2010 Academy Awards In-Game Thread

• wildcats20

  

  I really didn't think he was going to read all 10 movies, but he could have at least taken a breath before ripping open the envelope.
• gibby08

  

  Well sq....the people that know what they're talking about disagree with you
  
  I knew this would happen with all the Avatar lovers out there if if didn't win
  
  
  Plain and simple......Avatar didn't deserve to win
• stephen3108

  Cameron is one of those guys who puts a lot into the awards though. He already has plenty of money. He wanted that pretty bad. He knew it was going to win until it didn't.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  I haven't seen Hurt Locker so I'm not going to judge, Avatar could have been written on the back of a bubble gum wrapper, Aliens was a better written film and for the time of its production wasn't that much less impressive than Avatar.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  gibby08 wrote: Well sq....the people that know what they're talking about disagree with you
  
  I knew this would happen with all the Avatar lovers out there if if didn't win
  
  
  Plain and simple......Avatar didn't deserve to win

  Look how much money Avatar made. Clearly the people who know are SUPPOSED to know what they're talking about don't actually know what they're talking about.
• hangonsloopy

  

  wow that movie was terrible. I can't believe it won best picture.
• gibby08

  

  It doesn't fucking matter how much money a movie makes...it matters about the quality of the movie....
  
  So you know more than the people who are in the acadamy??
• justincredible

  

  SQ_Crazies wrote:

  gibby08 wrote: Well sq....the people that know what they're talking about disagree with you
  
  I knew this would happen with all the Avatar lovers out there if if didn't win
  
  
  Plain and simple......Avatar didn't deserve to win

  Look how much money Avatar made. Clearly the people who know are SUPPOSED to know what they're talking about don't actually know what they're talking about.

  Money is great for the wallet but it really doesn't mean anything when it comes to how good a movie is. I don't doubt that it was visually stunning but I've heard bad, bad things about the actual story. The biggest being that it was essentially Pocahontas.
• sherm03

  

  Did you really think that Avatar was going to win? It didn't win the first time around when it was called Pocahontas. Why would it win now?
  
  
• 2kool4skool

  

  gibby08 wrote: The winner of the Oscar for Best Actress is.......
  
  SANDRA BULLOCK FOR THE BLIND SIDE
  
  Both winners for these awards were introduced first...pay attention to that for Best Picture

  They read them in alphabetical order
• SQ_Crazies

  

  Well, they make movies to entertain people--the more money they make, clearly they entertained more people. That's more opinions than some fucking douche bag movie critics.
• justincredible

  

  I mean, Millenium by the Backstreet Boys is the 9th best selling album of all-time.
• I Wear Pants

  It was Pocahontas mixed with Dances With Wolves...in space.
• 2kool4skool

  

  SQ_Crazies wrote:

  gibby08 wrote: Well sq....the people that know what they're talking about disagree with you
  
  I knew this would happen with all the Avatar lovers out there if if didn't win
  
  
  Plain and simple......Avatar didn't deserve to win

  Look how much money Avatar made. Clearly the people who know are SUPPOSED to know what they're talking about don't actually know what they're talking about.

  Exactly, because gross determines how good a movie is. No Country for Old Men was alright and everything, but Spiderman 3 got robbed that year...
• SQ_Crazies

  

  Movies that make as much money as Avatar aren't flukes.
• Non

  

  Avatar was nominated and close to winning, so I don't agree with that argument. If wasn't a good academy movie then it would've never been down to the last two.
• ZombieKiller

  The Hurt Locker was awesome. I'm glad it won.
• 2kool4skool

  

  SQ_Crazies wrote: Movies that make as much money as Avatar aren't flukes.

  Yep, because Titanic has really stood the test of time. I can't tell you how many times me and my friends have planned to go out but then we see Titanic is playing on TNT and we just say "fuck it, we're staying in."
• Non

  

  All I can say is go watch both movies and decide.
  
  The Hurt Locker is solid but a little overrated.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  "Movies that make as much money as Avatar aren't flukes. "
  
  Neither are the Jonas Brothers (being flukes, that is), but it is a matter of finding the right audience for the time vis a vis a matter of creating something that will last. Avatar may be well known as a pioneer in 3-D technology, but the story will be forgotten, or worse regurgitated in the next few years.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  justincredible wrote: I mean, Millenium by the Backstreet Boys is the 9th best selling album of all-time.

  Point being?
  
  There are millions of people in this world, our own personal opinions don't mean all that much on the big scale.
  
  I'm not a big fan of the Beatles, but I don't have a problem with them being awarded for what they accomplished.
• justincredible

  

  Of the 10 nominated I only watched Up, Inglorious Basterds and District 9. I'll try and make time to watch Hurt Locker this week.
• sherm03

  

  justincredible wrote: Money is great for the wallet but it really doesn't mean anything when it comes to how good a movie is. I don't doubt that it was visually stunning but I've heard bad, bad things about the actual story. The biggest being that it was essentially Pocahontas.

  Beat ya to it. You can now get out of my head, please.
• SQ_Crazies

  

  A movie isn't shit without people watching it.
• gibby08

  

  Here are the top 10 grossing films of all time:
  
  1 Avatar $2,560,000,000 2009 [# 1]
  2 Titanic $1,843,201,268 1997 [# 2]
  3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,110,941 2003 [# 3]
  4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $1,091,345,358 2006 [# 4]
  5 The Dark Knight . $1,022,345,358 2008 [# 5]
  6 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone $974,733,550 2001 [# 6]
  7 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End $960,996,492 2007 [# 7]
  8 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. $958,212,738 2007 [# 8]
  9 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. 2009 [# 9]
  10 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers $935,282,504 2002 [# 10]
  
  
  How many of them won best picture?