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NEWS: The Wind Rises Earns Golden Globe Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film




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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:24 am Reply with quote
Not the point of this article, but in the animated category, Monsters University getting overlooked in what's been a gawdawful year for US animated features is surely a Pixar snub, right?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:27 am Reply with quote
invalidname wrote:
Not the point of this article, but in the animated category, Monsters University getting overlooked in what's been a gawdawful year for US animated features is surely a Pixar snub, right?


It was a pretty lame year until Frozen. I do think all of the smaller awards vote for Miyazaki just so they don't have to vote for anything American, but they'd overlook something like Momo as well.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:48 pm Reply with quote
No nomination in the Animated category sounds a little silly, but I guess that a Foreign Language nod is of a "higher" stature, which is both endearing and a little sad when you think about it…
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invalidname wrote:
Not the point of this article, but in the animated category, Monsters University getting overlooked in what's been a gawdawful year for US animated features is surely a Pixar snub, right?


Honestly I didn't think Monsters University was all that great; not as good as the ones nominated anyway. Watching MU was kinda boring for me since they gave away all of the good parts in the trailers and TV spots. The first viewing felt like the second. Even if I had gone in not seeing anything about it before I'm not sure if I could say it was better than the first. It really needed to throw a curve ball and there wasn't one, it was predictable to the end. I enjoyed Epic more than MU and that didn't get nominated either.

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Man, I'm pretty bummed about MU, I loved it. I even watched it twice in theaters, which I don't tend to do. And Despicable Me 2 was awful and really doesn't deserve an award, in my opinion. That was probably the movie I regretted seeing the most this year.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:22 pm Reply with quote
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Not the point of this article, but in the animated category, Monsters University getting overlooked in what's been a gawdawful year for US animated features is surely a Pixar snub, right?


Well, Wind Rises got snubbed there too. But there's other big snubs on Golden Globes like Mad Men.
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Man, I'm pretty bummed about MU, I loved it. I even watched it twice in theaters, which I don't tend to do. And Despicable Me 2 was awful and really doesn't deserve an award, in my opinion. That was probably the movie I regretted seeing the most this year.

I take it you didn't see The Croods, Turbo, Free Birds, or Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2, then? God, it's been a crap year for animated features.

As for Monsters University, have faith that it's still a shoo-in for the Annual Pixar Award for Being Pixar Academy Award.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:30 pm Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
invalidname wrote:

Not the point of this article, but in the animated category, Monsters University getting overlooked in what's been a gawdawful year for US animated features is surely a Pixar snub, right?


Well, Wind Rises got snubbed there too. But there's other big snubs on Golden Globes like Mad Men.


Actually The Wind Rises couldn't be nominated for the Best Animated Film category because it hasn't been released in English yet. Foreign animated films can only be nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Golden Globes according to the HFPA, unlike the Oscars.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:44 pm Reply with quote
There are a ton of shows/movies that got snubbed (Downton Abbey...), but I'm very happy for The Wind Rises. Next up... Oscars!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:04 pm Reply with quote
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I take it you didn't see The Croods, Turbo, Free Birds, or Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2, then? God, it's been a crap year for animated features.

As for Monsters University, have faith that it's still a shoo-in for the Annual Pixar Award for Being Pixar Academy Award.


I think Croods was an entertaining popcorn flick you watch for Nicholas Cage's performance; a perfectly adequate film to serve a need. Nothing award-worthy though. But again, it sounds like no one here's seen Frozen, which I'd prefer to win over any anime competitors and easily over Monster's University.
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walw6pK4Alo wrote:
I think Croods was an entertaining popcorn flick you watch for Nicholas Cage's performance; a perfectly adequate film to serve a need. Nothing award-worthy though. But again, it sounds like no one here's seen Frozen, which I'd prefer to win over any anime competitors and easily over Monster's University.


The Wacky Chris Sanders Critters put Croods a step over the usual Dreamworks fare (for animation-industry voters who vote with their eyes), but not by much.

And Frozen is DEFINITELY no Tangled--much though it wants to be--but it's got enough epic sensibilities to edge out Monsters U for the statue.
(Monsters U at least had a feel-good message at the end, while Frozen feels like the most stagey stagebound faux-Broadway musical since Hunchback, and that, friends, was setting the bar pretty high for stage-ready New Amsterdam claustrophobia.)

invalidname wrote:
Not the point of this article, but in the animated category, Monsters University getting overlooked in what's been a gawdawful year for US animated features is surely a Pixar snub, right?


It's a Pixar SEQUEL snub from people who hadn't actually seen it.
("Pixar only wants to make sequels because they're lazy and greedy, and they've gone Evil Corporate Hollywood just like the rest!"...Uh, no, they made Monsters U to clear up legal entanglements over a competing Monsters sequel Eisner wanted Disney to make years ago just to spite Pixar....Yeah, kinda like "that James Bond Thunderball crap".
The original Eisner-era script was actually pretty good, but legal authorship requirements insisted that Lasseter-era Pixar make up their own from scratch, and leave absolutely nothing in doubt. Oh, and same with the upcoming Finding Nemo sequel, too, so quit whining.) Wink

As for Wind Rises and the Gullible Globes...if a movie is so much as Canadian it gets classified as "Best Foreign Film".
Someone apparently didn't remember that the Oscar's version is Best Foreign-Language Film, and Japan's entry this year was "The Great Passage"....Sorry. But Ghibli's still got a prestige "arthouse" shot at the Best Animated Oscar, since it had a strategic one-week qualifying engagement.
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