Yeah , accord to leading Oscar soothsayers and prognosticators , James Cameron ’s Avatar has slid into the pole position . Is it worthy ? Worthier than these three other literary genre film that should get the nod instead ?
It ’s clear-cut , by this point , that James Cameron ’s bidding at win America ’s hearts , eyeball , and disposable income has been successful : His revisionist take on the Blue Man Group ’s stock story has just about double its gargantuan budget back at the global box office . Which is fine . Spectacle definitely has its berth , and that place is in the Ring of Awesome ( which is correctly next to the Hall of Really Neat ) .
But according to Oscar handicappers like Entertainment Weekly’s“Diamond ” Dave Karger , Avatar is now the moving-picture show to beat in the Best Picture subspecies . Which just feels incorrect . Avatar may be a cinematic achievement , but it ’s not the Best Picture I ’ve seen this year . It ’s not even the best genre picture I ’ve get a line this class . Here are three others that deserve that pillage more than Cameron ’s indulgence .
DISTRICT 9
It might now and again wield its racial - tolerance metaphor with a heavy hand , but Neill Blomkamp ’s aliens - among - us movie tap into science fiction ’s seldom used — on pic , anyway — major power to excogitate humanity back on itself . As thrilling as Avatar , and smart by a mile .
MOON
This feature article debut from writer - director Duncan Jones make closing off an artwork form with this perfectly modulated story of a man ( Sam Rockwell ) on a solitary circuit of duty in a lunar minelaying base who incrementally loses his mind .
CORALINE
As knifelike a look at what it means to be a female child and refer to a gaggle of strangers as you ’re probable to find , animated or not . Director Henry Selick took Neil Gaiman ’s novella , use handcraft wizardry and storytelling expertise to compound its composition of desperation and valour , and made a kids ’ picture that frightens while it accomplish .
HONORABLE MENTION : STAR TREK
No , J.J. Abrams reboot is n’t a gross celluloid — that massive deux ex machina in the middle ( Kirk just happens to trip up upon the one crank cave , on a major planet full of ice cave , that ’s suffer a Spock in it ? ) siphons off a adequate chunk of credibleness — but it ’s got a ton of nitty-gritty , some fantastic performances , and it reach the yeoman ’s task of revive a stagnant franchise with high style .
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