Prismo Patterson

Isle of Dogs should have won best picture. This is a glorified commercial to convince little kids to get even more Spiderman merch given the endless versions of him that this movie introduced. Nothing more than an expensively made 80's Saturday morning cartoon special. Shame on the Academy.

I realized the Oscars had no respect for good, well-crafted animation when Isle of Dogs lost to Spiderverse, so I'm not shocked whatsoever that this won best picture. Western animated films have become a joke. Cartoons are my absolute favourite medium of telling a story, and while things have been pretty good in the TV series department, I have noticed that cartoon movies are mostly soulless money-making blandness as of late, with actually good movies few and far between. If it's not endless sequels, it's rubbish like this. When will this trend of making animated movies look like a mixture of a video game cutscene and impressionist paintings stop?! One of the principal defining aspects of animation is CLARITY OF MOVEMENT. This new bad rendering gimmick that has emerged in the past 8 years or so takes away this fundamental characteristic. I do not give two hoots about a movie's story if the art and animation looks bad. (That being said even the story couldn't save this one, it was such a drag...) Generally, people do not tolerate shaky camerawork and shoddy special effects in live action films, so why is it okay to make animated films look like crap? No more. Please no more. I will not give my money to any movie that looks like this, and you shouldn't either. I miss the days of Pixar and 2000s' Dreamworks crisp rendering. BRING BACK VISUAL CLARITY TO 3D CARTOONS!!