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

[sapphi_snake]

rocketpig said:

sapphi_snake said:

rocketpig said:

It's a sad day when I see so many people actively cheering for a movie based on little more than visual niceties.

The Hurt Locker was 100 times the movie that Avatar is. Hell, even UP was more engaging to me just for the first 10 minutes of the film. Avatar wasn't even the best sci-fi movie of the year... Star Trek was more fun and District 9 was more intelligent and interesting.

Cinema is an audio-visual medium, and Avatar utilizes visual effects like no movie ever before. It's a much more important movie for cinema then The Hurt Locker, which is just another war movie. Honestly I'm tired of war movies/biopics/nazi movies winning best picture oscars. It's about time a sci fi movie wins. So go Avatar!!!

The award isn't for "most important film", it's for "best film".

I agree that sci-fi movies deserve more love than they get at the Oscars but Avatar is the wrong film to break that cycle. It's just not that good. Besides, Return of the King cleaned up not that long ago.

LOL, the award isn't for "best film", even though it has the word best in it's name. If they were truly looking to reward the best film than than than they'd have to nominate more foregin non-englishh language films every year. Also, movies like Crash, Gladiator or The Greatest Show on Earth would hve never won if they really wanted to reward the best film. This Oscars are all about politics, not about quality. If Avatar doesn't win it won't be because of it's quality, but because producers are envyous because Cameron makes movies that are so successfull and because actors are paranoid and think they'll be replaced by digital characters, and forced to become voice actors who are payed less.

And of course they'll give the award to a forgettable pro-Iraq war movie that no one's seen, and no one will remember 10 years from now. Raiders of the Lost Arc did loose to Chariots of Fire, and guess which movie is remembered and considered a classic today. Hurt Locker will share a similar fate.