Should "Up" be nominated for Best Picture?

[Chad]

With rumors going around about increasing the nominees for Best Picture from 5 to 10, this poll is to ask if Pixar's new film, Up, should be nominated?

A simple, yes, no, or haven't seen it will suffice. I personally watched it tonight, and at two different times I was shedding tears and within the next 30 seconds laughing at the next scene. Such emotion I haven't felt from 1) an animated film, ever, and 2) from any film in the last 5 years.

If you haven't seen it, catch it while still in theaters, you will not be disappointed. Here's a link to the IMDB page for Up.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/

And to see the impact of how it is effecting people, Pixar grants cancer-stricken 10 year old girl her last wish to watch Up.

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=415257&GT1=28101

[Skybird]

It'S not important whether or not the number goes up or remains at 5. In years with several superb movies, still too few will get the award they deserve, and in years with bad movies, still too many movies will get an award. It's a design flaw of the award system itself, but it makes the celebs happy and is a nice excuse to throw a party.

Giving a good movie a title or rating, makes more sense, imo. No good movies in a year: no ratings given. five good movies in a year: five ratings given. Films are no competing athletes. This whole film festivals stuff is idiotic.

BTW, in sports I would favour that if a separation in ranking between two athletes cannot be differentiated with the unarmed eye (1st and s2nd sprinter just 2/100 seconds separated, for example), both should be awareded the same placement or medal. technologic crutches to increase human perception should be limited in precision to reflect that human limit. Stop watches not showing 1/100 anymore but - I don't know: 1/3 only if that is a gap the human eye can see if standing beside the finishing line.

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[SteamWake]

Seeing as Ive never even heard of the film let alone see it, it is kind of hard to pass judgment. :rotfl:

This isnt another damn message movie is it?

[Chad]

Message movie, no. I just like how real life emotions were portrayed with the use of digital actors.

I think though, the movie allows you to look back on your life, whether it be with a loved one or not, and appreciate how all the small things can make that special someone or something, well special.

[Dowly]

Not entirely on-topic, but have anyone though how sad kid's films are and have been for sometime? Especially Disney is pretty good at making films for kids that instead of being funny, are outright sad. :hmmm:

[Nisgeis]

"UP" Will not be released in the UK until October 2009, although it has already been shown in the US. Waiting 5 months to release a film in another country does not strike me as reasonable, especially as a lot of cinemas are digital nowadays and there is no need for a limited number of film prints to be pyhysically shipped around the world, which is what used to cause the delay. Nowadays the cinemas are digital and can download a digital version to project.

I expect this is why you have a high number of people saying they have never seen it or even heard of it. It is being advertised in the cinemas, but it is so far away, that it might as well not be.

[Skybird]

Not entirely on-topic, but have anyone though how sad kid's films are and have been for sometime? Especially Disney is pretty good at making films for kids that instead of being funny, are outright sad. :hmmm:

And Brothers Grimm's fairy tales are pretty "bloodthirsty and barbaric". ;)

when they have grown up a little they get all the sunshine daily soaps and hysteric emotional spikes from some crappy serials, so don't worry.

The Czechs made some very good movies and serials for kids in the 70s and 80s. "Pan Tau", "Die Besucher" and "The Little Mermaid" to mention just three. I have listed them all as presents for the kiods of close friends of mine. Letting them watch contemporary youth-TV would be almost a child abuse.

TV has become incredibly bad in the past 15 - 20 years. In Germany, the emerging of private TV companies in the mid-80s has spelled a cultural desaster. That there are more programs now, just make it a desaster with many programs. what use is there in "diversity", if for the most this diversity offers you crap only. Not to mention thta much of that "diversity" offers you all the same crap anyway.

[VipertheSniper]

Nevermind....

It's spelled disaster btw... and I like that sentence "That there are more programs now, just make it a disaster with many programs."

[Jimbuna]

I haven't seen the movie yet Chad but that story about the girl was really sad.....God Bless her.

[Platapus]

The academy has a hard job. How exactly can a group of people evaluate movies that are totally different from each other and choose which one is the "best"?

What is best?

Revenue?
Attendance?
Artistic quality? (how do you measure THAT?)
Technical quality?
Social significance (Should this even be a criteria?)
Amount of gratuitous nudity (I added that in :yeah:)
Bribes/Payola?
Movie "stars" in it? - A term I use very loosely.
Public opinion?

There are movies I like and there are movies you like. Which movie is "best"?

Well, generally I feel that the better movies are the ones I like, but the problem is that there are others who apply the same criteria but from "their" prospective. :nope:

I put very little credibility on what some group calls "best". Movies are an art form and as with every other art form, every viewer has the right to like it or dislike it and everyone else has the right to ignore what other people think of it.

[bookworm_020]

Hasn't been released here in Australia yet. Hope to go see it as I enjoy Pixar's movies:yeah:

[Biggles]

Well they'll win the award for Best animated picture anyway, they always do...

I haven't seen it, but knowing this is Pixar, I will most certainly go and see it. Pixar is the only thing good about Disney these days, and that's basically because they do what they want, while Disney gives them the money to do it. You never hear a "friendship-is-important-song" from a Pixar movie:salute: