Can you please not use personal attacks as part of your pointless argument?
Are you saying that arguing over semantics on an internet gaming forum regarding a Hollywood popularity contest where rich people give other rich people golden statues regardless of merit...
is pointless? I'm hurt, Insanolord!
Funny, I don't see where I was telling you that they will be pushing The Wind Rises over Frozen. God damn.
You are using a variety of illogical fallacies to prove your point and all it does is make me giggle like a little school girl. I guess all we are doing at this point is laughing at each other.
Alright, since it's becoming rapidly apparent that actually reading what people are saying is not your strong suit, I'll break this down for you slowly: I've never once said that The Wind Rises is better or worse than Frozen. I don't care about the movie. No one cares about the movie. We haven't been allowed to
see it yet in NA. When the movie releases this year, it'll be the same failure -> modest success that all the Ghibli movies have been in NA, and a week later everyone will forget it even existed. Whatever. The only reason Disney even publishes these films in NA is because Lasseter has such a fondness for Ghibli.
It can be the best movie ever made, and it will never win the Oscar for Best Animated Film, which is what I've been saying FROM THE OUTSET (hence "the problem for The Wind Also Rises
at the Oscars"). You know why? Because the Oscars are run by an Academy of increasingly old and easily influenced people, and they are typically decided by whatever marketing agency can throw the most money at "for your consideration" ads and screener copies for the Academy members. And all this is done because Academy Award winners typically have a very healthy home video sales life afterwards. Merit hasn't had any correlation with the actual award winners in decades, if not longer.
Which brings us to the Best Animated Film Oscar. The
one time that a Ghibli movie has won the Best Animated Film Oscar (for the mediocre "Spirited Away"), Disney threw their entire Oscar marketing weight behind that movie
instead of the other films they had up for the Oscar that year. The end result is that this obscure movie no one outside the anime community had ever heard of won the Oscar, which led to a very successful home video campaign that
no other Ghibli movie has since replicated.
Which brings us to Frozen and The Wind Also Rises. Disney has major money riding on Frozen, and The Wind Also Rises is just another Lasseter pet project like all the other Disney-published Ghibli movies. Which do
you think Disney's putting all their Oscar marketing behind? The Gibli movie that not even the general public in NA has even had a chance to see, or the major studio-revitalizing & acclaimed Disney-owned animated feature?
I'm sure The Wind Rises is a potentially decent movie. I haven't liked anything Miyazaki's touched since Princess Mononoke (Howl's Moving Castle was a mess, Ponyo was horrible, and the Miyazaki-written Up On Poppy Hill was average at best), but I'm open to seeing it when it releases on BluRay later this year. But that said, it doesn't stand a chance in hell of winning the Best Animated Film Oscar, not without Disney putting its full weight behind pushing it to the Academy and that's
NOT going to happen. The only reason it even got
nominated was so that Disney could put "Nominated for Best Animated Film" on the BluRay box and sell a couple hundred more copies. Frozen is Disney's heir apparent, and that's all I've ever said on this matter.