I know. I know. I'm biased but after watching the movie that beat out Puss In Boots: the Last Wish. I can't fathom any good reason why Pinocchio would have snubbed it. I can think of many bad reasons. Many of them due to the story, director, cast, and name itself being an eyecatcher for old fuddy-duddies who have fallen too far out of touch with the current populace. Don't get me wrong I thought it was a good movie but even taking into account reason i can fathom it winning would be that the marketing team played to the preferences of judges. I understand that animated films can also be dreary and sad. I feel that it was written to be for those remembering the hardest days of their lives, THEIR lives, and we brought war in. God am i tired of seeing so many academy award winners winning because they harken back to WW2. I may be young but we understand it was hard time for you and you can keep reminding us over and over but please stop wrapping movies around it as additive. For a large portion of this film it felt like someone had made a nice dinner and then accidentally spilled the salt shaker. The salt wasn't needed in the first place and you made it even worse. Secondly, why were all the names you could find needed on this film. I dare you to look at the cast of Pinocchio and say you dont recognize at least 5-7 names. You look at the other movie, the one i have bias towards, i could give you 3 names at most, 3, and even those names are not as well known as they used to be. Plus they didn't plaster their Academy Award winning director's name over the goddamned movie name. Oh goodness Guillermo del Toro made oh it must be better. So you'd listen to the critics paid top dollar by the companies who the make the movies that any movie is better than the other. Statistics of big movie companies have failed. Nowadays it doesn't matter if a movie is good or bad it just has to make an impact. Third, it just wasn't that good. To be honest the biggest discerning factor over my anger at The Last Wish losing to it is how each film left me feeling. Usually even movies that gritty and playfully serious like Pinocchio, if they're actually good, leave me with a sense of empowerment, like I want to do something. I've watched the Help multiple times it's comedically gritty but with this film i just felt empty. Like almost nothing was learned. Of course Pinocchio learned the beauty of mortality but did the movie really teach it. I would say it honestly undermined it in the end. However, if you look over to The Last Wish, that had a similar moral of treating your mortality correctly, it clearly and concisely shows that you shouldnt treat your life like it's worthless, you should treat it like every moment is something to be treasured and it did an amazing job of that. Looping this back into my original point. I believe that since it did such a phenomenal job of explaining the beauty of life i felt empowered to run out and make every day worth a damn. I didn't get that from Pinocchio. What i got from Pinocchio was that life ends and it kinda sucks. Since Sebastian used his wish right at the end to save Pinocchio, it essentially Ctrl alt deleted the big moral that it felt the whole story had been careening towards. It honestly as if someone said "Wait, wait. We have to make this marketable to children. We can't kill Pinocchio now that he's mortal." To be quite honest i believe they should've let him die. It'd feel more meaningful than a wish being the only thing to save him. Hell even Disney tear BS would've felt more meaningful cause at least then the lesson is still learned. Comparatively, The Last Wish took a very heavy theme/moral and was able to not only accomplish stating it clearly but stacking on top of it with every single character's ending. Most ending with an understanding that what they have is worth it and one ending on the lack of realization that his demise was completely due to his selfishness. It's cut clearly. I won't admit there weren't any flaws but the fact that the judges of the Oscars chose an honestly mediocre movie over a goddamned masterpiece should be telling us that maybe it's time to take a break from all those big name companies due to them becoming worthless cash grabby schlock. At least Everything Everywhere All At Once got the recognition it deserved.

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