Avatar = Worst Movie in Last 5 Years, Hurt Locker = Best

Hurt Locker was ok, but it wasn't anything "near-perfect".

I never even heard of the movie "Hurt Locker" until the Academy Awards last night. Hmmm

gotta watch hurt locker someday

Ah I love personal opinions of movies. I love them because no matter how right you are in your own beliefs you are always wrong to somebody else.

What makes a movie great is based on what you like. If you like character driven movies thats great, but if you like fluff that is full of CGI and action, that is also great.

I love all types of movies from thought provoking to beat 'em ups and shoot 'em ups. I really love the movies the critics pan as critics tend to look to deep into a movie when also you are supposed to do is watch it.

avatar is a good movie without the lessons its trying to influence. aliens vs humans has always been one of my favorite movie genres

I have not watched Avatar yet, want to watch it 3D , but I got friends saying it's the best movie in the world.
I've watched Hurtlocker though, and I really liked it, it was actually a true story, there is a Veteran doing this and etc, his activities and etc. It made me close to crying, 9.99/10 for Hurt Locker

Yes Hurt Locker was a emotionally moving masterpiece.

Avatar was pure rotten garbage. I don't get how people can like it.

I mean, I just dont get it. It leaves me incredibly frustrated.

Avatar is a great movie and it's entertaining. The hurt locker is great also, but war movies sickened me. But if we're going to rate both movies according to lesson, I'll vote for the hurt locker. It's the reality of our world.

I agree with you. Avatar movie sucks. It was boring and when I got out of the cinema I had a terrible head ache. It was a waste of time and money.

Well everyone can have their opinions. People go to movies for different reasons

you know i thought the movie was "ok" but the hype that it raised had me thinking as though it was just..... it just wasnt the "mind blowing experience" i thought i would be viewing lol...... doubt i'd watch it again though

I'd rather download porn than watch either of these films

I didn't find Avatar great but it was definitely good mainly because of special effects.

Hurt locker - Never heard about it but looks like I should watch.

Avatar made $127 dollars for every $1 that Hurt locker made.

'nuff said.

I disagree Gary. It isn't the advertising that got Avatar that kind of money coming in, but societies preference of escapism over reality.

I haven't watched that second movie yet however Avatar is not the worst movie, it's not even bad. It's a decent sci-fi adventure, great cinematic effects and so on. It's no doubt it surpass Titanic by gross revenue.

I didn't care for avatar and usually I love movies with huge explosions and effects.

I thought it was boring, the plot was shoving its views down your face, and the characters were un-interesting.

My favorite movie was probably blind side (which is weird, usually it's some crazy action movie).

Blind side brought me to tears, of course I told my date that all I had done was yawned but I think she saw right through me.

avatar was really hyped up, I went to see it and was pretty dissapointed, loads of really great SFX but no real deep and meaning storyline.

I suppose everyone is different though, just wasn't my cup of tea.

The views I am talking about are environmental stuff. I mean I'm not against nature or anything, but this "We sent them back to their own dying planet" and all of that just started to really bug me.

Agenda? Oh I don't think the movie producer was thinking "ooh lets get people to all believe this!" I just remember feeling like the movie was hitting me with a sludgehammer that we need to go green.

That is what I remember at least, it has been awhile.

I love transformers! It didn't take itself to seriously and was just what it was, an action flick with hot girls.

Avatar just felt long and boring to me, special effects are cool, but they don't make a movie for me. I dunno, I think the movie really moved way to slowly for me.

That and like I said, all I remember is feeling like the plot was

Large corporations = bad!

Hippy views = good!

By the end I wanted those humans to win!

It turns out that Hurt Locker is as much a fiction as Avatar. The soldiers that actually do the work depicted in the movie say the movie has nothing at all to do with the reality of the job, making Hurt Locker just another form of escapism.

That's the power of exceptional filmmakers, they can take any story, pulled out of any writers butt, and make a great movie. It's best to just enjoy the emotional release movies give.

I have not seen Hurt Locker yet but oddly yes - Avatar while pushing leftist imperatives such as environmentalism & anti colonialism in fact glamorizes war & mass violence more than it does anything else.

Oddly that does not register when you first watch the film as your mind is clouded by the pretty images and moral impressions. Anyway its certainly not a high IQ movie.

Few are.

Avatar was meh. Hurt locker had zero character development and was absolutely ridiculous. Just soldiers walking around doing whatever they wanted, unsupervised, etc. Completely ridiculous.

I believe the only movie out atm based on reality would be Alice In Wonderland.

I am afraid I have to agree with most people that Avatar was stunning and should have won. Hurt Locker was a great movie, but did not even come close to the new ground that Avatar broke.

Well Avatar, in my opinion, is one of the best movies every produced and created. Just all the concepts that they were able to portray on screen, and the different lessons learned.

On top of the amazing effects.

People

Avatar was the cheesiest movie I think I've ever seen. Are you kidding me? I mean give me a break.

Cameron has done good movies, but this was a total disaster.

I do not get how ANYONE can like that ROTTEN horrible movie.

I don't give a _________ that it made money.

Hurt Locker was great. The characters were GREAT. Are you kidding me? It was an emotionally moving masterpiece.

And I dont CARE that it wasn't realistic. The EMOTIONS the characters feel were realistic. To me they could've been shooting laser guns in Avatar land.

I dont think that movie was designed to be some mega-realistic depiction of iraq. It was about emotions. It really annoys me when people gripe about it not being 100% realistic.

(Speaking of Avatar land -- give me half a billion dollars, a pen, a napkin, and one hour, and I'll honestly come up with a more creative world than "Pandora").

PS -- Maybe my subject was an overstatment. I also liked No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.

PPS - I also grew up with star wars and LOVE star wars. Avatar and star wars shouldn't be in the same sentence, ever. Lucas's world was creative genius. How many creatures were there in Pandora? 4? Including that horse that the aliens had to plug their ponytails in? Give me a break.

Fact : 50 % people did not know about a movie called Hurt Locker until it won at the oscars.

How could people not appreciate the sheer magical cgi grahics in Avatar is beyond me..hell I almost believed there was another world out there called pandora

I'm not going to say which is better, but there is no way in hell you can actually say Avatar is the worst movie of the past 5 years. $2 Billion raked in, critics gave it very favourable reviews. I guess not everyone is going to love it.

I totally agree with you. I regret watching Avatar. Really wasted my time.

I agree with you!

Avatar is a movie conceived in the mind of a progressive liberal dolt who believes that all capitalism is the "rape and pillage" of all resources by evil, capitalistic humans.

So in a real way, it is an insult to every IM'er on this forum.

What could have been a great movie if it had a plot was a nothing more than a super expensive piece of pathetic propaganda for what I see as an essentially "Hippie Paradise" - except the hippies are 10 foot tall and blue.

Alice in Wonderland (the latest one by Tim Burton) is a better movie - classic good and evil, classic struggle against all odds. Hell, my flip-book is a better movie.

Now, of someone would spend 300 million dollars on the production of Atlas Shrugged, now that would be one hell of a movie!

-DTM

Avatar was....ok, but overrated.
I didn`t like The Hurt Locker too much either

The Avatar plot was certainly no masterpiece and the end could be easily predicted about two mins into the film. However the effects were entertaining in themselves and I did enjoy the film. My kids loved it. I feel that they coild have made it far better by strengthening the story and the way in which it unfolded.

Plot-wise this is a film that has already been made many times.

Pauline

Avatar was decent.

I saw Avatar movie many time, This is one of the my favorite movie for ever, When I saw this movie first time in the my hometown 3D theater I was just shocked after watching this movie, It was a totally different concept made movie.

I really liked the movie Avatar.Its a very nice movie.I wonder why people didn't like it.But its sure that i loved watching it in 3D.

Avatar was much better than Hurt Locker. I really loved Avatar. I will not even buy a dvd of Hurt Locker it was a good one time watch movie. But Avatar I could enjoy watching multiple times. I think Avatar should have won all the awards because it is the best. I watched Avatar 3 times in the theater it is great.

Hurt Locker - Is a movie full of propaganda crap, notice how all the Muslims in the movie were seen as the bad guys and the Americans were seen as the heroes when movies like this win a majority of the academy awards you know the whole event is rigged. I am not saying the movie was bad but it did not deserve all those awards considering the other movies which had come out. As for Avatar the first time i watched i was so mesmerized by the 3d effects i wasn't really paying attention to the story line the 2nd time i watched it was at a friends house who had a bootleg version where the quality was pretty bad so it gave me more time to focus on the story line which was very cliched and i was expecting alot better from Mr. Cameron.

I have not seen The Hurt Locker yet. So I can't tell anything about it. As for Avatar, special effects were really superb. Anyway, all good movies are about characters and their actions, not about special effects. So the characters were flat, the plot was boring and the scenes did not evoke any emotions. Actors? They were ok but that's all. I liked the special effects in Avatar but did not like the movie. IMHO.

The hurt locker was great, make me very nervous thought...

The hurt locker brought me back down to earth. Seeing what those soldiers face everyday makes me so glad to not have to worry whether i'll die the next second. Avatar seems like a piece of fluff now, though I admit I enjoyed the effects.