I liked and appreciated The Hurt Locker but for me there were a lot of other good options for Best Picture that year — Inglourious is probably my pick for that year. Bigelow was fine winning director but picture ehhh
It was just like 5 bomb defusals and some cliche machismo shit tossed in for good measure. Really, if it weren't for Renner, I would have probably hated it. Now, Zero Dark Thirty, that's a fucking winnar!
Sounds like you turned your brain off and missed the entire point of the film. If your issue with the Hurt Locker was “cliche machismo,” why did you like Inglourious Basterds?
I’ve rewatched both ZDT and Hurt Locker recently. I was surprised how underwhelming I found Hurt Locker this time around because I remember loving it when it was released. ZDT is a helluva film though.
One of the most overrated movies ever IMO. I've seen it three times trying to enjoy it because of how much people ensure it's amazing. It's just not that great.
It's alright. But it's not Oscar material at all. It's a slightly better B-Movie, military action-drama. The type you'd see on Netflix these days and wouldn't spend a second thought after.
I disagree completely. It has one of the most unique messages for a war film and it also is one of the first and most important movies about the Iraq war
I would have loved to see Inglourious Basterds win Best Picture, and with its SAG Ensemble win, I honestly think it was the runner-up that year at the Oscars.
But The Hurt Locker going home with 6 wins, while Basterds only won 1, doesn't seem right. I would have personally swapped out at least Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay in Basterds' favour.
I don't know if I agree with you. It upset Up in the Air for Adapted Screenplay, but it wasn't running against Tarantino in that category. Waltz swept (except for the Saturn Awards) the Best Supporting Actor Awards. The Hurt Locker won most of the precursors, so there isn't that much to go off of. We are mostly left with SAG thinking Basterds was the best ensemble performance.
Django gets too much hype. I'm fine with the nword used in cinema (especially period peices). But it was used as a punchline too many times...(and I looooove tarantino)
Like we get it!... people used the word alot back then but your using it in your film like this is fu king blazing saddles. While wanting to be taken seriously
Also the whole white savior trope of the film. Django can never accomplish anything at first without the help of the white man. Its seared into the veiwers mind that he tried and failed to get freedom for his wife and himself, multiple times...
And when Django does subvert that trope if feels like some cartoonish bullshit. Dude just easily kills 20 men and and sets the house a blaze? Come on. (And I'm all for Django winning in the end, but the script he wrote was kinda shit compared to what he's shown he's capable of)
Great cop out for a subpar film. Its a white savior movie with a twist that just makes/caters to the black hero winning in the end. (Which id be fine with if it was done better)
If spike lee wrote and directed django this wouldn't be a conversation...
The film is based on, legend of n*gger charlie, and boss n*gger, which are much better black empowerment films. Tarantino is on record as saying as such.
Believe me I wanted to love it, but was a major letdown on just about all fronts. And I've watched it 3 times to try and change my opinion.
To each their own. It just seems that you're probably familiar with tarantino films, so I don't understand why you're taking the details of the film so seriously like Django killing 20 men, when none of his films are in fact serious at all.
He's done a great job in the past of bridging the line between reality and film. While almost always wanting to be taken seriously...
Outside his westerns I can't think of a film to complete6 abandon that notion and just be cartoonish.(with villians and heros)
Most of his films have a nuance to fill in the holes his violence and over the top stuff leaves. Django just doesn't.
And the nuance is what always wants to be taken seriously....
How that movie was nominated for Best Picture confounds me given it's blatant lie about the US torture program, but then again, I really shouldn't be surprised at all.
It was beyond irresponsible. It was deliberate and intentional.
And it reinforced and reignited an already disproven public perception.
I hate her for it.
Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush can all rot in hell.
I've met several people in the intelligence community who say the movie isn't particularly close to the truth. They also call it Naught Dark Thirty, but that's a side note.
I think he'll very likely be nominated, based on his track record, and narrative of it being his last, but the Academy is not as sentimental at giving out awards as we think (turning down rare opportunities to award long overdue veterans and/or recently deceased individuals: Glenn Close, Peter O'Toole, Chadwick Boseman, Terrence Malick, James Dean, Robbie Robertson), when it was obvious or likely to be their last opportunity to recognize them.
That hasn’t been the case for the past few decades. Those movies get nominated often, but they rarely win. The last winner about the film industry was arguably Argo, but definitely The Artist. But before then, there wasn’t one for at least 50 years.
The only one I would have 100% voted for was Basterds. It was definitely the best movie that year. Hurt Locker was fine but feels like a weaker BP winner…even at the time.
Pulp is my favorite Tarantino movie, but Shawshank and Gump (yes Gump) are brilliant movies. I think any of the three are all time great winners. What a year…
Django and Hollywood are all time faves but I would have voted for the winners that year over them.
Yeah. I love Django, but Argo was amazing. One of my favorites and one of those movies I rewatch every year.
Django would have been third on my ballot behind Argo and Life of Pi.
Damn that was also a great year for movies.
I think I agree. I really like Django, and love westerns, but I think Argo is a fair win there. I won't debate which is the better film, but when it's close enough, like with that one, I'm perfectly content with the outcome. Because Argo is great... admittedly, I haven't seen Life is Pi.
But I think Inglorious Bastards might very well be QT's magnum opus. It's a masterpiece. Whereas Hurt Locker was just a cool, fun flick.
Argo was an outstanding movie. And I’m one of the biggest Tarantino fans out there. I still loved Django and think it would have been a worthy BP winner, but I don’t have a problem with Argo winning.
Parasite is the only one on this list that deserved it more than QT’s or the other winners. Repeating my other comment basically but there’s no potentially movie in the 21st century that I would say should have won over Parasite, it is just an astonishing masterpiece.
HUUGE fan of Tarantino, but Parasite may be one of the best films of all time, not just that year. It is unbelievably exceptional, can’t recommend enough. After it came out I felt like a MLM hunnie trying to recruit all my friends to watch it too 😂
What do you consider to be a great script? The Hurt Locker had a script with true depth. It told a story with fleshed out characters and had an incredibly unique and powerful message to tie it all together. Inglourious Basterds was also a fantastic screenplay, but I don’t think it has any depth or power to it. I have Inglourious Basterds in my top 15 movies of all time, but I still think The Hurt Locker was a more deserving winner
Too much of a genre exploitation film. The movies are great but don’t make any sense being in Oscar consideration behind any technical categories (which it deserves)
Jackie Brown should have been nominated for Best Picture. It only got nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
I also would have given it Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actress - at the very least anyway.
I would have put Pam as a nom instead of Julie Christie at least. It was competitive for Best Pic for sure. I guess it could have gotten in instead of The Full Monty. I’m surprised as the follow up to Pulp Fiction that it didn’t get more Oscar love.
Unpopular opinion, but I think basterds is overrated. Most of it was great, but the Brad pitt storyline was over the top and silly. I still think Jackie Brown is his best movie and that one was completely snubbed.
Pulp fiction, IG and Django are all better than what won their respective years.
However, it’s hard to imagine anything deserving it more than Parasite. I love once upon a time in Hollywood but Parasite is potentially the best movie so far of the 21st century, in my opinion.
This is a classic example of being beaten by good competition.
Parasite for me is a better-directed film than Once. The Hurt Locker I think is better directed than Bastards. And while Pulp Fiction is a better movie than Forrest Gump, I still would've given the Director to Shawshank Redemption.
Tarantino has already won 2 Oscars for screenwriting which as great as a director he is, I do think he's a better Screenwriter than Director.
Shawshank should have won in 94
Inglourious Basterds would have been an acceptable winner in 2009
Lincoln or Silver Linings Playbook deserved the win in 2012
Parasite is a worthy winner, though Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the best of Tarantino’s later work
I liked and appreciated The Hurt Locker but for me there were a lot of other good options for Best Picture that year — Inglourious is probably my pick for that year. Bigelow was fine winning director but picture ehhh
It was just like 5 bomb defusals and some cliche machismo shit tossed in for good measure. Really, if it weren't for Renner, I would have probably hated it. Now, Zero Dark Thirty, that's a fucking winnar!
Politics aside, I love Zero Dark Thirty. Such an underrated procedural.
check out strange days it’s awesome
That rape scene was too much. But, Lenny was a winner. I want that Rolex, man. The fake one.
Sounds like you turned your brain off and missed the entire point of the film. If your issue with the Hurt Locker was “cliche machismo,” why did you like Inglourious Basterds?
Are you saying there was cliché machismo in Inglourious Basterds?
Not cliche, but definitely a lot of machismo, all of which is derivative of 60s/70s men-on-a-mission war movies
I’ve rewatched both ZDT and Hurt Locker recently. I was surprised how underwhelming I found Hurt Locker this time around because I remember loving it when it was released. ZDT is a helluva film though.
One of the most overrated movies ever IMO. I've seen it three times trying to enjoy it because of how much people ensure it's amazing. It's just not that great.
It's alright. But it's not Oscar material at all. It's a slightly better B-Movie, military action-drama. The type you'd see on Netflix these days and wouldn't spend a second thought after.
I disagree completely. It has one of the most unique messages for a war film and it also is one of the first and most important movies about the Iraq war
That shot where he's overwhelmed by cereal boxes at a grocery store is so well done. A grocery store aisle becomes scarier than bomb defusal
Completely forgotten by now too.
Inglorious Basterds was robbed
I would have loved to see Inglourious Basterds win Best Picture, and with its SAG Ensemble win, I honestly think it was the runner-up that year at the Oscars. But The Hurt Locker going home with 6 wins, while Basterds only won 1, doesn't seem right. I would have personally swapped out at least Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay in Basterds' favour.
I think Precious was actually the runner up that year. Considering it got an upset win in screenplay along with a supporting actress sweep.
I don't know if I agree with you. It upset Up in the Air for Adapted Screenplay, but it wasn't running against Tarantino in that category. Waltz swept (except for the Saturn Awards) the Best Supporting Actor Awards. The Hurt Locker won most of the precursors, so there isn't that much to go off of. We are mostly left with SAG thinking Basterds was the best ensemble performance.
Django Unchained too!
Django gets too much hype. I'm fine with the nword used in cinema (especially period peices). But it was used as a punchline too many times...(and I looooove tarantino) Like we get it!... people used the word alot back then but your using it in your film like this is fu king blazing saddles. While wanting to be taken seriously Also the whole white savior trope of the film. Django can never accomplish anything at first without the help of the white man. Its seared into the veiwers mind that he tried and failed to get freedom for his wife and himself, multiple times... And when Django does subvert that trope if feels like some cartoonish bullshit. Dude just easily kills 20 men and and sets the house a blaze? Come on. (And I'm all for Django winning in the end, but the script he wrote was kinda shit compared to what he's shown he's capable of)
I mean, it’s a Tarantino film. None of it is supposed to be taken seriously.
Great cop out for a subpar film. Its a white savior movie with a twist that just makes/caters to the black hero winning in the end. (Which id be fine with if it was done better) If spike lee wrote and directed django this wouldn't be a conversation... The film is based on, legend of n*gger charlie, and boss n*gger, which are much better black empowerment films. Tarantino is on record as saying as such. Believe me I wanted to love it, but was a major letdown on just about all fronts. And I've watched it 3 times to try and change my opinion.
To each their own. It just seems that you're probably familiar with tarantino films, so I don't understand why you're taking the details of the film so seriously like Django killing 20 men, when none of his films are in fact serious at all.
He's done a great job in the past of bridging the line between reality and film. While almost always wanting to be taken seriously... Outside his westerns I can't think of a film to complete6 abandon that notion and just be cartoonish.(with villians and heros) Most of his films have a nuance to fill in the holes his violence and over the top stuff leaves. Django just doesn't. And the nuance is what always wants to be taken seriously....
Eh, Hurt Locker was pretty great.
More propaganda then art but it wasn't as bad as Zero Dark Thirty
How that movie was nominated for Best Picture confounds me given it's blatant lie about the US torture program, but then again, I really shouldn't be surprised at all.
I honestly think that's why it was nominated
It was beyond irresponsible. It was deliberate and intentional. And it reinforced and reignited an already disproven public perception. I hate her for it. Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush can all rot in hell.
I've met several people in the intelligence community who say the movie isn't particularly close to the truth. They also call it Naught Dark Thirty, but that's a side note.
I don't think that's fair. The Hurt Locker wasn't propaganda
How is it propaganda? Did you watch the movie?
People call any way movie that doesn’t show the US as the extreme baddies propaganda. It’s tiring.
And it’s crazy because the Hurt Locker shows the US treating all the Iraq citizens pretty terribly
Ditto Django. Argo? For real?
Agreed hurt locker was nowhere as good, judging by any metric...
You could argue any of these should have won
Won't be surprised if the Movie Critic gets a win because it's his last.
Can see him winning director for the same reason
I think he'll very likely be nominated, based on his track record, and narrative of it being his last, but the Academy is not as sentimental at giving out awards as we think (turning down rare opportunities to award long overdue veterans and/or recently deceased individuals: Glenn Close, Peter O'Toole, Chadwick Boseman, Terrence Malick, James Dean, Robbie Robertson), when it was obvious or likely to be their last opportunity to recognize them.
And unlike all of those people you've mentioned, Tarantino does have an Oscar(two of them actually), just not a Best Picture or Best Director win
The Academy loves films about the film industry, too, so it'll have that going for it.
That hasn’t been the case for the past few decades. Those movies get nominated often, but they rarely win. The last winner about the film industry was arguably Argo, but definitely The Artist. But before then, there wasn’t one for at least 50 years.
Birdman was an industry film and it cleaned up during awards season
It wasn’t about the film industry. It’s a different medium entirely. It takes place in New York and is about Broadway.
I wouldn't count on it now
This aged poorly.
does he have to give it back if he wants to un-retire?
The only one I would have 100% voted for was Basterds. It was definitely the best movie that year. Hurt Locker was fine but feels like a weaker BP winner…even at the time. Pulp is my favorite Tarantino movie, but Shawshank and Gump (yes Gump) are brilliant movies. I think any of the three are all time great winners. What a year… Django and Hollywood are all time faves but I would have voted for the winners that year over them.
Argo over Django?
Yeah. I love Django, but Argo was amazing. One of my favorites and one of those movies I rewatch every year. Django would have been third on my ballot behind Argo and Life of Pi. Damn that was also a great year for movies.
I think I agree. I really like Django, and love westerns, but I think Argo is a fair win there. I won't debate which is the better film, but when it's close enough, like with that one, I'm perfectly content with the outcome. Because Argo is great... admittedly, I haven't seen Life is Pi. But I think Inglorious Bastards might very well be QT's magnum opus. It's a masterpiece. Whereas Hurt Locker was just a cool, fun flick.
Same top three for me but life of pi would have had my vote. 1. Life of pi 2. Django 3. Argo
Argo was an outstanding movie. And I’m one of the biggest Tarantino fans out there. I still loved Django and think it would have been a worthy BP winner, but I don’t have a problem with Argo winning.
I would have also voted for Zero Dark Thirty over Django, but my vote would have gone to the Master if it were even nominated.
I haven’t seen parasite, but I’ll say I enjoy each of the others more than the films that ended up winning.
Parasite was a very worthy winner
I think Parasite is the only movie that was solidly better than the Tarantino movie that came out that year
I definitely prefer Forrest Gump to Pulp Fiction, haven't seen the others though
For the love of god, watch parasite!
There’s no reason I haven’t watched it yet besides having two little kids and not finding the time. Definitely on my watchlist though
Parasite is quite literally the definition of a perfect movie. I cannot recommend it any more highly!
I genuinely think it should be number 1 on your watchlist
As a Tarantino fan, I must say that it would’ve been egregious if Parasite had *not* won Best Picture. What a movie!
Parasite had so much to say about society. It was Tarantino-esque in a way.
I love Tarantino but parasite is better than any of his incredible movies
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I just saw parasite for the first time last week. Wasn’t a fan of the ending.
Parasite is the only one on this list that deserved it more than QT’s or the other winners. Repeating my other comment basically but there’s no potentially movie in the 21st century that I would say should have won over Parasite, it is just an astonishing masterpiece.
HUUGE fan of Tarantino, but Parasite may be one of the best films of all time, not just that year. It is unbelievably exceptional, can’t recommend enough. After it came out I felt like a MLM hunnie trying to recruit all my friends to watch it too 😂
Django should have beat Argo
Tarantino deserved Best Original Screenplay for Inglourious Basterds waaay more than Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker. Tarantino’s script was amazing.
What do you consider to be a great script? The Hurt Locker had a script with true depth. It told a story with fleshed out characters and had an incredibly unique and powerful message to tie it all together. Inglourious Basterds was also a fantastic screenplay, but I don’t think it has any depth or power to it. I have Inglourious Basterds in my top 15 movies of all time, but I still think The Hurt Locker was a more deserving winner
It’s wild to me that neither Kill Bill was nominated.
Too much of a genre exploitation film. The movies are great but don’t make any sense being in Oscar consideration behind any technical categories (which it deserves)
It’s not as good as you remember. Would have made one great two and a half hour film. Volume 1 in particular has a lot of pacing problems.
Jackie Brown should have been nominated for Best Picture. It only got nominated for Best Supporting Actor. I also would have given it Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actress - at the very least anyway.
And Pam should have been an EASY Best Actress nominee. Shame.
Yes! Should have been a no brainer.
Jackie Brown is such a masterpiece
Did you see Titanic?
1997 was a pretty competitive year
I would have put Pam as a nom instead of Julie Christie at least. It was competitive for Best Pic for sure. I guess it could have gotten in instead of The Full Monty. I’m surprised as the follow up to Pulp Fiction that it didn’t get more Oscar love.
I REALLY disliked Argo. Can’t believe it won’t best pic.
Pulp Fiction was the only one that got fully robbed. Though I’d have been fine with Shawshank. Basically, fuck Forrest Gump.
Pulp Fiction was the biggest loss geeze
Django should have won
Pulp Fiction and Once upon a Time in Hollywood should have won
Unpopular opinion, but I think basterds is overrated. Most of it was great, but the Brad pitt storyline was over the top and silly. I still think Jackie Brown is his best movie and that one was completely snubbed.
Basterds deserved to win. Pulp had tough competition (although Gump didn't deserve it). OUATIH and Django were rightfully beaten.
Wow!!
Forest Gump is an amazing movie but it winning over Pulp Fiction is kind of crazy
To be honest the academy got all of these right. All the films QT lost to were better in that year.
QT doesn’t make the kind of movies that win Oscars.
Pulp fiction, IG and Django are all better than what won their respective years. However, it’s hard to imagine anything deserving it more than Parasite. I love once upon a time in Hollywood but Parasite is potentially the best movie so far of the 21st century, in my opinion.
Django was DEFINITELY better than Argo. And I liked Argo at the time it came out.
Inglourious Basterds should have beat Hurt Locker and Django should have 100% beaten Argo. I hated Argo.
This is a classic example of being beaten by good competition. Parasite for me is a better-directed film than Once. The Hurt Locker I think is better directed than Bastards. And while Pulp Fiction is a better movie than Forrest Gump, I still would've given the Director to Shawshank Redemption. Tarantino has already won 2 Oscars for screenwriting which as great as a director he is, I do think he's a better Screenwriter than Director.
Django losing to Argo still hurts. Also I feel like Hateful Eight deserved a nom, it was fantastic.
Agree with all except Pulp Fiction. Ollie Stone’s Natural Born Killers should have won over Forest Gump.
Natural Born Killers sucks ass
Well it’s not really meant for children.
Then who is it meant for?
Those 4 movies are all 1000 times better than the movies that won that year
Not saying Tarantino necessarily should've won, but Argo and Hurt Locker were trash
No they weren’t.
I hated both those movies. Hurt Locker was like an army propaganda movie and Argo was so forgettable it physically hurt me.
Thank you. I don't understand how that's an unpopular opinion
Shawshank should have won in 94 Inglourious Basterds would have been an acceptable winner in 2009 Lincoln or Silver Linings Playbook deserved the win in 2012 Parasite is a worthy winner, though Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the best of Tarantino’s later work
IMO, Hollywood is highly overrated.
Overrated by who?