Worst Best Picture Winner of the Decade

Sabin · Post by **Sabin** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:59 pm

I think A Beautiful Mind's depiction of mental illness is pretty evil. So is Crash's depiction of humanity entire...

Post by **Eric** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:57 pm

I mean, it's really the choice between a big mediocrity that people for whatever reason willed themselves into liking and the powerfully evil movie you were horrified to discover many people you normally trust absolutely adored.

A Beautiful Mind is McCain. Crash is Palin.

Post by **anonymous1980** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:15 am

It's a close race between A Beautiful Mind and Crash for me. The rest of the movies, even though, I may disagree with them being the best of the year, or even being the best among the nominees, I at least understood WHY they won and I can definitely see the appeal. These two pissed me off.

Post by **Mister Tee** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:34 am

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.

Post by **OscarGuy** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:28 am

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.

mlrg · Post by **mlrg** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:36 am

A Beautiful Mind is an easy choice

Post by **Eric** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:34 am

Voting for anything else would be like voting against free access to oxygen.

Post by **Damien** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:14 am

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.

Post by **Bog** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:52 pm

I don't want to send Eric running for the nearest tall building or anything...but in the end I voted for A Beautiful Mind, however I'd honestly be up for a debate on voting any of these films here save No Country.

Post by **The Original BJ** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:16 pm

Gladiator.

A Beautiful Mind was a groaner, and Crash was appalling, but the fact that Gladiator was taken remotely seriously as a Best Picture candidate was this decade's lowest low in my book.

Sabin · Post by **Sabin** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 10:28 pm

I'm going to tally these up after we're done.

I'm choosing A Beautiful Mind which is mind-boggling where Crash is just wrong-headed.

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