Add Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as the frontrunner for Adapted Screenplay and a surprise Megan Fox Best Actress nod and we'll have genuine Oscars to remember.rolotomasi99 wrote:I mean really, where were the hundreds of millions of dollars of special effects in THE HURT LOCKER? Where were the floating mountains, neon vistas, vicious beasts, etc? Most of all, where were the blue people? I demand blue people!Damien wrote:Of the three major contenders, Up In The Air is by far the best but, flawed as it is, Avatar is a much more accomplished achievement than the banal mediocrity that is The Hurt Locker. IMHO.anonymous wrote: So you'd much rather see Avatar win the Best Picture Oscar than The Hurt Locker, Damien?
I mean THE HURT LOCKER looked so cheap! If you are not willing to spend half-a-billion dollars on a movie to entertain me, than clearly you are not worth my time as a viewer. If you are not willing to employee hundreds of people to make your film, than clearly you are unworthy of award recognition. If you are not willing to use stupid dialogue, flat acting, and directing that focuses solely on the visual effects to impress me, than clearly you are a lazy filmmaker. Most of all, if you are not willing to spell out your story for the idiot masses and make sure not a single person misses the clear political point you are making with your film, than your movie cannot be celebrated as great art.
The hell with your keen cinematic eye or your slow-burn storytelling or your lack of three-act structure and plot or your ambigous message about whether war is bad or good. The hell with everything you did. Your movie was boring compared to the awesomeness that is AVATAR.
Like GLADIATOR, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, BEN-HUR, and many amazing spectacle films before it, AVATAR is definitely the film we want to represent the best of cinema in 2009. Just like we want THE HANGOVER to represent the best of comedy in 2009. The idiot masses have spoken by giving the Golden Globes huge ratings. The Oscars will follow suit if they know what is good for them.
I'd TiVo that show and watch it twice a day til next year when Clash of the Titans win Best Picture of 2010.