Originally Posted By mawnck >>You know, if Cars winds up winning Best Animated Feature at next year's Oscars, I bet that'll be a 'disappointment' because it doesn't win Best Picture.<< Ah, but what if Cars doesn't? Is that a disappointment? Or another one of those alleged "travesties of justice" like when (the deserving) Lilo and Stitch had the great misfortune of running smack into (the even more deserving) Spirited Away? Ebert and Roeper both declared Monster House a better movie than Cars on their show last week. And A Scanner Darkly is getting better-than-Cars reviews too, although I wasn't as impressed by it. Now, I'm not saying Cars won't win. And I'll only believe Monster House is that good when I see it for myself. I'm just suggesting that the cult of Lasseter may want to start strategizing spins for the Oscars. Just in case.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I wasn't aware there was a cult of Lassiter around here. I do know that many here felt that Cars was getting a bum rap, and by extension its gifted director, John Lassiter. I have no idea what will win next year's Best Animated Film at the Academy Awards, since not all the contenders have appeared. I would hope that Cars would be a nominee, and would naturally be pleased if it won. But it is often true that box office success doesn't translate into awards. And Cars had been a big success at the box office.
Originally Posted By cstephens mawnck wrote: > I'm just suggesting that the cult of Lasseter may want to start strategizing spins for the Oscars. So if you choose to refer to people who like "Cars" as being in a cult, do you then count yourself and others like you as having an axe to grind against Lassiter/Pixar? Fair's fair, right? I didn't care that much for the film, but I can certainly recognize what the box office is saying about how much other people seem to be interested in seeing the film. What cult does that put me in? /cs
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I really don't even know what Monster House is about, but from the few commercials I've seen for it, I really just don't feel that it is what the typical Oscars are made from. That, and it bugs me that they had to steal the title from a TV show...
Originally Posted By DAR What people are failing to mention is that this is now the highest grossing film to feature Larry the Cable Guy.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I have seen a number of trailers for Monster House. It looks like fun. <a href="http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/monsterhouse/site/" target="_blank">http://www.sonypictures.com/mo vies/monsterhouse/site/</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck >>So if you choose to refer to people who like "Cars" as being in a cult<< Now, now, quit twisting my words.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<I think I saw a funnier version of Click a few years ago ... yeah, it was called Bruce Almighty.>>> ROFL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No kidding! ROFL !!!
Originally Posted By cstephens mawnck wrote: > Now, now, quit twisting my words. I didn't twist your words. I just repeated your use of the word "cult". Did you forget? You used that word in post 161. You didn't answer my questions. Either of them. /cs
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<You know, if Cars winds up winning Best Animated Feature at next year's Oscars, I bet that'll be a 'disappointment' because it doesn't win Best Picture.>>> ROFL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<the cult of Lasseter may want to start strategizing spins for the Oscars. >>> Okay I am gonna hold on to this comment for the Oscars. We'll see,
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I wasn't aware there was a cult of Lassiter around here.<< I was, because I'm in it. We wear bright, festive aloha shirts and meet down at IHOP Tuesday mornings at 7:30, where we discuss classic animation and our plots for eventual world domination.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Oh, I think I'm a member of this cult too. I wear hawaiian shirts and shorts when working in the home office, and think of ways to really plus everything I do, rewarding my team for when they do something cool that has never been done before.
Originally Posted By DlandDug Meanwhile, back on topic, Cars pulled in another $10 million this weekend. Guess it was all those people who couldn't get into sold out showings of Pirates of the Caribbean. Reminds me of the old joke-- this place would be more popular if it wasn't so crowded!
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<We wear bright, festive aloha shirts>> I can deal with Hawaiian shirts. Now, if you were in the Joe Rohde cult wearing a freaky huge earring, I would would be scared.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss Cars finally had a smaller box office take, dipping below $2mil for the first time. Monday saw $1,406,766 in receipts.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "I can deal with Hawaiian shirts. Now, if you were in the Joe Rohde cult wearing a freaky huge earring, I would would be scared." Well I used to in college, does that count? And I had a beard then too!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I just repeated your use of the word "cult". Did you forget? You used that word in post 161.<< I didn't use it in connection with the words "people who like Cars", which is what you claimed in post 163. You're silly. >>Okay I am gonna hold on to this comment for the Oscars. We'll see, << Hold away. Be sure to bookmark this topic, so you can spend hours searching in vain for my saying that Cars wasn't going to win. I have made no such prediction. That was Ebert and Roeper. I did imply that Cars might have some serious *competition* for the Oscar. I realize some would consider this heresy. Sorry if it got your Hawaiian shirts in a bunch.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I think I read this morning that Cars surpassed the $200 million mark. I wish I had that kind of failure in my life.
