James Cameron's epic future war film is dwarfed and over shadowed by a much more unimportant conflict, the war in Iraq. THE HURT LOCKER ran away with the Oscar for BEST PICTURE of 2009, leaving the colorful, vibrant world of AVATAR in a cloud of sandy despair. The academy members overlooked the years of work, CGI achievements and creative imaginings for a film about three soldiers trying to beat each other up in their barracks after a drinking binge. A two hour film about defusing bombs takes out the most successful film ever made, with a compelling story and terrific acting by a squad of nobodys, of which none had a CGI version of himself in the same film with his actual self.
Incredible blue versions of the actors fly across the screen on their linked flying creatures, while a bunch of sweaty, sandy C and D students try to keep themselves alive by cutting the same wire on the same bomb for two hours straight. AVATAR has incredible actors such as: Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang and Giovanni Ribisi. THE HURT LOCKER's only famous actor, Guy Pearce, is blown to hell in the first ten minutes.
Nominated for best actor, Jeremy Renner, portrays a soldier on the edge, and frightfully similar to the soldier on the edge he played in 28 WEEKS LATER, or the ex-SWAT member on the edge he portrayed in S.W.A.T. (which had Michelle Rodriguez, the surprise character, the gutsy female pilot in AVATAR.) Renner first came to fame portraying the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in the film of the same name. In this film, he portrayed a killer on the edge. Renner is in talks to portray the bow and arrow wielding super-hero, Hawkeye in the upcoming AVENGERS movie. In this film, he'll play a super-hero on the edge. Renner's best scene is when he finds a bomb sewn into the body of a child he thinks is one of his friends. The scene is extremely well acted, and the follow-up scene when he realizes it was the wrong kid, and his friend is still alive, is blown off as if the first scene never happened. He also has many scenes in which he drinks and punches people.
Kathryn Bigelow, THE HURT LOCKER's director, used to be married to James Cameron, director of AVATAR, in real life. Her Oscar for Best Director of 2009 would've been a knife in Cameron's back if he hadn't already won in 1997 for TITANIC, along with Best Picture that year. Bigelow's win didn't phase Cameron in the slightest, since AVATAR has made a billion dollars and THE HURT LOCKER made people say, "What? Never heard of that one." TITANIC had been the previous most successful movie ever made before AVATAR, so who really won academy members, hmmm?
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