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Brilliant! Hopefully will get considered come Oscar time


Just as the first Garfield film was a brilliant social commentary expertly paralleling the lazy and vacant habit of homosapiens, the second film is a whimsical feat of hilarity, charm, emotion, and human values. It combines a dry wit, stirred with a bit of dark humor and topped off with exceptionally clever satiric value. I couldn't have asked for more. There were certain laughs for the children, sure, but the movie is so perfectly crafted and enjoyable that even the oldest of adults can bathe in all its charming, satirical glory. It's sad a critic these days can't tell the difference between The Godfather and The Fast and the Furious, because they really screwed up on this film just as they did with the first. Thank goodness we have Ebert...

...By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

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I'm thinking it will receive 4 Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Bill Murray.

...By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

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Please tell me you're being sarcastic. The only animated film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards was 'Beauty and the Beast', a beautifully crafted Disney classic. No actor has ever received an Oscar for voice work, and no actor ever will. And besides, nowadays, comic actors in general don't win Oscars. Think about how many times the Academy has overlooked Jim Carrey's better work - like "Man on the Moon" and "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".

If Bill Murray didn't win one for "Lost in Translation", he sure as hell ain't getting one for this.

"I am but mad north northwest. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."

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Beauty and the Beast didn't win Best Picture...

...By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

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Pardon...

It's the only animated film (to my knowledge) that was ever nominated for Best Picture. Of course, now they have the whole 'Best Animated Picture' category...but with Garfield being primarily a live action feature I don't think it would be eligible.

"I am but mad north northwest. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw."

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i deffinatly agree with the comment right above me...
...it says it all







"I'll show you my breast if you show me your fly." <-swim quote

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Bump.

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