Fresh Question #110: BEST movie of THE YEAR!? Short Year!

[Nightwing]

Syncronize your watches, fellow fan freaks. It's 2006 now, and there's no looking back! Whew! What a choice, huh! You can't look back, you can only look forward, but you don't wanna look down!! Well all we can do is ride the wave, cuz it's New Fresh Question time! Let's move!

Kay, you all know not to do anything the media world tells you, right? Cool. Just squaring away the formalities. My favorite tid bit is the one where a movie's advertising campaign gets to say they're "The Number One Movie in America!" Of course we all know something like that doesn't automatically say "Awesome Movie That Relates to Everyone and Will Live Forever as a Classic." In fact, it could mean the opposite! So with that in mind, tell me:

What movie reached the point of "Best Movie of the Year" that you thought was the world's worst?? Why??


Do you remember what year?

[AkirQueen]

I can't pick one, because there's been a few like this, but there are some comedy movies that get deemed "Best Movie of the Year", when there's serious ones that beat them by a mile and a half.

Wasn't "March of the Penguins" said to be the BMOTY? Pssh, right. I didn't even see it, but really, c'mon, a movie about penguins can't be called that.

[randomguy]

I can recall two movies very specifically. The first would be Titanic, which is a perfectly okay movie in a "let's appeal to everybody with a special effects extravangza/romance all-in-one" way, but hardly seemed like the best movie of its year.

Another big one would The English Patient, which I find absurdly long and uninteresting, unlike everybody I knew at the time. I did, however, enjoy that Seinfeld episode where Elaine, too, hated the movie. Funny stuff.

[Mr Cat Dog]

Titanic, for the reason randomguy said: It tried to be too much and appeal to a really wide audience. If it had simply focussed on the iceberg or the romance, I may have liked it a lot more. Year: 1997

Another one in my opinion would be A Beautiful Mind with Russel Crowe. I just didn't get it... I wouldn't have said it was the worst movie... but it was down there with Pearl Harbor. Year: 2001

[Caffeine King]

Titanic was awful

[Lonestarr]

Before the inevitable moment when this thread is unstickied, thereby sinking into oblivion and robbing me of an opinion, let me just say this:

Some years ago, there was this independent film that was heralded as 'unflinching' and 'painfully real', but I found it painful. Can anyone enlighten me on what evil hypnotic power Todd Solondz has over people to convince them that Welcome to the Dollhouse is some great work of cinema and not the emotional snuff film I suffered through?!

[G. Wen]

I have to say Titanic too. The characterizations between Rose and Jack were so shallow, and could've taken place anywhere. I don't know why they chose that damn boat, because the setting contributed nothing to the story. I couldn't stand the shallow generalizations: all rich people are bad and all poor people are good, all rich men are pigs but all poor men are enlightened individuals well versed in women's rights, blah, blah, blah...