Did Avatar Deserve to Win Best Picture?

During the 82nd annual academy awards show, The Hurt Locker was awarded Best Picture. Recieving this title over the movie Avatar sparked much debate amongst people. Many people believe that Avatar was "robbed" when it didnt win Best Picture, and I agree. The Hurt Locker earned $49,230,772 in gross revenue, where as Avatar earned $2,782,275,172. Avatar was clearly the more popular choice of the two.

 Avatar was one of the most revolutionary of its kind. The great amounts of detail and effort that were put into it were extraordinary and the graphics were better than any other movie at that time in history. Whereas the basic idea behind The Hurt Locker was extremely unoriginal. It was just another movie about war. Avatar on the other hand managed to capture the attention of such a large audience by creating a new species of human as well as an entire new planet with gorgeous landscapes and scenery. Thirdly, Avatar portrayed humans as the enemy or attacker instead of the "good guys" who save the world, and the few humans who were actually there to help the Navi people, were eventually killed off. Avatar added that unexpected twist. On top of being extremely creative and technologically advanced Avatar managed to have a romantic element throughout the storyline. It's tragic, moving and full of emotion.

Avatar deserved to win Best Picture because of it's extremely talented use of technology, its unexpected storyline, and the sincere and touching romantic element.