I liked Avatar a LOT more than Hurt Locker. But I disagree with him too.

Avatar was very entertaining. Hurt Locker was difficult to watch. But both were well done, just for different reasons. (I wouldn't have given either an oscar, but I do feel hurt Locker was more deserving.)

My problem with the Hurt Locker was that I couldn't find one identifiable character. There weren't enough redeeming qualities within the main character to make him likable. And it ends with you pitying him. Perhaps it's an important story about how horribly war affects people, but if that's the intent, that wasn't quite driven home enough.

Meh. I just really didn't like it.

CarrieMpls said:

Interesting that the first woman to win an Oscar for best picture made a movie that turned off female viewers (at least according to you and Ivy).

Jeremy Renner was awesome

Avatar = great spectacle, horrendous story. Glad I saw it in 3D? Yes. Watch it at home? No.

CarrieMpls said:

Interesting that the first woman to win an Oscar for best picture made a movie that turned off female viewers (at least according to you and Ivy).

Perhaps it's an important story about how horribly war affects people...

sextonseven said:

Interesting, yes, but par for the course also. Historically women have had to act (or dress) like men in order to be taken seriously and make those leaps. Now that it's happened, it opens the door for a woman to win over a movie about, oh, say knitting. But that won't happen for at least another 20 years.

sextonseven said:

I wouldn't say it turns off female viewers...well, I don't know because I don't really know any chicks into war movies.

I hate them and have not seen most but watched this one because of all the hype. I thought Jeremy Renner was awesome and acted much better than Jeff Bridges did in Crazy Heart but so much of the movie dragged for me.

Close Encounters should have won in the first place...

I think ‘Avatar’ was really trying to say something about the planet, about indigenous people, and about how we construct war now, how we privatize it.

sextonseven said:

Interesting, yes, but par for the course also. Historically women have had to act (or dress) like men in order to be taken seriously and make those leaps. Now that it's happened, it opens the door for a woman to win over a movie about, oh, say knitting. But that won't happen for at least another 20 years.

CarrieMpls said:

right, most women seem to abhor violence, but you can guarantee the first female president will not shy away from war because she won't want to be perceived as having "weakness"

I haven't seen The Hurt Locker, but I'm not surprised it sounds unpleasant. I just tried to watch Slumdog Millionaire and now I see why it won, too.

NDRU said:

Waging war is easy, finding a peaceful solution is hard. If I were ever president, I would not wage war.

Vendetta1 said:

And how quickly you would be overthrown.

iloveannie said:

I'm not going to let anyone come over here and fuck with us but I am not going to go start shit over an ego problem either.

Vendetta1 said:

I didn't really mean to suggest that a woman would start a war over ego, but more that I believe the first female president will probably not try to be too radically different from male presidents

NDRU said:

I didn't think you were suggesting that. I was responding to iloveannie.

I just think I would be radically different from male presidents, mainly because I don't believe in war. Some of the shit we go to war about is just ridiculous.

Vendetta1 said:

I don't believe in war either. I think sometimes a lot of people go into politics thinking they'll be different and then they get in the system and think they need to speak in that language to succeed, and they start to believe the lies that "this war is necessary" or some other such foolishness.

It's sort of like how adults try to justify "complicated adult stuff" to kids, when kids occasionally have the simpler but morally correct answers. "Dad, why do you smoke?" "Well son, I work hard and I need to relax and therefore..."

NDRU said:

Money and power corrupt people. I truly believe that. That's not an excuse, mind you, only an explination.

Vendetta1 said:

Bingo!!

TD3 said:

hilarious word!

I see where mike is coming from.
Both films had unforgiveable weaknesses.

TD3 said:

hilarious word!

I see where mike is coming from.
Both films had unforgiveable weaknesses.

Rightly said:

Unforgivable? They're just movies.

But exactly what cardinal sins did these two films commit?

sextonseven said:

I did have a little headache after Avatar

Rightly said:

Inglourious Basterds was a better movie than both of them.

NDRU said:

Did your 3D glasses fit correctly?

sextonseven said:

I had to sit on the right side of the front row at the IMAX so the whole time I was looking up and to the left

NDRU said:

That's harsh! I would have had nightmares about blue people afterward.

I always arrive at the IMAX theater at least 45 minutes before start time.

sextonseven said:

now you tell me!