Watch This: Brilliant Oscar-Nominated Short 'Logorama'

I thought that was good, not the best iv'e ever seen, but up there with decent shorts. It felt like a dream though: one minute you're hanging out with a bunch of cops, the next you're chasing a crazy clown down the highway, the next thing you know the earth starts breaking apart, next your in a car with some kid and the girl driving as far from the city as possible. It didn't really tie up and make any sense. But the animation was cool, and you're right i dunno how they'll get away with the brand logo issues.

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How did you like this short so much? It's awful. It's like a first year film school student wrote it. The use of the logos isn't very clever most times either.

There are a few good uses, but there's one for every 20 bad ones.

I'm going for 'French Roast' on March 7th. 'Logorama' is last on my list.

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Guys, I wouldn't be so sure everything on YouTube is legally there. Logorama is most probably not.

http://charles.nouyrit.com/2010/01/22/logorama-in-the-web2-0-storm/

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I watched this along with the other four nominated shorts (they're all linked at cartoonbrew.com) and I was pretty amazed to see all the glowing reviews of it. An initially clever idea, but fifteen minutes of it? And the longer it went on, it seemed to me that it wasn't anything but a clever idea carried to extremes -- there was no underlying point (a satire on consumerism?) beyond "Let's put 2500 logos in an action movie." I appreciate the audacity, but at fifteen minutes I expected something else. (As a nominatable short, I much preferred "The Cat Piano," which made the shortlist of ten but not the final five. You can also see that at Cartoon Brew.)

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This reminds me a video a professor of mine created a few years ago. It's about fair usage of copyrighted material.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

I wonder if fair use rules apply to logos. I doubt it, but if this is nominated for an Oscar, I am incline to think this was legally put together. With that kind of publicity, even Walt Disney is aware that his logo is being used. And Walt would sue if he could.

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WOW! it's scary and very telling that anyone could miss the point so blatantly put forward by this amazing short. it's not amazing because it uses logos (which are indeed allowed because of fair use laws that protect artists who are using copyrighted material for parody), it's amazing because it shows what hyper-capitalism is doing to our world. you didn't make the connection between ronald mcd. and the american cancer society he crashes into? or the huge 'w' floating in the water? this is the way the french see the effects of american greed on our planet. this film expresses a strong political statement, and the fact that some people don't even see that means our idiocracy is alive and well.

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Linda, we didn't miss the point at all. I saw this silly short last night. I don't need a bunch of guys who have made loads of money creating commercials for Dior, Cartier, and Yves saint Laurent to preach to me about the dangers of capitalism. Oddly enough, as soon as the film ended and the Sony projection system shut down, all of the viewers reached into their Abercrombie and Fitch or North Face jackets, and Gucci bags to check their iPhones and then dashed over to the Starbucks next door.

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Logorama is crazy funny, if not really food for thought. My vote went to La Dama y La Muerte for its terrific pace and design, and for its
elegant translation of a serious point into bangbang Tom&Jerry cartoon slapstick.

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those videos don't work anymore. go to http://bit.ly/logoramashort to see the Logorama movie

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Saw the Academy shorts, and this one was by far the worst of the bunch. The other four had much more subtle satiric elements - even the enjoyable Wallace and Gromit short had an excellent bit of satire about advertising images vs. reality. But they all contained a fantastic story.

And that's where it starts, isn't it? All four of the other shorts start with a great story that continually progresses and surprises. This short is just a single idea that's couldn't be more obvious, thanks, Linda, and then devolves into a dull, repetitive standard chase sequence with stilted dialogue (they couldn't even bother to replicate the way real Americans speak)

Unbelievable that this won best animated short, but then Academy voters often vote for the most overtly political statement so that they can somehow feel good about themselves.

Good luck to the filmmakers as they push their "business product" and try to rise to the heights in their competitive business environment.

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A Matter Of Loaf And Death is much better than this. The hard work and passion that is required to make even a short plastimation film should've been rewarded with an Oscar.

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