BREAKING: Oscar’s Best Picture Nominees Will Expand to Ten.
“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” said Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.”
The move is an obvious response to the recent discussion concerning The Dark Knight’s absence from the nominees for more art house style films such as The Reader and I would expect we can now look at Up as a serious contender for a Best Picture nominee when previous Pixar favorites Ratatouille and WALL-E were left in the cold.
I'm all for it if that means we can get rid of the Feature Animation category.
I'm all for it if that means we can get rid of the Feature Animation category.
But then "the nomination will be the award" for animated films. They'll never win.
This is really just because the Academy has gotten filled up with younger voters who like smaller, indie films and the Oscar isn't the marketing tool it once was for mainstream fare.
But then "the nomination will be the award" for animated films. They'll never win.
I have no problem with that.
But but but - Miyazaki!!!
I'm watching Totoro right now AIFG!
(It's raining, and this is Dylan's favorite movie. We've been watching it a LOT this month. Did you know that Mei has a white hat, and that Satski's daddy rides a normal bus? I have been reliably informed many times that both of these things are true.)
The final Harry Potter & the HBP trailer.
Some interesting inclusions (Malfoy and Harry's Sectumsempra fight) and additions (I like Dumbledore's line, "In my life, I have seen truly horrific things. I now know you will see worse.")
The DVD I have out from Red Box has an early
2012
trailer that actually looks kinda cool... monks in Tibet sounding the bell of their mountaintop monastery as the giant tidal wave swells up over the Himalayas.
Of course, any impact or explosion that could throw the ocean that high, that far inland would probably have ruptured the crust entirely, and the ground shockwave would have wiped out everything long before the tsunami could get there...
Did you know that Mei has a white hat, and that Satski's daddy rides a normal bus? I have been reliably informed many times that both of these things are true.
Also true: there are bottles under their house, and their beds are different than ours. Or so I have been reliably informed here.
Of course, any impact or explosion that could throw the ocean that high, that far inland would probably have ruptured the crust entirely, and the ground shockwave would have wiped out everything long before the tsunami could get there...
Matt, I have nothing but idle speculation and "I think I may have once heard a spurious rumor to this effect" to go on, but I think it won't be an impact that generates the bad stuff, but the whole Earth-flips-magnetic-poles-due-to-galactic-superalignment thing. That's how we get super-mega-ultra tsunami without super-mega-ultra hock waves.
Never mind that this likely would do nothing more than mess up all our compasses, until we compensated.
Also never mind that, in the most recent trailer,
a wall of water that big squishing the White House with an aircraft carrier is beyond redundant. The wave would produce exactly the same effect on the White House even without the carrier.
