It seems rare for an animated film to present a character who dislikes the protagonist, but is all the same, a good guy. You know, in hindsight, this comment of mine seems really stupid. :oops: Of course there are tons of characters that meet this description. I guess that I was just stumbling arou...

Just to further illustrate just how political the Academy is, here's a series of Siskel & Ebert clips that commentate on the controversy with the Best Documentary award when Hoop Dreams got snubbed (the clips were put together as a featurette by the Criterion Collection for their release of the fil...

Yeah, I remember the Dark Knight/WALL-E controversy. Thanks for pointing me to the visual effects article - that was really interesting!

I wonder how that will play out.

With regards to Original Screenplay, not very good. The last time the winner for the National Board of Review award was even nominated for the Oscar for Original Screenplay was five years ago with The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man. And only once did the winner of the NBR award also win the Oscar, Di...

Very, very cool. :D I've always felt that several of Nintendo's properties could work well as animated films. Though Super Mario Bros. has a certain Disney-quality to it - fantasy kingdom, princesses, monstrous villains. And since Disney has already dipped their toes in video game films, it might ha...

I get that The Lego Movie might be at a bit of disadvantage due to its earlier release, and yeah, politics play a part, but I feel like the Academy typically does a pretty good job of choosing films. It seems strange to me that studio recognition would play such a big part, since in any other catego...

The Oscar race favorites look to be Big Hero 6 and How to Train Your Dragon 2. LEGO Movie may have the popular vote, but I think it'll need some awards season push for it to really have legs Really? :( I haven't been following the awards buzz very closely, but I saw that The Lego Movie was winning ...

Like the Croods last year, I'd expect BoL or Boxtrolls to fill in the remaining "filler" Oscar nominee on visual strength alone (since actual animators participate in the voting process) even if yes, definitely not story in either case. Actually, I'd rank The Boxtrolls over Big Hero 6 and How to Tr...

Wow. No Song of the Sea ? Given Tom Moore's brilliant work on The Secret of Kells , and the great early reviews that have already come out for the film, I'd have expected that one to be a contender for winning the award. I'm certainly disappointed. :( Haven't seen Book of Life yet, but the buzz seem...

But NO: That wasn't what Brenda had in mind. What she had in mind for Our Daughters was "Don't marry princes, they're jerks!"

How do you know this for sure? Has she ever said anything explicit to this end?

Oh, and thanks for the Pinkava information. Where did you hear about that?

I thought (although I could be wrong) that Pinkava went to Laika. I took a look at his Wikipedia page - he did a short film with Laika called Little White Lie (here are some details - http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/two-writers-ready-tell-little-20920 ), but left the studio in 2011 (per his L...

Has any real detail ever come out on why Jan Pinkava and Brenda Chapman were fired from their respective projects? I never heard anything about the Pinkava situation and am really sad that he seems to have disappeared almost entirely, as Geri's Game is quite possibly my favorite Pixar short. I follo...

As an aside, I just watched Rise of the Guardians and have to say, I'm shocked by the negativity that surrounds the film. It might actually be my favorite film by any of the Big 3 (Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks) since Tangled . Go figure. The most defining aspect of a great film for me, is typically how...

I'll admit it. I'm generally a glass-half-empty kind of guy. Droo and Randall - you're right though. All of Disney's recent films have had things to appreciate. Sometimes I get so bogged down in my disappointment with a film, that I lose track of its positive qualities. So thanks for reminding me! :...

My personal (hopefully non-inflammatory) opinion on the subject is: I think Disney has been doing pretty well since the Pixar merger Don't worry - I totally respect your opinion. I can't say that I agree with it. But I respect it. Carry on; I didn't mean to discourage discussion .. like I'd said, u...