academy awards- like 'em, hate 'em, or indifferent?

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academy awards- like 'em, hate 'em, or indifferent?
Poll ended at 13 Mar 2010, 11:19 pm
i think they are the height of artistic discernment 5%  5%  [ 1 ]
i think they are a politically corrupt farce 30%  30%  [ 6 ]
i really couldn't care less about 'em 65%  65%  [ 13 ]
Total votes : 20

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08 Mar 2010, 2:51 am

auntblabby wrote:
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Well, the results are in. As I pretty much guessed, Kathryn Bigelow pretty much curbstomped her former hubby, James Cameron. The Hurt Locker got 6 (including best picture, drector, and screenplay), Avatar got 3.


well i hope it balms the potential legal hassle she could be facing for [allegedly] taking the idea from an actual bomb squad soldier without attribution.


I don't know if I buy all of that soldier's story tbh. I guess it's all perspective, but the term "the hurt locker" has been around for a while.



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08 Mar 2010, 3:32 am

It's good to see The Hurt Locker win.

It's a good movie, and I like how it shows how someone can be comfortable in an environment that's often depicted as something that no one can be comfortable in (which is wrong). Not everyone is made to be a typical family man or woman, and the warrior ethos is something that's equally "right", it's just that "peaceful societies" (that's an oxymoron right there) forget where they came from.



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08 Mar 2010, 3:34 am

Danielismyname wrote:
It's good to see The Hurt Locker win.

It's a good movie, and I like how it shows how someone can be comfortable in an environment that's often depicted as something that no one can be comfortable in (which is wrong). Not everyone is made to be a typical family man or woman, and the warrior ethos is something that's equally "right", it's just that "peaceful societies" (that's an oxymoron right there) forget where they came from.


old soldiers never die, they just slowly fade away



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08 Mar 2010, 4:31 am

The Hurt Locker was good, but it definitely wasn't good enough for it to garner 6 Oscars. I'm a bit annoyed that an amazing movie like District 9 won nothing.



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08 Mar 2010, 4:40 am

DNForrest wrote:
The Hurt Locker was good, but it definitely wasn't good enough for it to garner 6 Oscars. I'm a bit annoyed that an amazing movie like District 9 won nothing.


Seconded.


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08 Mar 2010, 6:37 am

Quatermass wrote:
DNForrest wrote:
The Hurt Locker was good, but it definitely wasn't good enough for it to garner 6 Oscars. I'm a bit annoyed that an amazing movie like District 9 won nothing.


Seconded.


I liked District 9 but I found the transition between mockumentary and action film disjointed at times.

To be honest, only Avatar and The Hurt Locker seem like films that will have a large historical resonance. I did enjoy all the best picture nominees - the only one I haven't seen is The Blind Side. To rate them in order, I would say:

The Hurt Locker - my fave
Avatar
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Inglourious Basterds
Up In The Air
Precious
An Education
A Serious Man
District 9



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08 Mar 2010, 5:39 pm

I'm glad The Hurt Locker won Best Picture
and director Katherine Bigelow won Best Director.

Out of the 10 BP nominess,
the only two I have not seen are
A Serious Man and Inglorious Basterds.

People are entitled to opinion,
but people in the Academy
win for the quality of what they did,
not as a popularity contest.


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12 Mar 2010, 2:07 pm

i don't really care for them. I can make up my own mind, what my favourite movies are.


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14 Mar 2010, 11:01 am

I liked -Hurt Locker- independent of the fact it won some Oscars. I consider the awards irrelevant.

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15 Mar 2010, 1:42 am

I was rooting for The Hurt Locker, and am glad it won. I had been hoping that 500 Days of Summer and Moon would get nominations, however.

Of all the nominees, Precious and A Serious Man were the only ones I hadn't seen yet.



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15 Mar 2010, 9:05 pm

Being the cartoon geek that I am, I'm usually just interested in the nominees for animated films & shorts. I don't really care that much about best actor, actress, etc.



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21 Mar 2010, 2:43 pm

Man, I really wanted An Education to win something. IMO that was the best film of the year. Carey Mulligan was fantastic in it and deserved Best Actress much more than Sandra Bullock did.


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