What Will Happen...(Part 1)
The Oscars are so close you can smell them, coming up next weekend, Sun. March 7th. The night is going to be very predictable, except for the Original Screenplay race and the prestigious Best Picture. There's been so much controversy about the two front runners it's unbelievable. The first of the leading films, Avatar has been bringing in comparisons to one scene that resembles the 9/11 attacks and the Best Picture winning film Dances with Wolves, but instead of cowboys and Indians you have humans and aliens.
People also believe that just because it's groundbreaking effects doesn't mean it should deserve to take it home. Not to be bias, but THOSE people haven't seen Avatar. Controversy surrounding The Hurt Locker is that war veterans who were in that field are saying it's nothing but movie dramatization, that it's nothing like what's out there in the real bomb-disposal fields. In Hurt Locker's defense, that's all that it is....a movie. It's supposed to be dramatized. But those two are, as far as viewers are concerned, are the two leading movies, and even though Avatar took home Best Drama at the Globes, The Hurt Locker has taken home basically everything else, including Best Film at the BAFTA's (British Oscars) a few weeks ago, along with original screenplay, editing, directing and sound (Colin Firth, Mo'Nique, Carey Mulligan and Christoph Waltz were also big winners). Think it'll happen? Don't hold your breath, Avatar-haters. The BAFTA best film award is hardly accurate to the Oscar Best Picture. Just count these movies out of the race: District 9 (maybe as a shocker though), Up, The Blind Side, Precious. For a while it seemed there was nothing that could stop Up in the Air from winning Best Picture and nothing from letting Clooney take home Best Actor, but that was before the late arrivals of Avatar and Crazy Heart.
People also believe that just because it's groundbreaking effects doesn't mean it should deserve to take it home. Not to be bias, but THOSE people haven't seen Avatar. Controversy surrounding The Hurt Locker is that war veterans who were in that field are saying it's nothing but movie dramatization, that it's nothing like what's out there in the real bomb-disposal fields. In Hurt Locker's defense, that's all that it is....a movie. It's supposed to be dramatized. But those two are, as far as viewers are concerned, are the two leading movies, and even though Avatar took home Best Drama at the Globes, The Hurt Locker has taken home basically everything else, including Best Film at the BAFTA's (British Oscars) a few weeks ago, along with original screenplay, editing, directing and sound (Colin Firth, Mo'Nique, Carey Mulligan and Christoph Waltz were also big winners). Think it'll happen? Don't hold your breath, Avatar-haters. The BAFTA best film award is hardly accurate to the Oscar Best Picture. Just count these movies out of the race: District 9 (maybe as a shocker though), Up, The Blind Side, Precious. For a while it seemed there was nothing that could stop Up in the Air from winning Best Picture and nothing from letting Clooney take home Best Actor, but that was before the late arrivals of Avatar and Crazy Heart.
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