#oscar nomination

[lagartijus]

The Wild Robot: the most OVERRATED animated movie of the DECADE

(Read everything if you want to shut up the crowd that calls it a gem without even knowing why)

This god of MEDIOCRITY has been called even "ONE OF THE BEST ANIMATED MOVIES OF ALL TIME".

Nowdays for some reason people just care about how good a movie LOOKS and if it feels EMOTIONAL enough. If that's the case THEY ALREADY CAN BE CONSIDERED A """MASTERPIECE""" BY THEM.

But this movie isn't a masterpiece. And that's not it... The Wild Robot is not even close of being close of being a masterpiece.

The only amazing thing this film does is having A TON OF FLAWS.

First... something was already feeling wrong when the SUDDEN plot change of the snow scene happend. It felt SUPER ABRUPT, barely more abrupt than the introduction of the mentor duck which happend SO FAST. And suddenly the movie changed COMPLETELY for some reason and a new plot was introduced after the young goose Brightbill left her Wild Robot mom... the snow storm. For me THAT was already a problem as it felt we were watching a whole new movie suddenly. BUT IT GETS WORSE, because from now on I really asked myself IF THEY STICKED THE SCRIPT OF A DIFFERENT MOVIE INTO THIS ONE IN THIS SECOND HALF.

First lets remember something REALLY IMPORTANT. During the first half of the movie they portrayed natural interactions as realistic. Like how animal behaviors are in REAL LIFE. The filmmakers were NOT scared of showing wild interactions: animals eating other animals, death, surviving... basically nature. IT WAS LIKE THAT FOR ALL THE FIRST HALF OF THE MOVIE and I actually thought that was GREAT. I want you to remember this.

Then it seemed they COMPLETELY forgot about it.

I want you'all to imagine something...

Imagine a person is in the middle of a forest in a dangerous STORM with WILD ANIMALS of ANY KIND and that person suddenly tries to go and talk with them to make PEACE WITH EACHOTHER. And not only make peace in the middle of the storm... BUT EVEN MAKE AN AGREEMENT WITH ALL THE ANIMALS TO MAKE A WHOLE NEW CIVILIZATION IN WHICH NOBODY KILLS ANYBODY AND THEY ALL TREAT EACHOTHER AS EQUALS FOREVER.

It sounds dumb, right...?

Well, GUESS WHAT!!! That is exactly what happened.

And it is like... HELLO...??? THE FOOD CHAIN?! THE BASIC NATURAL ANIMAL BEHAVIOR?! THE FACT THAT CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS NEED TO KILL TO EAT?! THE LOGIC THE OWN MOVIE INSTALLED?! "Naaah, lets throw ALL of that to the TRASH BIN."

This would work in a movie like ZOOTOPIA because the LOGIC of THAT movie is made in such way that this WOULD MAKE SENSE. But in the case of The Wild Robot they made WHOLE SCENES to show us how the logic of the movie is practically the SAME as the logic we have in REAL LIFE.

They literally make bears, prey, hunters and all kinds of animals live like they were humans in a scene that felt so rushed, so out of nowhere and soooo pointless that had little to do with what we were watching before.

It is like they created a new problem and plot OUT OF NOWHERE without any kind of sense that doesn't even respect the logic of the movie itself.

BUT WAIT... that is just the surface.

Can someone EXPLAIN TO ME how is it possible that a robot that was made for GARDENING can withstand falling from MOUNTAINS, attacks from BEARS and other ANIMAL HORDES, 200 hits, scratches in middle of the rain and MUCH MORE... but the COMBAT robots, LITERALLY MADE TO FIGHT AND RESIST and with such advanced technology and AI are defeated by some BIRDS JUST BY THEMSELVES and other animals at the end of the movie??!!!! Yeah, super logical!! Of course it isn't plot armor... pfff!!!

But there is MORE...

HOW THE F*** did a FREAKING GOOSE manage to DESTROY THE MAIN WINDOW OF THE BATTLESHIP THAT CARRIES ALL THE COMBAT ROBOTS AND VITALE RESOURCES AND THAT IS DESIGNED TO RESIST STRONG HITS?! And he didn't only destroy it with its body... but HE JUST BROKE ONE OF HIS WINGS. JUST ONE WING when his entire body should have EXPLODED into the window! HELL... HE SHOULDN'T EVEN BE ABLE TO MAKE A SMALL CRACK ON THE GLASS. A glass that should resist even crashing into a mountain. But no... he destroyed it all WITH HIS BODY.

Remember that these actions LITERALLY WERE THE ONES THAT SOLVED THE ENTIRE PROBLEM THE CHARACTERS HAD IN THE MOVIE.

AND THAT'S NOT IT... there is just one more thing that is also really important...

The message of the movie...

"We don't have to act the way we come from the factory."

WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH WHAT WE WERE WATCHING THROUGH THE ENTIRE MOVIE?!

WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN?!

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

And I know... I know... It's related to the robot not acting as it should as it was made in a factory to follow a script and rules, yes... it's true... but...

What lesson does it teach to the characters and how? Why?

How does that complement the entire story we were watching?

What lesson does that teach to us that would be related to the story beyond what I already explained and the animals magically not devouring each other and any other scene in the movie?

NOTHING. It's like they forgot what they were doing. Or like they paused the production and continued it years after with a different team. Really... I know it sounds good, but now think about the message and how it could be related with the characters and the plot. It doesn't have any sense.

I think there were also one or two other mistakes, but I can't remember right now, but anyways...

And I know what some of you could think now...

"But Lagartijus... even if it has some mistakes they aren't that bad and also the movie has good things too."

Yes, the movie has many good things but NO... those mistakes ARE TERRIBLE. Most of them are the ones that solved the entire problematic in the film and other just make whe whole film not having sense or continuity. And if you don't agree with that now remember how YOU probably have hated or criticize harshly other movies FOR HAVING LESS MISTAKES THAT THIS FILM HAS. Because I am 100% sure YOU DID.

That's it, bye. Give me your opinion.

My Letterboxd:

[leejungjaes]

the sheer hate for this movie on here as well...

[mistermistyyy]

The 97th Academy Awards (2025)

[sebstanaddict]

Sebastian is an Oscar nominee!!! So proud of him! So well deserved!

[nameless-ken]

I just saw this on tiktok and had to share so we can cry together 🥺

[rachleahx]

My big Oscars Nomination gripe

[milady-elessar]

I really like the positive reviews going around about Sebastian Stan 2025 Oscar's nomination.

Including praises about his performance and acting career, how this nomination would happen anyway for such a great actor and the prediction that this is just his first (of many) Oscar's nomination.

I hope he wins but even a nomination is enough to boost forwards any actor's career.

Another amazing realisation about this nomination is that Thunderbolts* could be promoted by claiming to have an Oscar's nominated actor!

How many actors can pull out a great performance with a character that almost doesn't speak in any of those MCU movies?!

He truly deserves this recognition for all his talent and hard work. ❤️

[chrisfromthefreakingspace]

Cynthia Erivo looking stunning for Oscars 2025 night.

Praying for her to get that EGOT. 💚🧹

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet has received an Academy Award nomination for best leading actor for ‘A Complete Unknown.’ This is his second Oscar nomination.

[florals-cardigan]

Me, manifesting Wicked to beat Emilia Pérez's ass at oscars

[carpenfaist]

the academy really hates bisexuals huh... u will start coughing in 7 days

[lunamarvels]

SEBASTIAN STAN IS AN OSCAR NOMINEE I REPEAT SEBASTIAN STAN IS AN OSCAR NOMINEE!!!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[cassiansrebels]

Mother🌹✨

[cafe-elysium]

[kittypjmofficial]

Flow ✨️

[chrisfromthefreakingspace]

Cynthia Erivo explaining that in Defying Gravity she had to place her breath/voice in her upper back, ribcage area, her sides and chest while she is looking this good is too much for me...... What a genius, WHAT A HOT HARD WORKING TALENTED REMARKABLE GENIUS!