They were probably tricked into thinking it was French.
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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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They were probably tricked into thinking it was French.
It's a matter of perspective. Wolf Children isn't obscure in its home territory either but would be in the US.
Technically speaking, a movie has to be shown in American theaters to be considered.
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That may be, but obscurity is relative and success on one continent doesn't always translate into exposure elsewhere. Just look at how well Tintin fared in US theaters!
I think Incredibles and Ratatouille are both the best movies Pixar ever made. And will ever make.
The whole reason there's even a separate category for animated films is so the academy can continue to justify it's ghettoization of animated films.
That's every award.
The first act of Wall-E is Pixar's best film. The rest of it is their worst.
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I still like Wall-E even if the second half can't come close to the first.
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I think youve misspelled The Incredibles
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Too bad Brad Bird has decided to go the Anno way and do live action now.
That's it! Thanks a lot. This video was adorable.
Why can't they just go full digital distribution? I need even more anime in my iTunes store.
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You only say that because you are an obese consumerist man baby.
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I'd take Wall-E and Up over Ratatouille, but Ratatouille is a great film.
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You made it sound like they were rolling dices to find European stuff to be nominated, it's far from being the case.
Also it's not just Japan: Hollywood doesn't like Asia as the whole, generally speaking. When is the last time a Chinese/Korean/Japanese movie won anything? What about India? I think there are some serious bias in nominating stuff.
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You misspelled Monster Inc too :/
THAT'S BESIDE THE POIN--oh.
The beginnings of both Wall-E and Up are wonderful, but they fall apart after that. Concepts that should have been shorts instead of a full movie.
Ratatouille is my favorite Pixar feature . . . rip Bird.
HK had Crouching Tiger despite it being pretty mediocre. India had umm... Slumdog Millionaire (although that is an American production). Japan has been shutout pretty consistently (then again, it hasn't had anything especially good recently)
The Academy is an American awards body giving out awards in America. Its only natural it give out awards to American productions.
The Academy is an American awards body giving out awards in America. Its only natural it give out awards to American productions.
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Both films suffer from having incredible first acts that are disappointingly followed by overtly cartoonish story strands that clash with the relatively more serious mood that precede them. Too many mixed messages for me to even consider them in the top anything of Pixar.
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Then, why complin about the lack anime representation?
Still, ain't there a foreign movie award or something?
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The Mamoru Hosoda shout out was a joke to troll Branduil. lol I just brought the topic up because Brave winning it under any circumstance is evidence of how little the Academy even bothers to look at animation.
That bad, huh? Looks like I should be glad I skipped it.
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I really loved the second half of Wall-E. It was different from the first half, but it was a very cohesive film overall, and I feel that you can't have the first half of the film without the second.
Up does suffer some after the first act, but that first act is so amazing, and the ending is brilliant.
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Well your trolled succeeded epicly since we've all fallen into it :/
Oh I know. Branduil is *this* close to popping a vein over Wolf Children.
Did you watch all of the nominees?
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I actually rather liked the movie! Fun flick about being a good daughter and not trusting in old hags.
Too bad Brad Bird has decided to go the Anno way and do live action now.
I don't think that's a bad thing on its own. The mistake was wasting his debut on a Mission Impossible movie. LOL.
This might just be the unwashed film scrub in me talking, but I'm not bothered in the least by there being a focus on honoring English-language films at an English-language awards ceremony. The only reason that animation is a sore spot for me is because the pool of potential nominees is so much smaller and one would think that this would push the Academy to select more exemplary foreign nominees to preserve the standards that animated films must meet in order to be eligible. Instead, they're perfectly happy to scrape the bottom of the American barrel and throw in a token foreign nominee as if this is going to obscure the fact that the other nominees were mostly chosen out of convenience and familiarity.
No, lol.
I'll probably watch them all later to find out if Paperman actually deserved it.
This is just me, but Brave was the most unremarkable Pixar film I've seen (and my loathing for Kelly MacDonald's character in Boardwalk Empire didn't do many favors for my perception of the protagonist....whatever her name was)
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He'll come back with a revengeance. And, when we least expect it, CGI Evangelion--oh wait.
I think he means that just as japanese animation is more or less unknown to the general american populous, so too is most of Europe's output.
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Savour it while it lasts.
It's not actually about anything in particular.
He's currently working on a big new scifi tentpole movie for Disney I think, co-created by Damon Lindelof. I think we're almost there!
Comments like these worry me. I'm like, more than halfway through the show (I think?) and it's great. Can the last third really be so bad?
There's a second season.
Kamogawa is a nice place! Japan Sea World is there.
You're two-thirds of the way through the first season.
What everyone is saying is to abandon all hope once you hit S2.
A lesbian-filled travel ad funded by Nissan. Just stop and think about the absurdity for a second.
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