Jams Win (Repped by "I Know Who Killed Me")

Dadgum it, Johnny. I know all these Oscar questions. Why didn't you save it for the Wild Card round this week? Oh! Because I know all these Oscar questions!

Spencer Tracy - 1937 for "Captains Courageous" and '38 for "Boys Town". (I voted for Cagney for "Angels With Dirty Faces")

Tom Hanks - 1993 for "Philadelphia" and '94 for "Forrest Gump" (That is NOT Phil's favorite Movie)

P.S. Other two years in a row - Louise Rainer '36 and '37, Katherine Hepburn '67 and '68, and Jason Robards '76 and '77.

Dadgum it!

Gump has got to be the worst movie to win Best Picture, at least during my lifetime. Yeah, "Titanic" and "American Beauty" were pretty bad, but Gump was nothing but a fetid pile of reactionary crap wrapped around a Baby Boomer greatest hits album. Of course, the Boomers loved it because it's all about them.

I really enjoyed American Beauty. I thought it was a very good film. Titanic was much worse than Forrest Gump, which I at least found amusing.

1999 was the year I had to sit through two of the most pretentious movies of all time, first American Beauty, with its snivelling condescension about suburben life (and metaphor in every plastic bag) and then Magnolia, with its ridiculous raining frogs. It was the year the annoying film students got to make long boring movies. Ecch.

And then there was Titanic. I'll tell you...these movies had me longing for a "Joe Dirt"

Titanic had quite a few redeeming parts, though; the actual crash and aftermath scenes among the bulk of the passengers are very well done. There'd be a good movie in it if you cut all the scenes with DiCaprio and Winslett (well, except the topless one); and of course that horrible, horrible song.

American Beauty was just pretentious as hell, not to mention having the main character find freedom through his lust for a 16-year-old is really creepy.

I liked bith American Beauty AND Forrest Gump. So there. Stick that in your imploding smokestack and, er, smoke it.