While Avatar was an overall good movie, with an ambitious undertaking and outstanding special effects, it was not enough to crown it best picture of the year. For starters, Avatar was often very predictable. It was pretty obvious from the beginning exactly what was going to happen: Boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy saves girl, and in the end, boy stays with girl. Viewers could easily predict the ending before it had even been seen, and I feel that a film worthy of the title of best picture should be a little harder to pin down and figure out. Avatar was also not the most original plot (Pocahontas anyone?) While it was still a decent story, one couldn’t help but think back to the animated version that Disney had done years ago. Although the story was changed up by giving it a fresh new setting, aliens, and all that jazz, the truth still remained that it was simply a sci-fi rendition of Pocahontas. Another reason it wasn’t worthy of a best picture Oscar was the acting; despite the fact that everyone in the film were very talented actors and actresses and gave great performances, they weren’t the performances of a lifetime and it showed. For me, there was always something missing with the acting and I was almost expecting those performances of a lifetime from the actors, because after all, those are the types of performances you need to deliver if you’re going for that elusive title of best picture. Finally, the last reason that Avatar shouldn’t have won best picture was because of the feeling it left you with- not a bad one, but not a great, inspired feeling that keeps you thinking about the movie for days on end because it had you so infatuated. Maybe it was just me, but I didn’t leave with that feeling after watching Avatar, and my mind was easily pulled from it, and that, along with all of the other above reasons, is not what a movie worthy of the title of best picture is about.
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