HEY, YOU GUYS, LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THIS YEAR'S OSCAR NOMS SUCK!

[bookshop]

*Best Picture 2010 nominations list*
- Avatar <-- racist, imperialist white liberal guilt fantasy (everyone, native peoples, mountains, animals, trees and tree-nerve-endings, get exploited by white people, awesome!!)

- The Blind Side <-- i haven't seen this, but true story notwithstanding the trailer just me cringe. It really, really seemed

Comments

[jianna]

You know, I actually did enjoy Avatar as a mere nice-to-look-at diversion, though I acknowledge it's problematic Last-of-the-Mohicans-ness. I will make no attempt to defend it's blatant racefail, but it didn't prevent me from enjoying it from a purely visual standpoint. I don't really get how it's Best Picture material, though. The acting was merely ok, the script severely lacking, and the plot painfully predictable. I hope it doesn't win, but I kind of think it might, just to irritate me. Way to go, Hollywood hype machine.

I didn't see The Hurt Locker, but there is one thing about it that makes it stand out among the other nominees: It's directed by a woman, Kathryn Bigelow.

Pixar's gender problem makes me really sad when I think about it, because they do SO MUCH RIGHT and then... all dudes. All the time. In every movie. Moving as the opening sequence in UP was, Elly got fridged :(

I didn't see Precious because I'm sensitive and I'm pretty sure it would have broken me (Pan's Labyrinth, for example, wrecked me for the entire last hour of the movie, I refuse to watch it again) but I'd be pleased to see it win anyway, simply because of how different it is from the other movies (ie. not about white dudes)

Haven't seen the ones you haven't seen either so I'm no help there!