Traditionally, Oscar night is for Hollywood, what commencement ceremonies are for high schools: that unique evening when a group decides to ignore the errors or embarrassments of the past year by jointly, ritualistically rewarding their successes.

The Collegian has taken the liberty, however, of deflating this unwarranted sense of prestige by exposing its many misfires of 2001, as well as tearing down a few Oscar hopefuls from their otherwise lofty pedestals.

Venues asked Penn Staters what the worst movie of 2001 was.

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"I hated Pearl Harbor. It was torturous. I sat through it, knowing I would never watch it again."

-- Lauren Di Pietro (junior-advertising)

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"Not Another Teen Movie. It was such a copout. I wanted to get up and leave."

-- Mamilda Poe (freshman-nursing)

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"Jurassic Park III. The worst part about that had to be the satellite phone. The dinosaur eats the guy and the phone keeps ringing inside the dinosaur's belly. Part II was bad enough that it was funny, but III was just bad."

-- Chris Van (junior-biochemistry/chemistry)

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"Freddy Got Fingered. It was just a horrible movie. I hate Tom Green. I watched like fifteen minutes of it . . . I just couldn't sit through the whole thing."

-- James Lowman (junior-marketing)

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"Freddy Got Fingered. It was stupid. It wasn't funny. It was gross. I couldn't watch it."

-- Kate Sutton (junior-elementary education)

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"How High. I think they were high when they were making it -- the camerawork was shoddy. It just wasn't the stoner movie I was expecting."

-- Abe Molinares (sophomore-political science)

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"Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie looks good and everything, but that's it."

-- Garvin Fleurantin (freshman-international business and politics)

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"Thirteen Ghosts. It was supposed to be a scary movie, but it just wasn't scary. I could watch it alone, at night, with all the lights out, and not get scared."

-- Kristin Ferguson (sophomore-public relations)

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"Dude, Where's My Car? I've mostly blocked it out. My friends dragged me to see it."

-- Chris Couch (sophomore-chemical engineering)

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"A Beautiful Mind. Russell Crowe was good, but that was all. I didn't know it was a true story going into it, but I thought it dragged on. It should have ended before it did; they could have cut some stuff out."

-- Andrea Bennett (sophomore-business)

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"Swordfish. I hated that. When he's on the computer and she's [performing oral sex]. Come on! Who could break a password, while somebody's doing that to you?!"

-- Mario Rodriguez (junior-film)

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"Ali. I fell asleep during the movie. Will Smith is all right, but he didn't fit the role."

-- Keith Ferreri (sophomore-business management)

-- Compiled by Nicholas Norcia