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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
But it’s easy to crap on Shakespeare in Love for obvious reasons so everyone does it.
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That and the fact it's widely recognized as one of the worst best picture winners ever. It's not that it's a bad movie and more that it's merely good and vastly inferior to some of the other nominated movies that year. There's even more reason to hate the movie given Harvey Weinstein's dark campaign pressuring publicists, inviting academy members to private parties, negative whisper campaigns against Saving Private Ryan behind the scenes, etc. Combine that with the fact that he touched and pressured Paltrow at 22 years old to give him a private massage and four years later she's holding a best actress award for this film. That entire Oscars year was just a dark and disgusting example of everything that was wrong in Hollywood.