The Shrine

You just got put into the Hurt Locker.

2.6 billion dollars and a Golden Globe for best director and picture goes a lot further than an academy award under the new voting format allowing for a lower quality movie no one will even remember in 3 years.

That last part is basically true, it will be forgotten. While im sure its a good movie, i hadnt even HEARD of Hurt Locker until the award time started coming around last month. Im not a huge movie buff, but just a normal news reading individual.

Good movies and award winners dont need to be remembered forever, though. HL will go on my queue once it pops on dvd.

Julius Seeker wrote:lower quality movie no one will even remember in 3 years.

In what way is Hurt Locker a lower quality movie?

Kupek wrote:

Julius Seeker wrote:lower quality movie no one will even remember in 3 years.

In what way is Hurt Locker a lower quality movie?

Because it didn't make eleventy-billion dollars....duh!

Flip wrote:
Good movies and award winners dont need to be remembered forever, though. HL will go on my queue once it pops on dvd.

It's on dvd already.

Kupek wrote:

Julius Seeker wrote:lower quality movie no one will even remember in 3 years.

In what way is Hurt Locker a lower quality movie?

The same way that a movie like Cold Mountain is a lower quality movie than a movie like Return of the King.

Are we really going to be remembering Avatar any more fondly in three years? Blockbusters come and go just as easily.

Plus if anyone knew any fucking better The Road would have won. Or at least been fucking nominated. Fuck the Academy.

Flip wrote:While im sure its a good movie, i hadnt even HEARD of Hurt Locker until the award time started coming around last month. Im not a huge movie buff, but just a normal news reading individual.

Really? Where have you been? Even the occasional movie goer has heard of the Hurt Locker.

Do Oscars for anything aside from Documentary, Foreign, or Short Films even mean anything anymore?

Other than money....

SineSwiper wrote:

I get what you're doing here, I do, but if you saw The Road, especially as a new father, I'm pretty sure you'd agree with me.

Well. I guess depending on how much you even care about the Oscar's. Which I usually don't but not nominating The Road just seems a little odd.

Shrinweck wrote:I get what you're doing here, I do, but if you saw The Road, especially as a new father, I'm pretty sure you'd agree with me.

Well. I guess depending on how much you even care about the Oscar's. Which I usually don't but not nominating The Road just seems a little odd.

Actually, I was referring to Avatar. I award myself bonus points for using a Cameron flick to diss his movie.

I haven't seen the The Road. Heard it was pretty depressing.

Ah, the events that unfold in it certainly are. Still, the book is dedicated to his young son. There's more to take away from it than the sad hype.

Shrinweck wrote:Ah, the events that unfold in it certainly are. Still, the book is dedicated to his young son. There's more to take away from it than the sad hype.

And goddamn, Viggo Mortenson is in some AMAZING fucking movies. I haven't seen the road, but after Hidalogo, Viggo has just stepped up and been in spectacular movie after spectacular movie that the critics just don't seem to get behind. Appalooza, Eastern Promises, and the Road looks nothing short of amazing. Aragorn has, in my eyes, been starring in incredible movie after incredible movie, and always seems to get passed up by the Academy.

He's young and a lot of his roles have that twang of desperation and carrying the burden of the world on their shoulders. He's great at it but they're all a bit like playing the same part with small differences. He's still young and they're waiting for him to branch out a bit, I imagine. But, yeah, you would imagine with his skill and a movie that's pretty much dedicated a majority to the character he plays, he would get at least a nod....

Shrinweck wrote:He's young and a lot of his roles have that twang of desperation and carrying the burden of the world on their shoulders. He's great at it but they're all a bit like playing the same part with small differences. He's still young and they're waiting for him to branch out a bit, I imagine. But, yeah, you would imagine with his skill and a movie that's pretty much dedicated a majority to the character he plays, he would get at least a nod....

Sorta reminds me of Kevin Spacey. Excellent actor to a fucking core, but really didn't get his Oscar until his role on American Beauty.

Didn't he win an award for The Usual Suspects?

Actually, he did, but only for best Supporting Actor. His first Actors Oscar was American Beauty.

I still think hurt locker is a better movie than Avatar which was the second best mans inhumanity movie that year behind District 9...Yes, District 9 pretty much had a similar message but was a far better movie than avatar.