Whose bright idea was it to present the nominees for Best Original/Adapted Screenplay with 30-second clips from every nominee?!? Just give the name of the screenwriter and the movie, that’s it!
And no more backstage fluff with Chris Connelly!
But I didn’t think there were any real surprises. Thank God Little Miss Sunshine didn’t win.
Oh, I would have had to eat a baby if that damn movie had won.
Pan NOT WINNING best foreign film was a surprise to me.
>> And no more backstage fluff with Chris Connelly!
No kidding. That was lame. Thank god for the DVR. I was able to skip through the commercials, the boring parts, the boring speeches, and most importantly—Chris Connelly. They need to revamp how they do the Oscars. Al Gore love fest was a little goofy too.
It ran waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long. But I didn’t think there were any real surprises. Thank God Little Miss Sunshine didn’t win.
It did run way long. Now Ellen Degeneres has worn me out both literally and figuratively.
I agree on Little Miss Sunshine, although i thought it was a great little movie. Alan Arkin deserved best supporting, IMO. Glad to see Scorcese get his.
Forest Whittaker is great, good to see his work recognized.
An Inconvenient Truth was a good documentary, and I’m glad to see it win.
I know, it’s over… but there’s always next year.
And on an animated movie front next year is shaping up to look like a good year.
Yes, as long as you ignore the shameless video game tie ins that mostly suck it’s good.
I see next year shaping up to be coming up this way (if I read the animation field right).
Ratatoille (or whatever it’s spelled)
OK, OK, before you say it’s a Disney/Pixar movie and suck suck suck I’d like to point out that this movie does seem to have a more unique story idea than any previous one we’ve seen in the past several years, and it looks rather spiffy to boot (I didn’t feel anything for Cars and yet somehow it got rave reviews). Hopefully this movie gets some respect during awards months next year.
Shrek the Third
Yes, I did like the third Shrek movie and I’d like to see it win.
Surf’s Up
Despite the fact I’m highly disappointed with the movie sinking low and scrubbing out a chain of cheap tie-in games (including one more nail in the already sinking coffin of the last previously “present gen” console still holding on, aka the PS2) but I still think it’s a solid movie worth considering.
Another year without Anime in theaters though sucks.
I know, it’s over… but there’s always next year.
And on an animated movie front next year is shaping up to look like a good year.
Yes, as long as you ignore the shameless video game tie ins that mostly suck it’s good.
I see next year shaping up to be coming up this way (if I read the animation field right).
Ratatoille (or whatever it’s spelled)
OK, OK, before you say it’s a Disney/Pixar movie and suck suck suck I’d like to point out that this movie does seem to have a more unique story idea than any previous one we’ve seen in the past several years, and it looks rather spiffy to boot (I didn’t feel anything for Cars and yet somehow it got rave reviews). Hopefully this movie gets some respect during awards months next year.
Shrek the Third
Yes, I did like the third Shrek movie and I’d like to see it win.
Surf’s Up
Despite the fact I’m highly disappointed with the movie sinking low and scrubbing out a chain of cheap tie-in games (including one more nail in the already sinking coffin of the last previously “present gen” console still holding on, aka the PS2) but I still think it’s a solid movie worth considering.
Another year without Anime in theaters though sucks.
People are always downing Disney, but Disney proved that animation could be commercially viable. If it wasn’t for Disney, we wouldn’t have the number of animation studios or feature length animation flicks we have today, IMO.
People are always downing Disney, but Disney proved that animation could be commercially viable. If it wasn’t for Disney, we wouldn’t have the number of animation studios or feature length animation flicks we have today, IMO.
animation as family entertainment, sure, but when’s a major American animation studio gonna have the balls to approach animation the way Europe and Asia do? When’s someone gonna say, “hey, let’s make a sweeping animated sci-fi epic on par with live-action sci-fi films”? “Let’s make a pyschological thriller like Perfect Blue.”
They will lose too much money on it. In America, animation means kids movies…sadly, that’s the case. If you could make an animated film for about $10 million, then you could probably find a more adult oriented animated film.
People are always downing Disney, but Disney proved that animation could be commercially viable. If it wasn’t for Disney, we wouldn’t have the number of animation studios or feature length animation flicks we have today, IMO.
animation as family entertainment, sure, but when’s a major American animation studio gonna have the balls to approach animation the way Europe and Asia do? When’s someone gonna say, “hey, let’s make a sweeping animated sci-fi epic on par with live-action sci-fi films”? “Let’s make a pyschological thriller like Perfect Blue.”
Yes, but if even family-oriented animation had financially tanked, we’d never have this discussion.
I think we’re actually on the way there. I didn’t like Sin City, but I think it’s an important bridge film between live-action and dramatic animation. I think that film proved there was a market for animation that wasn’t family animation.
I don’t know that the problem is actually production. There are flicks out there in Europe and Asia, as you mention, even if they aren’t being made in Hollywood. I think we’re more in search of a distributor with balls rather than a studio with balls.
People are always downing Disney, but Disney proved that animation could be commercially viable. If it wasn’t for Disney, we wouldn’t have the number of animation studios or feature length animation flicks we have today, IMO.
animation as family entertainment, sure, but when’s a major American animation studio gonna have the balls to approach animation the way Europe and Asia do? When’s someone gonna say, “hey, let’s make a sweeping animated sci-fi epic on par with live-action sci-fi films”? “Let’s make a pyschological thriller like Perfect Blue.”
Isn’t Disney and Dreamworks and… and… Disney… and Dreamworks… and…
Aren’t the two remaining viable animation studios the puppets of the Religious Right Parent Group Puppetmasters of Hell? I thought only Europe and Asia practiced freedom of expression and speech?
In other words don’t hold your breath for innovation, it’s not happening.
We’ll never see a Perfect Blue, the works of Miyazaki, Ghost in the Shell, Voices of a Distant Star, or (come to think of it) any of the few dozen highly recommended hentai adult animes ever be produced in America due to the baneful influence of the restrictive conservative freedom haters. It sucks, but it’s the truth.
People are always downing Disney, but Disney proved that animation could be commercially viable. If it wasn’t for Disney, we wouldn’t have the number of animation studios or feature length animation flicks we have today, IMO.
animation as family entertainment, sure, but when’s a major American animation studio gonna have the balls to approach animation the way Europe and Asia do? When’s someone gonna say, “hey, let’s make a sweeping animated sci-fi epic on par with live-action sci-fi films”? “Let’s make a pyschological thriller like Perfect Blue.”
Yes, but if even family-oriented animation had financially tanked, we’d never have this discussion.
I think we’re actually on the way there. I didn’t like Sin City, but I think it’s an important bridge film between live-action and dramatic animation. I think that film proved there was a market for animation that wasn’t family animation.
I don’t know that the problem is actually production. There are flicks out there in Europe and Asia, as you mention, even if they aren’t being made in Hollywood. I think we’re more in search of a distributor with balls rather than a studio with balls.
If someone is waiting for family-oriented animation to tank it’s not happening. After all it should have tanked years ago when the worst drek in so called family entertainment was coming out and yet somehow maniac obsessed parental types were keeping it on life-support (until now when actually decent family fare began to roll out in mass quantities).
But it shouldn’t have to have tanked.
I say we can have an adult themed animation franchise in America if somebody climbs on the back of parental groups and censormongers and slaps a shut the hell up sticker on their mouths. Whatever happened to freedom of speech and expression? Is it a bumper sticker of pointlessness or does it actually MEAN something!
Yeah, we’ll never see American porn animation hit it high but at LEAST find me the American Miyazaki who is willing to make an intelligent engaging movie and isn’t making a movie just to market a ton of merchandise and appease the parental censormongers.
Is that too much to ask for?
OK, how about stop shoving Japanese anime movies into art house hell on their release?
How about that? If Hollywood can’t make them can they at LEAST not keep the rest of us from seeing something that Hollywood doesn’t have the backbone to make themselves?
Hmm… I actually had alot to say about this topic today.
OK, how about stop shoving Japanese anime movies into art house hell on their release?
How about that? If Hollywood can’t make them can they at LEAST not keep the rest of us from seeing something that Hollywood doesn’t have the backbone to make themselves?
But see, you’re kinda answering your own question there. If Hollywood as a whole doesn’t have the backbone to make these films themselves, the last thing they want to do is give them equal footing with their cash crop kiddie films.
I do agree though, I think the distributors have to have the balls moreso than the studios.
And it’s not that I want family-oriented animation to tank, but like everything else, I’d just like some balance.
People are always downing Disney, but Disney proved that animation could be commercially viable. If it wasn’t for Disney, we wouldn’t have the number of animation studios or feature length animation flicks we have today, IMO.
animation as family entertainment, sure, but when’s a major American animation studio gonna have the balls to approach animation the way Europe and Asia do? When’s someone gonna say, “hey, let’s make a sweeping animated sci-fi epic on par with live-action sci-fi films”? “Let’s make a pyschological thriller like Perfect Blue.”
Yes, but if even family-oriented animation had financially tanked, we’d never have this discussion.
I think we’re actually on the way there. I didn’t like Sin City, but I think it’s an important bridge film between live-action and dramatic animation. I think that film proved there was a market for animation that wasn’t family animation.
I don’t know that the problem is actually production. There are flicks out there in Europe and Asia, as you mention, even if they aren’t being made in Hollywood. I think we’re more in search of a distributor with balls rather than a studio with balls.
If someone is waiting for family-oriented animation to tank it’s not happening. After all it should have tanked years ago when the worst drek in so called family entertainment was coming out and yet somehow maniac obsessed parental types were keeping it on life-support (until now when actually decent family fare began to roll out in mass quantities).
But it shouldn’t have to have tanked.
I say we can have an adult themed animation franchise in America if somebody climbs on the back of parental groups and censormongers and slaps a shut the hell up sticker on their mouths. Whatever happened to freedom of speech and expression? Is it a bumper sticker of pointlessness or does it actually MEAN something!
Yeah, we’ll never see American porn animation hit it high but at LEAST find me the American Miyazaki who is willing to make an intelligent engaging movie and isn’t making a movie just to market a ton of merchandise and appease the parental censormongers.
Is that too much to ask for?
I didn’t say that it tanked or that I wanted it to tank. What I said was that if family animation had tanked, no one would take a chance on any other kind of animation and we wouldn’t therefore be having this discussion.
Regarding censorship, I think you’re laboring under a misunderstanding of the First Amendment. I invite you to reread the First Amendment. It says Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. It protects against unreasonable governmental interference with speech. It doesn’t ensure that you will be held unaccountable by consumers for whatever you say. That’s sort of the “Robbins and Sarandon” reinterpretation of the Constitution. Just because you want to make say, anime porn, doesn’t mean that consumers don’t have a right to boycott or protest your company because they don’t approve of your product. I also find it amusing that you’re so willing to demand that parental groups surrender their free speech rights so that other groups of which you approve can exercise theirs. It sounds like you’re not so much against censorship, just censorship you don’t like.
As for the marketing bit being too much to ask, it is. This isn’t an artists’ colony; it’s a multibillion dollar industry. Art’s great, but when you ask a studio to plunk down $50 million to make a film, they’d really like to at least break even on it. If you think these studios are just going to make that kind of investment for the sake of art, then your faith in the process is touching, if misplaced.
