24.02.2009

christopher.slaughter

It's not as if he usually goes out of his way to pull his punches or anything, but over at Daring Fireball, online pundit and Mac maven John Gruber is not happy with the Academy for dissing Wall-E...

Putting WALL-E up against Bolt and Kung Fu Panda rather than letting it compete against Slumdog Millionaire and Benjamin Button is like requiring a 13-year-old chess prodigy to compete only against other children, regardless whether he could stand his own against adult grandmasters. It’s a dismissive pat on the head.

 Read the whole rant here.... it's reasonably short, but in typical Gruber-style, well-argued and passionate.

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