meh, Bolt isn't even Oscar-worthy... they could have placed Wall-E in competition with "Waltz with Bashir" (which is animated), and some other foreign languaged animated films. the Best Animated Film category is a joke

when you compare second-rate animated movies like "Bolt" or "Kung Fu Panda" with a fine animated movie like Persepolis (from France) you realize how truly pitiful the Best Animated Film category is.

Walle's gotta win something somewhere right?

It won at the box office, is that not enough? lol

Well im glad you think its a joke...im sure if you got off your lazy ass and had a animated film made im sure you would want it recognized...animation should be given as much repsecet as film for awards

idk, i think this might just be a pic from one of those "furry" conventions. you know, where people dress up like animals and then fornicate like said creatures?

Hahaha!!! Those weirdos...

Hey, weirdos need lovin' too, LOL

I felt the same way looking at photo. That CSI episode ruined me. Anytime I see characters like this, I think that's what is about to happen now. *shudder*

Ummm....

Peter, you've just created an argument out of nothing. Congrads.

Why even try to compare Bolt with Wall-E. They are in two different categories.

It makes me depressed thinking miley cyrus is up againts Pixar =[

exactly

Not in my mind, and not in the minds of the general movie-going public. Both children animated films - that's their generic category.

Not in my mind, and not in the minds of the general movie-going public. Both animated children films - that's their generic category.

Yeah I guess so. It really did win at the Box Office, not Dark Knight numbers, but it did well. I personally liked Walle and it would be very awesome if it did indeed win some kind of award other than best animated feature.

Nice to hope, but it aint going to happen for Wall-E. We're still a way away from an animated feature winning anything beyond the category it defaults to.

I really think that Walle is a good enough film to have a nomination for Best Picture. I really liked it but I do agree with you that we are far away from an animated picture getting more than what it should.

Compared to Bolt, Wall-E is from a whole nother universe. No pun intended.

oh ha h a ha...

I just have to say that Walle is a very very good film. I didn't think it would be when I first heard about it but I've got to tell you, it is very good. This movie deserves to get alot of recognition and I don't blame Disney for trying to get this nominated for Best Picture a few months ago. I'm sure at one point it was a front runner.

Pixar needs to make more movies like Walle. I've enjoyed all the other ones up to a certain degree but Walle blows past all of them. I will give the first Toy Story some credit, it was a good film.

Wall-E, while a really good movie, is so overrated and (IMO) not the best animated movie of the year. Wall-E isn't even close to being Pixar's best and people are blowing it like it reinvented storytelling. I just don't get it.

I agree, i think they have pushed this film way too much. It wasnt something that left me wondering how they did that or anything along those lines. Yes it was a good film, but i dont believe it deserves all the hype.

Wall-E is up there for pixars best...but i have to admit there is competition agaitns kung fu panda...however wall-e deserves towin

I think Ratatouille was Pixar's most sophisticated and well crafted film, however I understand why Wall•E would be nominated because it created a sense of pushing boundaries and conceptions of what can be done with animation in the U.S.(not that this is indicative of a better film, but I think the feelings behind the goodwill towards Wall•E speak to this).

Ratatouille was quite a feat IMO, and I hope it's not lost under the shadow of Wall•E in the future because it was able to successfully hold up multiple challenges with an audience unfriendly storyline and still have enough skill to make it compelling to those audiences (Examples: the "gross factor" of rats and food being embraced instead of ignored, or say the internal and indirect motivations for characters like Remy's suppressed creative nature or livelihoods and reputation of a fancy Restaurant being lost to inferior frozen food deals, the nature of artists and the role of critics etc.) But Wall•E was able to surprise audiences used to traditional dialogue with, (if not entirely silent), relatively universal, largely pantomime like communication for the first half of the film, while also making a fairly straightforward social critique about complacency/interdependency on technology and rampant consumerism in the second half of the film which relied on more traditional techniques like English speaking characters.

Silent film qualities might be nothing new, and yes crafting a "message" about society has been done before in other animated films, but I think the quality of Wall•E, and maybe the sheer type of story it told (communicating Robots and sci-fi) sparked an awareness in critics and audiences for the potential of animation to speak to such sophisticated techniques or social critiques that are taken for granted in live action. Overall, even if Wall•E didn't reinvent the wheel, it somehow got people to see animation in a new, more mature light in the way that talking animals (no matter how complex Remy was) could do, deservedly or not. Getting nominated for best picture would be a great sign of this, and I hope it happens for animation's sake at large.

But maybe if the person who did the voice for Wall-E swallows too many pills before Oscar night, Wall-E can get an award for Best Supporting Actor.

Really? You really think that's the reason people are supporting Ledger's performance? People still think that? Wow.

Typical response from a troll. Get a life you weirdo.

Oh come on. Really? That's pretty shallow. You know as well as anybody that Heath Ledger is absolutely deserving of his nominations for his portrayal of The Joker. Perhaps not the win, but definitely nominations. You are clearly just trying to rustle feathers by insinuating he is only receiving these nods because of his untimely passing. If you honestly think otherwise, then shame on you.

Plus, they are BOTH movies I haven't seen.

Wall-E Johnny 5 was okay. Pixar's best? No. I enjoyed The Incredibles much more.

I took my kids to Bolt. It was a piece of crap. It looked as if it had a strong Disney influence, which used to be a good thing, but not so much anymore. The premise of it was inconceivable garbage, no matter how much they tried to spin it in the story.

But if you based it on just those lines (the "how'd they do that" factor), then you would be looking at Wall-E as just some sort of special effect. I think it deserves to be looked at beyond such a technical frame of mind and not just "ooh amazing animation". Pixar always creates spectacular visuals.

What I'm saying is that I can understand the hype, because I think it was able to get people invested in animation as a more complex medium than is usual. Sort of along the same lines of The Dark Knight getting people to take comic book based films, or possibly blockbuster films more seriously in ways they couldn't quite take in before, even though those are genres and animation is not genre (a clear message from Brad Bird). Wall•E and the Dark Knight did this in two very different ways, but maybe it's the larger presence of a film beyond what's on the screen that can account for a nomination. In some cases like these where you have widely regarded good films, maybe that's saying something important and worth putting in a nomination for. Maybe that's something other Pixar films just haven't done, or audiences haven't been so receptive to.

I think WALL-E would have been BETTER if it was live action.

What do you tink?

Wall-E or Kung Fu Panda?