Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of Best Picture is….**drum roll**…Ava….ummmm, I mean The Hurt Locker!
What in the blue blazes happened here boys and girls, Avatar was pipped to the post my a movie that is pretty much unknown except in the States? Now this is a rather bizarre Oscar story I must say.
I missed out on watching the Oscars this year, much to my displeasure, only finding out the shocking truth this morning. The question we have to be asking ourselves is: did The Hurt Locker deserve to win over Avatar?
The Hurt Locker vs Avatar. Ok, so there isn’t exactly a simple answer to this question….you have to then start comparing apples. One apple is blue and about the size of a sky scraper, the other small, small, slightly brown and tastes of sand…if you don’t know which apple is which, well perhaps you shouldn’t be reading this blog in the first place.
In the end our latter apple was the one lucky enough to walk away with Best Picture, amongst much scorn and flapping from the general public and blogging community.
So why are so many Avatar fans upset? Well basically the fans are asking the question, how can a small movie that made $12M beat out a visual masterpiece like Avatar that has already made $700M?
