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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 18:11:31 GMT -4
I just read the whole thread and I tried to avoid writing in it, but I cannot stay silent any longer.
I'm surprised no one mentioned Soul Plane, which threw in every bad African American stereotype the filmmakers could find. I was insulted and embarrassed. There were other bad films, but that one took the cake.
I'm not going to rehash the "I-Hate-Crash-Because-It-Won-Best Picture-Over-the-Greatest-Film-of-All-Time" debate because I truly didn't think the film was as bad as everyone said it was, but to me, the worst film to win Best Picture in this decade was A Beautiful Mind. It was a standard biopic which wasn't anything special.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 18:13:05 GMT -4
I detest A Beautiful Mind, so I will definitely co-sign that!
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Post by Shalamar on Jan 18, 2010 18:14:09 GMT -4
Picking nits here, but Drag Me to Hell was a Sam Raimi movie, not Wes Craven.
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Post by dwanollah on Jan 18, 2010 18:15:32 GMT -4
I detest A Beautiful Mind, so I will definitely co-sign that! Thirded. I thought it was a steaming pile.
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Post by WitchyPoo on Jan 18, 2010 18:32:36 GMT -4
I detest A Beautiful Mind, so I will definitely co-sign that! Thirded. I thought it was a steaming pile. Add me to the list. It started off okay but just became a big ol' mess by the end. So many things that just did not make sense and plotlines just left to die. The only Ron Howard movie I like is Parenthood, maybe Splash.
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Post by Smilla on Jan 18, 2010 19:14:10 GMT -4
Oh, I will gladly hop aboard the Beautiful Mind hate train. So, so bad. What hurts me the most is the waste of solid supporting actors beneath awful writing and Russell Crowe's ugly bloat (although the shoddy direction didn't help either.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 23:10:53 GMT -4
I know someone with a mental illness and felt that a Beautiful Mind was not that realistic. However, the performances were great.
I hated Drag me down to hell. I just saw that the other day and I couldn't get over how over the top it was an, pun intended, overkill to put a girl through for something that she did for her job. It was frustrating.
I'll also throw in there Beyond the Sea. Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth being a married couple? Ick. He looked like he was molesting a child. Not to mention that Kate can't act to save her life.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2010 23:19:57 GMT -4
I saw Four Christmases the other night with the family. Aweful movie. So was Along Came Polly and Angles and Demons. Couldn't even finish those.
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Post by forever1267 on Jan 18, 2010 23:28:12 GMT -4
A Beautiful Mind and Million Dollar Baby were Lifetime TV Movies with Movie Stahhhs! I still can't believe either won Best Picture. In fact, almost every one of the Best Picture winners of this decade should have been another film, IMO.
Nothing has come as close to hate as 90's "Masterpieces" Boxing Helena and Another You, so I guess the Oughts were a better decade for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2010 15:19:12 GMT -4
I'll drive the "Beautiful Mind" hate train for y'all. It won Best Adapted Screenplay and all I could think was "If by 'adapted' you mean 'took the inside flap summary and wrote a script', well, okay." The stuff the screenwriter left out? Nash and his wife divorced. For years. While this was partly so he could be a ward of the state and get medical treatment, she didn't return to him until after his illness subsided. Nash never almost allowed their son to drown in a tub. He was an absent father, not a dangerous one (but nice way to demonize the mentall ill! Keep your kids away!). He's an unreformed anti-Semite. Some people say this is part of his illness but others have said he was this way long before he got sick. He didn't get better by deciding to ignore his hallucinations (ah, strength of character and willpower cures the crazies!) but with massive doses of medication and a naturally occuring remission that often comes with age. The movie was supposed to be this uplifting true tale of love conquering all but it was such a big ol' LIE from beginning to end, with a twist taken straight from "Sixth Sense". And the aging makeup at the end was some of the worst I've ever seen. At the theater I was at, a few people burst out laughing at the old age scenes (and it got an Oscar nom for makeup!). Now, Opie wasn't in charge of the script or the makeup but what he was in control of, the pacing and visual composition of the movie, was merely competent. Any experience television director would have produced the same result.
Ron Howard's a hack. I'll give him "Parenthood", which was good because of great actors doing a very good sitcom script but was a visual non-entity. "Apollo 13" was his only truly great film.
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