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Should James Cameron's 'Avatar' have won the Best Picture Oscar?
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| Yes | 45% | 76 votes | Total: 168 votes | |
| No | 55% | 92 votes |
Yes
by Felix Parnell
Created on: April 25, 2010
On the 82nd academy awards, many major movies were nominated for best picture. There was District 9, Precious, Up in The Air, The Blind Side, A Serious Man, An Education, Up, Avatar and The Hurt Locker. Finally, after a long show, the winner of best picture was revealed. At my great surprise, Avatar hadn't won the award! The Hurt Locker took the Oscar as James Cameron stood at his seat stupefied at the hearing of this news.
Let's start off by saying: Avatar has been the fastest and highest grossing movie of all time since it first landed in the movie theaters on December 10th. 2,718,444,933 $ is the grossing revenue that Avatar has made while The Hurt Locker made 40,016,144 $. We shouldn't be judging movies for the revenue it makes, but this is one way to show the number of people that went to watch the movie. The Hurt Locker was a very good movie and it does deserve to get some credit, but when you compare it to Avatar, it's so hard to do so. The way I'm sure that Avatar had such a good success, is because the people who went to see it first went to talk to their friends and family about how good the movie was. Those other people then decided to give it a try as well. I, myself, was suspicious about it, but when I actually went to see it, I couldn't believe how amazing and incredible this movie was. A lot of fans went to see it multiple times and others seeing the incredible success it was, decided to go see it also. In the end, Avatar broke a new record in film history.
Now that we have seen how much the people like Avatar, why do the people like Avatar? Its a great movie. The idea and story behind Pandora is amazing. The plot is greatly made, the twists come by surprise, the visuals are incredible. It's a good thing that James Cameron waited all this time to begin the production because if he hadn't, I don't think it would have been as successful. When I came out of the theater, I was so inspired in making movies as great as this one. Even though the special effects are amazing, it doesn't mean that the movie will be good. The case with avatar is that it delivers such great content in everything, from the story and the plot, the twists and turns to the incredible work done with visual effects.
As verdict, Avatar is the biggest grossing film in the history of films to date, it has an amazing story, a complete set of twists and turns, mind-blowing visual effects and is the best movie of the decade. Some may argue about this point, but I would go and say that Avatar is the best movie of all time. Those are the reasons why Avatar deserves the 82nd Academy Award Oscar for best picture of the year.
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No
by Marcus Brooks
Created on: March 09, 2010 Last Updated: March 15, 2010
Last night, I'm sure the shareholders for "Avatar" cried in their mojitos. What they thought was a sure victory turned into the biggest upset in recent Oscar history!
Who would've thought a high-priced, big budget flick would lose to a tale from Iraq? Avatar looked at America's recession and laughed. The creators rang up their $200 million dollar price tag gladly. They sold audiences on a flick involving computer graphics, high-definition sound and creativity.
They invented a storyline that put a disabled Marine into a video game-like story of survival. They fused human with alien and conjured up the perfect, killing machine. To flip the script, the Marine "avatar" later joined the aliens his unit were trying to annhilate. James Cameron probably got his idea from Tom Cruise's 2004 film "The Last Samurai". There went the idea of being original.
Avatar was just a big budget copycat. The film had exotic creatures and thrilling, battle scenes. The imagery was exquisite. However, without the creatures, battle scenes and imagery, there was to be excited about.
But, a much cheaper more deeper flick was on the horizon.
"The Hurt Locker" was a tale about the most thankless job in America's Armed Forces. Clearing away explosives separated the sane soldiers from the insane ones. Members of a bomb disposal unit embraced their job during the Iraqi insurgency. Their tasks involved detonating "booby traps", IEDs, mines, mortars, homemade explosives or any suspicious packages. They spearheaded advances into enemy territory and possible "hot" spots. These soldiers received little fanfare for their heroism. This was Hollywood's attempt to say a long overdue, "Thank you" to these brave fighters.
For seven years, the Iraq war had sickened American viewers. The violence and politics had been explained over and over again. Iraq's ongoing conflict seemed as Chinese water torture. There was no end in sight or light at the end of the tunnel. We had a movie about FBI agents pursuing a wanted terrorist for a suicide bombing. We also saw a flick about the gruesome murder of journalist, Daniel Pearl. Death and despair appeared to be Hollywood's only storylines when discussing this current war.
But, the Hurt Locker won because it talked about heroism. Audiences understood this message. America's involvement in Iraq was told in a different way. Russell Crowe and Leonaro DiCaprio didn't win Oscars. MTV's "Stop Loss" never won Academy's Best Picture. Hurt Locker succeeded when the others failed because it was that damn good.
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