Comments on: Watch All Five Oscar Nominated Shorts Online

By: Sam El Zoro

Sam El Zoro — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:07:39 +0000

Ranking according to me:
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1).”The Lady and the repaper”. awesome concept and well executed!!!!!
2).”A Matter of Loaf and Death”. great hard work!!! Stop Motion Animation and 29.20 minute long.
3).”Lgorama” great concept!!!! But no idea what’s going on and what is the end. Great work with logos.
4).”French Roast” is Good!!! but Puzzled. Great animation.
5).”Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”!!!!! Hummmmm I think ….. no I’m still thinking about the story … as already said …. Cool idea but terribly executed.

By: Patrice

Patrice — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:27:34 +0000

The Lady and the Reaper. is great!
wonderful!

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty. is terrible.
cool idea but terribly executed.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:14:14 +0000

Lady and Reaper is my personal fav!
Was anyone else bothered tho… they have 5 fingers on hands, yet only 4 toes on feet

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:48 +0000

With all due respect to the filmmakers…I am just kind of baffled by this selection of animated short films. I’d say the most (if not only) deserving film is Logorama, not really for its story, which plays out like The Dark Knight in 16 minutes, but for its execution of an fascinating logo world, and design. Just one woman’s opinion, though. Congrats to them anyways for getting Oscar nods!

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:27:00 +0000

I like all the shorts, really great work in all of them. But my favorites are: A Matter of Loaf and Death, The Lady and the Reaper, and Logorama.

By: Bobber

Bobber — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:34:09 +0000

Is the Mark Chapman credited as the 2D animator for Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty the same Mark Chapman who does HomeStar Runner?

By: Paul N

Paul N — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:23:53 +0000

Logorama would have been better at half the length. Aside from that, I enjoyed them all for various reasons.

By: Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:43:39 +0000

Out of the five, my favorites were:

1) A Matter of Loaf and Death (which should win quite handily!)
2) The Lady and the Reaper
3) Logorama

#1 is the shoe-in…just so well put together on every level (as is usual for Nick Park) that nothing else comes close. That being said, I’d give it to The Lady & the Reaper if not for Loaf and Death. Very funny, and certainly the best of the rest.

Logorama just took me completely by surprise. A totally original idea (as far as I know) and though the animation DID have a bit of an unfinished look, as Ariel pointed out, it still managed to get me to watch it a second time immediately after the first.

Also, I have to agree with Chris Sokalofsky that if Cat Piano had been nominated, I’d be pulling for it…