"Rango" wins Best Animated Film Oscar (discussion)
Since nobody really talks about it much in the Cartoon News category anymore, I thought we'd talk about it HERE for a change.
It was a rather pleasant surprise, seeing a movie that was NOT by Pixar or DreamWorks winning it (last times were in early 2003 and 2007, with "Spirited Away" and "Happy Feet.") It was presented by Chris Rock (back after his semi-controversial hosting of the 77th Academy Awards). Not too bad, but still not as good as THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoh7ojFHyQU At least it beats the boring presentation Justin Timberlake did for LAST year's animation Oscars.
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Happy Feet should have never won to begin with. It was a pathetic, "let's cram as many pop songs in as we can- but with the animal du jour, a penguin!" and "the kids like dance movies like Step Up, right?" travesty. I don't even think the nominees this year were very good. Two films absolutely no one has heard of (Chico & Rita and A Cat in Paris) and a not-as-good-as-the-original-movie-which-didn't-win-an-Oscar-either Kung Fu Panda 2 made up the bulk of the nominees. Rango and Puss in Boots were the only two that even possibly belonged, imo- I can't figure out why Tin Tin wasn't nominated.
But last year just wasn't a very good year for animated features. I mean, just look at the list of films that qualified for the Best Animated Feature Oscar: Rango Kung Fu Panda 2 Puss in Boots Rio Cars 2 Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil Gnomeo & Juliet Mars Needs Moms Winnie the Pooh The Smurfs The Adventures of Tintin Arthur Christmas Happy Feet Two Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Alois Nebel A Cat in Paris Chico & Rita Wrinkles
I mean, geez! At least 2 of those (Smurfs and Alvin & the Chipmunks) shouldn't even be considered animated- they're live action films with visual effects! At least 4 are foreign and I'm willing to bet only played in a few theaters in LA for like a week solely for the purpose of qualifying for this year's awards. Another 3 are sequels- on the whole poor sequels too. There's 1 "revival" film (Winnie the Pooh) and at least 2 were really bad- Gnomeo & Juliet and Mars Needs Moms. The others that may be left really weren't great films either, definitely not Best Feature stuff.
So, without much to pick from, you get a disappointing field of nominees anyway.
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Two films absolutely no one has heard of (Chico & Rita and A Cat in Paris) and a not-as-good-as-the-original-movie-which-didn't-win-an-Oscar-either Kung Fu Panda 2 made up the bulk of the nominees. At least 4 are foreign and I'm willing to bet only played in a few theaters in LA for like a week solely for the purpose of qualifying for this year's awards.
Vancouver gets more foreign films than almost any other North American city; the Vancouver International Film Festival is a gigantic showcase for movie fare, and there are many other opportunities for foreign movies to be screened.
So how long did Chico & Rita run here? One night, one screen at an indy theatre, as part of New Spanish Cinema Week! That was two weeks ago... I blinked, so I missed it.
The also Oscar-nominated A Cat in Paris, it turns out, ran Tuesday night at a French-language film festival -- held in a school auditorium. This festival went unpublicized outside the minuscule French-language media. Again, I'm finding out with 20-20 hindsight.
You make a good point, Kris, about animated features having a limited run for Oscar eligibility. IIRC, Academy rules state that all that's needed for a film to qualify for a nomination is to be shown publicly at a single theatre in Los Angeles County in the previous calendar year! That is exactly what has happened for several foreign animated movies over the years... I've observed this.
And for some reason, they get shown on the weekend of Christmas Day...
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Yeah. And even though Rango's yet another CGI talking animal movie, it did seem worthy of the competition, and for once it wasn't one by Pixar or DreamWorks (and a much better-designed one, even if it has some of the usual cliches and poop jokes.) But at least the winner wasn't something like THIS:
Now to wait and see who else replies to Dave's post about the Oscar winners (though usually nobody else does except yours truly )
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To the sake of being on topic about the film Rango, i remeber seeing it last March in theaters but left the mid-way through, apparently because of a "Family Emergency" phone call that the brother of the guy who took me apparently rudely called to her sister during the movie on her cellphone (hey, shouldn't it be against the rules in having cellphones or pagers or every single device in the movie theater screen room) to come to her apartment right away, and when we came to the apartment for the so called "Family Emergency", there wasn't really any, just another sister of the guy who took me, just acting up and scaring the Mother-In-Law, but their wasn't any true problem at that, because the mother in law had it completely under control, making that Family Emergency call the work of a stupid, dim-witted and insincere brother in law and the phone call ever more redundant, SHEESH , that way i didn't get to see the ending in theaters, DRAT! .
Hmm, that comic you posted sure seems to be excessively spoofing Megamind and Rattatouie. Dag Burn It, i think the aspects it is spoofing off of Pixar and Dreamworks is the ineptly obnoxious, crass, weak (i find a lot of the feature voices to be extremely weak and geratic sounding in comparison to current TV talents like Dan Castellenta, Harvey Atkin, Gordon Pisent, Maruice LaMarche, Rob Pauslen, Ernest Borgrine, Tim Conway, and Chris Wiggins. Robin Williams, Dan Akyroyd, and Jim Carey are exceptions, not the rule, just to name a few) overbearingly ridiculous aspects of it, plus the aspects where it is laden with "tudenal" expressions which is surely the over excessive abuse of the smug expressions stemmed (exactly in the same style as today's) from one exact Chuck Jones springboard abused many many times beginning in the 1990s, the period started exactly when Roger Rabbit began to take off immediately, by modern artists and animators, some EVEN working on shows like the Simpsons, Ren and Stimpy, Fairly Oddparents and EVEN probably something like Family Guy (may not be an exact statement , but spare me because i both do not like it and i don't EVEN care about it!), ever since and even this has carried on to the modern Disney features, which i had to mention as well, even on the last of the renaissance ones and don't get me started on those hideous looking cheapquels which you guys will know that it all started with Return of Jafar, at least some people KNOW about it that film started it anyway (OR at least what i am getting from Tad Stones' interview way back in 2004).
-HAHAHAHA - NO, SHEESH, even phoning that out is ridiculious, i see it taken to an extreme all time high in Tangled (2010).
And Kris, I think Tintin should be in second place, don't you think, because the Tintin adaption was actually pretty good for a movie made for today, i remember enjoying it with my brother in law at the theaters, and i see of it as a live action film with visual computer photoshop effects, and that way i truly enjoyed it. it was a nice and adventurous film and i hope they make a sequel for theaters as well so i can see what happens next and Spielberg did a good job producing it and directing it as well, NOW there's at LEAST some care and sincerity for your own adaptation to the source material there.
i believe i've said quite enough for now, but the first time i was typing this i had a hard time understanding the joke very slightly little bit, i'm wondering if you can make your OWN joke only very slightly like this with your very own obersavation on what you see in the Pixar and Dreamworks film, does this idea interest you?
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) to come to her apartment right away, and when we came to the apartment for the so called "Family Emergency", there wasn't really any, just another sister of the guy who took me, just acting up and scaring the Mother-In-Law, but their wasn't any true problem at that, because the mother in law had it completely under control, making that Family Emergency call the work of a stupid, dim-witted and insincere brother in law and the phone call ever more redundant, SHEESH 
-HAHAHAHA - NO, SHEESH, even phoning that out is ridiculious, i see it taken to an extreme all time high in Tangled (2010). 
