Oops, I misread your post. I thought you said you hadn't seen any films in the animation category and were asking if other people who had kids had seen them. XD

One of the best 90 minute movies that had 20 minutes of pretty irrelevance and 30 minutes of Sean Penn crap attached to it. If the movie was was just the childhood stuff, or even the childhood stuff with a bit of the weird not-totally-fitting cosmic stuff as well, I'd be furious if anything else won, but as it is the…

I only saw the winner in the animated category, but it's totally worth checking out. Don't know how much younger kids would get, but if you like beautifully ugly surrealist imagery and stream-of-consciousness homages to classic Westerns, Rango should be right up your alley.

Did somebody actually boo that movie when they read the name or was it just someone sitting behind me at my school's Oscar party?

You think in a younger, more diverse Academy, my dreams of Attack the Block getting some awards notice would occur? That movie kicked ass and handled race issues rather intelligently.

Jimmy Newtron: Boy Genius. Hey, I was 8 and hadn't really developed taste in movies until that moment! I recognized a great movie when I saw one, but whenever I saw a bad movie I was still in the talk-myself-into-liking-it phase. Jimmy Newtron was our Jewish Christmas movie of choice that year. Not only were me and my…

Same here.

@avclub-620982009915db2a0b4a49e224bad30c:disqus : Were you FROZEN TODAAYY!?!?!

@avclub-e18a081756e4c0d0dd76c53b75e678bc:disqus : Yet I know so many people who don't care for anime in the slightest but enjoy Cowboy Bebop. I'd say it's like if Tarantino made an anime series: everything's an homage to something else, but it's directed so expertly with such crazy fluctuations in tone that it stands…

They've had beefs with Machete and Family Guy, and Glenn Beck used Glee as evidence he was losing the culture war.

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Conservative bloggers got in a fuss about it, but FOX News was notably silent about it. I actually remember seeing an article on their website where they defended the film as working to appeal to social conservatives because the main character was heterosexual and was "defending an American way of life"  (because, you…

@avclub-ff106e6c37bdf72c1903080b91d5b2c8:disqus : Probably because they got welcomed by the Democrats some time ago.

Miyazaki actually WAS a Communist before the Tienanmen Square massacre forced him to reconsider his political stances. But of course, knowing that would require actually doing some research.

I'd argue it's Satoshi Kon's best movie. Even if it's not a masterpiece, I'd think we can all agree it's better than Brother Bear. If you like, substitute Paprika or Millenium Actress, both of which were also snubbed.

I used Summer Wars and Tokyo Godfathers as examples of films that were eligible and submitted but not nominated.

Shinkai's film wasn't screened in LA. Maybe it'll be eligible next year.

Why are you bashing Lilo and Stitch?

I assume you're joking.

I think the It Gets Better project's really important, but I wish Dan Savage was actually committed to making it better for the "B" part of LGBT acronym. Accusations that he's transphobic are probably misguided, being based off statements he's since apologized for and some language choices that are perhaps a bit…