OT- Your pick for best picture
Okay, so for those of you who don't know the Academy Awards are on tomorrow night on ABC. The Academy Awards are the only awards show I have ever watched. In the past I have watched the whole show from start to finish. Lately I think it drags on too long and the hosts are never that great. I have the show on but don't sit down and watch the whole ceremony like I have in the past. I don't know how many people in the MGOBlog universe are interested in the Academy Awards, but for those that are, I am interested in your pick for best picture. Here are the nominees:
UP
District 9
The Blind Side
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Avatar(Dances with Smurfs)
Up in the Air
The Hurt Locker
I am just going to try to ignore the fact that expanding the best picture category this year to ten nominees is a joke. The consensus seems to be that the race has come down to Avatar(Dances with Smurfs) directed by James Cameron and The Hurt Locker directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow. My pick: The Hurt Locker. I think Bigelow has put together an amazing movie that showcases some of the crazy things going on over in Iraq. The film may not have a conventional plot structure by the great performances by everyone in the cast especially Jeremy Renner make this a must see movie.
p.s. Bigelow still looks pretty attractive for her age. Just sayin.
Link to a picture?
Of course
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/photos/stylus/111625-kathryn_bigelo…
I really liked Serious Man.
Hate to point this out but the picture in the op's link of the Hurt Locker director is Seinfeld's nightmare. Holy man hands.
I guess I can only nominate one that I have seen. It's going to have to be Inglorious Bastards. Nohting else I have seencomes close. Avatar ("Dances with Smurfs") isn't much more than a neat light show. "A Serious Man is abysmal shitty stinking pile of a movie and I'm still incredulous because I did not know that the Coen Brothers could make such a boring piece of shit.
I posted my picks so early, I didn't think anyone else would be talking about it BEFORE the game. I was wrong.
My picks, to save clutter-
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-oscars-open-thread?page=0%2C0%2C2
And I just had to day here too...The Dude just won an Oscar!