America wins at the Oscars

Atavar- reviewed here- was an entertaining, albeit anti-American, film.

I haven't seen The Hurt Locker yet- something in which I apparently have a great deal of company. But I plan to.

And it's reputed to actually be pro-American. Who'a thunk it? The Acadamy named one of Nile Gardiner's '10 Best Conservative Movies of Last Decade' as Best Picture, rejecting a box office blockbuster with a far Left agenda.

This kind of thing restores my faith in the sanity of at least some aspects of our popular culture.

HT: Drudge, Real Clear Politics

ADDENDUM: Some have taken exception to the adjective "anti-American" when applied to Avatar. It was the adjective used by Nile Gardiner- an Englishman- in the link around which this entry was built, and I think it's accurate. Certainly the activities of the bad guys in the movie- the corporation and the psychotic colonel who heads the band of mercenaries which carry out its murderous mandates- are pretty much a caricature of the way our nation's enemies and much of the domestic Left portrays America's involvement in the world.

I agree, however, that "anti-capitalist" might be a more specific, if not necessarily more accurate, characterization. The bottom line is that the movie was a cheap shot at our system, and I find it awfully hard to imagine how anybody who saw it could honestly dispute that point.