everybody likes to argue about their FAVORITE MOVIE!!!!

My opponent has made an admirable argument. He has made a mistake, unfortunately, though. Throughout my opponents post he refers to his own opinion of the movie I chose. The debate is about WHY my film did not win the "Best Picture" award. Not about if the Con likes the movie or what his opinions were on it. I shall expand on this in my argument here. In my opponents first point he contradicted himself by first saying "The biggest problem I had while watching the movie was trying to make sense out of the plot...." He then followed this up with "I understand the resistance movement against foreign occupation idea." which IS the plot. This first point is also where we first see the evidence of the Con's opinion of the movie. My opponent also states that Red Dawn is too "absurd" to even believe. I am led to believe that he is saying that non-believable movies can't win "Best Picture." In 2003, The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King won "Best Picture." So, are you saying that Lord of the Rings is more believable than a Communist invasion of America? That it's the reason why it received the award for "Best Picture?" The second point is not much different than the first point. My opponent expresses his opinion for the actors and director rather than the film. He states that "it doesn't take great acting to impersonate a high school student..." If you truly evaluated the movie then you'd see that those "highschool students" transform quite early on into modern day indians/warriors. We see this when 3 of our characters, Howell, Swayze, and Sheen all sit by their hunted deer and urge Howell to drink the deer blood in order to be a real hunter. (As seen in the video) Also, according to Imbd.com as well as Red Dawn: The Collector's Edition (Which I own), the cast underwent an intensive 8-week military training course before filming started. I would say that this requires a great deal of devotion and maturity to undergo. Great actors go to great lengths to fit the part. http://www.youtube.com... The Con then expresses that he "...wasn't impressed with their portrayals of their characters." Yet again, this is about WHY it shouldn't have won "Best Picture," not your opinion. He then says that "Milius's only commercial success as director was Red Dawn and Conan the Barbarian." therefore proving that Red Dawn was successful. He then goes on to tell of the costs of Milius's movie Flight of the Intruder, but never really states why that pertains to winning "Best Picture." My opponent does "not believe" that it qualifies him as a skilled director! BELIEVES, ladies and gentleman! We see another use of his opinionated mindset. Lastly, the Con states which movie won the "Best Picture" award in the year 1984. He also tells us how many awards it won and that it grossed more than Red Dawn. He did not state why that makes Amadeus a winner or what qualified it for those awards. I researched what it took to become an award winner of a "Best Picture" award and here is what I found: "Globe nominations have been criticized by members of the entertainment industry who question the members' qualifications as journalists and whether they give due attention to all major contenders. They have also been accused of voting on movies based on star favorites rather than overall quality of the film, which is especially crucial in the Best Motion Picture category. Some have said that understanding the reasoning behind the Golden Globes is simply incomprehensible. By looking at the winners of the Best Motion Picture over the past decade we can find out why that may be true and gain insight into what it takes to win a Golden Globe." [1] Notice that it states nothing about gross profits. In conclusion, I noticed that my opponent may have done his homework and researched Amadeus and criticized my film, but he did not use his work! Instead he used his own opinions to say that my film was lacking the fundamentals of winning "Best Picture." Though he never did state those fundamentals. So far I only see opinions in this debate and no actual facts or information on WHY Red Dawn shouldn't have received the award. Sources: [1] http://omg.yahoo.com...