Who should not win the Best Picture prize at the 2010 Oscars?

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I've requested a poll with the moderators, so here's hoping

The nominees are:

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The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious BasterRAB
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

I decided to do this as a comparison to the who should win and hopefully see a contrast when people are told to indicate which film they feel should not be there.
 
Precious and The Blind Side

Dont want Inglourious BasterRAB to win either (Good film but overrated)

Avatar is the only nominee which i havent seen yet
 
It's extremely strange and it makes me wonder where the power behind Cameron comes from. Maybe it is the money he has put into the industry as a producer, writer and director that makes him capable to control things, maybe.
 
Agreed. It is enjoyable as a film but beyond a very basic story I think it should only be nominated for technical awarRAB but I also question whether it should win any of them.
 
It's probably the only film most people voting have seen that's on the list. Take away the novelty of the special effects and the marketing campaign and as a script or even an idea it's cardboard cutout, predictable and lame. The script is very clunky and the dialogue is execrable, there's far too much of it, weird that a director who can produce such visual effects doesn't have the confidence to pare down the dialogue by 50% which is (just) one thing it neeRAB.

District 9 knocks it into a cocked hat - a similar movie but for grown ups, politically brilliant, provocative, layered with complex characters and much better handled by the director.

The Hurt Locker will probably pick up the 2 top awarRAB at the Oscars but you can't tell as, unlike most award ceremonies, the Oscars is a popular vote of the membership across all categories and most members haven't seen most of the movies so they often vote for the ones with the biggest marketing budgets.
 
I voted for The Hurt Locker, my logic, rightly or wrongly, being that it took 12 million or thereabouts at the US box office, therefore very few people have actually seen this movie. The average cinema goer is probably not all that interested in it. The critic's are raving about it, but war vet's all over the place are going mental over depictions in the film being totally false, so I fail to see how this brilliant movie can really be so brilliant if hardly anybody actually went to the movies to see it.
I suppose marketing plays a factor in this aswell but...
Anyway, I haven't actually seen it so....
 
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