Kathryn Bigelow Makes Me Think of Inappropriate Things
Congratulations to Director Kathryn Bigelow for taking home a best director Oscar this weekend for her movie, The Hurt Locker. She is apparently the first woman to take home the best director award ever, which I have heard about approximately a thousand times in the past couple of days. It also means if you had “Best Director” over “President of the United States” in the “which will a woman do first pool”, you can now claim your prize.
I actually saw The Hurt Locker just the other day in my marathon-like preparation for the Oscar awards ceremony. It was a very good movie, certainly kept me on the edge of my seat for at least the first half of it, but at no time during my viewing did I think that it was best picture material. I mean, as much as people like to bash on Avatar (and it did have its problems for sure), twenty years from now which movie are people going to remember?
Yeah, I thought so. I believe the Hurt Locker will eventually end up in the A Beautiful Mind or American Beauty category of pictures that do not age well at all. Especially when you read about what actual Iraq War veterans think about the movie.
Over course, the real question on my mind through all of this is: what did ex-husband James Cameron think about Bigelow’s big win?
I actually saw The Hurt Locker just the other day in my marathon-like preparation for the Oscar awards ceremony. It was a very good movie, certainly kept me on the edge of my seat for at least the first half of it, but at no time during my viewing did I think that it was best picture material. I mean, as much as people like to bash on Avatar (and it did have its problems for sure), twenty years from now which movie are people going to remember?
Yeah, I thought so. I believe the Hurt Locker will eventually end up in the A Beautiful Mind or American Beauty category of pictures that do not age well at all. Especially when you read about what actual Iraq War veterans think about the movie.
Over course, the real question on my mind through all of this is: what did ex-husband James Cameron think about Bigelow’s big win?
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