Oscars response thread - I'm counting on you

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh, and I'll say it...hooray, Avatar didn't win Best Picture!!

Mind you, I really liked Avatar, I'd even go so far as to call it outstanding. However, while it was an outstanding visual experience, the actual story and characters were just not best picture quality. They were good enough for what that movie needed, a story marginally interesting enough to keep you looking at the pretty for 2.5 hours, but bland and unobtrusive enough to not get in the way of the real star of the show, the effects.

But if Avatar had won Best Picture simply because it's the top grossing film, well, it'd be time to start calling Thomas Kinkade the best painter of all time. I mean, look how much money his paintings bring in!

That's just not a definition of "best" I'm ready to accept.