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Happy Feet [Blu-ray]: Robin Williams, Nicole Kidman

Happy Feet [Blu-ray]: Robin Williams, Nicole Kidman for $7.49

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Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

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This movie has a wonderful soundtrack.
Way underrated.

j5
3 months ago

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How this movie got Best Animated Picture over Cars, I'll never know. They didn't even bother to animate the humans, either, just used real video footage.

Way overrated.

skunkmonkey
3 months ago

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@skunkmonkey: because realistic animation is viewed more favorably than cartoon animation?

j5
3 months ago

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@j5: Realistic animation reflects little room for innovation and imagination. Cartooning opens the door to a huge range of ideas, images, style and personality that realistic animation simply can't match.

Also, when you're not actually animating chunks of your movie, but using real video, it's not really animation, anymore.

skunkmonkey
3 months ago

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@skunkmonkey: I don't disagree with you, but then I'm not the Academy, and as I tend to remind everyone when it comes up, they gave E.T. the best special effects nod over BladeRunner, so I hold them in very low regard when it comes to, well everything.

ref: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/1983

j5
3 months ago

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@j5: Happy Feet won it because it was "green" instead of being about cars, which apparently even in cartoon form, somehow manage to "kill the environment."

I wholeheartedly agree with you that Blade Runner should have won that Oscar, though. That was highway robbery.

skunkmonkey
3 months ago

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@skunkmonkey: ... Because Cars and Cars 2 are Pixar's worst to date. Everything else is amazing, but those two.... Rotten apples

sasdragon
3 months ago

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@sasdragon: I'll agree with you on Cars 2, but Cars was a brilliant realization of Bill Peet's anthropmorphized autmomobiles, with a fun story, excellent animation and subtle charm.

A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo were crap, though, and while I'd like to say that Wall-E was a cinematic masterpiece, I've seen Charlie Chaplin films before.

skunkmonkey
3 months ago

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