What movie do you think will win Best Picture in 82nd Academy Awards?

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stof said:

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stof said:

I've only seen Avatar and Basterds (seeing Hurt Locker tonight).

Of the two I've seen I've got to give it to Basterds. Just an incredible movie. But the Oscars have nothing to do with being a good movie so... who knows what will win.

Oh yeah, Up was fantastic too.

The opening sequence of Up was just fantastic.  Pure cinema, no dialogue, just perfectly composed visual images that poetically summarized the life most of us will have with its ups and downs.  I felt it became a little unfocused in the middle, but like pretty much every Pixar movie in showed an amazing ability to handle complex themes in a manner genuinely accessible to all ages.

I hope you like The Hurt Locker - it's my personal choice for the year, with Basterds a little behind with Moon alongside it.  I've always been keen to see Bigelow return, as I hold her in very high esteem despite a few missteps, and I felt she delivered her best film so far and the best of the year when she did.

The Hurt Locker was fantastic. Just so incredibly tense. A great character study. It would certainly be a worthy candidate for best film of the year, though I'd still say Inglorious Basterds was my most enjoyed.

I'm glad to hear you liked Moon too. I really want to see that film but it certainly isn't coming out in Korea.

 

As for the Avatar debate. Good movie with Gorgeous effects. Nothing to harp on, but not one of the best films of the year.

Hopefully it will hit Youtube or something - I think you might like it.  Basterds was just a feast of cinema I thought, and very enjoyable to boot.  Renner was amazing in Hurt Locker wasn't he, as were his two support guys.  I never felt they were acting for a second - just really solid character work.

As for tense, yeah, unless you live only by huge explosions and CGI this was honest to goodness real tension.  The first time I watched it I just couldn't believe how the film kept getting tenser and tenser, and with low key leads there was never any security they wouldn't be killed at any moment.

Moon though is a nice reflective science fiction movie, evokative of the 2001 school of thoughtful SF.  The big difference to 2001 though is that it is character driven, with an amazing performance from Sam Rockwell.  If you haven't seen Let The Right One In that's also a little gem of a film, although I'm not sure how much of a gloabl release a Swedish horror movie gets!