's to the 50's, actors like Gary Cooper thrived because he relied on great effects and story writing to tell the picture while he would only use a minimun amount of expression in his words and gestures and thereby associating the drama or action towards him and not his words or movements. As for musicals, same thing. They were new and big and people expected that type of zeal during and inbetween a song. The songs and dances were big and bold and they just couldn't have simple acting inbetween. It had to be as big and bold throughout to hold the viewer and not go from big dance and big song to average acting scenes and character parts. Also I want to emphasize this one major point. Racism. Since none of us knows what any minority was actually like during the time, we should look at it in terms as I explained above. Movies like Cimarron take place in the late 1800's just after the Civil War. Do you honestly believe that black people talked like they do now, of course not. They were still slaves in most respects until the 1950's and were denied any education for the most part. So when they speak with what we now would call racist sterotyping, that was how most of them actually talked. Even during the first half of the 1900's, they were kept down in servatude, denied middle class education and were expected to use that form of speech and vocabulary. Take a look at the films of the first independent black film maker Oscar Micheaux whose films who now be consider racist if not for the fact that he was black himself. You have to base the quality on the time it was made. Yes Richard Dix is the worst actor ever, but when he was making films, the silent era type acting was accepted and expected. Watch more of these movies from 29 to 32 and you will see what I mean. In Jean Harlow’s first performance in Public Enemy was the worse piece of single acting I have ever seen yet she progressed as acting standards progressed. I also believe that if it was not for this ham type acting, sound would never have taken off. Granted, the inability to speak had to be replaced with physical gestures during the silent era, theatre actors were able to use there voice but still used these gestures because that was how acting was done. As camera and sound technology improved, they could use better methods to create and explain a particular scene thereby lifting the burden on the actor to act their part through voice and expression. That is why during the late 30′s to the 50′s, actors like Gary Cooper thrived because he relied on great effects and story writing to tell the picture while he would only use a minimun amount of expression in his words and gestures and thereby associating the drama or action towards him and not his words or movements. As for musicals, same thing. They were new and big and people expected that type of zeal during and inbetween a song. The songs and dances were big and bold and they just couldn’t have simple acting inbetween. It had to be as big and bold throughout to hold the viewer and not go from big dance and big song to average acting scenes and character parts. Also I want to emphasize this one major point. Racism. Since none of us knows what any minority was actually like during the time, we should look at it in terms as I explained above. Movies like Cimarron take place in the late 1800′s just after the Civil War. Do you honestly believe that black people talked like they do now, of course not. They were still slaves in most respects until the 1950′s and were denied any education for the most part. So when they speak with what we now would call racist sterotyping, that was how most of them actually talked. Even during the first half of the 1900′s, they were kept down in servatude, denied middle class education and were expected to use that form of speech and vocabulary. Take a look at the films of the first independent black film maker Oscar Micheaux whose films who now be consider racist if not for the fact that he was black himself.

]]> By: Robert http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-128753 Robert Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:08:58 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-128753 I'd take Ordinary People off of this list (a very good film with superior performances that's only crime was being given Best Picture over Raging Bull) and add Out of Africa, Gladiator and most especially Crash, which was an appalling choice, as it is turgid, heavy handed and unbearably self-important. BTW, I think The Aviator should have won over Million Dollar Baby also, but what's up with your writing "Hollywood wanted to stick it to conservatives"? Huh? I'd take Ordinary People off of this list (a very good film with superior performances that's only crime was being given Best Picture over Raging Bull) and add Out of Africa, Gladiator and most especially Crash, which was an appalling choice, as it is turgid, heavy handed and unbearably self-important. BTW, I think The Aviator should have won over Million Dollar Baby also, but what's up with your writing "Hollywood wanted to stick it to conservatives"? Huh?

]]> By: Robert http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-186269 Robert Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:08:00 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-186269 I'd take Ordinary People off of this list (a very good film with superior performances that's only crime was being given Best Picture over Raging Bull) and add Out of Africa, Gladiator and most especially Crash, which was an appalling choice, as it is turgid, heavy handed and unbearably self-important. BTW, I think The Aviator should have won over Million Dollar Baby also, but what's up with your writing "Hollywood wanted to stick it to conservatives"? Huh? I'd take Ordinary People off of this list (a very good film with superior performances that's only crime was being given Best Picture over Raging Bull) and add Out of Africa, Gladiator and most especially Crash, which was an appalling choice, as it is turgid, heavy handed and unbearably self-important. BTW, I think The Aviator should have won over Million Dollar Baby also, but what's up with your writing "Hollywood wanted to stick it to conservatives"? Huh?

]]> By: reza http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-115252 reza Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:43:38 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-115252 hi i need afilm sex .can you send film (Emile) hi i need afilm sex .can you send film (Emile)

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]]> By: danny http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-92376 danny Sun, 04 May 2008 10:21:34 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-92376 i agree with others regarding "crash," which undoubtedly belongs in the top 5 of worst best picture winners. i agree with others regarding “crash,” which undoubtedly belongs in the top 5 of worst best picture winners.

]]> By: danny http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php/comment-page-1#comment-186267 danny Sun, 04 May 2008 10:21:00 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/the-ten-worst-best-picture-winners-of-all-time.php#comment-186267 i agree with others regarding "crash," which undoubtedly belongs in the top 5 of worst best picture winners. i agree with others regarding “crash,” which undoubtedly belongs in the top 5 of worst best picture winners.

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