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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Front-Ranger:
Ha! I must be an Avatard too! Lynne has a point that you don't go to Avatar for its subtle and original script!! It's more like a comics/graphic novel storyline.
Lynne:
I'm sorry, Friends...I was bored despite the cool special effects.
oilgun:
Here's an interesting short article from the current issue of The New Yorker about the top two nominated films and the new AMPAS voting process for Best Film:
And the Oscar Goes To
by Hendrik Hertzberg February 15, 2010
[...]
Everyone seems to agree that the director, James Cameron, and his legions of artists and technicians have created a thrillingly immersive, lovingly detailed, surprisingly believable alternative world. There’s been less unanimity about the movie’s “message.” Liberals are unhappy with the white-guy-rescues-the-natives aspect of the story, though this aspect surely has less to do with racism per se than with Cameron’s reliance on old-movie plot devices. Conservatives complain that the picture’s vision of the future (the action takes place in the year 2154) is overly hospitable to century-and-a-half-old lefty talking points.
[...]
This year, the Best Picture list was expanded, partly to make sure that at least a couple of blockbusters would be on it. (The biggest grosser of 2008, “The Dark Knight,” was one of the better Batman adventures, but it didn’t make the cut.) To forestall a victory for some cinematic George Wallace or Ross Perot, the Academy switched to a different system. Members—there are around fifty-eight hundred of them—are being asked to rank their choices from one to ten. In the unlikely event that a picture gets an outright majority of first-choice votes, the counting’s over. If not, the last-place finisher is dropped and its voters’ second choices are distributed among the movies still in the running. If there’s still no majority, the second-to-last-place finisher gets eliminated, and its voters’ second (or third) choices are counted. And so on, until one of the nominees goes over fifty per cent.
[...]
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/02/15/100215taco_talk_hertzberg#ixzz0g2AucTpN
[Interesting, the link was added automatically]
Lynne:
Now see, I didn't get that at all. The natives axed themselves with help from a man who was bi-species in some sense. Definitely not a white guy, IMO.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Lynne on February 19, 2010, 09:16:16 pm ---Now see, I didn't get that at all. The natives axed themselves with help from a man who was bi-species in some sense. Definitely not a white guy, IMO.
--- End quote ---
I think of him as a white guy in blueface.
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