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Rottenwatch: AVATAR (82%)
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IMO it will win these:
Art Direction
Cinematography
Film Editing
Visual Effects
And perhaps these, I don't really know much about these categories and how is Avatar in them in comparison to others
Sound Mixing
Sound Mixing
Maybe Director, but IMO picture is going to Hurt Locker.
Art Direction
Cinematography
Film Editing
Visual Effects
And perhaps these, I don't really know much about these categories and how is Avatar in them in comparison to others
Sound Mixing
Sound Mixing
Maybe Director, but IMO picture is going to Hurt Locker.
Though i'm secretly hoping that with new voting system IB will be everyone's second-third choice and it will win
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Sharp said:
Oh yeah I forgot about those ones. Nice call.
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Gui_PT said:
Remember when people spoke of the REAL Avatar?
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Sharp said:
That was pretty funny, but he got the last laugh, by a billion dollars or so.
The REAL Avatar folks are still available to be laughed at, though.
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$2.3M away from Titanic!
That was honestly the first time I began to know anything about the movie. I think I maybe had heard the name or codename in the past but knew nothing more than that.Sharp said:
And yeah, his "fireside chat" did leave me kinda going WTF. :lol
But in the end, what can I say, he was just getting warmed up.
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http://twitter.com/EricDSnider: Before TITANIC, the last Best Picture winner without a screenplay nomination was THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
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GhaleonEB said:
I'm expecting a small bump. If it makes more than $29 Million this weekend could we consider than an Oscar bump?
mckmas8808 said:
I think we should. It's also the only way it'll beat Titanic the weekend after. Unless it steadies at $30 million for a few weeks regardless of awards lol.
Btw, how many % was it down this weekend compared to the weekend before, in worldwide terms? I think I only read about the american drop and the wordwide weekly drop.
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FoneBone said:
But thankfully, "Becoming one of the People/Neytiri" indirectly did.
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I said it in the other thread.
I fully expect AHBUHDAR to lose not only Director but Picture as well. It will win the technical awards but that's it.
The Academy voters are NOT the Hollywood Foreign Press.
There are a lot of politics at play and Cameron is very polarizing.
His winning @ the GGs made a lot of voters angry and those will vote against him.
You heard it here first.
I fully expect AHBUHDAR to lose not only Director but Picture as well. It will win the technical awards but that's it.
The Academy voters are NOT the Hollywood Foreign Press.
There are a lot of politics at play and Cameron is very polarizing.
His winning @ the GGs made a lot of voters angry and those will vote against him.
You heard it here first.
Frank "Trashman" Reynolds
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Avatar sucked. It shouldn't win shit besides for its technical merits. Horrible story, cringe worthy dialogue, and way too long. No matter how long, or bad a movie is, I try to watch the whole thing. Think I got up at least twice during Avatar to piss, and then another time to take a call. Who cares if it looked good.
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Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
Holy Contradiction, Batman!
Ya think?Sharp said:
Maybe he actually would be happy for her. It's not as if they weren't married, worked together for years after separating and are still close friends or anything.
Yup. Bigelow/Hurt Locker swept the guild awards. I think it has a slightly better shot at Best Picture than director (no shot, sadly). But I think Hurt Locker will take it.ryutaro's mama said:
Frank "Trashman" Reynolds
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ryutaro's mama said:
Uh, not really. Giving it awards for visuals/sound/whatever changes nothing. Yeah, Avatar was visually pleasing. The movie still sucks ballsack. I would rather do almost anything than view it again. Still don't care.
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Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
Yes, it IS a contradiction.
If it blew, and "who cares if it looked good" you should wish for it to get shutout completely and not win a thing.
NOTHING.
If you hated it so much, why would you be ok with it winning ANYTHING that would validate it's "blowing of the ballsack", regardless of whether it's for "visuals/sound/whatever " ?
That's a CONTRADICTION, son.
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GhaleonEB said:
I wasted a few hours of my life watching it. At least I can now talk about how horrible it was. And that has only taken about 5 minutes of my time and has been infinitely more enjoyable than watching the movie was.
Btw, only reason I entered the thread was the "83%" in the thread title. At first I laughed and thought the OP was fucking with me. Now I'm slightly saddened by people's tastes in movies. Star Wars prequels, Transformers, Avatar... ugh.
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ryutaro's mama said:
lol
A movie isn't just visuals. A movie isn't just dialogue or story. I'm okay with it winning awards for its technical merits. I'm not okay with people thinking it was a good movie. It was still a waste of time no matter how great it may have looked. Good looks lose their appeal within the first few minutes of the movie, and in Avatar's case all you had left was a bunch of shit.
So you're probably also sad at the whole making two billion dollars at the box office thing, I imagine.Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
Anyway, you're of course entitled to your opinion. I just get a kick out of people who on one hand come into threads and post, while simultaneously professing that they don't care about the topic at hand. That's really quite a contradiction.
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Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
I totally remember all those movies scoring the same on Rottentomatoes and Metacritic and having the exact same WOM.
Son, your trollin' tactics are awesome.
Keep it up.
Avatar may not be the best movie of 2009 but it sure as hell is better than either Transformers or any of the Star Wars prequels. The plot may have covered familiar ground, but at least it did something completely new in the process and had a coherent script, which would already pretty much disqualify the movies you're comparing it to.Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
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Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
And how exactly does any of this address my post that you were "responding" to?
I can see why Cameron is freely saying he feels someone else should win. I mean he was so lavished with success and awards and praise with Titanic, for him it might have just been the highest point he will ever reach and he knows it. All this additional greatness is just a bonus now. Very few directors get to be involved with something like Titanic.
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ryutaro's mama said:
Anyway, I just thought the movie was horrible and was amazed by the reviews it is getting. Not trying to troll. I'm going to leave you guys alone now and go play some games!
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Frank "Trashman" Reynolds said:
That's cool.
Just remember that if you respond to anything in this thread from this point on, you will no longer be "leaving us alone" or "playing some games" during the time you spend writing your response.
That sonny boy, would be a
Contradiction
Agreed that Avatar should only get the technical awards. It certainly doesn't deserve a best picture nomination but I guess the Academy felt they couldn't ignore those box office numbers and truly groundbreaking special effects work. Hurt Locker was definitely a good movie but its a shame that a remarkable work like Basterds will be ignored because of the effects showcase that is Avatar and the perfectly servicible Locker. Neither movie has a scene that comes close to touching that of the opening scene of Basterds.
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Have't seen it yet so whats so special about this movie? Is Leo in it?
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OutlawSamurai said:
Leo
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