Avatar's up for Best Picture? What The Fuck has the Academy been smoking?

[TheMightyFavog]

Yes, it was a very visually stunning film, I'll give them the technical Oscars they are up for, they earned those but Best Picture? the writing was cliched and the acting needed improvement (You could hear Sam Worthington's British accent leaking through in several scenes.)

Fuck that, I'm pulling for Up! It's time Animated Features get the credit they deserve.

[Swede]

1. It's almost as if someone has a different opinion than you.

:shrug:

[mreilly]

2. Agreed

One movie in my lifetime was so dull that I walked out of it: Avatar. No intention to attempt to view any more of it; I already own "Dances with Wolves" (same plot) and like the western era better.

[thefool_wa]

24. Dances with wolves?

how about this (from FailBlog)...

http://failblog.org/2010/01/10/avatar-plot-fail/

[proteus_lives]

3. It's about money.

But if does win best pic, I'll never take the oscars seriously again.

[redqueen]

12. This is what it takes?

There have been so many examples of how utterly nonsensical that award is... I'm surprised anyone takes them seriously.

[rcrush]

4. Is Up In the Air nominated?

I'd vote for that one.

[AngryOldDem]

6. Yes -- and Clooney and Reitman are, too,

I'd like to see it, though.

ON EDIT: My bad -- first I thought the movie didn't get a nomination. It did.

[blue_onyx]

7. "Up in the Air" is nominated for Best Picture

[AngryOldDem]

10. Yeah...just edited my post

:blush:

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Sadly, "Up" is, for best picture.

No "The Incredibles" or "Wall*E". Of course not. They actually deserved it. Wah...

[AngryOldDem]

5. They just might as well hand it to Cameron now.

:puke:

Let Avatar marinate over the same period of time that Titanic did, and then see if it's still worth all the accolades. It's just "WOW!" filmmaking, with little consideration given to anything else.

Up! is a wonderful, original, and very sweet film that deserves Best Picture -- but I doubt it will happen. Unfortunately.

[LeftinOH]

8. Just like Titanic, Avatar has no nominations for acting or writing;

it's a matter of style over substance. It'll probably repeat the Oscar sweep that Titanic had. Avatar is a CA$H COW, and the establishment loves that.

[blue_onyx]

15. Actually...

Kate Winslet and Gloria Stewart both got acting nominations for Titanic. Titanic is a great movie but I'm not an Avatar fan.

[bigwillq]

21. oops..should have looked below first.

I just posted the same thing as you. You are correct. It did get two acting nods.

[bigwillq]

20. Wasn't Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart nominated

for Titanic?? :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Of course it is - the Academy is addicted to sparkles and flash

Every now and again they manage to give the award to a movie that actually merits it, but not as often as they should.

I enjoyed the hell out of Avatar, but it is not a 'brilliant' movie in any sense of the word, except for pushing the technical boundaries of the possible (and maybe brilliant cinematographically as well).

[Bucky]

13. It's the first time a remake has been nominated for best pic, right?

It being a remake of Pocahontas.

[SoxFan]

23. Dances With Smurfs

[rcrush]

14. I guess this will turn out to be true then...

[Alexander]

16. They've been smoking unobtainium.

District 9 was way better.

[huskerlaw]

17. I haven't taken the Oscars seriously since

Julia Roberts won for Erin Brokovich. Movie with a good message? Yes. Acting genius? Absolutely not.

As for Avatar, yes, it was visually stunning, but the acting was nothing special (what little of it wasn't computer generated), the storyline's been done before, and the dialogue was predictable at best, horribly trite at worst.

[AllenVanAllen]

18. District 9 is up for best picture as well.

A good year for Sci-Fi. I for one am happy about this.

[WildEyedLiberal]

19. Me too

No, Avatar isn't the best movie I've ever seen, and District 9 is objectively a better film, but I'm just glad the Academy is finally recognizing science fiction films instead of solely the dry, staid Oscar-bait dramas that get nominated every single frakking year.

"Up" was extraordinary, too, and I'm very glad to see it was nominated for Best Picture, and not just Best Animated Picture. "Up" had exponentially more geniune emotion than most of the typical Oscar-bait nominees on that list. Am I the only one who thought "Up in the Air" was vastly overhyped, cynical, and underwhelming? And "Inglorious Basterds" is, with the exception of Christopher Waltz's terrific performance, completely undeserving of any nomination on this list. I'm sorry, I "get" Tarantino, but IB was a far cry from anything deserving of an Oscar.

[SoxFan]

22. After "Titanic", I concluded that Cameron has video of someone from the Academy

Only explanation for that bloated, craptacular mess winning anything.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

25. Just the sort of popular trash the academy loves.

Could be worse.

Remember Crash?

[Danger Mouse]

26. The same stuff they were smoking when Gladiator actually fucking WON best picture.

[Cant trust em]

27. This movie was OK.

Certainly not best picture worthy.

[AsahinaKimi]

28. Maybe this years Academy Judges are all

13-15 year olds. I mean, who else would pick this movie as the Best Picture of the year?

[trof]

29. Didn't there used to be catagories for...

"Best Animated"?
Disney usually won.
Is this not animated?
:eyes: