April 1st, 2023
Movies That Should Never Have Won Best Picture
You’ve reached the place where all the bad, but oh-so-satisfying entertainment exists. Here, in the Trash Vortex, we provide you with only the trashiest, most bingeworthy recommendations. It’s a dark hole you won’t escape!
Have you ever considered that sometimes, the Oscars are simply wrong? Well, look no further. The Trash Vortex is here to set the record straight.Slumdog Millionaire
When a man from India’s slums does a little too well on a game show, he finds himself under suspicion by the police, who believe him to be cheating. The entire premise of this movie hinges on the belief that its audience is gullible enough to believe that someone can win a game show—and through luck alone, at that. Nice try, Danny Boyle. I’m not buying it.
No Country for Old Men
After discovering $2 million dollars at the site of a drug deal gone bad in the desert, a hunter finds himself pursued by a relentless assassin who will stop at nothing to see the money recovered. Meanwhile, the sheriff of a local small town investigates a mysterious rash of deaths in the surrounding area. No Country for Old Men is almost a good movie, except for one very fatal flaw: A guy walks around with a bowl cut like that in 2007, and no one suspects that he’s a murderer? Sorry, but no one is that nonjudgmental. Maybe this movie’s body count would be lower if these people just exercised some common sense.
—Kana Coonce, Trash Vortex Editor