Movies 2010

The Hurt Locker? A reason? Who cares. Awards don't necessarily mean it was good. Just like Nielsen ratings.

[QUOTE=Old Friend;176561]The Hurt Locker? A reason? Who cares. [B]Awards don't necessarily mean it was good.[/B] Just like Nielsen ratings.[/QUOTE] An Oscar for Best Picture usually does.

Hurt Locker also won several critics awards both here and abroad. The only issue it truly had was that it was never widely released. I saw twice in the theatre and it was a packed house both times. It is a much better film.

[QUOTE=molds13;176564]An Oscar for Best Picture usually does.[/QUOTE] Only if the Academy wasn't known for being biased.

[QUOTE=Old Friend;176568]Only if the Academy wasn't known for being biased.[/QUOTE] Are you kidding me? Let's be serious. When was the last time a bad movie won Best Picture? It is a matter of opinion, of course...but most of the people that vote for the winner generally know what the **** they're talking about.

[QUOTE=Old Friend;176568]Only if the Academy wasn't known for being biased.[/QUOTE] They have been in the past true enough ... However, Avatar only won 3 awards, all technical, out of the 12 it was up for. But Hurt Locker won the Director's Guild, Producer's Guild, the Writer's Guild, and Editing awards. These are determined by their respective Guilds in Hollywood. In addition, all the film festivals that Hurt Locker went to it won including: Toronto, London, and the big one: Cannes. It was hailed as a stunning upset by many people but it happened and now Avatar will have to live with that fact. Some call it akin to win Shakespeare in Love beat out Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture.

There's your answer Molds. Saving Private Ryan should've one over something like Shakespeare in Love. Or as Brenda Meeks calls it, "Shake-a-speare" in Love.

[QUOTE=Old Friend;176573]There's your answer Molds. Saving Private Ryan should've one over something like Shakespeare in Love. Or as Brenda Meeks calls it, "Shake-a-speare" in Love.[/QUOTE] The irony here is that the rules about "drawing attention to your film" were changed after that because the Weinstein brothers campaigned the hell out of Hollywood for the win. That's why one of the producers got in serious trouble when he started emailing people telling them to vote Hurt Locker. For the record, pretty graphics do not solely make a film. Avatar is still a very pretty **** done up in neon.

[QUOTE=Desertpuma;176578] For the record, pretty graphics do not solely make a film.[/QUOTE] Nobody was saying that. Its the experience that counts.

I realized while watching and experiencing it that it was a lackluster story hidden behind pretty graphics. Same reason I avoided Transformers 2. I was willing to give Avatar the chance but it let me down and the hype was unwarranted.

I give Cameron all the credit in the world for the technology he used. I really do. Irony: Using state of the art technology to tell a story about the dangers of technology.

[QUOTE=Desertpuma;176583]I give Cameron all the credit in the world for the technology he used. I really do. Irony: Using state of the art technology to tell a story about the dangers of technology.[/QUOTE] Very well put! Am I in the minority for not liking the story of Avatar? The special effects were amazing, but the story itself was blah or as some of you vevmo-ers would say not "zomg" haha. I want to see inception and oddly enough Macgruber.

Macgruber I want to see because I loved the skit on SNL. The show Maguyver would also make a good movie. That they landed Ryan Philippe for the movie showed me it may be good.

I could care less for anything Avatar-related but it keeps my son entertained for hours when we need to get housework done, so it gets an A+ in my book.

[QUOTE=Aereas;176815]I could care less for anything Avatar-related but it keeps my son entertained for hours when we need to get housework done, so it gets an A+ in my book.[/QUOTE] I wish there was a "like" button on here like facebook! I honestly don't know why it was up for an award. Was it based on the "love" story that has been used and re-used. I can see why people are relating the movie to Pocohantas. I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it either. I don't really watch SNL, but I like Ryan Phillipe from Cruel Intentions, Igby Goes Down and I know What You Did Last Summer. And Jimmy Fallon has been praising the movie Magruber, about how raunchy, funny and action packed it is. I also like Kristen Wigg a lot. Plus the previews and clips i've seen look funny.

Macgruber? I'll pass. But I wanna see Just Wright and Robin Hood ( alittle).

Jimmy Fallon is friends with Will Forte of course he would say it was good. Also they both used/are still on SNL.

MacGruber might either be stupid or stupidly funny. I enjoyed the skits on SNL though.

Never saw the skits, don't really care for Wiig...Phillippe has not really worked in the past year or so either which is probably a good reason why he is doing the film.

I have never really liked Kristin Wiig either (except in the Lawrence Welk skits). Macgruber just doesn't seem worth going to see in the theater.

I'm personally a fan of Will forte so I was willing to give it a chance right there. He is so underrated on SNL.

FTR, Final Destination 5 opens August 26th, 2011 Source: [URL="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20231"][url]http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20231[/url][/URL]

[QUOTE=Old Friend;177422]FTR, Final Destination 5 opens August 26th, 2011 Source: [URL="http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20231"][url]http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20231[/url][/URL][/QUOTE] Ugh, another one?

[QUOTE=jake93;177433]Ugh, another one?[/QUOTE] Seriously. I thought we were finished. It was THE FINAL Destination. They should have named it.. The Next To Final Destination.

I saw Prince of Persia on sat night and really enjoyed it. I didn't think I would have liked it as much as I did. I also saw Robin Hood which was kind of boring and Iron Man II which was fun and action pack like expected.

A friend of mine sent me this link, because she knows I'm a big Joseph Gordon-Levitt fan. I about pissed my pants. [URL="http://io9.com/5560366/latest-batman-3-casting-rumor-joseph-gordon+levitt-as-the-riddler"]Latest Batman 3 Casting Rumor[/URL]

[QUOTE=TheQuietOne;184655]A friend of mine sent me this link, because she knows I'm a big Joseph Gordon-Levitt fan. I about pissed my pants. [URL="http://io9.com/5560366/latest-batman-3-casting-rumor-joseph-gordon+levitt-as-the-riddler"]Latest Batman 3 Casting Rumor[/URL][/QUOTE] He somewhat looks like Heath Ledger, I use to get them confused all the time.

[QUOTE=ishot_JT;184670]He somewhat looks like Heath Ledger, I use to get them confused all the time.[/QUOTE] Depending on the angle of the picture, I suppose. I hadn't really noticed a strong resemeblence before.