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I'm gathering/presuming that Hurt Locker screeners for Academy members will be mailed out before December 1st. If this doesn't happen PDQ and if (God forbid) somehow The Hurt Locker somehow doesn't get Best Picture nominated (which is unthinkable), the fault will be entirely Summit's. This great war film has to be seen to kick in. A Crash-like screener mailing to everyone on the planet is the only way to go.

"At the start of the awards season, I had The Hurt Locker at the top of my top ten picks list," writes columnist Anne Thompson. "But right now quite a few other movies are getting more noise. That doesn't matter in the end. Finally, the Academy voters will dig back to all the films they saw this year, especially when they don't have time to see all the marginal indies in their DVD stack. It's more likely that they will remember the movies that the critics pick for their top ten lists at the end of the year, or that other awards groups like the Gothams, Critics Choice or Golden Globes anoint as must-sees.

"Finally, though, screeners are the best reminder. So where are those The Hurt Locker DVDs?

"At the New Moon party I asked [this of] Summit's Rob Friedman, who denied that director Kathryn Bigelow was refusing to send out screeners because she wanted people to see the film on the big screen. (Ideally, that's where it should be seen; it's still playing in NY and LA.) Summit will send Academy screeners soon; they've already gone to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on November 18, 2009 at 11:42 AM

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lbeale says ...

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actor
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Editing
That's 7 deserved Oscar nominations.
And it's hands down the best picture of the year (so far). That scene towards the end? Jeremy Renner in the supermarket looking totally out of place? Masterful.

Posted by lbeale at November 18, 2009 12:16 PM

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Phreaker says ...

She's right to make the distinction between noise. White noise is a better description. The loud blather on the internet is not reality, my friend.

Posted by Phreaker at November 18, 2009 6:56 PM

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AnimalStructure says ...

I really have no clue what makes The Hurt Locker better than any other war type movie. It hit all the same beats, and the subplot with Beckham was preposterous, killed what had been up to that point an alright movie. Good first act, but the rest was pretty bad. By the last half hour I was just waiting to leave the theater. Renner was good, but he was way better in Dahmer. Bigelow's direction was fine, nothing spectacular. The script was atrocious and completely unrealistic. The editing was good. And Mackie was pretty good, but the movie is middling at best. And the scene in the supermarket? Masterful? Could you get any more unoriginal or cliched. "Wow, so this guy really doesn't fit in our world!!! He needs to be at war. WHOA!!" Gimme a break.

Antichrist blows this crap outta the water.

Posted by AnimalStructure at November 18, 2009 6:59 PM

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