Bravo The Hurt Locker.
Avatar is snake oil. Take away the 3D from Avatar and what do you have? A mediocre Sci-Fi film with a hackneyed, retread plot and acting the ranged from flat to way over the top. Cameron is NOT a great a director... what he is, is a crowd pleaser.
And the Quentin Tarantino fanboys (you know them, they are the ones who roll their eyes at you and mutter "you don't get it" if you dare criticize a Tarantino film) are bellowing and braying this morning over the injustice visited upon their hero at being snubbed by the Academy. All you QT sycophants need to get over it, Inglourious Basterds was not the best film of the year, it wasn't even a very good movie.
Basterds was very well made bad film. QT's script was overly wordy and strained at being clever. Cliched lines abounded - see anything the Superstar Celebrity and terrible actor Brad Pitt spoke. The film's biggest sin is that it is, yet again, a movie about movies. QT's last three films have been the same thing. When will Tarantino stop cribbing from his genres he loves and think up an original idea for a film? My guess is never. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs were audacious flukes by a young video store clerk. The middle aged man who wants to re-imagine movies from his favorite film genres bores me.
Avatar is snake oil. Take away the 3D from Avatar and what do you have? A mediocre Sci-Fi film with a hackneyed, retread plot and acting the ranged from flat to way over the top. Cameron is NOT a great a director... what he is, is a crowd pleaser.
And the Quentin Tarantino fanboys (you know them, they are the ones who roll their eyes at you and mutter "you don't get it" if you dare criticize a Tarantino film) are bellowing and braying this morning over the injustice visited upon their hero at being snubbed by the Academy. All you QT sycophants need to get over it, Inglourious Basterds was not the best film of the year, it wasn't even a very good movie.
Basterds was very well made bad film. QT's script was overly wordy and strained at being clever. Cliched lines abounded - see anything the Superstar Celebrity and terrible actor Brad Pitt spoke. The film's biggest sin is that it is, yet again, a movie about movies. QT's last three films have been the same thing. When will Tarantino stop cribbing from his genres he loves and think up an original idea for a film? My guess is never. Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs were audacious flukes by a young video store clerk. The middle aged man who wants to re-imagine movies from his favorite film genres bores me.