Movie Smackdown Comix – Oscar Edition

We call them Comix.

You’ve seen them in most of our reviews where we take the studios’ standard garden-variety publicity stills and armed only with an iMac, some Comic Life Magiq software and a serious authority issue, we present them in a way that you can’t get anywhere else. Namely, we take those characters and we put words in their mouths. And really, who doesn’t harbor a secret desire to take famous actors and make them say whatever you want?

Anyway, here’s our complete collection of work from the Academy Award Best Picture nominations. Be warned. We haven’t treated the films with the special reverence that the Academy traditionally serves up. And, because we’re basically film contrarians, we present them in reverse-alphabetical order. So there…

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Sherry Coben reviews Up in the Air -vs- It’s Complicated

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Stephen Bell reviews Up -vs- Wall-E

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Sherry Coben reviews A Serious Man -vs- The Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Bryce Zabel comments on Precious -vs- Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

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Bryce Zabel reviews Inglourious Basterds -vs- Saving Private Ryan

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Sherry Coben reviews The Hurt Locker -vs- In the Loop

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Sherry Coben reviews An Education -vs- A Single Man

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Beau DeMayo reviews District 9 -vs- Alien Nation

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Mark Sanchez reviews The Blind Side -vs- Hoosiers

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Beau DeMayo reviews Avatar -vs- Dances with Wolves

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Rodney Twelftree reviews Avatar -vs- Star Trek

Check out all our Comix in their own special section, where you can play them as a pretty cool slide-show. Enjoy!