American Beauty hit too close to home. Teenage me was pretty close to Jane, for example. It was a bit of an uncomfortable film to watch, but I can't really consider it bad.

*hangs head* Actually, I haven't even watched that one yet.

Has a documentary ever won Best Picture?

You mean life choices like never having watched "Crash"?

That was the first Mel Gibson movie I saw, as one of my HS teachers showed it in History class. (Yes, really). Only last year did I get around to watching the Lethal Weapon movies and realizing that his real talent lies in comedies or heavily comic movies.

I'm trying to get a guy I know to watch "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly". He acts like watching a subtitled movie is like having a tooth pulled and I've only ever convinced him to watch two ("Goodbye, Lenin!" and "Maria, Full of Grace").

Besides being borderline schmaltzy, the ending of Schindler's List annoys my inner nitpicker, since the song they are singing wasn't written till the 1960s.

The second movie had its moments, with adding Ed Harris and Helen Mirren. And the goofy Buckingham Palace scene is great in terms of schlocky fun.

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It was a good movie, and possibly the best of weak batch of nominations; IMO, "The Two Towers" was the only other reasonable contender out of that set.

Chicago isn't a bad movie. You can argue that it wasn't the *best* movie of the year, but it wasn't a horrible choice.

I haven't seen anywhere near all of them, but out of the ones I've seen, Mrs. Miniver was fairly dull, and The Sound of Music was cheesy as can be. Those would be my least favorite BP winners.

True. (Although the nice thing about TCM is that they don't play the same movies ad nauseam, so a "staple" would be one they broadcast two or three times a year, probably.)

Yeah - the common denominator being her having a bad agent. (Look up "Barely Lethal". I hope signing up for that stinker doesn't hurt her too badly.)

Exactly. I can't muster any outrage for either remake. There's very little chance the sequel to "Jingle All the Way" can be worse than the original. It doesn't even have any nostalgia value for me, since I never watched it when I was younger.

(Edited since you edited your post.)

Go to youtube and search for "inappropriate soundtracks." There are some gems along this line. (Some of which are even funnier than this.)

The third movie was okay, too. Not as good as the first, but interesting enough. But I agree w/r/t the second and fourth, and I haven't bothered to watch the fifth.

No, he's recreating the death of Gollum. (That's not flower petals behind him…)

It (the original Italian Job) had a few funny moments, but overall it left me unimpressed.