This movie Sucks, because dont have story, I expeccted happend something out of obvius, oh yea this guy have waar adicction, since beginning of the movie they tell us, for be a movie with 6 oscar, really sucks
04/02/2010 20:56 Ivan Pinzon
The press was in a frenzy over the Oscar winner “The Hurt Locker” and some journalists such as The UK Sun’s Nadia Mendoza have even gone so far as to suggest the results were rigged! Ok I think that’s a bit silly, I mean this isn’t Iran it’s the Oscars and yea we all loved Avatar, the effects, the 3D and the cute blue alien goddess …wake up people it made over 2 billion Dollars but The Hurt Locker has a way better story…That’s why it won. Problem is though, that “The Hurt Locker” was made in 2008 so it should have been up against last year’s Movies and Avatar should have won this year. http://ketiva.com/Entertainment_and_Music/the_hurt_locker_wins_six_academy_awards.html
03/09/2010 11:45 markmarks
Just remember it's an INDUSTRY award that happens to be televised... IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU. That award would be the People's Choice Award which generally awards the highest-grossing piece of vanilla mediocrity that is beloved by people who more or less vote with ticket purchases during the film's run. The Oscars awards artistic achievement, past glories and a cumulative career rather than just the film at hand. The industry is congratulating itself, and it just happens to be televised... that's all. You can still like your favorite movie of 2009 regardless folks.
03/09/2010 08:15 Xian
I saw Avatar, Inglorious Basterds, District 9, and Hurt Locker. Of those 4, I would rank Hurt Locker 4. Decent enough film but no where near Avatar or Inglorious. And District 9 was highly underrated.
03/08/2010 16:37 Mark
"Yes, it is politically more favorable, in California, than Avatar, but politics should not have determined the winners. This may kill the Academy..."
What ridiculous, politically tinged hyperbole. Unfortunately, you come off as yet another uninformed movie-goer by failing to realize that "Hurt Locker" snagged awards in Canada, England, Venice and New York. So despite your efforts to diminish "Locker's" win by implying that California politics played a role, it's obvious that not everyone was as enamored with a cartoon as you were.
03/08/2010 08:53 Diane
I was stunned so many awards have gone to Hurt Locker (starting with America guild, BAFTA and now Oscars); which is not worthy enough because in the recent years many deserving movies made on Iraq and Afghan war themes were either dumped or ignored. Why suddenly tons of love was flooding?
At couple of forums I've stated that The Hurt Locker is also an over-rated film. Any sane individual could comprehend on why the Awards were graced on this film - only to brush off The Avatar (slap on its anti US/UK war machine).
As usual, like we've seen in case of Winter Olympics (anti Russian results), there was a kinda conspiracy for sure. They played it badly (fiddling & politics) with the well deserving movies such as Avatar.
Many think "Generation Kill" was 100 times better compared to Hurt Locker because it was based on over 90% *real* incidents (embedded reporter). Hurt Locker wasn't! Point is, did Generation Kill win any major non-film award? NOPE.
Then, why only Hurt Locker :)
03/08/2010 06:11 Dr. Sunil Naidu
opinions will always be divided on this, but I gotta pick up on a word JC included: "entertaining." Not a word that closely describes Hurt Locker. Huge sections of nothing, almost no dialogue apart from the obligatory "what do we do it for" guff towards the end, and not much in the way of story. All this gives creedence to Hurt Locker being the lowest grossing Best Picture winner ever: hardly anyone went to see it! But no, they play the sob story about Avatars budget being so much bigger, independant no backing feminism blah blah blah. The Acadamy bigwigs have been PRAYING for a half-decent Iraq flick ever since the conflict started, and suddnly one crops up and WHOA a WOMAN directed it??? The sort of stuff that academy wet dreams are made of.
One thing to consider: think forward 20 years. Such classics as Schindlers List, Platoon, The Dambusters, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket; we will undoubtedly still be remembering these films as fondly as we do now. Does anyone really believe that the Hurt Locker belongs in that list, and will still be remembered as fondly so far into the future? Say what you like about the story, but Avatars contribution to the industry will remain long after Hurt Locker is forgotten.
Its awful to think the academy insists on this political nonsense and makes NO attempt to take into account the feelings of the people that pay their hard earned cash to keep the industry they represent alive.
03/08/2010 03:34 Xiall666
I was so happy to see that they put Michael Jackson in the "In Memorium" segment. I thought they would forget about his role in "The Wiz" in 1978. Too bad he didn't have more film roles, he was great in that movie. R.I.P.
03/07/2010 23:50 sc341
Avatar did not deserve best picture. It's called best picture not most popular picutre retard. Thats why Hurt Locker won and Avatar was the least deserving out of all the nominees. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking that Avatar is a great movie. Entertaining and visually stunning it is. Great movie with great acting it is not.
03/07/2010 22:59 JC
I completely agree Concerned Movie Viewer. Avatar not winning best picture is a travesty. The Hurt Locker was an average movie at best. In the long line of war movies it would be somewhere towards the bottom of my scale. I'm not surprised though. You pretty much expect this from the academy awards now.
03/07/2010 22:35 Matt
And the award for most incompetent group goes to...the academy. If they were to give many of these awards to The Hurt Locker, it would be understandable, but to give the best picture to something most people haven't heard of, and have little interest in, is incomprehensible. You could poll the public and you would find the top 20 films of the year still would not encompass The Hurt Locker. Yes, it is politically more favorable, in California, than Avatar, but politics should not have determined the winners. This may kill the Academy, like the nobel prize going to Al Gore for a CG documentary, and President Obama for aspirations and plans, not to mention Yasser Arafat for all of about a week of peace plans. This is not to say President Obama would never deserve the prize, it is to say that if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas. It was understandable for Avatar to not be allowed to sweep the awards, but this is an afront to the public at large. Awards may be eclectic, but this is simply wrong.
This movie Sucks, because dont have story, I expeccted happend something out of obvius, oh yea this guy have waar adicction, since beginning of the movie they tell us, for be a movie with 6 oscar, really sucks
The press was in a frenzy over the Oscar winner “The Hurt Locker” and some journalists such as The UK Sun’s Nadia Mendoza have even gone so far as to suggest the results were rigged! Ok I think that’s a bit silly, I mean this isn’t Iran it’s the Oscars and yea we all loved Avatar, the effects, the 3D and the cute blue alien goddess …wake up people it made over 2 billion Dollars but The Hurt Locker has a way better story…That’s why it won. Problem is though, that “The Hurt Locker” was made in 2008 so it should have been up against last year’s Movies and Avatar should have won this year.
http://ketiva.com/Entertainment_and_Music/the_hurt_locker_wins_six_academy_awards.html
Just remember it's an INDUSTRY award that happens to be televised... IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU. That award would be the People's Choice Award which generally awards the highest-grossing piece of vanilla mediocrity that is beloved by people who more or less vote with ticket purchases during the film's run. The Oscars awards artistic achievement, past glories and a cumulative career rather than just the film at hand. The industry is congratulating itself, and it just happens to be televised... that's all. You can still like your favorite movie of 2009 regardless folks.
I saw Avatar, Inglorious Basterds, District 9, and Hurt Locker. Of those 4, I would rank Hurt Locker 4. Decent enough film but no where near Avatar or Inglorious. And District 9 was highly underrated.
"Yes, it is politically more favorable, in California, than Avatar, but politics should not have determined the winners. This may kill the Academy..."
What ridiculous, politically tinged hyperbole. Unfortunately, you come off as yet another uninformed movie-goer by failing to realize that "Hurt Locker" snagged awards in Canada, England, Venice and New York. So despite your efforts to diminish "Locker's" win by implying that California politics played a role, it's obvious that not everyone was as enamored with a cartoon as you were.
I was stunned so many awards have gone to Hurt Locker (starting with America guild, BAFTA and now Oscars); which is not worthy enough because in the recent years many deserving movies made on Iraq and Afghan war themes were either dumped or ignored. Why suddenly tons of love was flooding?
At couple of forums I've stated that The Hurt Locker is also an over-rated film. Any sane individual could comprehend on why the Awards were graced on this film - only to brush off The Avatar (slap on its anti US/UK war machine).
As usual, like we've seen in case of Winter Olympics (anti Russian results), there was a kinda conspiracy for sure. They played it badly (fiddling & politics) with the well deserving movies such as Avatar.
Many think "Generation Kill" was 100 times better compared to Hurt Locker because it was based on over 90% *real* incidents (embedded reporter). Hurt Locker wasn't! Point is, did Generation Kill win any major non-film award? NOPE.
Then, why only Hurt Locker :)
opinions will always be divided on this, but I gotta pick up on a word JC included: "entertaining." Not a word that closely describes Hurt Locker. Huge sections of nothing, almost no dialogue apart from the obligatory "what do we do it for" guff towards the end, and not much in the way of story. All this gives creedence to Hurt Locker being the lowest grossing Best Picture winner ever: hardly anyone went to see it! But no, they play the sob story about Avatars budget being so much bigger, independant no backing feminism blah blah blah. The Acadamy bigwigs have been PRAYING for a half-decent Iraq flick ever since the conflict started, and suddnly one crops up and WHOA a WOMAN directed it??? The sort of stuff that academy wet dreams are made of.
One thing to consider: think forward 20 years. Such classics as Schindlers List, Platoon, The Dambusters, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket; we will undoubtedly still be remembering these films as fondly as we do now. Does anyone really believe that the Hurt Locker belongs in that list, and will still be remembered as fondly so far into the future? Say what you like about the story, but Avatars contribution to the industry will remain long after Hurt Locker is forgotten.
Its awful to think the academy insists on this political nonsense and makes NO attempt to take into account the feelings of the people that pay their hard earned cash to keep the industry they represent alive.
I was so happy to see that they put Michael Jackson in the "In Memorium" segment. I thought they would forget about his role in "The Wiz" in 1978. Too bad he didn't have more film roles, he was great in that movie. R.I.P.
Avatar did not deserve best picture. It's called best picture not most popular picutre retard. Thats why Hurt Locker won and Avatar was the least deserving out of all the nominees. You should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking that Avatar is a great movie. Entertaining and visually stunning it is. Great movie with great acting it is not.
I completely agree Concerned Movie Viewer. Avatar not winning best picture is a travesty. The Hurt Locker was an average movie at best. In the long line of war movies it would be somewhere towards the bottom of my scale. I'm not surprised though. You pretty much expect this from the academy awards now.
And the award for most incompetent group goes to...the academy. If they were to give many of these awards to The Hurt Locker, it would be understandable, but to give the best picture to something most people haven't heard of, and have little interest in, is incomprehensible. You could poll the public and you would find the top 20 films of the year still would not encompass The Hurt Locker. Yes, it is politically more favorable, in California, than Avatar, but politics should not have determined the winners. This may kill the Academy, like the nobel prize going to Al Gore for a CG documentary, and President Obama for aspirations and plans, not to mention Yasser Arafat for all of about a week of peace plans. This is not to say President Obama would never deserve the prize, it is to say that if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas. It was understandable for Avatar to not be allowed to sweep the awards, but this is an afront to the public at large. Awards may be eclectic, but this is simply wrong.