Worst Best Picture Oscar?

Okay Mark, I dislike musicals.

Gigi isn't in there either.

This.

Not a big fan of Slumdog either but I wouldn't call it garbage, that's a little over the top. It wasn't a great film is all. I'd still give it

I loved How Green Was My Valley. Wonderful movie. I probably never would have seen it if it weren't for the lists.

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Just found How Green Was My Valley plain and uninteresting. And as I said before the only part I really liked was the ending.

There've been some real clunkers over the years, but I think Oscar reached its nadir in 04-05 with Million Dollar Baby and Crash winning back-to-back.

A find it a tad disappointing that so many people can't seem to appreciate Million Dollar Baby. Crash is a love it or hate it film, and I really understand people's varying opinions on that one but Million Dollar Baby is a solid film to me.

So please explain why you feel that Million Dollar Baby deserved an oscar over The Aviator?

Million Dollar Baby is a good film with solid performances but it's not half as great as The Aviator was.

I can't comment as to why it deserved it over The Aviator, reason being I haven't seen The Aviator. It's arguable that every movie that won for Best Picture wasn't certainly the best of that year. The only few that I don't hear too many people complain over are One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Casablanca, and even that is debatable.

Platoon with a vengeance.
The Silence of the Hams.
Forrest Gump.
Braveheart
Titanic
Gladiator
Chicago.
Million Dollar Bubby.
Slumdog Millionare Dollar Bubby.

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Ok, I can see Titanic, I really wanted L.A. Confidential to win, I still go back to that movie to this day, and I've only seen Titanic all the way through once.

But why all the hate for Chicago? I loved that movie. It was smart, funny, had great songs and acting...I just can't see how so many people dislike it.

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Slum Dog Millionaire

Forgot about Gladiator

Shakespeare In Love- Saving Private Ryan should have won.

I liked Titanic, but I prefer As Good As It Gets.

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Umm, it's a musical, that genre which seems to scare "macho men" because it's "more realistic" if some guy flies around shooting people with guns than if he actually just sings and dances to express his true emotions.

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Much better if women are shooting people.

The Thin Red Line should have won.

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What? It is clear that this masterpiece should have won every award in the galaxy:

What I hated Waterboy

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I'm guessing sarcasm, nebs.

This is the only reason to watch The Waterboy.

Chicago was another one that was real bad.

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Compared to James Jones' original novel, the film of The Thin Red Line is absolute garbage. Saving Private Ryan may have been overly earnest, but at least it wasn't psuedo-poetic drivel. Just my two cents.