This has got to be the worst movie ever to win an oscar!
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Tashtago — 13 years ago(January 14, 2013 01:36 AM)
Unfortunately, you are both right and wrong. True, this is a terrible movie and should not have won best dog catcher. But there are many a film that should not have won best picture. Could it have all been the result of split voting?
other worst movies to win best picture Oscars.
Titanic
Shakespeare in Love
Oliver!
The Greatest Show on Earth
Braveheart
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Amadeus3000 — 20 years ago(August 09, 2005 12:51 PM)
REMEMBER this is not 1963. When TOM JONES came out is was everything you don't put in movies and a personality that Hollywood didn't and really never wanted to put the spotlight on. This broke so many rules by what it talked about and the way the characters, especially Tom, behaved. And also had one of the best scripts of the 60s. I thought it was terrific, a true masterpiece.
As for worst Oscar winner, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS won best makeup. As for Best Picture, THE BROADWAY MELODY is by far the weakest one (I have seen all Best Picture winners) -
DC1977 — 20 years ago(August 14, 2005 06:48 AM)
Precisely.
Tom Jones, although dated, was a real groundbreaking film on its release. The reason why it looks dated now is because its been imitated so many times.
I like tom Jones but there are weak Best Picture winners e.g. The French Connection, In the Heat of the Night etc
They're not particularly good but they did break new ground either in terms of technique or subject matter.
I haven't seen all the Best Picture winners, but, amongst others, I've seen all but 4 of the winners going back to and including Ben-Hur.
They are: My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, Oliver! and Chicago. As you can see I'm not a great lover of musicals!!
However (and I know this will cause controversy) I think the worst Picture Winner I've seen is Million Dollar Baby.
I thought it was dreadful. It can't even lay claim to being groundbreaking in any way at all. The characters are unbelievably cliched, the script is a dud.
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rdrainer — 18 years ago(May 28, 2007 11:31 AM)
As for TJ having been imitated so many times, I cannot either argue or support that, but whenever I think of "Tom Jones", "Barry Lyndon" comes to mind. As beautiful as it was, and as much as I love the soundtrack of "The CHieftains", I still tend to favor "Tom Jones". Might have to watch another dose of "Lyndon" - tough job
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mrura — 18 years ago(September 26, 2007 10:09 AM)
thats funny. i just came to these boards for Tom Jones (which i saw years ago), because i have just finished watching Barry Lyndon and couldn't help thinking how much it reminded me of TJ. I was curious if anyone else would make the same comparison and there you are!
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AmyLouise — 20 years ago(August 20, 2005 05:46 AM)
The film was gloriously bawdy in a way that simply hadn't been allowed in
English-speaking films until the early sixties, and its honesty was very
refreshing. It wasn't a pretty-pretty picture of olden day romanticism,
but very gutsy, and the time was right for that approach.
And Albert Finney, besides being a very good actor, was really gorgeous back
then, before he started to gain too much weight. He had a lot to do with
the film's box office success.