History YMMV / WaltzWithBashir

* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary, and was ineligible for a documentary nomination due to a rule requiring documentaries to have had a qualifying run in both New York and Los Angeles by 31 August of that year. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* NightmareFuel: Most of the movie. The first scene with the monstrous dogs is an example; But by far the most disturbing instance is the "slaughterhouse", a place where the Phalangists interrogated Palestinian suspects, executed them and collected body parts as trophies. The whole scene looks like a terrifying bad acid trip.

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* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary, and was ineligible for a documentary nomination due to a rule requiring documentaries to have had a qualifying run in both New York and Los Angeles by 31 August. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary. The fact that it's animated ALSO disqualifies it from Best Documentary. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* NightmareFuel: Most of the movie. The first scene with the monstrous dogs is an example, but by far the most disturbing instance is the "slaughterhouse", a place where the Phalangists interrogated Palestinian suspects, executed them and collected body parts as trophies. The whole scene looks like a terrifying bad acid trip.
** '''The ending''': The movie ends with [[spoiler: Forman standing with the other soldiers, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizing what part he played in the massacre]]]] as the [[spoiler: surviving refugees all the blood shed as a result of it]]. What makes it more horrifying [[spoiler: is ''those are '''not''' the screams of the actors, but of '''real life survivors''''']], as [[spoiler: the animation ''cuts'' to the archival footage of them wailing in horror and sorrow as they witness nothing but dead bodies of loved ones and other victims]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Ari Forman once said that the most difficult part of making the film was not taking sides when discussing the war. He only wanted to say that war was terrible in and of itself.

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* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary ([[AnimationAgeGhetto or not suitable for children]], [[SarcasmMode but we're sure the Academy is above such immature reasoning]]). The fact that it's animated ALSO disqualifies it from Best Documentary. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary ([[AnimationAgeGhetto or not suitable for children]], [[SarcasmMode but we're sure the Academy is above such immature reasoning]]). The fact that it's animated ALSO disqualifies it from Best Documentary. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_PK88J3KM The Haunted Ocean]] by Max Richter.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_PK88J3KM The Haunted Ocean]]* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The German porn video probably qualifies as one of these, as it is animated in loving detail and leaves ''nothing'' to the imagination.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The German porn video probably qualifies as one of these, as it is animated in loving detail and leaves ''nothing'' to the imagination.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The eponymous "Waltzing with Bashir" scene. [[spoiler:While TheSquad is under fire, Frenkel rips an FN MAG machine gun from a squadmate and starts [[ATeamFiring waltzing across the street while firing it at the general direction of the enemies]] with a huge picture of the Lebanese president on the background.]] Damn...
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_PK88J3KM The Haunted Ocean]]

* FreudWasRight: Galil shrinkage. The animated model is actually reduced in size by a substantial amount in order to emphasize this. Frenkel is seen holding the front guard with just two fingers, it's that small.

* FreudWasRight: Galil shrinkage.

* FreudWasRight: [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Galil shrinkage]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Ari Forman once said that the most difficult part of making the film was not taking sides when discussing the war and wanted to say that he felt war itself was terrible.

* CompleteMonster: The Phalangists in Sabra and Shatila...special mention goes to the ones who carved crosses into their living victims and slaughtered entire Palestinian families in front of the Israeli soldiers. And laughed about it.

* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler: Near the end of the movie, after the true intention of the Phalangists is discovered, we see how the news of the massacre wanders up the ranks of the IDF. When it finally hits an Israeli officer who cares and takes action, it's already morning. We then see a military jeep driving up to the Phalangists, a man gets out, picks up a bullhorn... and says in a deadpan voice: "Stop the shooting". The Phalangists stop, the surviving refugees return to their destroyed camp, and the man drives off again.]]

* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'' and ''KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary ([[AnimationAgeGhetto or not suitable for children]], [[SarcasmMode but we're sure the Academy is above such immature reasoning]]). The fact that it's animated ALSO disqualifies it from Best Documentary. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The eponymous "Waltzing with Bashir" scene. [[spoiler:While TheSquad is under fire, Frenkel rips an FN MAG machine gun from a squadmate and starts [[ATeamFiring waltzing across the street while firing it at the general direction of the enemies]] with a huge picture of the Lebanese president on the background.]] Damn...* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_PK88J3KM The Haunted Ocean]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_PK88J3KM The Haunted Ocean]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Most of the movie. The first scene with the monstrous dogs is an example, but by far the most disturbing instance is the "slaughterhouse", a place where the Phalangists interrogated Palestinian suspects, executed them and collected body parts as trophies. The whole scene looks like a terrifying bad acid trip.
* {{Moment of Awesome}}: The eponymous "Waltzing with Bashir" scene. [[spoiler:While TheSquad is under fire, Frenkel rips an FN MAG machine gun from a squadmate and starts [[ATeamFiring waltzing across the street while firing it at the general direction of the enemies]] with a huge picture of the Lebanese president on the background.]] Damn...

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The German porn video probably qualifies as one of these, as it is animated in loving detail and leaves nothing to the imagination.

* AwardSnub: It lost the Best Animated Feature nomination to ''{{Bolt}}'' and ''KungFuPanda'', apparently because it's a documentary ([[AnimationAgeGhetto or not suitable for children]], [[SarcasmMode but we're sure the Academy is above such immature reasoning]]). The fact that it's animated ALSO disqualifies it from Best Documentary. However it did get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.