Is Driving Miss Daisy a terrible movie? Nope.
Is it the worst movie ever to win the Best Picture Oscar? Well yes, I'm afraid so, at least out of those that I've seen (pretty much all from 1980 onwards and a dozen or so from before that). The acting isn't especially bad but nor is it anything to write home about.
The problem is that the characters are basically a bit one dimensional for us to see anything exciting: Jessica Tandy does irascible for half the movie and then irascible with a heart of gold for the second half, Dan Ackroyd pretty much does exasperated the whole time and Morgan Freeman is mostly reduced to saying `yes suh` to whatever anyone says to him (which is, needless to say, a huge waste of his talents)
And the story...well there's nothing wrong with `They don't get on and then they do` type stories but they aren't exactly original and they'd had to be pretty special to be worth a best pic win. This one isn't. It's no-where near being a contender for any 'worst movie' lists but if it hadn't won the big one it'd probably just have disappeared into obscurity with all the other mediocre movies, which to be honest is pretty much where it belongs
Is it the worst movie ever to win the Best Picture Oscar? Well yes, I'm afraid so, at least out of those that I've seen (pretty much all from 1980 onwards and a dozen or so from before that). The acting isn't especially bad but nor is it anything to write home about.
The problem is that the characters are basically a bit one dimensional for us to see anything exciting: Jessica Tandy does irascible for half the movie and then irascible with a heart of gold for the second half, Dan Ackroyd pretty much does exasperated the whole time and Morgan Freeman is mostly reduced to saying `yes suh` to whatever anyone says to him (which is, needless to say, a huge waste of his talents)
And the story...well there's nothing wrong with `They don't get on and then they do` type stories but they aren't exactly original and they'd had to be pretty special to be worth a best pic win. This one isn't. It's no-where near being a contender for any 'worst movie' lists but if it hadn't won the big one it'd probably just have disappeared into obscurity with all the other mediocre movies, which to be honest is pretty much where it belongs