There is a longstanding (and apparently increasing of late) occurrence of inferior movies winning.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 06/03/2010 10:33:15 PM
Also, please explain what is wrong with these:
Longest Day was superior. Setting aside all other issues, there was the "Did not put young Cannoli to sleep" issue.
JAWS. Come on! Have you no soul?
Don't even go there - this is one of the prime examples of the farcical rule that if you want an Oscar, go the Holocaust route.
It was an insult. It suggested that those other movies were somehow in a similar class with Braveheart.
ABM was a lame, boring, BS movie about one guy's ego. The entire movie was revealed to have not actually taken place. This is viciously attack whenever it is utilized as a plot device in sci-fi, but if you put the industry aristocrats together on a film using the same lame things it's suddenly perceived as introspective and groundbreaking and all kinds of other crap.
I haven't seen the hurt locker, actually, so I can't comment.
It was, unlike the other films, actually good, interesting, suspenseful and contained sympathetic and engaging characters.
In 1962, Lawrence of Arabia beat The Longest Day and To Kill a Mockingbird*
Longest Day was superior. Setting aside all other issues, there was the "Did not put young Cannoli to sleep" issue.
In 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest* beat Jaws
JAWS. Come on! Have you no soul?
In 1993, Schindler’s List beat The Fugitive
Don't even go there - this is one of the prime examples of the farcical rule that if you want an Oscar, go the Holocaust route.
In 1995, other movies were nominated against Braveheart
It was an insult. It suggested that those other movies were somehow in a similar class with Braveheart.
In 2001, A Beautiful Mind beat Fellowship of the Ring
ABM was a lame, boring, BS movie about one guy's ego. The entire movie was revealed to have not actually taken place. This is viciously attack whenever it is utilized as a plot device in sci-fi, but if you put the industry aristocrats together on a film using the same lame things it's suddenly perceived as introspective and groundbreaking and all kinds of other crap.
In 2003, Return of the King beat Mystic River and Seabiscuit
Well, maybe you don't have to explain this one. Still, mystic river wasn't exactly a very good movie... and I haven't seen seabiscuit. It was a movie about playing with food, right?
Still better quality than RotK. That was simply the worst of the trilogy. It was overlong and lazy and coasted way too much on the goodwill earned by its superior predecssors. Based on this historical trend, Avatar, District 9 or Ingloious Basterds will beat the Hurt Locker.
I haven't seen the hurt locker, actually, so I can't comment.
Cannoli
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"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
Why Avatar will win the Best Picture award
- 06/03/2010 06:29:08 PM
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Do the judges see the movie in IMAX 3-D? Or just on a normal screen?
- 06/03/2010 07:00:17 PM
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Wait. Maybe you should explain once again what this post is trying to say?
- 06/03/2010 08:10:55 PM
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There is a longstanding (and apparently increasing of late) occurrence of inferior movies winning.
- 06/03/2010 10:33:15 PM
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Ordinary People is a brilliant film.
- 06/03/2010 11:18:09 PM
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Yeah, I'm not sure what's with that either...
- 07/03/2010 12:36:29 AM
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ROTK was infinitely superior to Seabiscuit and MR
- 07/03/2010 12:55:13 AM
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With all due respect, I love Annie Hall just as much as Star Wars. *NM*
- 06/03/2010 11:13:02 PM
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I'm fully expecting Hurt Locker to win because it bored me to tears. *NM*
- 07/03/2010 04:02:12 AM
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As long as Inglorious BasTURDS doesn't win, I'll be happy 
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- 07/03/2010 09:17:09 PM
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- 07/03/2010 09:17:09 PM
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Oh yeah awful to see Nazis get their asses kicked *NM*
- 07/03/2010 09:23:43 PM
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- 07/03/2010 09:23:43 PM
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I'm tired of Hollywood's constant demonzation of Germans
- 07/03/2010 09:42:04 PM
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Germans aren't demonized in the film. I wouldn't like that either.
- 07/03/2010 09:56:42 PM
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ummm, Hollywoods has found someone, they are called Muslims...... *NM*
- 08/03/2010 01:54:09 AM
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