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So...does everybody agree with the Best Picture winner? **If you don't already know who won, this thread will tell you** |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,491 |
| | Posted: | | | | I had a lot of trouble trying to remember what last years winner was . | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | My fiancee and I watched all 10 nominees before the awards. All along, Hurt Locker had my vote until we got to the last one: Up. For some reason, I just found it profoundly moving in a way few movies have ever touched me. So I would have awarded Up both Best Picture and Best Animated Picture (I thought they added that category so animated films couldn't be awarded Best Picture, after Beauty & the Beast in 1991?). But given that wasn't likely, I am OK with Hurt Locker getting it. Avatar was by far the worst of the ten movies, tedious, predictable and derivative from beginning to end. All the rest at least had something interesting going for them, though Precious is tough to watch, sort of in the Schindler's List and Kids category of "I'm glad I saw it, but I never, ever want to see it again." | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Ken Cole: Quote:
I spoke with the Ken Cole from the future on this year's winners. He's usually truculent on these things (something about the continuity of the quantum space-time matrix, yada yada yada). He must have been in a good mood because he let me know that with History's perspective, Up has stood the test of time and is (still, in the 26th century) widely considered an artistic masterwork. Avatar is also remembered and credited with a brief spike in the popularity of flat-window 3D. It seems the others have faded into the blur of time.
Fans of the other films shouldn't fret - the perspective of 26th century humans is a bit suspect - after all, our century is colloquially referred to as the "Numa Numa" period. Someone has been spending far too much time writing code.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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