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Originally Posted by Daradon
I still have not seen The Hurt Locker, and am looking forward to it.
As for Avatar, it's one of those ''must see'' epics that has a huge place in history, but is not really a Best Picture.
But it totally transports you to that time and place (or spot in the imagination). I really liked it because it made me feel like a kid again, full of wonder.
It is like a Star Wars or E.T. or other films like that. Very special in it's own right, for many reasons, but lacks the substance to be a Best Picture.
Normally I really need a movie to get me thinking, or to surprise me for me to like it. (Unless it's just a really great comedy) I don't go for special effects driven films, or summer blockbusters. But this movie was truly an event movie, and I really enjoyed it.
I was surprised Cameron didn't win the Best Director award though. I would think putting that movie together would have been very difficult. And from some of the comments I have read upon here about the Hurt Locker, the direction may have been lacking.
I still have not seen it (THL) yet, so I can't say though.
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I was disapointed at Hurtlocker, it was meh! at best and didn't hold a candle to the HBO gulf war series Generation Kill.
I think Cameron should have got director just because he got the thing made, by all accounts if not for him a good chunk of the tech wouldn't have been developed. I think the acadamy was just trying to look intellectual.