Your toys are watching you...
Nominated for:
Best Picture
Adapted Screenplay - Michael Arndt
Also nominated for:
Animated Feature Film - Lee Unkrich
Sound Editing
I know a lot of people really love Toy Story, and aside from certain less-than-pleasant workplace experiences related to the franchise, I have pretty fond memories of the first two films. This one is a solid cap on the trilogy, but how it can be compared against fellow nominees The Social Network or 127 Hours is beyond me.
It's a kids movie. It cracks a lot of jokes at the expense of an effeminate Ken doll, which is pretty insensitive and not exactly a positive message for all those kids in the audience. It also resorts to a formulaic climax (*spoiler alert*) that makes the audience think everyone is about to die a horrible death, only to be saved miraculously at the last minute. I don't known why Disney feels like all its movies have to end this way - perhaps the Disney machine is fueled by child tears?
That said, the Sound Editing nomination is well deserved (just think of all those toy sounds they had to put together!). And Toy Story's version of an underground gambling den is pretty flippin' hilarious.
Eli
Rating: 3 for innovation, 4 for emotional content (because, yes, despite my best efforts, I did get choked up at the end) and 3 for cohesiveness.
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This movie has essentially three nominations (Best Picture and Best Animated Film should cover the same material). There should be some sort of Best Picture criteria ie one should have at least 4-5 acting/writing/techinal nominations.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, nominating 10 movies for Best Picture makes that hard to do, so drop it back down to 5.