10 Movies People Only Dislike Because They’re Popular

3. Crash

Crash is probably the most despised Best Picture winner of all time. Beating Brokeback Mountain to the prize in 2004, the Academy's alleged homophobia permanently tarnished a perfectly fine film's reputation. It wasn't even a close race between Ang Lee's heartbreaking romance and Paul Haggis' racial drama, making the latter's victory a cause for controversy that settled down to a unified dislike of the film. Racism is bad. That is what Haggis was setting out to say with his ensemble drama and that's what Crash succeeds in doing it. However, its detractors would say that it was just too on-the-nose all that; it's not the most subtle in delivering its message and suffers from the usual contrivances of having character's lives intersect in proper six-degrees-of-seperation style. Should it have beaten Brokeback Mountain? Hell, no. Was it a totally undeserving movie? Second layer of hell, no. It's not a masterpiece, but it's still a damn fine piece of film-making that really stood out upon release. Sadly, a mix of its immediate popularity and the subsequent comparisons between it and the Ledger-Gyllenhaal romance have meant most people don't like to see that.