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The 2010 Academy Awards of Something Something
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I will say that I will be pissed if The Hurt Locker beats out AVATAR for sound mixing.
The Oscars are so lame I'm starting up the bhaskar's...
Picture: The Informant
Leading: Viggo Mortensen, The Road
Supporting: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Animated: Up
Cinematography: Christian Berger, The White Ribbon
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen, A Serious Man
Documentary: The Cove
Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
The best part is we don't have celebrities telling lame jokes for three hours.
Also, The Blind Side is one of the best books I've read in the last few years but I'd rather poke my eyes out than watch the movie.
Picture: The Informant
Leading: Viggo Mortensen, The Road
Supporting: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Animated: Up
Cinematography: Christian Berger, The White Ribbon
Director: Ethan and Joel Coen, A Serious Man
Documentary: The Cove
Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
The best part is we don't have celebrities telling lame jokes for three hours.
Also, The Blind Side is one of the best books I've read in the last few years but I'd rather poke my eyes out than watch the movie.
Frank "Trashman" Reynolds
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Inglourious Basterds should win best picture, cinematography, directing, film editing, and screenplay. Best movie I saw last year easily. Screw Avatar.
DeathbyVolcano
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Since there is, he won't. Thank you, God!
Danne-Danger said:
Up was okay. A Serious Man was boring. Avatar was fun. District 9 was innovative. Inglourious Basterds was a classic. It better win Original Screenplay, and Best Director at the very least. I'd actually love for District 9 to win something too, but when Tarantino is around there is no room for others!
Didn't see Avatar and The Hurt Locker was the most overrated film of 2009/2010, IMO. If Avatar wins then I can't complain/celebrate until I see it. But by most accounts, it doesn't deserve the Best Picture award. From what I've read, it is more than worthy of the technical awards though.
Avatar can get all the technical awards, probably deserves them, but best picture?
I thought the story in Avatar was unbearably cheezy. Dripping with 'white man among the noble savages' sappiness. Ugh.
Who am I kidding. It is going to win. I mean Dances with Wolves won, so this remake probably will too.
I thought the story in Avatar was unbearably cheezy. Dripping with 'white man among the noble savages' sappiness. Ugh.
Who am I kidding. It is going to win. I mean Dances with Wolves won, so this remake probably will too.
MIMIC said:
Yeah The Hurt Locker is a good film but it's pretty empty once you watch it once or twice. The hype it's garnered is a little weird.
As for Avatar it's a very good film,the amount of shit it gets is hilarious yes the story is simple but it's enjoyable and i would love to see it take home Best Picture.
DevelopmentArrested
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picks:
Best Pic: Avatar (Hurt Locker is the better movie though)
Best Director: Bigelow
Best Actor: Bridges
Best Actress: Bullock
Best S. Actor: Waltz
Best S. Actress: Monique
Best A. Screenplay: Up in the Air
Best O. Screenplay: I Basterds
Best Pic: Avatar (Hurt Locker is the better movie though)
Best Director: Bigelow
Best Actor: Bridges
Best Actress: Bullock
Best S. Actor: Waltz
Best S. Actress: Monique
Best A. Screenplay: Up in the Air
Best O. Screenplay: I Basterds
I've seen almost every movie except for The Blind Side on that list, and I liked every single one except for The Blind Side. I thought Avatar was the clear best out of that lot (because it was clear Basterds would never win and Moon wasn't even nominated), but if some of the others took it home, I'd be fine.hamchan said:
I think the only thing GAF will agree on is that The Blind Side winning would be some epic trollage.
DevelopmentArrested said:
What did you find in the Hurt Locker, that was better than Inglourious Basterds? I really enjoyed that one ( I'm a self proclaimed QT fanatic though).
Personally, I think the race should have been Inglourious vs Avatar..
Yes. Yes it was.Dresden said:
IB was so well written and a great piece of work. Every single bit of that film is an achievement, seriously. As is Avatar, that film is an achievement. Which is why I don't get why Hurt Locker has been getting this push all of a sudden.
Future PhaZe
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I'm conflicted with Avatar. To me in terms of the story and even action it was just okay for me but the entire experience together was awesome. I've seen the Hurt Locker but the Avatar movie experience was my favorite of the year...so I guess I'm fine with it winning awards for that reason alone.
I don't know if that speaks of the shitty movies that have released this year or its quality but I guess that's irrelevant.
I don't know if that speaks of the shitty movies that have released this year or its quality but I guess that's irrelevant.
I agree. The Hurt Locker support seems to only be there to flick finger at Avatar, I can't believe anyone to say it was written better than Inglourious, or even directed better (yes, the sniper fight was amazing, seriously amazing, but it had no real meaning in the context of the full story for the film, imo. Such a great thing that was never actually clearly used).Dresden said:
regardless, the nominees this year are great. I'm glad it isn't polluted with the usual suspects...
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Jibril said:
You do know that The Hurt Locker has been getting acclaim and buzz since TIFF (September 2008), right? The idea that people are only gravitating towards it because of Avatar hate is ludicrous. THL was the Best Pic front-runner before Avatar even came out.
And I didn't care for IB except for the one bar scene. Won't get into it more than that!
I think The Hurt Locker was a distinctly average film, but it's still much better written than Inglorious Bastards.Jibril said:
As far as directing, it's not even close; Tarantino is an average director at best, and this probably his worst directed movie.
And none of this has anything to do with Avatar.
It's the weakest list I can remember, which make sense, as this is one of the weakest years in memory.Jibril said:
gdt5016 said:
It's one of those films that once you've seen it,the third and fourth watch drains it of it's power. The first time i watched THL it was tense and scary,second watch it was ok, third my mind wandered.
It's an Iraq war film that's not really about Iraq, it says nothing new or interesting about the conflict.
Spotless Mind
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I'm really hoping for a surprise Inglourious Basterds win. Haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet however.
I can't believe Avatar is even considered a front runner.
I can't believe Avatar is even considered a front runner.
DevelopmentArrested
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Okay and? It never tries to. At all. The film is completely apolitical as Bigelow and Boal intended it to be. Way to shit on it for something it distinctly wasn't trying to do in the first place? Hurt Locker is an intense action movie, not a documentary. It might as well be set in some mean streets of Shanghai.Dabanton said:
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