1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a. AVATAR*****
Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox
b. THE HURT LOCKER
Voltage Pictures; Summit Entertainment
c. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg GmbH Production; The
Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures
d. PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production;
Lionsgate
e. UP IN THE AIR
Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures
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ReplyDeleteso i just put this up to see what your opinions were, i honestly thought Hurt Locker was going to take it, i honestly didn't think avatar was that good, i thought it was visually amazing, but i could of watched the movie on mute. It was very predictable. The movie was too long, i fell asleep and still understood everything. Avatar actually reminded me of Pocahontas. The movie was so anti-America, they didn't make any effort that there were other Countries involved.
ReplyDeleteThis post is not limited to Best Motion Picture, please post opinions from the other awards
I really didn't think "Avatar" would take the "Best Picture" award. I was going with "Inglorious Basterds" or "the Hurt Locker" (which I haven't seen yet, but want to).
ReplyDeleteI was hoping "Up in the Air" would get some more attention too. I haven't seen "Avatar," and I really don't want to...
& although I have no interest in "The Blind Side," I'm happy for Sandra Bullock. & Jeff Bridges winning was awesome (even though George Clooney was amazing in "Up in the Air"). I would've liked to have seen Vera Farmiga get best supporting actress, but Mo'Nique's speech was really heartfelt.
& I really, really hope "Inglorious Basterds" does better with at Oscars.
seconds on zander's comments on "avatar" (especially with the story)... i don't know how many times we've discussed its undeserving of all the hype. ok, ok so cameron and his brother engineered a new 3-D camera. cool! but deserving?
ReplyDeleteother than that, i honestly can't say who i would rather have take the prize, but "inglorious bastards" is pretty high on my list. we will see in a few months.
and "up in the air" was awesome (as was clooney's performance), but ultimately lead to nowhere
ReplyDeletei agree with cass, inglorious basterds is pretty high on my list
ReplyDeleteI think it confuses me to even think of Avatar as a real "drama." I mean the effects of course were good looking and I enjoyed seeing it but all of the colonizers weren't real people in my mind, they were caricatures. The story itself was just derivative and dull in my opinion. I mean it had decent action, but not something that deserves to win awards.
ReplyDeletewell i saw Avatar in 3D and right away you really didnt need the glasses for all of it and yes it made everything look a bit clearer but for the most part just gave me a headache.. just me?
ReplyDeleteit was different, visually, & the colors were ________(stunning?)
BUT i saw more ferngully than pocahontas and i felt that it was just ok.
if i would of know how un-3D it was, i would of just saved 3.50 and gone to see it as a regular movie...
& yea, i thought inglorious basterds took it.
lol "ferngully" always reminds me of "once upon a forest".
ReplyDelete..and not just you Ground, with the glasses i got motion sickness and then fell asleep, i was told, through the entire training sequence--and, like zander, still understood the entire film.
one thing i learned from FI, and my time so far at school: if you don't need it, don't use it. most of avatar was entirely unnecessary and made for a much longer and much more boring film.
well in my practical sugar coma, the glasses just made me want to leave, and i clearly just turning to my friend and saying, is it over yet? i wanna go home...
ReplyDeletei also found the three fades to black a bit odd.. was it an accident or is there some profound meaning that i just dont get..?