LA Critics: Best Picture - Wall-E

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by Balian

"The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. has named Disney/Pixar's "Wall-E" the best picture of the year, marking the first time in its history that it has given its top prize to an animated film."

http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_...ryid=1983&cs=1

Could it be? Wall-E is gonna be the first animation to win the Oscar for Best Picture?

No.

Yellow Submarine won the NY Circle of Film Critics Best Picture Prize, wasn't even nominated by the Academy. And Wall-E didn't take any nods for screenplay, which it has to win in order to have any sort of shot.

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by mikejet

The same way What Dreams May Come would have been insanely brilliant if [spoiler]Robin Williams character had ...

Mike, What Dreams May Come isn't about Heaven and Hell, it's about suicide, and what it does to the people who love you, people who are powerless to help you. You need to watch that ending again --

[Show spoiler]it is a mirror of what happened at the recovery hospital Annie went to after she tried to kill herself. Chris cannot join Annie in her Hell on Earth, but he can in the Afterlife, and when she realizes she has pulled him into her Hell...her love for Chris pulls her out of her self-abuse.

Not a cop out, my friend. It actually plays out like that every day, in every city on the globe.

[GoYanks]

Originally Posted by Crim122

Slumdog is my favorite and best I have seen all year.

just watched it tonight! WOW. This will be a must buy on blu-ray. Simply awesome. It shouldn't work, but it does. And it works really, really well.

[GoYanks]

Originally Posted by mikejet

It would be best picture if

[Show spoiler]WALL-E didn't remember EVE at the end

.

Yeah...

[Show spoiler] like Million Dollar I want to kill my self baby...

[Crim122]

Originally Posted by GoYanks

just watched it tonight! WOW. This will be a must buy on blu-ray. Simply awesome. It shouldn't work, but it does. And it works really, really well.

Its a day one buy for me.

[Neil_Luv's_BLU]

Originally Posted by Balian

"The Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. has named Disney/Pixar's "Wall-E" the best picture of the year, marking the first time in its history that it has given its top prize to an animated film."

http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_...ryid=1983&cs=1

Could it be? Wall-E is gonna be the first animation to win the Oscar for Best Picture?

If any studio deserves it then it is Pixar. There commitment to quality story telling and animation has been an inspiration to me.

Hopefully it will win or even if it doesn't it will get a nomination.

Surely they'll put it in the animation category as well so that even if it is nominated for best picture and doesn't win it'll be a shoe in for best animated feature anyway.

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by Ernest Rister

Mike, What Dreams May Come isn't about Heaven and Hell, it's about suicide, and what it does to the people who love you, people who are powerless to help you. You need to watch that ending again --

[Show spoiler]it is a mirror of what happened at the recovery hospital Annie went to after she tried to kill herself. Chris cannot join Annie in her Hell on Earth, but he can in the Afterlife, and when she realizes she has pulled him into her Hell...her love for Chris pulls her out of her self-abuse.

Not a cop out, my friend. It actually plays out like that every day, in every city on the globe.

But then they are breaking the "rules" by allowing

[Show spoiler]someone who has commited suicide to goto heaven. My problems aren't only in the fact that she suddenly realizes everything and it turns out ok but that, according to standard religious doctrines, she should not be able to leave hell because she took her own life. I think it would have been better for him to stay at her side in hell.

[Pirate King]

It would not surprise me if Wall-E gets an oscar nomination for best picture, although I doubt if it would win. Don't forget that Beauty and the Beast also received an oscar nomination for best picture. And for the record, I really loved Wall-E. I thought it was a remarkable film. Kudos for Disney and Pixar.

[Variable]

I would have hated the movie if he didn't remember at the end. what a waste that would have been.

I mean, you hit that point in the film and basically Wall-E has accomplished the overall goal of the film, waking up the human race and sending them back to earth.

why is it better for him not to remember? what does that gain? just a bummer ending for no real reason? If him remembering or not remembering in and of itself doesn't actually change the story, I no doubt would rather leave with a smile on my face.

[Excalibur-king]

Originally Posted by mikejet

It would be best picture if

[Show spoiler]WALL-E didn't remember EVE at the end

.

I actually thought it was going to end up like that..

[Ernest Rister]

Originally Posted by mikejet

But then they are breaking the "rules" by allowing

[Show spoiler]someone who has commited suicide to goto heaven. My problems aren't only in the fact that she suddenly realizes everything and it turns out ok but that, according to standard religious doctrines, she should not be able to leave hell because she took her own life. I think it would have been better for him to stay at her side in hell.

What version did you watch? In both the director's cut and the theatrical cut

[Show spoiler]Annie is sent back and is reincarnated, forced to live her life again. In the theatrical cut, Chris chooses to go back to, and the film ends with the two meeting again as children, and Annie gives Chris a sandwhich after he sinks her toy boat. In the director's cut, she is born as a sick child in India, fated to die young -- Chris is fated to meet her, fall in love, only to endure separation after she dies while he lives a long life, waiting to meet her again in heaven.

So they didn't break the rules, you must be thinking of another movie.

[Iceberg]

That's just and fair...Wall E was one of its kind....really amazing

[P@t_Mtl]

You just got to admire what PIXAR as been able to achieve in the 20 years they have been around. It's been one success after the other. Other studious are probably wondering how can they do this? The answer is very simple, good stories. It's incredible that you can feel more emotions from a computer created story from PIXAR then most of the real productions of other studios.