Thread 150307293

> zootopia 2
> Bad guys 2
> Ne zha 2
> Arco
> Kpop demon hunters

No Japanese shounen movies or mamoru hosoda ‘s scarlet

>>150307293 (OP)
Who cares about award shows? They’re nothing but circlejerks on a higher budget

Also I fucking hope K-Slop Semen Hunters doesn’t win, it’s a literal slop film that just so happened to get lucky, normies don’t love that shit, it’s only children who beg their parents to turn it on for them and online autists and ecelebs that like it, iPad kids are why the film got so many views.

Ne zha 2 > all

>>150307358
You care

>>150307293 (OP)
kpop because technically made by an american studio the oscar people wouldn't dare pick a chinese film

> zootopia 2 -unknown
> Bad guys 2 - underperformed
> Ne zha 2 - underperformed
> Arco - nobody heard of it
> Kpop demon hunters - raking in billions

Unless Zootopia 2 kills at the box office, it'll be Kpop Demon Hunters in a walk.

>>150307743
Ne Zha 2 is the highest grossing animated film ever, what retard juice are you smoking

>>150307743
> zootopia 2 -unknown
Disney is known

> Bad guys 2 - underperformed
What?

> Ne zha 2 - underperformed
No. It’s the most successful movie of the year so far

> Arco - nobody heard of it
Nobody hear of Flow and it won

> Kpop demon hunters - raking in billions
Billion streaming views because it has the word kpop in the title

>>150307601
> the oscar people wouldn't dare pick a chinese film
Why? They pick Japanese films?

>>150307813
This

>>150307293 (OP)
Maybe Elio? It was quite good.

>>150307813
>>150307418
>>150307946
CCP propaganda tho

>>150307293 (OP)
>bad guys 2

>>150307877
usa like japan better than china

>>150307293 (OP)
I guessing between Arco or Kpop Demon Hunters

Kpop Demon Hunters has a high chance for not being a sequel, being a meme this year, the kids and grandkids will make sure the voters will notice it, and 97% rotten tomatoes score. Highest scoring rotten tomatoes among that group listed right now

>>150307293 (OP)
As much as I like Ne Zha 2, it has a high disadvantage of being
>a sequel
>a chinese film with chinese tropes and mythology that some may have trouble grasping
>voters that won't like the grossout humour


This year voters will have to see all the movies nominated so if Ne Zha 2 gets nominated, that may help, but I remember seeing an article saying some voters cheat by leaving the laptop open on the screening page, but then walk away to go do something else. Some might do that with Ne Zha 2 if the see it's Chinese with grossout humour in the first half of the film, or they tune out completely because they were already planning to vote another film first anyway

>>150309036
It's at 96% now.

KDH has higher rotten tomatoes so it appeals to more critics, but Arco has higher metacritic score

>>150308817
Korean propaganda tho

>>150308964
Not anymore

>>150309151
>voters that won't like the grossout humour
But they like shrek?

>>150307293 (OP)
It won't be Kpop Demon Hunters, because the bourgeoisie cunts making the choices won't give it to a Netflix movie. It also won't be Zootopia or The Bad Guys, because they're too "normal" and the fart sniffers wouldn't be able to make a faggy statement with those choices.
So, the only two choices are Arco for the faggot cred, or Ne Zha 2 to cuck out to the Chinese. I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's going to be Arco because it's gay and has all the faggy "art movie" Oscar bait hallmarks. It was designed in a lab to win at the Oscars.

>>150309329
> Arco because it's gay and has all the faggy "art movie"

It’s gay?

Can it win?

>>150309284
Not all of them will dislike it, but some may find the piss drinking and vomiting and farting in faces a bit much, so they might write it off as an immature film

Shrek is a comedy so that sort of humour is expected, but if you open with a big serious battle, and then afterwards do all the grossout stuff, it can throw off people that dislike the tonal switch

>>150307813
>>150307946
Only Chinese retards actually say this.
YES it made a lot of money. BUT it only made a lot of money because the Chinese command economy literally pushed it on their own populace and made them go see it because of social credit bullshit.
They literally bussed in peasants to go see it multiple times because it was a matter of national pride to force the movie to succeed.
When you say
>HURR, it's great because it's the highest grossing movie le ever!
You're really missing some basic issues at play here. It didn't gross a fuckload of money because it's good, it grossed a fuckload of money because it was literally forced by an authoritarian regime.

>>150309354
Granted, I haven't watched it.
But dude...
Sit there and try and tell me this shit isn't gay.

>>150309329
>the bourgeoisie cunts making the choices won't give it to a Netflix movie
They gave it to Del Toro’s Pinocchio

>>150309516
> didn't gross a fuckload of money because it's good
It’s a masterpiece

https://letterboxd.com/film/ne-zha-2/

>>150309536
Ne zha 2 was gayer

>>150309589
Sexxo

>>150307293 (OP)
Another overrated crap

>>150307418
Based

>>150309375
It got shit reviews at Venice, so no. It’s done.
>Hosoda tries to frame Scarlet’s journey as one of healing: revenge will not ease her trauma, and compassion must replace rage. But this arc is handled clumsily. At one point, Scarlet inexplicably dreams herself into a Japanese La La Land sequence, dancing joyfully with Hijiri through colorful streets. She awakens, cuts her hair, and renounces vengeance: an emotional pivot that feels unearned, more costume change than revelation.

>The film’s problems pile up. Hosoda’s familiar themes—time collisions, relationships evolving in unexpected directions—surface only in distorted form, while the overwrought melodrama grates. Scarlet spends much of the film screaming or sobbing, her fury building toward outcomes that carry little weight. The final anti-war message is not objectionable in itself but embarrassingly naïve in execution, suggesting today’s world is a war-free utopia.
climate.

>Even the animation falters. Large-scale crowd sequences, with thousands of independently moving figures, are technically impressive, but character animation often looks stiff and robotic. Facial expressions slip into uncanny valley territory, particularly in the dreamlike dance scene, where experiments with fluid movement only highlight the awkwardness. The contrast between these sequences and the more traditional animation is jarring.

>In the end, Scarlet mistakes ambition for depth. It throws Shakespeare, isekai, melodrama, and grand anti-war statements into a single pot, only to produce a muddled, incoherent mix. Bloated at over two hours, violent and overwrought at its climaxes, and hampered by uneven visuals, it fails to make us care about its heroine’s tragedy. For a director who has given us works as resonant as Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Belle, and Mirai, this film is not just a disappointment: it’s a serious misstep.

All that matters is the money. Oscars are meaningless to the rest of the world, and even in America, they're losing power.

>>150310859
> America, they're losing power.
Kpop demon hunters was made in America

>>150309572
The problem with Chinese shit is that they literally have state government sponsored scams.
As in, they'll bus in peasants from the countryside to fake the numbers, they'll dump in extra money to fake the numbers, hell, they're just willing to fake their numbers period.
Add bots and shit to the mix.
Nobody actually believes Chinese bullshit. I've talked to people who have watched it, and they say it's fucking gay. I choose to believe them.
>This movie that every English speaker fucking hates is the best movie of all time!
I have not fucking once heard anyone talking about the film based on its merits. No plot, no characters, no nothing. The ONLY good thing anyone has to say about is "It made a lot of money," and "I want to fuck Ne Zha in the ass."

>>150308800
Huge flop and PR nightmare

>>150310752
Shark Tale and Boss Baby got shit reviews and got nominated.

>>150311351
Because American

>>150311290
>I have not fucking once heard anyone talking about the film based on its merits
that's because you weren't looking at twitter or tumblr hard enough back when it first released overseas

>>150311290
Ne zha 2 is peak!

And queer

>>150311326
>PR nightmare
literal opposite, i barely saw anyone acknowledge its existence while it was still in theaters

>>150311389
how widespread are the pubg models now among the fandom?

>>150308833
Dreamworks needs a nomination

>>150311409
Very widespread as Ao bing’s dragon legs.

https://x.com/uuyoyoM/status/1965414075871150436

>>150309536
I watched the trailer. Looks like a Ghibli movie but with ugly character designs.

>>150311445
>Very widespread

>oscar season campaigning starts
>fans make gay pubg model art all over the place

>>150311395
Gays complained that Pixar removed the LGBT themes from the movie after replacing the director.

>>150311598
literally nobody cared about that except twitter/bluesky "people" who wanted something to whine about

>>150311623
they're going to complain about it again if it gets nominated for Oscars season, and the media will pick it up for clicks since they always pick up random tweets for articles, leading to PR disaster

>Shrek
>Spirited Away
>Finding Nemo
>The Incredibles
>Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
>Happy Feet
>Ratatouille
>WALL-E
>Up
>Toy Story 3
>Rango
>Brave
>Frozen
>Big Hero 6
>Inside Out
>Zootopia
>Coco
>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
>Toy Story 4
>Soul
>Encanto
>Pinocchio
>The Boy and the Heron
>Flow

Did they deserve to win?

>>150312429
>Did they deserve to win?

>Shrek
No
>Spirited Away
Yes
>Finding Nemo
Yes
>The Incredibles
Yes
>Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
No
>Happy Feet
No
>Ratatouille
Yes
>WALL-E
No
>Up
No
>Toy Story 3
No
>Rango
Yes
>Brave
Hell no!
>Frozen
No
>Big Hero 6
No
>Inside Out
Yes
>Zootopia
No
>Coco
Yes
>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Yes (not Disney or Pixar)
>Toy Story 4
Hell No!
>Soul
Yes
>Encanto
No
>Pinocchio
Yes
>The Boy and the Heron
No
>Flow
No

>>150312429
That is a rough list honestly

Love wins!

>>150307743
Kpop Demon Hunters did not "rake in billions." It's on Netflix which everyone is already subscribed to, and the theatrical engagement, while a big success, only brought in about $20 million. Sony only made $20 million from their deal with Netflix for the movie + whatever they got from the theatrical singalong engagement, and we'll never know how Netflix actually measures "profit" on a movie, and they're never going to tell us the actual data for how many people watched it either. We know it's a huge hit but calling it a "billion dollar movie" is simply not correct.

The highest grossing movie of the year is Ne Zha 2 but it's irrelevant outside of China, so that means the current highest grossing (international) movie of the year is The Bad Guys 2. It didn't perform as well as I was hoping it would but it was made on a budget of $80 million so it's already past the profit threshold. And in any case, profitability doesn't have anything to do with whether or not a movie wins an Oscar, even if it can get your foot in the door for a nomination.

This year was overall a bad year for the box office. Some of it has to to with fatigue from bad movies in years prior and audiences being less willing to open their wallets at the movie theater, but there are possibly other external factors that analysts are going to have to figure out, like ineffective marketing that isn't reaching the audience it needs to, and too many back-to-back summer blockbusters.

Ne zha 2 is movie of the year
Nothing comes close.

>>150307293 (OP)
genuinely who still cares about the animation oscar in BIG 2025..

>>150314930
2 billion people

>>150307877
Only Ghibli films and Ghibli has an exclusivity contract with Disney

>>150315381
> Ghibli has an exclusivity contract with Disney
Not the boy & the heron

>>150312901
>>Inside Out
>Yes
>>Zootopia
>No
Retard

>>150315542
Not a furry fag

you all know it's gonna be kpop demon hunters because it's mutt sloppa
I liked Bad Guys 2 and I'm not sure how good Zootopia 2 will be, but they're sequels so I'd say they're a bit less likely to be voted for by the boomers from the oscars who probably didn't watch the first ones

>>150307293 (OP)
Zootopia 2 is the default frontrunner for now. It's Disney, so that's an automatic contender unless it faceplants and it won an Oscar before. There are also two films from the Annecy Festival that could comfortably be nominated: ARCO and Little Amélie.

Netflix, which has become a regular contender in this category every year, has the film In Your Dreams, or it might be nominated for KPop Demon Hunters. The music branch of the Academy is notoriously cliquey, but a certified Billboard hit gives them no excuse to ignore you.

Pixar has a long history with the Academy, so I think Elio has a comfortable spot for nomination.

If there IS a Japanese anime film that *might* get nominated, it would still be Scarlet. It was met with mixed reception in Venice, but Venice was also booing Fight Club and it still got nominated. It just needs better reception from TIFF and NYFF. It also drops on December so it's still fresh in voters' minds and eligible for major awards. Additionally, Hosoda has clout, being nominated for Mirai.

Shounenshit never had any chance there, because they're not standalone and their format are not built got theaters. They're really just TV episodes.

I think for the ones who'll be nominated for Best Animated Feature are:
>Zootopia 2
>KPop Demon Hunters
>ARCO
>Little Amélie
>Elio
Sequel movies rarely ever win the Oscars because the Academy generally prefers original, standalone films rather than follow-ups. So for that, I think KPop Demon Hunters will win this even though Zootopia 2 looks to be the favorite.

>>150316305
> Zootopia 2 is the default frontrunner for now. It's Disney

So was wish and strange world with no nominations

>>150316305
If Elio gets nominated and not The Bad Guys 2 I'm gonna be pissed. Bad Guys 2's animation ground Elio's into the dust and on top of that it was much better reviewed. The only reason I could see Elio getting a nomination is because they feel sorry for it and they're mad about the test audiences causing Disney to de-gay it.

2 Oscar judges praise Chinese blockbuster 'Ne Zha 2' as a major achievement: https://youtu.be/JkPkBzMQEiE?feature=shared

This interview said ne zha 2 is the front runner for best animated feature: https://youtube.com/shorts/YstptiJIlP0?feature=shared

This interview said ne zha 2 is the front runner for best animated feature: https://youtube.com/shorts/YstptiJIlP0?feature=shared

Bump

>>150307293 (OP)
cute pussy

>>150318720
Furry fag

>>150307418
Lmao chink

>>150320619
Fag

>>150316305
Little Amélie is not going to be nominated. GKIDS sucks at awards campaigning now. They couldn’t even get Look Back into the Oscars despite being a hit in Japan and with critics.

>>150307293 (OP)
What the fuck happened to Sylvain Chomet? This was supposed to be his big animation comeback, and nobody cared. Did Joker 2 curse his career?

>>150321285
Who?

>>150307293 (OP)
>No Japanese shounen movies or mamoru hosoda ‘s scarlet
cringe
>>150307418
lmao

>>150307358
Yes, making something animated makes it superior.

>>150307813
only in China, the rest of the world doesn't care.

>>150311128
>Oscars are meaningless to the rest of the world, and even in America, they're losing power.
>Kpop demon hunters was made in America
???

>>150312429
yes

>>150307293 (OP)
Lol I dunno

>>150321921
The world doesn’t care about the new super man movie

Lewd

>>150324148
Cute boy

>>150325019
That's a BOY??

>>150325817
Yes.
100% male

>>150307293 (OP)
The Oscars Mate

>>150321760
Exploitable