The LA Film Critics' Association have just awarded Andrew Stanton's Wall*E the best picture of the year. This is the first time the LA Critics - a hugely influential lot when it comes to Oscar voting - have ever awarded Best Picture to an animated film. Guess everybody else is now playing for second ...
Bull crap. If they actually think that this film, not Pixars best even, is the best film of the year then they haven't been watching many movies.
Hmm. Nothing's decided yet.
Let's just wait and see what the nominations will be from the 13 ( I think ? ) submitted films.
Puffff
The best of the year? Only to these Americans, elitist and hypocrites. Look to the world, the world cinema is bleeding renovation and the Academy prefers to give a prize, always, to the same niche. The niche of mainstream.
I'm Brazilian, and the Brazilian cinema is very poor, nowadays. The same thematic, the same actors, the same budget to the "godfathers", and to the new directors, nothing. In this year, just the newest by Mojica was honest.
The Best movie of the year was... Let The Right On In. The Second was 'Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto' together with 'Tokyo Sonata'.
Funnily enough, the LA Film Critics’ Association also awarded "Waltz with Bashir" for Best animated Film.
Huh?
wall e's first 20 min were inspired. the rest schmaltzy mainstream kitsch of low quality and "message". what a waste (like the oscars in general)
"...And get your patchouli stink outta my store!!"
.. oh.. hang on, sorry, I thought we were re-creating another mov-- never mind.
You get a cookie for the High Fidelity reference. Is this just for US releases? Even if it is, they are still idiots.
Well considering Let the Right One In won't get nominated for anything at the Oscars it'd be nice to see WALL-E nominated and even win best pic over something like Milk or Revolutionary Road or any of those Oscar bait kind of pics.
No ricardolessa, what is elitist is to think that a feel good film with love as its main focus is beneath you. What is elitist is to think that just because a particular film has been more commercially successful, it must be mainstream crap. I remember once thinking like you, thinking that serious cinema is the only true cinema. Let the Right One In is indeed a fantastic film in its own right, but it's a completely different beast compared to WALL*E.
And WALL*E is nothing more than "mainstream"? What is so mainstream about a film with next to no dialogue for the first 40-45 minutes? We've moved beyond silent cinema ever since 1927, yet WALL*E brought it back in style. Successful? Yes. Mainstream? Definitely not. The only thing mainstream about the film is the style - computer animation. Even the voice cast is devoid of major players, save for Sigourney Weaver as the ship's computer and John Ratzenberger as John.
You say look to the world for renovation (I assume you mean "innovation"), well Pixar is part of the filmmaking world as well as planet Earth and they're innovating with each new film that they do. So let the LA Film Critics Society voice their opinions the same way you are free to voice yours.