I am a genius

Bear with me a moment and you will see I am not as pompous as I sound.

I like catchy titles and I know that bragging will usually draw attention. Now I am going to defend my statement before I also draw the snappy responses. In November of 2006 people were going crazy with the release of the Wii and the PlayStation 3. Pundits were going ga-ga for the PlayStation 3 and all its powerful specs. With the well dispersed disappointment of the Gamecube, Nintendo last effort, nobody was giving the Wii any credibility as a doorbuster for the upcoming holiday season. Except me. I alone stood the ground that the Wii would the big seller. Let me make it clear here before all the internet junkies start there rant (as most of them are the Sony and XBOX fanboys) that I am not defending the Wii's curretn game line. I lean Nintendo and am a huge Zelda fan but I must express dissapointment in the majority of their line of games. XBOX currently has the best lineup. However video games are still primarily a buisness and numbers do not lie. Wii is the winner. It has been in the lead the entire time except for a few months after Halo 3. And Playstation? HA!

From Wikipedia:

Console	Units shipped to retailers (worldwide) (as of September 30, 2008)		Units sold to consumers in Japan (as of October 1, 2008)		Units sold to consumers in the US (as of November 1, 2008)
Wii	34.55 million		6,826,612		13.4 million
Xbox 360	22 million	0870,000	0748,992 748,992		11.6 million
PlayStation 3	16.84 million	0520,000	2,369,484		05.7 5.7 million

Now on to movies:
On July 19, 2008 I made some outrageous statements. I meant the piece as a satire, to make a point. I understand the backlash I received as there was no way I could defend the comments, and it was a difficult point to make. Even Johnathan Swift had problems with his "Modest Proposal", which is now viewed as one of the finest pieces of satire ever.

What did I say?

I said forget the rest of the year, we have our Oscar winners: Wall·E and The Dark Knight should win everything.

Even I don't believe they deserve every award but I wanted to make a point that we should recognize these widely popular pieces in the areas that they deserve their due credit. I was afraid they would be overlooked. I slowly accepted that they would not be given anything major. The pundits were right...

But hold the phones, launch the torpedoes, I have yet to begin to fight, WHATS THIS?!?
Maybe the Academy won't go through and finish my dream but my point is well made. Look at this!

-Wall·E won Los Angeles Film Critics Association, The Dark Knight is runner up.
-The Dark Knight won Utah Film Critics best picture award.
-Wall·E wins Chicago Film Critics best picture award.
-Wall·E is a London Critics Circle best picture nominee.
-Entertainment Weekly has Wall·E and The Dark Knight on Lisa Schwarzbaum and Owen Gleiberman Top 10 lists. Wall·E ranks 1st and 4th respectively. The Dark Knight gets 2nd and 3rd respectively.
- The Onion AV Club puts Wall·E as the best picture of the year. The Dark Knight comes in 4th.
- Wall·E is a runner up with Toronto Film Critics for best picture.
- The Dark Knight won best picture from the Austin Film Critics.
- Detroit Film Critics have both Wall·E and The Dark Knight among their nominees.
- Wall·E ties Slumdog Millionaire (the only other film with this many wins) for Best Picture from the Boston Film Critics.
- The Dark Knight and Wall·E make AFI's top 10 list for 2008.
-Stephen King ranks The Dark Knight as his top film of the year. Wall·E comes in third.
-The Dark Knight comes in second on Richard Roeper's top 10 list.
-Both films are Critics Choice nominees.

Sure Milk and Slumdog Millionaire are garnering a lot as well but besides those two films, all the other Oscar bait are underpreforming. Doubt has been floundering, Revolutionary Road is campaigning like mad and all it has is a Golden Globe to show for it. Austrailia came and went. Changeling has as many nominations as Tropic Thunder does. Even Oscar front runner Benjamin Button has less critics backing it than Wall·E and The Dark Knight.

Face it. I was right. Even if the Oscars don't go with this trend, my point was well made.