The Ultimate Walt Disney Company Performances Bracket -- Round One, Day Twenty-Nine
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We have yet to net a matchup — either here or in any past brackets — where one competitor gets 100 percent of the votes and the other one gets zilch. (There have been two matchups in the first round here that have come awfully close.) I feel like there’s no chance it’ll ever happen, but I do predict at least one lopsided vote today.
So let’s go!
(2) Robin Williams, Aladdin vs. (63) Christian Bale, Newsies: I mean…c’mon. You know it’s Williams. I know it’s Williams. Christian Bale knows it’s Williams.
(31) Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies vs. (34) Fred MacMurray, The Absent-Minded Professor: So, I know Mark Rylance won an Oscar for Bridge of Spies. I like the movie, too. It’s good! (I have recalled the repeated line, “Would it help?” more than a few times over the last years.) But I am voting for Fred MacMurray in, and as, The Absent-Minded Professor. I’m not a huge fan of the film itself, but MacMurray is very funny and ridiculous in the title role, and [whispers very quietly] I am not the biggest fan of Mark Rylance as an actor.
[stops whispering very quietly] But how do you vote?
(15) Samuel L. Jackson, Unbreakable vs. (50) Eddie Murphy, Mulan: Unbreakable is very close to a perfect movie, in my opinion. (If the movie did not have the title cards at the end, that would make it closer to perfect. And then if there wasn’t the whole…Glass…thing.) Samuel L. Jackson’s performance as Elijah in Unbreakable is arguably the best performance M. Night Shyamalan’s directed aside from Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense. An easy vote for me, as I say we should bid adieu to Mushu the dragon early.
(18) Angelina Jolie, Maleficent vs. (47) Josh Gad, Frozen: I am not a big fan of Maleficent, but I am even less of a big fan of Olaf the snowman who loves warm hugs and summer. Angelina Jolie gets this one, as much because I would vote against my fellow Josh as I would vote for her.
But I could see Olaf winning here. What do you think?
Aw, I love Olaf. And Gad really brings him to life in a naive, child-like but lovable performance!
My utter loathing for M. Night Shyamalan's films means Eddie Murphy gets my vote. Maybe I should've skipped it entirely, because Murphy ain't great here.