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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Should there even be any controversy over the Best Picture Oscar?
I don’t think so, and I didn’t even see The Hurt Locker. I did see Avatar and I thought it sucked. The technology and special effects were great, but the dialogue and script were awful. Those exact same sentiments (good SE, terrible script) were echoed by many professional movie reviewers.
As far as I know, the Oscar for Best Picture is not the same as the Oscar for most popular movie. The Academy takes these awards very seriously (I think) and in my opinion, makes very few “mistakes.” As much as some people say that there is a lot of “politics” in the voting and in the awards, I just don’t see it. Sure, occasionally someone gets snubbed because they are not liked in Hollywood, or a sentimental favorite wins an award in which they were probably not “the best,” but by and large I think they give the awards to the person or picture that is very good at what they are supposed to be good at.
How can you even conceive of giving the highest award that a motion picture can get to a movie that is described by many as having a lousy script? Isn’t having a great script kind of necessary for a great picture?
If Avatar had won, it would have been a travesty, IMO. Thankfully and correctly, it didn’t.
And BTW, while I am not a big Tarantino fan, “Basterds” was a very good movie (good script, good acting, and great dialogue and visuals).