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

Inglorious Basterds 16 16.00%
 
Avatar 44 44.00%
 
Up in the Air 8 8.00%
 
Precious 2 2.00%
 
The Hurt Locker 24 24.00%
 
Other 6 6.00%
 
Total:100
stof on 24 January 2010
Reasonable said:
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.



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RockSmith372 on 24 January 2010
stof said:
Reasonable said:
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.

What actors are in the Hurt Locker?



stof on 24 January 2010

Guy Pierce, Evangeline Lilly and Ray Fiennes all have bit rolls, but the star is Jeremy Renner, who would have carried the film even if it weren't already such a suspenseful masterpiece. I'd never heard of him before but I think he's going places.



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Reasonable on 25 January 2010
stof said:
Reasonable said:
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!

 



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stof on 25 January 2010

I just got a copy of let the right one in. But I'll be damned if it isn't Dubbed instead of Subbed. That is such a piss off! I'm still going to watch it though, it was one of my most anticipated films this year.



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RockSmith372 on 28 January 2010

One thing for certain, Christopher Waltz will most likely win Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds. He was amazing!



Signalstar on 28 January 2010

Yeah that is a lock. I will cry if Bigelow doesnt win Best Director. Plus she's hot



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Wildvine53 on 28 January 2010

I really Hope that Sunshine Cleaning gets nominated, and I'm certain Monique will win Best Supporting Actress



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rocketpig on 29 January 2010
tarheel91 said:
HappySqurriel said:

I saw Avatar last night and I was really unimpressed. It’s (essentially) a heavy handed and preachy retelling of the story of Pocahontas, that doesn’t bother with creating a decent motive for the antagonist’s actions, and a tacked-on Hollywood ending; with the exception of a couple of characters the acting and dialogue was only adequate, and the directing and cinematography was very beige.

I’m not trying to say that the movie was bad, it was a fairly well paced movie with good special effects and plenty of action; but I would say that outside of the effects categories any awards it wins would be more a statement of weak competition than anything else. There are movies like The Wizard of Oz which were visual spectacles when they were released that people are still interested in 100 years after they’re released; and a movie like Avatar will have a massive box-office, great DVD sales, and get decent TV play for the next handful (5 to 10) years and then be forgotten because it is so unoriginal and has been done so many times (so much better) before.

To everyone who tries to compare this to Pocahontas, I ask them this.  How does the whole becoming a Na'vi (more generally, becoming one of the native people) fit in with Pocohontas theme and message?  Oh wait, it doesn't.  A lot of people formed opinions about this movie before going in, and were thus blinded to everything that showed otherwise (confirmation bias, for anyone who's taken psychology).

Generally, yes, it's similar to Pocahontas, Dances with Wolves, Heart of Darkness (although less similar in this case), etc.  However, we all know everything can be made to look similar if you back off enough.

Let me ask you this: did any of the aforementioned titles make any connections to today (No, I'm not talking about the whole destroying the earth thing)?  Did any of the aforementioned movies look at anything beyond a single case of imperialism?  Did any of the aforementioned titles focus more on creating a living world and culture that people cared about above all else?  Did any of the aforementioned movies create a scientific, relatable explanation for the native system of beliefs?  Did any of the aforementioned movies have a white man decide to give up his whiteness, and become a native, effectively suggesting that the white man's way of life is inferior?

No, they didn't.  Once you start to consider such things, you start to understand that the ending wasn't "tacked on," the reason why the antagonists and their motives were so generic, etc.

Let me be clear, I don't think this is the best movie ever, but I think it deserves a lot more credit than a lot of people want to give it.

You're too hung up on details and are missing the point of what a "theme" is... It doesn't necessarily have to go into such detail as the person physically transforming into the "alien" race, it could be a psychological transformation and retain the same effect. You're trying to differentiate Avatar because of aliens and physical attributes when the actual meat of the story is in the mental changes that occur within the protagonist, a theme which has been done a million times in the past, whether it be aliens or native peoples or a foreign race. Avatar's physical tranformation is NO DIFFERENT from a thematic standpoint than Dances with Wolves or Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now. Each character "shed their skin" in a way, making the physical (sci-fi based) transformation in Avatar a moot point that really brought nothing extra to the story other than a 10 ft. blue creature that James Cameron could so beautifully animate.

Anyway, back on topic, The Hurt Locker was by far the best movie I saw in the past year. The sheer terror displayed by those characters and how real everything felt was very unnerving. It did a great job of putting the audience in the shoes of those soldiers.




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damkira on 29 January 2010
RockSmith372 said:
One thing for certain, Christopher Waltz will most likely win Best Supporting Actor in Inglourious Basterds. He was amazing!

Agreed... he was very very good.