Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-79222.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Oscar Nominations Announced - Disney Shut Out of Animated Feature Category</b></a> <p>The complete nomination list for the 84th Academy Awards is out and Disney was shut out of the category it helped created - Best Animated Feature. Two Disney distributed films - War Horse and The Help did receive Best Picture nominations.</p>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Okay .... I just checked a list: Cars 2 Gnomeo & Juliet Winnie the Pooh (Heard has some good revues) Mars needs Moms HELLO! And Disney is SURPRISED?!!!
Originally Posted By JCMouse Winnie the Pooh had some of the best reviews of the year. It should have been nominated. Also, Zooey's song from that film, "So Long", wasn't nominated for best song. In fact, only 2 songs were nominated-one from The Muppets, and the other from Rio. Here's one Oscar show I won't be seeing this year.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Winnie the Pooh had some of the best reviews of the year. It should have been nominated.<< I'll ask the question I ask an awful lot of people every year: How many of the nominees did you see? Which ones are worse than Winnie the Pooh? (BTW, if you're going by the Rotten Tomatoes scores, Arthur Christmas wins!)
Originally Posted By mawnck * Full disclosure: Arthur Christmas won the Golden Tomato award for being the best-reviewed animated feature. However, the two art films both have higher ratings than Arthur Christmas (100 for Cat, 95 for Chico). They have fewer than 20 reviews, so RT doesn't count them. <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/golden_tomatoes_awards_2011/genre/animation/" target="_blank">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...imation/</a> <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chico_and_rita/" target="_blank">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...nd_rita/</a> <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/une_vie_de_chat/" target="_blank">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...de_chat/</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I am not surprised, the Disney offerings this year were very weak. Though I did like Mars Needs Moms
Originally Posted By dagobert I'm not surprised that Disney or Pixar didn't get a nomination. Cars 2 is one of the worst Pixar movies ever, maybe A Bug's Life is worse. Cars 2 was just made because of Disney Concumer Products department.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Cars 2 was just made because of Disney Concumer Products department.<< I kinda wish this was the case. But Cars 2 was John Lasseter's pet project. He really loved Cars-- a deeply personal film-- and wanted to make a follow-up film that would be much more popular in world wide release. Yes, the franchise has been a boon for Consumer Projects. But they didn't somehow force this film on Pixar.
Originally Posted By dagobert I know John Lasseter loves his Cars characters and I really liked the first one. But the second one didn't feel like Cars. It was a spy movie and Lightning and Mater were downgraded to supporting cast. at least that's my opinion. Good to know that Disney doesn't force Pixar to produce certain movies.
Originally Posted By u k fan Of the 4 Disney movies listed I have seen exactly 0. None of them enticed me enough to make me want to pay to see them in theaters and haven't been enough of a draw to make me buy them on DVD. I will most likely watch them all at some point, but they just don't seem very interesting. I had thought a Toy Story short might make the nominees in that category!!!
Originally Posted By JeffG Pixar didn't submit the Toy Story shorts for consideration in the Animated Shorts category. They did get a nomination for "La Luna", which is currently slated to run with "Brave" this summer. -Jeff
Originally Posted By u k fan Is there a reason why Pixar didn't submit them? I would have thought that they would hope that following on from the critical success of TS3 that the characters alone might be enough top gain a nomination!!!
Originally Posted By JeffG I would guess that they didn't want to risk splitting votes, figuring that La Luna was their best chance at a nomination. -Jeff
Originally Posted By magic0214 Looking forward to Brave and Wreck-It Ralph more then this year's slate for sure...but I did like both Cars 2 and Winnie the Pooh... P.S. A BUG'S LIFE IS NOT A BAD MOVIE........imho
Originally Posted By mawnck Already VERY looking forward to: The Secret World of Arriety (Studio Ghibli, nuff said) The Lorax (I hate to get my hopes up based on previews, but it looks like somebody has finally made a good Dr. Seuss movie!) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Aardman stop-motion) Brave Paranorman (stop motion by the Coraline people, Focus Features) Frankenweenie That's THREE stop motion flicks! Echoes of 2009. WOOT!
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Already VERY looking forward to: The Secret World of Arriety (Studio Ghibli, nuff said)>> I'm cautiously optimistic. Cautiously. I've been burned by Ghibli recently, and no longer possess any blind loyalty towards them. I'm hoping Arriety will earn back my Ghibli trust. <<The Lorax (I hate to get my hopes up based on previews, but it looks like somebody has finally made a good Dr. Seuss movie!)>> Illumination is a breath of fresh air. I was quite surprised how much I enjoyed Despicable Me. And casting DeVito as the Lorax is a stroke of genius. I have high hopes for this one. <<The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Aardman stop-motion)>> It's Aardman! Should be quite fun. (Too bad the John Cleese caveman project went to DWA. I'm hopeful that Sanders can save Croods without DeBlois, but I'm not holding my breath.) <<Brave>> Got Pixarian friends working on Brave. I was excited until Brenda was fired from her film. Now, I'm as anxious to see Brave as I was to see Cars 2. Which I still haven't seen by choice. You do the math. <<Paranorman (stop motion by the Coraline people, Focus Features)>> YES! LAIKA is another breath of fresh air. They also seem to be absorbing former Pixarians frustrated with the Disney Anschluss of 2006, which I believe is a good thing. I'm definitely looking forward to Paranorman. <<Frankenweenie>> I've got serious reservations about this film. Remaking shorts into feature length films often fails to succeed, typically given the source material. I don't know if there's enough meat in the story to stretch it out to feature length. Even though Burton is working with Three Mills again, who did Corpse Bride, I don't know if it will be enough to save the film. I didn't dislike CB, but I much preferred NBC, which had stronger characters and a much stronger story. I loved the short, but I'm not so confident that I'll love the feature.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I have no alliance for or agains Ghibli, but The Borrowers is a strong story, so I think that Arriety has a good chance of success. If they can make the connection to the book a little more obvious, I think that it might even have potential to be a minor commercial success stateside. >>I don't know if there's enough meat in the story to stretch it out to feature length.<< I think that this will be a pretty big issue. I remember the original (20min-ish?) short seeming to lack enough story to really make it work, so I'm very concerned with how they'll do it. All of the recent Dr Seuss films come to mind, taking a good story in a 20 minute format, and creating a terrible 90 minute version. I'm also not a fan of Tim Burton's work, so I can't say I have much to look forward here.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The Borrowers is a strong story<< Of course Earthsea was a strong story too. But I'm remaining optimistic. Which proves I **am** capable of optimism, for you WE people. ;-)
