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How Wall-E Could Win It All This Year
Oscar-Winner Brad Pitt, Resurgent Weinsteins and 9 Other Bold Predictions For Fall Movie Hell

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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/10/08

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This is Oscar's favorite trick. He waits until the prize is overdue, and then gives it to ya for your least appealing work. This way you know you deserved it, but everyone else gets support for their give me a break argument.

Yes, I know Oscar isn't one dude. (kicks dust around)
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cassandra
12/10/08

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I vote for Wall-E because it is animated and I am fucking sick of humans and I bet everyone else is too.
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MrInBetween
12/09/08

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The Best Picture Oscar usually -- though not always -- goes to the Most Genuinely Earnest Film. Which means Wall-E will edge out Milk by a pixel.
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Wendy_Kroy
12/09/08

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I thought Wall-E was the best movie of the year by far. It was gorgeous to look at, laugh-at-loud funny, and sweetly romantic. To me, it represented the purest form of "motion picture" - the epitome of visual, emotional (but also thoughtful) storytelling. It won't win Best Picture, but it would deserve to.
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Steverino Begins
12/09/08

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I think the Oscars will basically be a contest of bitterness:

The Dark Knight (for bitter Neo-Cons)

W. (for a still-bitter nation)

MILK (for bitter gays)

Wall-E (for largely successful environmentalists still working through their bitterness)

Revoluntionary Road (for bitter Kate Winslet fans)
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llililill
12/09/08

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People who think Dark Knight is worth anything beyond a Best Male Supporting nom for Ledger are so adorably pitiful.
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/09/08

@llililill: agreed. i appreciated it because at least the nolans tried to rise above the comic book dreck. however, it still had a lot of problems. too long, choppy editing in the first act, and the ending? meh. and i know i'm going to get hosed for this, i thought ledger was okay. not legendary. just okay. he should get nominated but downey jr. should win it.

but then again, these are the oscars. so fuck it all.
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DevilsAvocado
12/09/08

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And herein shall be inscribed an epitaph for the Hollywood superstar factory:

Bye-bye troublesome and troubled egomaniacal sociopaths and bloated salaries. Hello, endearing and maleable animated characters.
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caligulash
12/09/08

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There is a big danger in promoting Wall-E further by awarding it Oscars. What American viewers, and apparently critics, consistently remain blind to will be obvious to viewers the world over: those obese humanoids with ingrown legs and arms, illiterate, floating on the flying armchairs while having their vision restricted to the images on the screens in front of their noses, and slurping liquefied chemically enhanced nutrients are actually depicting current Americans.

Aren't Americans these days required to be better than totally careless about their global image?
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misslinda
12/09/08

@caligulash: you meant their globulous image, right?
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postnocomments
12/09/08

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Can they please give the Oscar to a mega-blockbuster just once? "The Dark Knight" is gloomy and serious, like those small flicks they like to nominate, without the smallness. They've been complaining their ratings are sinking because they nominate obscure movies no one watches, so there you go.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/09/08

@postnocomments: Can they please give the Oscar to a mega-blockbuster just once?

Just in the last twenty years, The Lord of the Rings, Titanic, Gladiator, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and The Silence of the Lambs have all made loads of money and won best picture at the Oscars. Most of them have also kind of sucked. If they're really concerned about declining viewership, the Academy should cut back on the excesses of the ceremony, not the quality of the movies they're nominating.

Also, was I the only person who thought that The Dark Knight was good until you actually thought about it? The acting was great, the cinematography was great, but in the end, wasn't it kind of pretentious? And weren't the weird political parallels kind of off-putting (by this I mean Batman=Bush, which I found almost impossible not to read in it)?
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homoviper
12/09/08

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Let the Right One In is really great.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to continue my one man campaign to get Steve McQueen's Hunger more recognition.
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Spirit Fingers
12/09/08

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Ok. Two things.

Richard, I hope you didn't tell the whole Wall - E story up there, because I haven't seen it, and Pixar beats Disney like a Chicago pimp finding his ho's last two dollars. So, uh, yeah that's a must see for me.

Also, kudos to you for Let the Right One in. Between 30 Days of Night and this Twillight blasphemy I thought the real vamp-makers started working for TV creating shows like My Own Worst Enemy or some such nonsense. Hope has been restored.
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misslinda
12/09/08

@Spirit Fingers: you didn't see Wall-E??? Please see it as soon as humanly possible. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be in awe of the landscapes...it's stunning and heartwarming. Holy crap, I think I just wrote the back of the DVD boxed set.
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chiken
12/09/08

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Definitely Milk. Not only is it extremely critically acclaimed, I think some voters will see it as a chance to make up for the HUGE mistake that was Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain.
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PaisleyPajamas
12/09/08

@chiken: Ooops, I should have read through...you and I are on the same wavelength!
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smartastic
12/09/08

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beauty and the beast was nominated for best picture? are you kidding me?
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flipper baby
12/09/08

@smartastic: Yeah, but it lost to Silence of the Lambs, which had slightly more cannibalism and inspired a far better stage musical: [www.jonandal.com]
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SisterMaryMartha
12/09/08

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I loved Beauty and the Beast, it can be argued that film was the last good animated film Disney produced.
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belle TL
12/09/08

@SisterMaryMartha: I remember seeing it in a shitty one-screen theater and being completely awed by how beautiful the first sequence was. And the fact that a spunky, book-loving girl was the heroine was the icing on the cake.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/09/08

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Since obviously the Academy Awards don't actually mean anything, I say Wall-E is perfect. There are artier films, more adventurous films, maybe even better films -- but right now, all I really want to do is watch a movie where robots fall in love and it turns out we're not screwed, after all.

That being said, isn't Milk actually the most zeitgeist-y film? Or has Hollywood still not gotten over their whole "gay people make us uncomfortable so we'll just give this prize to the movie where Sandra Bullock is racist" thing?
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Iceland Spar
12/09/08

@eatsshootsleaves: Is Milk getting good reviews? I was super excited for All the King's Men and then suffered a serious dissapointment. I was kind of expecting the same here, but would be very happy to know that Sean Penn is back.
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apocalypse-nowish
12/09/08

@eatsshootsleaves: The reason that Sandra Bullock film won was because it was actually pretty fucking great.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/09/08

@Iceland_Spar: I think it is. I don't really know. Every review I've read of it has been good, especially for Sean Penn.

@apocalypse-nowish: I don't know, it seemed pretty squarely mediocre to me. And it certainly wasn't as good as Brokeback Mountain -- or, for that matter, any of the other films nominated.
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homoviper
12/09/08

@apocalypse-nowish: No way. It was so contrived and overwrought.
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PaisleyPajamas
12/09/08

@eatsshootsleaves: Milk is going to be the redemption of the Academy for Brokeback Mountain (Yes, I'm STILL bitter): It's historical, it's artistic, name-director, and ensemble cast, topical due to Prop 8 AND the kind of film that will be studied by film students in years to come = OSCARS all around.

I am especially hopeful for Emile Hirsch who embodied his character with such style he deserves a Best Supporting nomination at the very least.
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