You can find someone who will hate anything, no matter how popular, no matter how useful, no matter how relevant, and no matter how beautiful. If anything, the internet proves the saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" beyond a shadow of a doubt. Here on the net, there's an overwhelming amount of vocal opinions (I'm one of them!); people standing at the ready to tell you that the movie you love sucks, or defending the classic you've deemed as garbage.

Take the ten Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. Now, I don't love all of these films (I haven't seen three of them), but I can recognize why they're all nominated. There are people out there that would argue any of these films right off the list, though; critics who can't understand how a "cartoon" like Up could make the cut or how a movie like Precious could come out of nowhere and become one of the most talked about movies of 2009.

Here's what some contrary critics had to say about the films the Academy honored as worthy Best Picture nods. I don't think any of these quotes are going on the fronts of the DVD cases for these films.

Avatar

"...Somewhat lacking in areas like story, character, pacing, dialogue, and acting... you know, the stuff that used to be considered the basic building blocks of good cinema." -- Scott Von Doviak, Nerve

"At some point during the climactic battle scene we become intensely aware that we're only watching a movie. That's a bad sign for writer-director Cameron. It's doubtful that Avatar, special effects and saturation ad campaign notwithstanding, will ever sell as many tickets as Cameron's kingmaker, Titanic." -- Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

The Blind Side

"If this movie doesn't piss you off, if it doesn't make you nauseated with its dangerous smugness, you're part of the problem." -- Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central

"The real Oher is probably too busy counting his millions to care, but I wouldn't be too happy to see my life turned into a blob of playdough to be stretched and molded by paternalistic ideology and given second billing to Bullock's bottomless supply of pluck. And what about the film's view of black people as baby-daddies, ravaged junkies, and shirtless thugs who are easily quelled by a pasty lady's NRA credentials?" -- Fernando F. Croce, Cinepassion

District 9

"District 9 represents the sloppiest and dopiest pop cinema-the kind that comes from a second-rate film culture. No surprise, this South African fantasia from director Neill Blomkamp was produced by the intellectually juvenile New Zealander Peter Jackson." -- Armond White, New York Press

"It's mainly a compost of other sci-fi movies, as old as Robocop, Aliens, and The Fly, and as recent as Cloverfield and Transformers. It's a bad joke that District 9 will be hailed for its "originality." -- Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun

An Education

"Little more than a teen-targeted public service announcement for both avoiding relationships with mature men and staying in school, An Education plays like something fit for a high school heath education class." -- Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

"If there's one thing that can pack an art-house cinema, it's the prospect of watching a pretty English teenager deflowered by a predatory older man, the whole dramatic striptease framed as an 'educational experience.' Encourage the press to proclaim the leading actress the new Audrey Hepburn and the come-on is, as the Brits like to say, 'Brilliant!'" -- David Edelstein, New York Magazine


A Serious Man

"I hated just about every agonizing, smug minute of it. My hatred is not objective. It is an emotional thing, a hatred that made me hate their other films, even ones I love-but just for a while. When I try to find something, anything, about this horrific little torture-fest to praise, I cannot, and I hate the Coen brothers a little bit." -- Michael W. Phillips Jr., Goatdog Movies

"I might be at risk of having my movie critic card stripped out of my hands for saying it, but A Serious Man is no more special a Jennifer Aniston movie." -- Willie Waffle, WDCW

The Hurt Locker

"But these guys are so cryptic and guarded that not only did I not believe them, I didn't feel anything for them either. They left me bored, as I felt any one of them was really disposable. And while that may in some part have been Bigelow's plan, it does not make for a very entertaining or enlightening movie." -- C. Robert Cargill, Film.com

"Indeed, it seems like an encyclopedia of such clichés. So many are used that the viewer starts to feel like the victim of a practical joke, lured to the theater with the old bait-and-switch." -- Jay Rothermel, Marxmail

Inglourious Basterds

"The opening scene is 20 minutes. More than half the dialogue is in French or German. Who wants to hear Quentin Tarantino dialogue in a foreign language, thus having to read it?" -- Fred Topel, Can Magazine

"Having seen it once in Cannes earlier this year, and again for its UK release I was struck afresh by how exasperatingly awful and transcendentally disappointing it is: a colossal, complacent, long-winded dud, a gigantic two-and-a-half-hour anti-climax, like a Quentin Tarantino film in form and mannerism but with the crucial element of genius mysteriously amputated. Over-stretched scene follows over-stretched scene in plonkingly conventional narrative order and each is stuffed with dull dialogue which made it feel like Mogadon was somehow being pumped into the cinema's air-conditioning." -- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian UK

Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

"One for the Stuff White People Like canon, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is an impeccably acted piece of trash-an exploitation film that shamelessly strokes its audience's sense of righteous indignation." -- Ed Gonzales, Slant

"From its campy cut-out characters to the lurid melodrama of its domestic scenes and embarrassing celebrity appearances, Precious provokes ennui and dyspepsia." -- Sukhdev Sandhu, Daily Telegraph


Up

"In the world of "Up," being too grown-up is never a good thing: The vision of Carl and Ellie's marriage, which consists largely of their beaming at one another, holding hands and having picnics, even well into old age, looks more like a denture adhesive commercial than a real romantic partnership." -- Stephanie Zacharek, Salon

"Pixar's price sticker includes enough saccharine emotion to distract some viewers from being more demanding; they don't mind the blatant narrative manipulation of a sad old man and lonely little boy.They buy animation to extend their childhood like men who buy cars for phallic symbols." -- Armond White, New York Press

Up In the Air

"If you've heard, by the way, that this movie is about the plight of the unemployed, don't believe a word of it. It has as much to do with this as an episode of Saturday Night Live. Reitman majored in English/Creative Writing at University of Southern California, a department that would be about as useful for writing about such social problems as it would be for understanding advanced calculus." -- Louis Proyect

"Like a contracted virus, Up in the Air didn't sour me so much at first contact as it did in the days and weeks thereafter, as its sickening gloss and trivializing attitude towards our current employment crisis sank in like a corrosive STD." -- Rob Humanick, Projection Booth


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