STFU Sigourney!
AHHH okay so I swore I was NEVER going to talk about Avatar again. I mean hell, even I am sick of talking about how shit that movie is, and we all know how much I love bagging shit movies. But I just read this in the NY Post and it PISSES ME OFF. SO MUCH.
Sigourney Weaver has launched a blistering attack on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, saying James Cameron didn’t win the Oscar for Best Director because he “didn’t have breasts.”
Outspoken “Avatar” star Weaver said she believed Cameron — who lost out to his ex-wife, “The Hurt Locker” director Kathryn Bigelow — didn’t win because the academy wanted to make history by naming its first ever female Best Director.
“Jim didn’t have breasts, and I think that was the reason,” Weaver told Brazilian news site Folha Online over the weekend. “He should have taken home that Oscar.”
…”In the past, ‘Avatar’ would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like ‘Ben-Hur.’ Today it’s fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.”
Seriously?! Pulling the gender/indie film card now?! Lame.
We all know the Hurt Locker was ten times more visionary and creative than Avatar ever was. It didn’t need high budget 3D gimmickry or moronic, irrelevant Na’avi sex scenes because The Hurt Locker HAD ACTUAL MEANING AND A PURPOSE TO ITS SEQUENCE OF EVENTS. Claiming Kathryn Bigelow won based purely on her gender is an insult not only to all females in the movie industry, but all the people out there who use their budgets wisely to make decent films.
Perhaps James Cameron paid Sigourney Weaver to say that to the press, being the snaky, villainous filth of Hollywood that he is. I don’t even recall Sigourney playing a very important or memorable part in Avatar…but seriously?!?! What a low blow. She and the rest of the Avatar posse need to STFU already and start planning on how next to suck in the civilians with Avatar 2.
