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

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rocketpig said:

sapphi_snake said:

rocketpig said:

sapphi_snake said:

rocketpig said:
Most people I know have seen The Hurt Locker. YOU may not care about it but most people I know in real life who are movie fans sure do and I have yet to hear anyone say they were disappointed in the film when they walked away from it... unlike Avatar.

I completely agree that Avatar is one of the most important films in the past decade (though I may argue that The Two Towers and the technology behind Gollum was more important) but where we differ is that I don't think it deserves any awards past best visual effects for it.

Fine, we can agree to disagree. We obviously have different visions about what makes a great movie. Still hope that hope that army recruiting movie doesn't win.

Yes, that's a fine example of a propoganda film.

I can see the posters now:

"Join the Army, visit Iraq, get scared shitless, possibly die!"

Brilliant.

Or... Join the army, visit Iraq, show your bravery, proove that you're a man, live an exciting life, "protect" your country, kill "terrorists", be a "hero", reinlist after you come back home cause civilian life is just way too boring, return to Iraq whith rock music in the background, be a badass.

 

Yes, because everyone wants to become disenchanted with their own family. That's really a great upside of war. There aren't thousands of stories of people coming back from a warzone and not being able to cope with civilian life.

Where you see a badass going back to war, I see a man who has lost the ability to operate in civilian life and chose the enemy he knew over the enemy he didn't understand. It's a tragedy what these young soldiers go through and how it effects them for the rest of their lives and the movie did a pretty damned good job of showing it.

Still think you're right? Here's a quote from Bigelow herself:

"I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off The Hurt Locker (2008) and I'm thinking of the war and I think it's a deplorable situation. It's a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about."

Still want to ramble on about how The Hurt Locker is a propaganda film? Shit, just the fact that the movie is directed by the same person that did Strange Days should have been enough of a clue that Bigelow would never create a pro-war movie.

On a funny side note, I just noticed that Bigelow is competing against her former spouse (Cameron) for Best Picture. Interesting.

The Cameron / Bigelow angle is interesting, and Cameron has said a couple of times he'd be happy to lose to her film so I wonder if he's being nice or actually giving a hint.  Also, if Bigelow wins she will be the first female director to do so.

Personally, I'd like her to win as I think from a pure direction point of view her efforts were clearly the best of the films nominated, but I guess that's nothing compared to the politics behind actually winning so we'll have to see.  Until Avatar went gangbusters The Hurt Locker was clearly the big favourite, gathering awards like a magnet, but Hollywood is desperate for 3D to succeed and I think there will be huge pressure to reward Cameron for his success with the format with Avatar.

The Hurt Locker is still the better film critically, though.