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Full Oscar Recap: Hurt Locker Wins Big, Avatar and Those Lovable Basterds Get Snubbed
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Where in the hell did this from? After getting no love from The Golden Globes or the SAG Awards, The Hurt Locker came out of left field to win six Academy Awards including Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow) and Best Picture. I thought it was a solid film, but NO WAY did it deserve Best Picture. Avatar and Inglourious Basterds were the only worthy nominees for the biggest award of the night in my opinion. I guess the Academy is still too conservative and/or short-sighted to give props to any film that wins big at the box-office.
Matt’s Review: ‘The Hurt Locker’ – A Little Over-Hyped?
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GRADE: B-
I finally caught a showing of the Oscar buzzed picture The Hurt Locker last week, and I must say I left the showing a little disappointed. Critics have been raving about this film since it was first released at the Venice Film Festival in 2008. This film initially was only seen exclusively at film festivals around the world until it was finally released in limited theaters across the states. With a limited release it took awhile for the film to migrate to the lowly ole Midwest, but after long await here is my review of The Hurt Locker.
Some Quick Tidbits
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● I keeeed, I keeeed. But Really? Not only is an Indiana Jones 5 in the works with Spielberg and Shia LaBeouf to return, but guess who else?….Carrot Top! No, I’m JK. But Harrison Ford IS set to come back to play Indy once more, as he turns 67 years-old next week. This information is via The Insider, not necessarily the New York Times in terms of credibility, but it should be somewhat legit, since we definitely know there’s going to be an Indy 5. As much as I love Indy and the combo of Spielberg, Lucas and Ford, but as Paul McCartney said, “Let it Be…”
“Because we LOVE…MAKING…MOVIES!!!”
I posted some news a couple weeks about new photos from Quentin Tarantino’s anticipated new World War II epic, Inglorious Basterds. As I briefly stated in my former piece, Shrek & Austin Powers himself, Mike Myers, has a significant role in the film. Meyers plays Gen. Ed Frenech, who seems to be a member of the British army that helps out the American Basterds. This is the first non-comedy that Meyers has been in since he portrayed club kingpin Steve Rubell in 54 way back in 1998. It’s a little hard to take him seriously, especially with the British accent that he’s used for comedic purposes so many times, but Tarantino definitely has something up his sleeve. Mic check this behind-the-scenes featurette below.
Next up we have the Iraq war film The Hurt Locker, which has some serious buzz surrounding it with some very solid intial reviews. In the film Jeremy Renner is the leader of an elite Army bomb squad unit that must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb. And whats interesting is that it is being described as an action film and not an Iraq war film, which is very interesting and awesome. Finally we can have a badass action film take place in Baghdad without all the political baggage. Looks very intense. Mic check the official second trailer below.
What Do You Think? Discuss.
