Word. Also, why wasn't the Hills nominated for an Emmy?! IS THERE NO JUSTICE?!?!? We live in a cruel world without rhyme or reason
I loved Wall-e too, but there were many better movies imo: Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, The Dark knight, etc.
i'm just amazed the dark knight didn't get a best pick or best director nomination when it seemed to be a fairly solid lock to do so. the oscars make no sense to me.
The Oscars have always snubbed animated movies, the last animated film to get a best picture nom was Beauty and the Beast. The reason they created the Best Animated Feature category in 2001 was because Pixar kept basically making one of the best 5 movies of the year every time they released a film and people were getting annoyed that they weren't getting nominated. Wall-E was the best reviewed movie of the year, though The Wrestler is 2% higher it has less reviews. Either way, both of them were snubbed.
Every year some stupid Euro drivel like The Reader ends up taking away slots from more deserving films. Last year it was Atonement. Fact of the matter is that if a movie deals directly or indirectly with the Holocaust it's a sure bet to get tons of nominations regardless of merit. Brad Pitt getting a nomination is a freaking joke. The most endearing part of his character's performance was during the first act. Which by the way was total CGI. They give a nomination to an Animated character but Wall*E gets shafted. I know it's sacrilege to say this, and the fanboys ain't gonna like it, but Heath Ledger, and to an extent Aaron Eckhart, turned a B- convoluted crime film into a grade A semi masterpiece. Was it better than the reader? Hell yeah. Was it better than Wall*E? Not so fast my friend.
I'm excited that Robert Downey Jr got nominated for Tropic Thunder. He was brilliant in that role, but I really didn't expect him to get the nod. Tropic Thunder was a comedy, and I didn't think the Academy would touch a black-face part with a ten-foot pole. I read recently that he ad-libbed almost all of his lines. Absolutely brilliant. I hope he wins.
Dude, c'mon, Wall-e wasnt even one of the best pixar movies ever, no way it should be considered for best movie.
i think its fair to say the dark knight is overrated relative to alot of popular opinion that its one of the best movies of all time. but its not so overrated that it doesnt deserve to be recognized as one of the top 5 films of 2008. the dark knight might not be the best movie of all time, but neither are any of the films nominated for best pic. in fact, neither benjamin button nor the reader received anywhere close the level of unanimous critical approval that the dark knight did makes. the dark knight shouldn't be penalized because popular opinion of it has become distorted. the bottom line is that it was better received by both the masses and the critics than any other movie in 2008 (other than wall-e and the wrestler, movies which also deserve noms), while having to live up to greater expectations than any other movie in recent memory.
The Academy has become even more irrelevant then it already was. And they were talking about raising their ratings...tsssh Excluding the Dark Knight makes sense how? It was deserving....and it made sense ratings-wise. i just don't get how it works. Ah well, one more year of not giving a s*** about the Oscars.
