Land Of The Lost is now *this* closer to securing a Best Pic nod...

I like the Oscars. Or... I like complaining about them, to be more precise. Cause you know... my opinions hold more weight than any collection of snooty film "lovers", and when Sean Penn steals an Oscar away from Mike Myers, I get upset.

So when AMPAS announces they're increasing the Best Picture fold to 10, I treat it like pretty big news. After all, it pretty much is a concession that they royally screwed up the Best Picture category last year, and that from now on that it won't ignore silly animation or superhero movies in favor of merely recognizing Oscar bait material.

I'm not sure exactly how expanding the category to ten nominees will work out this year, but it sure has me thinking about what would have occurred last year. So I'm going to try to retroactively prognosticate what the "bottom five" nominees would have been for last year's Best Picture field.

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Of course, these are just my opinions on how I feel the Academy would have filled out the rest of the five, and not my own opinion on who deserves it or anything. And with that said, I'm first going to reveal some possibly popular choices that WOULDN'T make the top ten, according to my own predictions:

-WALL-E: Omitted because the first 30 minutes are pretty much dialogue free, which is too weird for the Academy. Plus it makes fun of fat people, and imagine the controversy...
-The Wrestler: Way too much blood for the Academy's taste. Plus, wrestling is fake. They don't ACTUALLY get hurt...
-Let The Right One In: It's in Swedish. Who the hell speaks in Swedish nowadays anyway?
-The Dark Knight: Oh, the Joker's too nihilistic for SERIOUS consideration. Plus no one would go around fighting crime in a Batsuit. That's just silly.

So what does the final five look like? Well, without any further adieu...

-Australia
-Bolt
-Changeling
-Doubt
-Revolutionary Road

Why these five, you might ask? Well... you've got four Oscar bait movies, which the Academy obviously loves to recognize. And then, you have Bolt, which not only is an ANIMATED movie, but is also about a SUPERHERO dog. So nominating that will SURELY put to rest those who cry bias against animation and comic book flicks, right?! Of course!

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So yeah. I'm assuming that expanding the field to ten will just allow them to screw up even more, causing us all to bellyache all the more about inclusions and exclusions and all that jazz. Of course, we'll all keep watching, cause complaining is what everyone likes to do. So nice move, Academy.