Avatar=My Hurt Locker Anticipation

This movie that James Cameron had completed was one hell of a movie. I really did enjoy watching it in theaters. I saw it some time in January, earlier this year. Around this time, tons of my friends had already seen the movie and started telling me things like, "Ooohhh, it's so great." Another one of them joked around saying, "Hey, did you know that I can speak their language." Unfortunately, because I had not yet seen the movie, I felt completely left out of the joke and conversation altogether. But, eventually, I went to see Avatar in 3-D with my dad and my brother at the local theater.

That movie was ridiculously good. I mean, it may just be Pocahontas in space (my dad seemed to figure this out by himself because we were not aware of the joke already existing), but fourteen years in the making, give James Cameron some credit for being so patient with his masterpiece. For fourteen years he eventually waited until the time was just right with all the technological advancements to be ready to await the creation of his movie. I am pretty sure that I heard somewhere that it had already beat the Titanic in the race of obtaining the most money, and had taken its place at the head of the throne among the top five movies ever made. For this I am saying, congratulations James Cameron for creating such a visually stunning movie. That is the main component that made that movie so famous. The visual effects were CRAZY good. No other movie can currently compare (and maybe for a few more years) to such artistic scenes created for the film. The acting was really good too. Highly believable, but the movie's actors and actresses did not win any awards. This movie swept the floor with all computer graphic imagery categories and maybe even a few scenery awards. But what I am trying to figure out is, how did it lose to the Hurt Locker?

I have not yet seen the Hurt Locker. My friends say that it is very good (but did not compare it to Avatar) and I heard that it was out on DVD already. I got to see this movie. I only heard about it once the Academy Awards were just a week away. I immediately searched up the trailer once it was announced as a nominee that day, and was completely drawn into the plot. The director of the film is James Cameron's ex-wife (my family found this hilarious) and she beat him for best director and won for best movie. Congratulations to her too. Kathryn Bigelow is the first female to win the Oscar for best director. All that I know right now is that the movie is that the movie won many awards and is about a man that diffuses bombs, I think in present day Iraq, and his team of soldiers that protect him on his missions. Sadly, right now, I have to wait until I can my hands on a copy and watch it. Only then I will find out in my own opinion if the movie is better than James Cameron's fourteen year creation.