No, from Disney:
Cheers!
Posted on 01/17/2010 9:49:24 PM PST by Feline_AIDS
Avatar has triumphed at the 67th annual Golden Globes, winning the award for best film drama. Director James Cameron also picked up the best director award for his blockbuster which is on course to be the biggest grossing movie ever. The science-fiction epic won out over George Clooney's critically acclaimed Up in the Air, Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, gritty drama Precious and Iraq drama The Hurt Locker. There was disappointment for British stars as nominees Emily Blunt, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth all missed out The Hangover claimed the top comedy trophy at the awards which are voted for by the Foreign Press Association and are seen as an indication of Oscar success. The ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles was overshadowed by the crisis in Haiti, with many stars wearing yellow, blue and red ribbons to show their support for victims. Picking up the award for Avatar, Cameron told the audience: "This is best job in the world it really is. Avatar asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each other and us to the Earth. "And if you have to go four and a half light years to another, made-up planet to appreciate this miracle of the world that we have right here, well, you know what, that's the wonder of cinema right there, that's the magic." Cameron was given the best director award over his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who was nominated for The Hurt Locker.
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Happy to read that Kevin Bacon won for Taking Chance.
None of it reflects what the people think.
The globes has a few hundred making the winners and the Oscars maybe a couple of thousand insiders making the winners.
At least that is what I think I remember reading, so all are HollyWIERD types indeed.
Russian novels, my Aunt Fanny. This movie is a $300 million remake of “Ferngully.”
I can see giving it all kinds of awards for technical achievement, but in the non-fantasy world where I live, movies that win “Best Film” awards generally have decent scripts.
What! No mention of what a fine upstanding job the Marines are doing in Haiti? I know they don’t want to believe it, but it would be nice to hear something approaching decent appreciation mixed in with the rest of the BS.
“Taking Chance”
Awesome movie
No, from Disney:
Cheers!
“Inglourious Basterds” is the best film of 2009.
It was pretty dang good. I was very pleasantly surprised.
Isn’t this the movie they used the Pocohantus script?
I still get goose bumps when I think of that movie.
Avatar?...Creepiest movie EVER!
If I had to pick something about the film which bothered me I'd come up with two things, i.e shooting bows with two fingers which nobody has ever done, and the idea of travelling stellar distances to mine any sort of mineral or ore. The cost of just getting to AC would so totally dwarf the value of anything you could conceivably mine there as to make the idea laughable.
I mean, if you want implausibility in a scifi flick, there’s always Starship Troopers in which alien insects from some star system significantly further off than AC throw an asteroid at us and it hits South America a few weeks later.....
I've shot English Longbow for years and always use 2 fingers.
It's also the origin of the English 'V-Sign' insult. The French used to cut off the shooting fingers of any English archers they caught, so before battles the archers used to make the v-sign they still had theirs and to show the French they were ready.
There was a lot from Larry Nivens there, and some of the plants came from video games.... The plot was gagging liberal earth-worship.
But the special effects were cool.
Eco-terrorism will win every time at a lefty event...
I’ve never seen or heard of anybody doing that prior to now. I’d always assumed that you shot bows with three fingers, a thumb ring, or a modern release device and that those were the only three possibilities there were.
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