A list of 10 Acclaimed Movies That Are Now Hated By Everybody (2 of 3)

 

 

The Blind Side

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Another flick that makes a lot of use of the typical white savior trope, The Blind Side made its way up to become an Oscar contender from the ground up. However, when it was released in the year 2009, it was loved by many because of Sandra Bullock’s performance, which also won her the Academy Award later that year.

The Blind Side actually makes the audiences believe as though it was a very critically well-received film, when in fact it was not. There were critics of the film even then, and while there were mixed reviews, they slightly tilted towards the positive side more. However, its nomination for Best Picture was a piece of shocking news for a lot of people, and actually caused a lot of drama. In fact, the rules were also changed after that year’s Oscars, regarding the criteria of how movies were nominated.

For that particular year, all a movie required to get a nomination slot was to earn the top ten votes, and that would automatically secure the nomination. However, The Blind Side’s nomination showed that the Academy was caught on the “blind side”, and they amended the rules that now mandated a film meet a specific number of nominations calculated by an algorithm, in order to be nominated.

So, while it stole all the spotlight because of the melodrama surrounding its nomination at the 2010 Oscars, the movie is no longer in people’s memories almost a decade later.

Also, Bullock’s Oscar win wasn’t exactly received well with everyone, with a lot of people making an accusation that the win was manufactured by the marketing campaign behind the film rather than because of the actress’s own talent. 

 

 

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull

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If you really want to trigger an Indiana Jones fan, just ask them about the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and enjoy their reaction!

…….which honestly makes that 78% Rotten Tomatoes rating quite interesting, to say the least.

The early reviews and reactions to this movie were quite polarized, which made it a kind of love-hate situation. While a lot of people craved that nostalgia of watching their favorite adventurer and therefore enjoyed the movie a lot, others pointed out the flaws in the movie, such as crazy plot holes and the induction of Shia LaBeouf who played Indy’s son.

Given that the movie was just released, the reactions were quite raw, but now that it has been a while since the flick came out, there’s a clear notion that the movie wasn’t that good after all. Audiences loved it back then, but given that audiences nowadays don’t really care about the sequel game anymore, especially if the installment isn’t really up there with the original in terms of quality (take Terminator for example).

And yes, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull was actually the second-highest grosser of the year, earning well over $800 million worldwide.

 

 

Crash

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Another flick that won the Best Picture, Crash is without a doubt the worst movie to have ever won an Oscar for the Best Picture.

Crash is not just dated in the way it deals with the racial relations in the United States, it is also riddled with the typical white savior tropes and immature depictions of how white people and people of color reconciliation works. It is a melodramatic movie, but in the worst of ways, and it actually reduces all the serious issues to minor plot points that are often resolved with most laughable of means.

However, it seems this kind of opinion was exactly common back in the year 2005, when it received a solid 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, and earned itself an A- on CinemaScore. Hell, Robert Elbert went ahead and called it the best film of the year by quite a margin! There were some people who disagreed, though. For instance, Jack Nicholson was actually shocked and amused when he revealed the name of the winner for the Best Picture, which was met with a lot of boos and jeers from the crowd.

The dissenters perhaps weren’t enough to stop this movie from earning an Oscar status, which has now changed of course and from critics to audiences, everybody hates it.