Sorry to derail the conversation with asides about comment lengths.
I get how you say you don’t believe it to be furry, but some furries did.
Well, even if I accept that a story about a human transforming into an alien species with vaguely animal characteristics is furry ... then District 9 should have won.
But this year, I'm not super worried about Avatar 2 at the Ursas yet, because it's been a decade, and the voting body has changed (Sonious has a chart and everything in another article!). That, and while Wes Anderson has a personal style that just wasn't doing it for people back in 2009, this year we have contenders like The Bad Guys, which is a a bit less "acquired taste" than Anderson.
As far as Puss in Boots 2, well, that was meant as more of a prediction, though, yes, right now I'd prefer Puss 2 over Avatar 2. Yes, I'm worried about the "3D models made to look 2D" trend, and especially in a movie franchise that is over two decades old and six movies in that has never done that style before, because something being trendy just because it's trendy doesn't always age well. But, qualms about the use of an art style aside, the trailer was funny, Antonio Banderas seems to genuinely enjoy the part and is having as good a time as ever as far as I can tell, and, unlike Avatar 2, I liked the first movie. Oh, and it's actually furry.
On stop motion, I thought maybe LAIKA's Kubo and the Two Strings had been nominated, but then I looked it up and remembered, oh, yeah. 2016. There was some competition. And that's the only one they've done with a lot of furry characters; and none of the other big stop motion things from anyone were that furry, either. Even a lot of Aardman isn't that furry. But you are forgetting Wes Anderson, who has been nominated twice and won once. So I think it's less a furry disinterest in stop motion as just a rarer overall form of animation.
Pinocchio could be good (the Netflix one, not the Disney one), but I'm not super excited about it because I'm not actually that big a fan of Guillermo Del Toro's movies; I like him, he seems like a genuinely nice guy who also genuinely just likes movies. But, honestly, even movies like Hellboy (I love the comics) or Shape of Water (which is basically as close to, if not actually, a furry Best Picture as we'll probably ever get), which I should love, I'm like, "eh, it was okay" at best. That, and, honestly, Disney kind of nailed Pinocchio in one before WWII, so I don't know why we're still messing around with it. But, going back to Del Toro, well, if there was one mainstream director who might actually publicly acknowledge being nominated for an Ursa Major, it would be James GunnWes Anderson Guillermo Del Toro.
Sorry to derail the conversation with asides about comment lengths.
Well, even if I accept that a story about a human transforming into an alien species with vaguely animal characteristics is furry ... then District 9 should have won.
But this year, I'm not super worried about Avatar 2 at the Ursas yet, because it's been a decade, and the voting body has changed (Sonious has a chart and everything in another article!). That, and while Wes Anderson has a personal style that just wasn't doing it for people back in 2009, this year we have contenders like The Bad Guys, which is a a bit less "acquired taste" than Anderson.
As far as Puss in Boots 2, well, that was meant as more of a prediction, though, yes, right now I'd prefer Puss 2 over Avatar 2. Yes, I'm worried about the "3D models made to look 2D" trend, and especially in a movie franchise that is over two decades old and six movies in that has never done that style before, because something being trendy just because it's trendy doesn't always age well. But, qualms about the use of an art style aside, the trailer was funny, Antonio Banderas seems to genuinely enjoy the part and is having as good a time as ever as far as I can tell, and, unlike Avatar 2, I liked the first movie. Oh, and it's actually furry.
On stop motion, I thought maybe LAIKA's Kubo and the Two Strings had been nominated, but then I looked it up and remembered, oh, yeah. 2016. There was some competition. And that's the only one they've done with a lot of furry characters; and none of the other big stop motion things from anyone were that furry, either. Even a lot of Aardman isn't that furry. But you are forgetting Wes Anderson, who has been nominated twice and won once. So I think it's less a furry disinterest in stop motion as just a rarer overall form of animation.
Pinocchio could be good (the Netflix one, not the Disney one), but I'm not super excited about it because I'm not actually that big a fan of Guillermo Del Toro's movies; I like him, he seems like a genuinely nice guy who also genuinely just likes movies. But, honestly, even movies like Hellboy (I love the comics) or Shape of Water (which is basically as close to, if not actually, a furry Best Picture as we'll probably ever get), which I should love, I'm like, "eh, it was okay" at best. That, and, honestly, Disney kind of nailed Pinocchio in one before WWII, so I don't know why we're still messing around with it. But, going back to Del Toro, well, if there was one mainstream director who might actually publicly acknowledge being nominated for an Ursa Major, it would be
James GunnWes AndersonGuillermo Del Toro.