Originally Posted By brotherdave Congratulations to Up for winning Best Animated Feature. In a year with many contenders who would have easily won in most any other year, Up gets the vote. Great movie, I'm glad to see it won! Now, we'll have to see how it holds up against the other 9 Best Picture nominees...
Originally Posted By mawnck Holy Hannah, they gave the Best Animated Short to Logorama!? Amazing! Congrats guys.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros The real victory, IMO, is the score winning. That was one of the absolute best overall film scores I've ever heard. No, it's not catchy and exciting like Pirates or The Incredibles, not grand and memorable like Rudy or Gone With The Wind, and not strictly emotional like Schindler's List. Instead, it just plain worked. The simple melody repeating throughout the film, on so many different instruments, through so many different arrangements and compositions, really connected the film overall. It was simple enough that it could be repeated and convey so many different emotions and moods, yet powerful enough to connect the vastly different looks of the various parts of the film. I'm glad that it won best animated feature, but I'm thrilled that it won best score.
Originally Posted By ToonKirby So happy for "Up" for both wins! I can't believe "Logorama" won for short though, it was my least favorite of the five. I thought it was too foul mouthed and violent for the Academy's tastes.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>I thought it was too foul mouthed and violent for the Academy's tastes.<< Yes, but it was also political. And it was up against the weakest of the Wallace and Gromits (still my pick though), and three silly short comedies. I wasn't nuts about any of them. I had Logorama as #2, but it spent way too much screen time coasting on its gimmick before it started doing anything else interesting. In case you couldn't tell, I am DELIGHTED with Up's Best Score win.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Delighted but not surprised at the Score win. It did exactly what a score is supposed to do, and the voting music members obviously responded to that. Delighted at the win for the picture as well, and for Logorama too. I was really, really underwhelmed at Loaf and Death (and it pains me to say that - I like W&G so much, they were the topper of our wedding cake, no kidding). Technically it was great as always, but the script just left me flat. I'm kinda glad it didn't win and hoping it serves as a small kick in the pants to Mr. Park not to coast.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I am glad I didn't have to vote in the best animated short category. They were all really good, tough to pick a favorite. I loved the Tex Avery-ness of "Lady and the Reaper." "Logorama" was cool -- I thought it would win but didn't think it was the strongest of the films. I though Loaf and Death was charming as always -- I love that unlike the perfection of computer animated fare, you can see fingerprints in the clay figures, reminding you of what a literally hands-on process claymation is. That said, "French Roast" would have been my pick. Cleverly done, hardly a word said for 8 minutes, but the characters were strong, immediately identifiable types and it had a sweet little moral, too.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Oh, and back on topic, congrats to "Up"! The wordless scene showing Carl and Elie through the years is among the best moments ever put on film.
Originally Posted By ToonKirby >Yes, but it was also political.< Yes, painfully obviously so. My favorite by far was "The Lady and the Reaper". "A Matter of Loaf and Death" was a major disappointment for me.
Originally Posted By markymouse From the first what the? moment of coming across the Wrong Trousers on PBS on night many years ago, I've been a huge Wallace and Gromit fan. But Loaf and Death was a disappointment. We own every other W&G but we're not going to bother with that one. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed about their future adventures.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance That part on Up that shows Carl and Ellie through the years is so good. And the music is so moving that even my two year old gets sad when the sad part is playing.
Originally Posted By greenbean I loved the montage they showed and when they had Carl being "interviewed"! How cute!
Originally Posted By basil fan I'm delighted for Up. Now, if only the score was available on CD... Gilligan's Island <a href="http://www.whatistsgalore.com/etc/gilligan.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatistsgalore.com/...gan.html</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck If you haven't seen Logorama, the Best Animated Short, or just want to see the logos you missed the first time, here it is online. Be ye warned, it's very violent and NOT SAFE FOR WORK!!!! <a href="http://vimeo.com/channels/animationandpuppets#10149605" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/channels/anim...10149605</a> I just noticed the Buy-n-Large logo is in there. Woot!
