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Tomorrow is the Oscars, and while I don't usually agree with their nominations/winners, it's still really fun to bet.

Honestly, the only thing I'm interested in is best animated feature. I hope ParaNorman will win, but I have a feeling Brave will, because it's Pixar.

No way, it's gonna be either ParaNorman or Wreck it Ralph. Brave has no chance. But I wish The Pirates had gotten a larger US release because I LOVED it. It was probably the smartest (fiction) film I saw all year.

Hmm... looking at previous years, I see that there have been years where Disney and Pixar films have lost to other companies (for example, in 2006, Pixar's Cars lost to the WB's Happy Feet), so I guess it does happen from time to time...

I'll admit, Brave and ParaNorman are the only nominees I've seen (I don't see many movies in the theater--as it is, I just saw PN on video a few days ago), so it's possible some of the others are really good, too.

I've read a lot of good things about Pirates!... I should probably rent it soon. (-:

I can't wait to rent The Pirates! and watch it again so I can pause it and look at all the background gags. They show some of them again during the end credits, but there's dozens of them. If you're a Doctor Who fan, you may find David Tennant's voice distractingly familiar though, because he uses the exact same accent as he did as the Doctor.

I liked Wreck It Ralph more than I was expecting to. They kept the story pretty tightly focused, and didn't have a ton of extraneous characters each with their own subplot (I'm looking at you Princess & the Frog). WIR also has a lot of background gags, come to think of it. I'm not a big gamer like most of the people I saw it with, but you don't need to be to enjoy it- the gaming references are a bonus, not a major plot requirement.

ParaNorman was pretty okay, but I feel like Wreck-It Ralph was definitely the best of this year. Probably the best Disney movie since Lilo & Stitch.

Brave might win, but I feel if it does it will win on virtue of having female characters and relationships and the Academy likes that. I don't feel like it actually deserves it.

ParaNorman has a really strong chance, though. Wreck-It Ralph might be off-putting to a lot of people because of the video game angle. I honestly feel it was better, though.

Out of curiosity, is your username from the song "(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister" by the Stone Roses?

It wasn't, but I do like that song. :)

Honestly, I'm a bit put off of WIR because I saw a review which talked about how it focuses more on the Sarah Silverman character than the title character...

Spoiler Alert:

It does.

I don't care because her character is my favorite, but it is kind of weird.

Well, her story becomes the more important focus of the actual plot, but I don't feel like it focuses more about her feelings than it does Ralph's. They never abandon Ralph's side of the plot, but it becomes intermingled with Vanellope's and a bit overshadowed by it. Ralph actually has a character arc, which Vanellope doesn't, exactly.

I also felt like I was really going to hate Vanellope coming into the movie, but I didn't. I don't like Sarah Silverman, I don't like obnoxious kid characters, but I ended up really liking Vanellope. She feels like an actual little girl with real emotions, and I really understood and empathized what she felt like. I didn't ever feel like we were seeing an adult reaction or an adult's version of a child's reaction, but a little girl's. It makes some mistakes with characterization and the plot, but very few.

What really struck me about the movie was that I had all sorts of expectations about how they'd end up portraying certain characters, what sort of stupid cliches and archetypes they'd go with, but they never did. The characters were consistent and likable and genuine.

Sure, why not.

Best picture: Lincoln
Actor: DDL
Actress: Emmanuelle Riva (upset!)
S. Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman
S. Actress: Anne Hathaway
Director: Ang Lee
Original Screenplay: ZD30
Adapted Screenplay: Lincoln
Animated Feature: ParaNorman (but I'm still Team Pirates!)
Foreign Lang. Film: Amour, duh
Documentary: Searching for Sugar Man

Best actress: Emmanuelle Riva (I've seen people on ONTD spell her name "Emmanuel", it's the boy's version of the same name)
Best actor: eeeh... Daniel Day-Lewis or Joaquin Phenix.
Short animated film: Paperman
Best song: Skyfall

I hope The Hobbit will get something, they could, but there's competition.

I haven't seen most of the films but I spend a lot of time (too much, tbh) keeping track of the pre-Oscars stuff, so I'm not going in blind. Last year I correctly predicted the 8 big categories without watching most of them, either. It has very little with what you think SHOULD win.

Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Spielberg or Lee, but betting on Spielberg
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence
Best Actor: DDL
Best S.Actress: Anne Hathaway
Best S.Actor: Total toss-up between Waltz, TLJ, and De Niro. No idea what I'm officially betting.

The category I'm most anxious to see is Best Actress. It's basically down to Lawrence vs. Riva at this point, but I still think Jennifer's got the edge on this one.

Best Animation BETTER go to ParaNorman. Wreck It Ralph is also acceptable. Brave is NOT. I'd rather see Cars 2 win than Brave, and it wasn't even nominated.

I'd really like to see best picture go to Life of Pi, but that's a long shot. Fingers crossed!

I would like for Best Actress to go to anyone except Jennifer Lawrence.

Just curious, but what do you have against Jennifer Lawrence?

I don't really care about her down to earth shtick or whatever. She's said stupid shit but nothing I'm surprised about.
It's really just the fact that she's Katniss. Everything in like the first fifty pages of the Hunger Games hinted that she was mixed, and yet they cast the whitest person in America and do a half assed job with appearance. Apparently she also brushed this off, but I could never find sources for it.

Unreasonable? Sure.

diff anon, but.. those are shit reasons to not want someone to win an award. Katniss was described as dark-haired and olive skinned. Olive can be pale, just as it can be dark. Her sister and mother are blonde/blue-eyed, her father was dark-haired like her. You can easily argue that she was white, just as easily as you can argue that she wasn't. The casting department was at fault for limiting it to white people only, and I think that was really shit of them (though not surprising), but that's not on Jennifer.

What you call her "down to earth shtick" might very well just be her personality... I think she'd get tired of having to put up an image 24/7, considering all her colleagues speak of her the same way the fans see her.

Katniss was definitely part white. Her mother was white while her father had a darker complexion (and could probably still be white), but Collins has said before that there was a lot of racial mixing in her world along with, y'know, her book description.

She could have not accepted the role but for a semi-beginning in Hollywood, taht would have been totally stupid. Hence why I said my dislike is unreasonable, but it's still there.

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