Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Avatar Should Not Win Best Picture

By: Stray Arrow

Stray Arrow — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 03:40:28 +0000

Avatar is really good but form its not award winning. Anyway people have different tastes.

By: percival

percival — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:48:51 +0000

avatar may not have been best picture quality, but neither was the hurt locker… regardless of it’s gritty reality styled drama, it was also the lowest grossing movie to ever win an oscar… there were plenty of movies that were done better than hurt locker, and yet they still lost (district 9 and star trek, to name 2)… goes to that the oscars, and pretty much all of those awards shows are shams… it’s just a way to pat oneself on the back, or snub an ill-liked celebrity… just my 2¢…

p.s.- i’ve heard hurt locker was good from some, and bad from others, i may even eventually watch it… but it certainly isn’t 1st on my list…

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:07:56 +0000

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By: scotthk

scotthk — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:21:08 +0000

At the end of Avatar, Cameron should have had Jake awaken with split consciousness in both the human & navi character. This film was desperately in need of some type of ‘wow’ realization moment for the viewer to make it great. It was a fun action film (better than I expected) but didn’t have any plot or character insights to make it an oscar winner.

Avatar & District 9 were two polar opposites in science fiction last year. Avatar lingered on so many cheesy Navi scenes that another blogger said surpringly resembled a typical hollywood yoga class. I just starting shutting and grabbing the popcorn during the navi communion sequences. District 9 was totally amazing realstiic science fiction in comparison.

The Hurt Locker was a 3-star movie, no idea why it won as best picture. If either District 9, Inglorious Bastards or Serious Man were slightly more mainstream they would have taken it.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:03:43 +0000

Your points are well constructed but still i think Avatar should have won the best picture anyway. Its storyline is good and its a milestone for the special effects and the best way to treat this type of movie is giving the best picture award. Most importantly, there was no good competitor, yes you may tell about ‘hurt locker’, but i don’t think that deserved the best picture.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:44:12 +0000

Avatar should won best picture because it’s a good movie and i personally like the American cinema progress in 2009 what they did in Avatar and i deny with this point that it should not win the best award we must appreciate them for this great progress.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:48:11 +0000

I think we should be more easy on the movies like avatar. Some critics say that these movies are not life related, but what the hell is that. I think if a movie touch the audiences heart, that may be with its story line that may be with its technology or with some other things that movie should be considered for best picture in academy award. Its just my personal opinion that this year avatar deserved the best picture.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:59:17 +0000

I have no idea how they didn’t pic that movie as the best picture of the year the graphics were amazing

By: Dez

Dez — Sat, 15 May 2010 11:43:43 +0000

I concur with Ben entirely, regardless of what anyone says about Avatars sub standard plot and similarities between Dances With Wolves and Pocohontas. I’ve sat though Avatar many times and still enjoy it. Whilst watching Hurt Locker I found it very hard to believe that it ran for 96 mins, I was going to time it, but didn’t have the strength to sit through it twice. You can pick a movie to bits but in the end isn’t a movies performance at the box office some indication of it’s caliber as a movie? Avatar should have won, just as Star Wars should have won. The fact remains, in another 10 years the majority will remember Avatar, precious few will remember Hurt Locker.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:37:06 +0000

Avatar is by far the best movie this year, even though Hurt locker won movie of the year. If this was the People’s Choice Awards then Avatar would dominate because people went and saw Avatar many times. Hurt Locker was inaccurate and boring. I was literally watching the time to see how much more of this crap I would have to take. The guy writing about how great Hurt Locker is should get medicated. Who cares if Star Wars didn’t win the movie of the year? What does that have to do with Avatar? Star Wars should have won movie of the year just like Avatar should.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:00:35 +0000

I agree, Star Wars never won best picture, and it was an epic film. Avatar was visually stunning but wasn’t the best movie that I’ve seen.

By: brian

brian — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:18:47 +0000

Crews:
‘And yes, both Star Wars and Avatar reused plots. 90% of all films from the 70â€™s and on have reused plots. But the difference is, Avatar didnâ€™t even do a good job of covering it up. It was painfully obvious that they stole the storyline from Pocahontas and Dances with Wolves. And yes, the story is basic, but no, I did not claim it to have political and religious complexities. The Passion of the Christ had political and religious complexities, however, all Avatar does is misrepresent militarism, capitalism, and imperialism. Take careful note: a misrepresentation, not a complexity.’

theres your problem…you find AVATARs take on militarism and capitalism troubling…why? Cause it critiques them…it shows how they REALLY behave…just ask any tribal elder in the amazon of borneo!