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Oscar: Avatar vs Hurt Locker

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The only Oscars Avatar should win are for effects and other technical categories. It's a great achievement, but not a great movie.
 
Matthiasa said:
Well since the Oscars are a popularity contest avatar wins. 😛
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Yeah, but the people who are voting don't represent the general public.

I thought both Avatar and The Hurt Locker were overrated.

Of the seven Best Picture nominees that I've seen, Inglourious Basterds impressed me the most by a good margin. I hate to say that, because I loathe Quentin Tarantino.
 
Avatar is a very average movie which rightly deserves accolades for technical achievement. But I found it very strange that the movie didn't have one memorable line of dialogue and not one scene where I felt invigorated, pumped up or moved. The Hurt Locker, while a very good movie, didn't quite strike me as Best Film material.

I've only seen six of the nominations: A Serious Man, Avatar, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, The Hurt Locker and Up. Of those, I'd say I liked Up the best with Inglourious Basterds coming in second and District 9 a close third. A Serious Man, while a very artsy/obscure movie (the kind that critics and award shows like to honor) just isn't that memorable a picture. Good while it lasts, not exactly worthy of best film of the year. Hence that puts it fifth on my list behind The Hurt Locker.

Avatar wouldn't even be nominated if it didn't cost so much and didn't make two-and-a-half billion dollars.

Waiting to watch Up in the Air and An Education. I'll catch The Blind Side if fate has it in store for me, Precious flat out annoys me due to its ridiculous title. (Seriously, what kind of title is Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire?)
 
Of the ones nominated I would definitely give it to Inglorious Bastards but sadly it will probably go to Avatar. While it IS true that the Oscars sometimes are awarded for excellences they are more often than not a pat on the back for those who do the most to promote the industry as a whole. Thus it's often the case that big spectacular blockbusters win disproportionately over genuinely good films.
 
Balt said:
Agreed. A very generic movie in everything but special effects.
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Have you guys received flak from friends/coworkers for trying to be oh-so-cool and not liking a movie that is popular, wildly successful and has garnered both popular/critical acclaim?

I have gotten into several heated arguments over this movie and have pretty much stopped discussing it, brushing aside the topic with 'Yeah, I saw it, impressive effects' and moving on to something else. Apparently it's snobbish/elitist behavior to ask people to explain how a movie can be 'the best ever' for a reason other than effects and production design.
 
theprodigalrebel said:
Have you guys received flak from friends/coworkers for trying to be oh-so-cool and not liking a movie that is popular, wildly successful and has garnered both popular/critical acclaim?

I have gotten into several heated arguments over this movie and have pretty much stopped discussing it, brushing aside the topic with 'Yeah, I saw it, impressive effects' and moving on to something else. Apparently it's snobbish/elitist behavior to ask people to explain how a movie can be 'the best ever' for a reason other than effects and production design.
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It's got to be a candidate for the worst movie ever in terms of quality to earnings ratio in my mind.
 
mugs said:
Of the seven Best Picture nominees that I've seen, Inglourious Basterds impressed me the most by a good margin. I hate to say that, because I loathe Quentin Tarantino.
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That's interesting. I've avoided Inglourious Basterds because it's a Tarantino film. Maybe I'll have to check it out.
 
theprodigalrebel said:
Have you guys received flak from friends/coworkers for trying to be oh-so-cool and not liking a movie that is popular, wildly successful and has garnered both popular/critical acclaim?

I have gotten into several heated arguments over this movie and have pretty much stopped discussing it, brushing aside the topic with 'Yeah, I saw it, impressive effects' and moving on to something else. Apparently it's snobbish/elitist behavior to ask people to explain how a movie can be 'the best ever' for a reason other than effects and production design.
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Well who cares what they think. All that matters is that you didn't like it. I didn't like Hurt Locker and people think I'm crazy. It was just too unrealistic for me.
 
neither deserves it in the least bit...that being said, hurt locker really was terrible so i'll be rooting for avatar. best movie I saw this year was Moon
 
hurt locker by default because I've never seen it.

take away the special effects from Avatar and you're left with a terrible movie.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
The only Oscars Avatar should win are for effects and other technical categories. It's a great achievement, but not a great movie.
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^This^ if you take away all the 'pretty' it's just a basic movie plot with predictable dialogue and action.
 
The Oscars are a sham! DDD should have won for best supporting actor in Gangs of New York & he was screwed. I have refused to have anything to do with the oscars since that day.
 
The award for Best Pictures should really be renamed "Best Production." Avatar will win and I liked it a lot, but I want the Best Picture to have the complete package: great acting, great story, great script, great visuals, etc. It had amazing visuals, but with the rest of my criteria, it was only good. The story itself was very lackluster, which is my most important criteria. District 9 and Up impressed me more as a whole package.

Avatar will win because it had the best production. Cameron took a big risk in the scope of his project and the box office vindicated him.
 
Matthiasa said:
Well since the Oscars are a popularity contest avatar wins. 😛
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if everyone assumes this and votes hurt locker then hurt locker wins.

hurt locker is seriously overrated as an oscar contender, it was just ok. but its like the hollywood crowd were just so happy to finally have an iraq war that didn't suck balls that they rallied around it by default.

avatar backlash, its cool to vote against it now i guess.
 
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