AWKWARD ZOMBIE

I think it's weird how in some of the Frozen advertising Elsa has this evil smirk on her face like, "Haha, I just froze summer."

I saw Frozen today, what a good movie; made me feel emotions.

just got back from the hobbit and since I am very late to the party I’ll just say a few things

-I know that I should just accept things like huge walls of fire passing within inches of people’s faces as just a thing that happens in movies but the moment where Thorin used a wheelbarrow as a raft in a river of molten gold without being immediately burnt on red-hot metal was the moment when my willing suspension of disbelief was shattered
-it didn’t help that the molten gold itself was the dumbest looking CGI I’ve seen since The Mask
-I really really wish that the theater had been completely empty so that I could have been free to cackle madly at the utter ridiculousness of the river riding fight scene. That had to be the funniest 5 minutes in any movie released in the past year

Okay first of all I think the Mask is supposed to look unrealistic like that.
Second, Bombur rolling around from one group of orcs to another was gold. Gold of the non liquid variety.

That scene had the entire theater in tears when I saw it.

Finally got to see Her, and I wasn't disappointed. It's one of those movies, at least for me, that just gets right inside you the whole time.

Haven't seen it, but from what I understand about the premise, the whole thing just seems really creepy to me.

I can see some seeing that? It's definitely not played creepy, though I can definitely see where some scenes might weird some people out (whether it's meant to do so on purpose or not).

Marc, you aint gonna like this. But I didn't like Frozen.

47 Ronin is coming into theaters soon, did anyone watch that perhaps? We're not sure if it's worth it to go watch it at the cinema or rather wait until it gets released on DVD.

It's got Keanu in it. I'm not sure I could take it seriously enough to purchase a ticket.

Hahaha, yeah, it does start to feel a little bit silly because he's SO SRS GUISE the whole time, but considering it's a (American?) fantasy-ish movie adaptation of a Japanese story (and they actually used the original ending, whoa), I'd say it turned out rather well. I saw some people say that it just kind of fell a little flat as far as the action and dialogue, as well as it apparently being a bit "muddled in its genre", but I enjoyed it. It wasn't "oh em gee this is the greatest film ever" by any means, but I liked it.
It probably just falls down to what type of story development you like. 47 Ronin is definitely slow-build development, and it doesn't have the Pirates of the Caribbean or the Last Samurai feel that I think a lot of people were expecting.


So I guess maybe wait for the DVD if you're not sure.

I'm more interested in hearing why you didn't like it before deciding that you're completely wrong.

Just kidding, you can not like it, I won't be offended. Probably.

The concise reasons are they had really good pacing at first, got right into the story. But the the ending came about too quickly. Probably because they used up all their music in the first part of the film.

The long reason I don't like it:

There's the opening song which is really just there as opening credits with the ice guys getting their ice. Fair enough. Opening credits don't count.

So moving on, the next song is the montage for 'do you want to build a snowman'. I liked that song and did what it needed to do to convey Anna's loneliness and carry us through to present day.
Then next song is pretty much immediately after about coronation day. Yeah okay. That song is about Anna's excitement and Elsa's trepidation. I can see those things being worth singing about.
But before the night's over we have another song, 'Love is an open door'I guess you would call it the 'date montage' song. Because that's exactly what it is.

Then Elsa runs away and we get another song, 'Let it go' Good song, important turning point for the story. Important moment for the character.

I guess that's the first half of the movie? But I can't really say that it feels like we're in the middle of a journey at this point. Arendelle only just got frozen, Elsa only just ran away and Anna hasn't even met the other protagonists yet.

So moving on Anna begins her quests. She finds Kristoff, then Olaf , then Elsa. Then gets sent packing by Elsa, then goes back home where surprise, surprise, the villain finally reveals themselves and I guess the last intense moments of the movie happen, ie the climax.

There are only two songs carrying us through this part, Olaf's unnecessary song about summer (didn't move the plot) and the Trolls song about how Anna should date their boy Kris (which also added nothing and in fact diminished the seriousness of her condition).

So I feel that they had some excellent stuff going on, but botched the pacing in the end because they didn't write much of a middle (the internal/external conflict).

You might ask, what they could have done to fill the middle? Well I would have liked to have seen them develop on Elsa's neurosis' a bit more along with Anna's desperation to be with people. I guess showing the differences between them that they had to overcome, like learning to understand and love each other again type stuff. Elsa's own battle with depression and anxiety was super interesting, and I think it would have been nice if even after everything was back to being normal that she still needed to take baby steps when being surrounded by people (since invisible illnesses of that sort aren't cured overnight in reality)
It was practically the climax where they said in words that Anna was desperate for love and she thought she found it in her prince charming when all along the most important love of her life was her sister. That would have been something really specially to see in a Disney movie with princesses, a movie where the girl's worth isn't defined by getting a boy. I mean, it was the climax of the movie, it really would have been nice for more build up as a plot point. I think they could have gone into more depth and really made the movie special that way.

I also felt the villain showed up too late and had so little impact he may as well have not been there. He was bodaciously a deus ex machina. They could have had faceless mobs go after Elsa for the same impact. In fact it would have been a more interesting movie, sans villain where the only issue to overcome is the differences between an extrovert and an introvert. And the whole thing with Hans could have gone down like 'Sorry, my sister comes first, and she's not ready for a brother in law.' or something! Or maybe we save song space and Hans was never there. Either way, as far as villains go. This one fails.

All in all, it's not a bad movie. It's just not all that.

Hmm alright, thanks you two. Ever since I moved here I have to be cautious about movies I'm not so sure about, because the prices for tickets and snacks are so goddamn ridiculously high.

Well yeah, but that's not a problem in The Mask because that's a comedy and SHOULD have goofy CGI.
It was a huge problem for The Hobbit, though.