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POAS
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since I VERY rarely go out to the movies (being an old fashioned home-body) but did "Hurt Locker" deserve the Best Picture Oscar?
I think Avatar could have won more Oscars had it NOT made so much money. I know that is contrarian thinking but the academy voters may have felt a bit of envy over the extraordinary box office success and voted out of spite.
Should Avatar have gotten best picture, best director?
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Bob Dobalina
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I haven't seen either. I saw Precious and that was a damn good movie. Blind Side and It's Complicated were good too. I don't know how to quantify how one movie is better than another, though. People are obsessed with competition in the USA and that's because competitive top 10 lists are a good way to promote products so the arts become a sporting event. I haven't watched an awards show since I was a kid and we had only one TV and I was out voted, but I watched a few minutes of it because girlfriend is the keeper of the remote control. We are 5 hours behind the real world here in Hawaii so you can find out who the winners are before the show is over by turning on CNN so I did my part to try to reduce my carbon foot print and get girlfriend to turn the TV off. 
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Reduce carbon footprint? Is that a euphemism for "Hey baby, come here and give daddy some sugar"?
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Bob Dobalina
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| Reduce carbon footprint? Is that a euphemism for "Hey baby, come here and give daddy some sugar"? |
Yes, and it works about as well. She'd prolly be like, "I'll give you a carbon footprint up your ass..." 
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| She'd prolly be like, "I'll give you a carbon footprint up your ass..." |
And you'd be like, "Oh baby, I love it when you talk dirty!"
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I think this thread has gone off the rails! 
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mostomotus
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I rarely see movies until they are on DVD, and I haven't seen any of the winners.
I have no idea of the quality of The Hurt Locker, but I don't like James Cameron so I'm glad that his ex-wife won.
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