Even though the technology has progressed so much in the last few years, animated films just can't get real respect. That's the reaction that movie geeks across the globe are having to the list of nominees for the 81st Academy Awards, announced today, with the notable exclusion of Wall*E for Best Picture. A bunch of the commenters at movie news site Ain't It Cool are mad. Here's one example:
WALL-E was amazing and it would have been nice to see it recognized, but now that they have the Animated category you will likely NEVER see an animated feature make it for BP.
I wrote at length about Wall*E and it's connection to a possible future world for consumers back when the movie was first released. Check that post out here.
There's a good case to be made that it was a mistake to nominate Wall*E only for Best Animated Feature and not Best Picture. It got a better critical reception than any of the movies nominated for the most prestigious award. As of today, Rottentomatoes.com says that Wall*E has a 96 percent positive rating based on an aggregation of movie critic reviews. That's higher than the Tomatometer registers for any of the five Best Picture nominees:
The Reader -- 60 percent
Milk -- 92 percent
Slumdog Millionaire -- 95 percent
Frost/Nixon -- 91 percent
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -- 72 percent
The Dark Knight--another movie the geeks are mad got snubbed--comes in at 94 percent. Better than four out of five ain't bad.
Jerry Chapman of TN @ Feb 23, 2009 06:22:35 AM
kevin of @ Jan 30, 2009 01:45:56 AM
Eils of CA @ Jan 23, 2009 20:36:33 PM