rofl Aaron that was really good, my favorite was the last one, considering I've heard my brother play the demo video...
Yeah silibic splicing sucks, you can get some amusing results though sometimes, like that, rofl. Though pretty hard to understand.
Yeah I just watched Frozen. Finally! I actually liked it allot, I mean I had a few critisisms, but that didn't really make the movie bad for me or anything. I think it's Disney's best in a while and one of the better princess ones, my sister watches them allot so I've seen most of them.
But I do have to admit, because of how much Elsa freaks out and what she always says when she's about to start throwing ice everywhere, I also thought replacing that with farting would be amusing, rofl, that and it would also be amusing if the hole thing was an extended metaphor for puberty and self image, but, it clearly is, so...
I guess the hole this is what happens if you suppress your daughter, on the advice of a bunch of old and wise, but also overly self confident people, the entire contenent will freeze solid, and if you don't make it better everyone will nearly die, and she'll start randomly exploding everywhere, and have a harder time holding it back the older she gets, until she lives by her self and gets some big scary dude to guard her home, well it's kind of an amusingly blunt way of saying it, especially considering her sister, who's basically the exact opposit, even though she was also suppressed, if less, is the only one that can save her, and by extention everyone else. But it's a good message, especially the part about anger and fear creating ice, love and hope thawing it, and also about not falling for the first pretty face you see, in Ana's case, since that person may just be taking advantage of your inexperience.
Yeah that's probably why I think it's the best Disney movie in a while, I mean most have good underlieing messages but this one was easier to flush out even for kids, partly because the glits and glam wasn't so overblown that you couldn't even see it through it all, and partly because instead of using the same message that most of the movies use, or only 1, it tackles allot of often interconnected issues at once.
Probably the only things I didn't like were the overly depressing back story, and the sort of pasted on side note messages on some of the scenes. Rreally, in the end, yes Elsa and Ana have each other now, but you only see the beginning of the healing, Elsa was still gone, and ignoring Ana for something like 12 to 15 years, which probably really screwed up Ana's childhood, something you can see in her lonelyness and sadness as she gets older and Elsa still doesn't interact with her.
Then the parents die, obviously so that the independants thing can happen but it's still salt in an open wound at this point, and after that Ana starts giving up on her sister and becoming bitter.
Meanwhile Elsa is still suppressing everything, somehow, after being told as a small child just how dangerous she is to everyone she cares about, and having even less of a childhood than her sister, while the adults she loved and was supposed to trust aided her fall into self doubt, but are now dead, and now she is at the same time probably hating her self, not only for what she is, but what she has and could do, but also for letting down Ana constantly, and she is clearly becoming more depressed and closed as time goes on because of this.
Then we've got the hole adventure part, after Elsa refuses to bless Ana's marage, scares her sister yet again, hurts her even worse than before.., runs away so she can't hurt anyone, while also having to worry about the responsibility she's leaving behind. But at least Elsa discovers her self before she's crushed by what she's done again, and sees her friends and people, her entire country turn on her, while Ana finds someone she can actually understand and appreciate, Christoph is like Elsa in that he's a hard nut to crack, but he can be, unlike Elsa, so Ana falls right back into that roll, all be it with more success this time around.
Elsa sacrifices her self for Ana after realizing what she's done, and what Hans will do,essentially paying for both their mistakes by her self, changing Ana's mind about Elsa's true ententions, which she had thought had turned towards uncaring and reckless even to those she loved the most.
Ana saves Elsa, they live happily ever after, supposedly, but allot is unsolved, and even throwing in the snowman as an incredibly obvious distraction from the miserable past the sisters share doesn't help that hole lot, at least for minds old enough to think about it.
It's nice that Elsa is more controlled now and can use her powers safely, but she still can't do it much, and the idea I get is that she's pretty well tied directly into the land around her, which is where she gets her natural powers of elemental manipulation, so that's gotta feel kinda crappy compared to the ice palace, maybe they can work out weekend retreats? Rofl
But Elsa still has a hole lot of new responsibility and they will probably both have trama for this, Ana for her heart almost freezing and being abandoned to die by a sociopath, which, can't have felt good physically, or mentally, and Elsa for hurting her sister yet again, even worse than before, but at least they ahve the snowman and the raindeer and the viking dude for moral support.
Just think it should have been finished better, the bonding you get to see is basically the 2 sisters scating, and that's sweet, and a good faidout shot, but it is kind of underwelming, not even any promises not to up and leave, or go off the rocker and freeze the contenent or marry some random dude again, or lock your self away for a decade or more, or get all emotional and untrusting.
There was also the kind of pasted on, among the fixer upper song of insanity and being blown away by a storm of love, message about o, by the way, can't change people. So anyway!
Along with that hole Hans gets kicked into a pool or something at the end, and gets to roam free, really? That's all? Lock up this mentally unstable and clearly murderous guy, people, and get him some help if possible, you did it for Elsa, don't tell me you don't have a jail|! ROFL!
There's also that time Ana kicks, I think? Christoph in order to force him to start traveling earlier than the next day, think she does it twice actually, she feels all bad and says she's sorry, like she didn't mean to hit him that hard or, something, maybe it was an accedent and I didn't read into it correctly but the timing and tone of her voice and his seemed like it.
I think the message should be, don't hit guys to get them to do what you want just because they are stronger, not, get all flustered then quickly forget about it and passingly appologise when you actually do it hard enough to cause some pain.
I think Disney here was confused about exactly how much they could sneak passed the conservative croud, and, to some extent, the people who've been watching the movies for ever, they took some risks even with what they did do, but they also did some half assed messages because they got scared about how the overall drift of the movie would go, which is more societys fault than theirs I think, unfortunate though it may be, but they still need to make money off it and they do have a reputation to uphold, so they can't alienate everyone no matter how hurtful their stuck in the passed beliefs, and or down with political correctness! even when it becomes just harmful! may be.
I know that explination makes it seem as though I hated it, but there was allot of good jokes and touching moments, the score was great, plenty of good attention grabbing melodies that were also very pleasing to hear, I liked most of the singing and acting, the ideas were unique, the ice powers were kick ass, especially for Disney which, yes does that kind of thing, but not usually for the princess's them selves, the setting was good and while still off the mark, was closer than some other Disney movies to being accurate to the area and culture portrayed, but I do know that it's a tossup between viewer relatability and cammio appearances and awh inspiring and unique atmosphere and appropriate places, carictors and behaviors for directors of mostly kid oriented films, especially those meant primarily for a home audiance.
The story was a good one, with some interesting and unique situations, even if it had some choices that I might disagree with, and it unfolded well, made me feel more than just 1 overwelming emotion afterwards and made me think, and as I said before the message is a vitally important one, rapped in enough good special effects and strong plot progression to really get the ideas out there with the excellent opertunity that this type of wide spread media from a well knone corperation, and a few famous names, can command.