Avatar v The Hurt Locker v Inglourious Basterds v Up In The Air
We are kicking off our Oscar season at Ross v Ross with a big bang. In our first ever fourway battle, we have invited fellow movie bloggers Fandango Groovers and Aiden R to join us as we pit this year’s Best Picture Oscar frontrunners against each other. You can read the explosive action at Metro Film Fight Club by clicking HERE or the picture above. This one could get bloody…
Ross v Ross 
February 9, 2010 at 1:32 pm
“The one exploiting the Iraq conflict to make a macho action flick that could have starred Jean-Claude Van Damme?” sorry RMcG, I like you, I really do but holy heck if that ain’t nonsense.
The Hurt Locker is the best film in an uninspiring list but Avatar will win because, like it or not, it dragged people back to the cinemas and this is show business not show art. Although, despite the fact that it is indulgent over-ripe rubbish, I would grin if ‘Basterds’ won – just for the heck of it.
February 9, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Team Avatar or The Hurt Locker. It’s really too close for me to call…but Up in the Air is most definitely my LEAST favourite of the four. Sorry Ross McG but I do find your surmise of the three to be hilarious.
February 9, 2010 at 4:08 pm
Although of the ten An Education is far and away my favourite, but it ain’t got a chance in hell so, oh well.
February 9, 2010 at 5:44 pm
glad to have made you laugh EE
as your link picture shows, we will always have Paris…
February 9, 2010 at 6:13 pm
HA. I suppose we will:) and thanks for drawing attention to that because I didn’t even realise that was my link picture: fail.
February 9, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I’m going with Aiden R. on this one, but McG you get 4,198 awesome points for that kickass last line in your part of this duke-it-out!
February 9, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Up In The Air is the most forgettable of the four. I could walk away with any of the other three winning and feeling smugly happy about it, which is a rare thing on my end. My vote still goes to Inglourious Basterds, but I find both Hurt Locker and Avatar worthy successors if not chosen.
February 10, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Put me in The Hurt Locker Camp. Entertaining read guys – arguments well put! But, as much as I love James Cameron’s films and Avatar itself, The Hurt Locker is the more affecting piece of cinema.
February 11, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I’m taking the stance of if “Avatar” wins Best Picture, the terrorists win. Give the Oscars to Kathryn Bigelow & “The Hurt Locker”!
February 17, 2010 at 5:33 pm
I want in on these!
February 18, 2010 at 11:29 am
Up in the Air all the way for me. I think this is the most ground breaking film (or air breaking should I say)
March 8, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Isn’t it funny that Bigelow has beaten her ex? For me Avatar is far more a winner anyway.
March 9, 2012 at 4:40 am
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