The Hurt Locker

[BadMoon]

Damn I hope this wins Director and Best Movie. *fingers crossed*

I do too! Avatar was nothing. Seriously I wish the people that loved that movie really sat down and compared it to past winners. It doesn't deserve it one bit.

 

[Jen]

I do too! Avatar was nothing. Seriously I wish the people that loved that movie really sat down and compared it to past winners. It doesn't deserve it one bit.

I thought Avatar was groundbreaking - visually - but best movie needs to be more than just eye candy, in my opinion.

 

[Darth Madden]

I thought Avatar was groundbreaking - visually - but best movie needs to be more than just eye candy, in my opinion.

It kind of reminds me of the Grand Theft Auto vs The Getaway video game battle. Getaway was great graphics but bad game play and GTA was just the opposite. GTA ended up dominating the market.. content should always come before visuals.

 

[Jen]

It kind of reminds me of the Grand Theft Auto vs The Getaway video game battle. Getaway was great graphics but bad game play and GTA was just the opposite. GTA ended up dominating the market.. content should always come before visuals.

I bought The Getaway when it first came out - could never finish it - the game play was horrible!

 

[BadMoon]

I thought Avatar was groundbreaking - visually - but best movie needs to be more than just eye candy, in my opinion.

I agree. The effects were amazing! But best movie? Nope!

 

[Khev]

And just how would that differ from Avatar, I felt like I could almost quote the entire film from just the two or three trailers I saw?

Because Avatar is a classic crowd pleaser in the tradition of Star Wars. You know the archetypical good guys are going to kick ass against the archetypical bad guys, but that's half the fun.

To me a movie like Hurt Locker needs a great sense of foreboding or intensity, something it didn't have because it was basically about one guy that I knew was going to be in the whole movie. The last scene was fantastic but the journey was lacking.

That's part of why I've been pulling for Inglorious Basterds, I really thought I knew Tarantino's routine and could tell you who was going to live and die but boy was I wrong. It was an exhilirating ride that was true to his style but still somehow fresh and surprising. Just a really fantastic all around film.

 

[Fubeca]

Avatar was very good!!!! Visually but it was like watching a John Hughes film....Soooooooooooo Predictable!!!

 

[Khev]

Just saw that Kathryn won. I wish it had been Quentin but good for her.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Damn I hope this wins Director and Best Movie. *fingers crossed*

One down, one to go!

 

[The ill Jedi]

 

[UTtoyfan]

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!

 

[BadMoon]

AVATAR PWND!

 

[The Tuggernaut]

Best Movie of 09!

Deserved the win. Loved Avatar but enjoyed this much more!

 

[Bannister]

Man, Tom Hanks made that suspenseful.

 

[plasmid303]

Congrats to this flick and it's director. As much of a world wide box office and SFx phenomenon that Avatar was, and as interesting and fun as Inglorious Basterds was, Hurt Locker was so damn good in so many ways.

I kept thinking about what James Cameron was thinking during the whole deal because of the bad relationship between him and Kathryn Bigelow

 

[LOTRFan]

Man, Tom Hanks made that suspenseful.

Talk about being short on time, I guess.

The Academy got it right, though IB winning would have been justified too.

 

[The Tuggernaut]

Man, Tom Hanks made that suspenseful.

Yeah.

 

[LOTRFan]

I just wish she would have yelled, "I'm queen of the world ..."

I know, classy.

 

[Bannister]

Talk about being short on time, I guess.

The Academy got it right, though IB winning would have been justified too.

I can only imagine how the bomb scenes in The Hurt Locker would have played out had Hanks directed.

 

[The ill Jedi]

Man, Tom Hanks made that suspenseful.

Talk about being short on time, I guess.

They spent the whole damn evening going over the nominees, each film even had an intro and a full trailer! I did say, "What the hell ", when Hanks just came out and blurted, "The Hurt Locker".