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

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rocketpig said:

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rocketpig said:

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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.

The best film award is for English-speaking movies. They have a foreign language category. Yes, the Oscars are largely political. Thanks for pointing out the obvious. That doesn't mean that a movie with an unoriginal story and characters should win over other films that, as a package, are superior works of cinema. Avatar shouldn't be given a pass just because it was so pretty, just like Star Wars didn't win 33 years ago. It wasn't the best film that year and that has nothing to do with its "classic" status or I could argue that one of the most-watched movies of all time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, should have cleaned up in the awards.

And you obviously didn't watch The Hurt Locker if you think it's pro-Iraq. I watched that movie and saw one man with nothing left to live for who had a death wish surrounded by a bunch of twenty-somethings who were scared out of their goddamned minds for the entire movie. I wouldn't call that a ringing endorsement for that war. It respected the soldiers (as we all should) but it didn't glorify the actual combat itself.

Actually you're wrong. Non-english language films are eligible for Best Picture, and several have been nominated before (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Life Is Beautiful; Z; Cries and Whispers), it's just that theu never have a chance of winning because americans just don't want to admit that a foreign movie is the best movie of the year. Also Star Wars deserved best picture, not because it was pretty, but because it was the best movie released that year. Annie Hall is oner of the most boring laughless and unmemorable romantic comedies ever. Heck, even the American Film Institute thinks that Star Wars is a better movie than Annie Hall (check their all time list). The Academy never gives the cool movie the award, no matter how good it is, because they like to seem pretentious.

And movies shouldn't be given just a pass because their biopics (Ghandi, A Beautful Mind), deal with race issues (Crash), or are war movies, but movies like this always win even if their not good at all, so it would be nice for a change of a sci-fi movie would win (if Avatar doesn't, no schi-fi movie will probably win in the near future, which is a shame).

And the Academy is falling into irrelevance, mostly because they have been choosing many irrelevant movies that no one has seen, and that no one cares about. Choosing The Hurt Locker would just be another nail in the Academy's coffin (shame when you think that once upon a time the Oscars was the biggest event of the year, now more people care about the Super Bowl than the Oscars, though I can understand why people care more about anerican football than seeing boring forgettable movies winning Oscars).