Is this the worst movie to ever get a bp nomination? The kid was completely unlikeable, the dialogue was poorly written and corny, and the movie boring and overlong. This movie was badly made and just there to try and make people cry. It is a truly awful movie.
Can anyone think of a worse movie to be nominated for bp?
Have you taken a look at the IMDb message board for the Martin Scorsese movie "Hugo" ?
[Kilgore:] "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. The smell, you know, it smells like[sniffing], Victory."
Hugo was a fantastic movie. Hugo was one of the three best films of last year.
shareHugo was horrible. One of the most boring pieces of turd I've ever suffered through. Extremely Loud was just bad. The kid was obnoxious and was a terrible actor. I knew it was going to suck, but I just watched it because I'm on a quest to see every Oscar-nominated film of all time in the big categories (Picture, Director, Lead/Supporting Acting).
shareI too have on my "bucket list" to watch every Oscar-nominated film, plus Golden Globes as well. My guess is that I'm well more than halfway done - probably closer to 2/3.
As far as worst ever best picture nominee (in no particular order):
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
2. Brooklyn - a nice film, but best picture? - um, no. plenty of other options.
3. The Godfather - part III - so bad, somebody's got some splainin to do
4. Love Story
5. Midnight Cowboy - not a likeable character in the movie, hated the music too
You put down Midnight Cowboy as a bad film and expect anyone to take your reviews seriously ever again?
shareTitanic was worse. Forest Gump was worse.
shareI agree, neither of those are good movies, but they have things about them that are good (unlike Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close). Forrest Gump was at least a nice movie, and Titanic was visually spectacular. They were both more entertaining than Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as well.
shareTitanic was emotionally spectacular as well. It was well-made in all aspects.
sharePlease leave, the fact that you brought up either of those makes me lose faith in anything you have to say about movies
sharePeople are allowed to dislike Titanic and Forest Gump. They aren't perfect movies, at least not to everyone's minds.
shareThey're not good movies. We have all the right to bring them up here.
shareExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Hugo, Titanic, and Forrest Gump...four perfectly good movies with coherent plots and characterizations, while may not be everyone's cup of tea, are by far NOT the horrible movies they are being painted as here.
shareThe three Sandra Bullock Best Picture nominees - and winner, unfortunately, in "Crash" - make up a unique trifecta of terrible Best Picture nominees.
shareThe kid was completely LIKEABLE, but agree not the best picture nominee.
shareNo, this was one of the best Best Picture nominees. There have been far worse nominees and even worse winners.
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6.8 rating.... what's the lowest rating for a best picture nominee ???
The tree of life, another nominee, also rated 6.8.
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There are quite a few that are lower. I think the lowest is Doctor Doolittle (1967) at 6.1. There are a several at or below 6.8: Blossoms in the Dust (1941), The Robe (1953), Cleopatra (1963), Naughty Marietta (1935) for example. It is pretty rare, though, and two this low in one year (The Tree of Life) demonstrates the combination of a really stale year and opening the field to so many nominees.
This movie has a great cast and great acting, but had many other faults that should have ruled it out as a best picture nominee. The editing was awful; they could have cut 20 minutes from the film and had a better film. The plot, while interesting to watch, was completely implausible, especially the massive, glaring plot hole near the end.
Plot hole near the end? I can be quite obtuse at times so may well have missed this one. Could you point it out more explicitly?
Oh...if you are referring to the message in the swing, it clearly had nothing to do with the key. It was apparently an intended reward for a quest Oskar's dad was setting up for him but never got a chance to send him off on.
Well said about the editing, they could have cut 30 minutes out and had a much better film.
In modern times, this is the worst film ever to be nominated for BP. There should be an investigation into how this flawed film got nominated.
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