Linkage
In mid November Disney Studios chairman Rich Ross told Deadline‘s Pete Hammond that “we have the biggest and best reviewed film of the year in Toy Story 3 [so] we’re going for the Best Picture win…if not this year and not this movie, when?” Disneyland Resort hotel workers have a response: “Some other year, pal. Your Disney corporate colleagues are trying to screw us out of health benefits, so you and Toy Story 3 can symbolically share the blame.”
The facts do seem to suggest that Disney is not treating its employees fairly. But is it fair to link the Oscar fortunes of Toy Story 3 to this dispute? The Pixar guys who created Toy Story 3 are, of course, blameless. But if I was an activist for the Disneyland Resort hotel workers, I would be making this same point, unfair as it may seem. Disney is Disney and all corporations are sociopathic in nature. Eff Mickey.
It’s not really that unfair. They are creating a public relations nightmare for the company and trying to deny them something that they want (A BP nom) while making a strong point against the company at large.
I just don’t get the Best Picture arguments for Toy Story 3. It’s the weakest of the three films, saved only by the final ten minutes of cathartic bliss. Is it a Return of the King thing, where you reward the final film as a salute to the entire series??
I vote for “Tangled,” bitches!
just because it is the weakest of the three doesn’t mean it isn’t really good.
If TS3 isn’t nominated but “Kids …” is, then that would be a load of crap.
@Ray
Yeah, their current campaign for TS3 is pretty misguided and underhanded. There’s the ‘riding the coat tails’ thing you mention plus a whole lot of guilt thrown in for good measure.
Their “If not now then when?” slogan seems arrogant to me and begs the answer “When you release something that deserves it!”
I’m not against an animated film winning Best Picture, just against suggestions that films as middling as TS3 or Up deserve it.