Every year the Academy chooses a list of films that they deem worthy of praise and attention. Every year some of my favorites are left out, and every year the Oscar race itself boils down to two or three films that some nebulous group of "experts" decides are the "frontrunners."
Inevitably, by the end of the Oscar season, I have grown to loathe at least one of the movies that I actually liked upon initial viewing. This year my punching bag film is The King's Speech. I liked The King's Speech very much when I first saw it. It's a fine film, and I would have praised the heck out of it if I had seen it on PBS in 1995. It just doesn't hold up against some of the other more innovative films in the race. If The King's Speech wins the Academy Award this year, will we still be talking about it ten years from now? No, we won't.
Here are some of the other fine films the jerk stores of the Academy Awards have forced me to hate over the years:
Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/hammervision/2011/01/movies-the-oscars-have-made-me-hate.html
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