Finally watched Frozen. SPOILERS

kennith

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People have been on about it so much that I had to check it out. The box looked really cool in Best Buy, but for $29.99, I figured it had better be pretty damned good.

Until this point, the only animated Disney movie I enjoyed significantly was Atlantis: The Lost Empire. That was a bit of a shoe-in, though, as I've been a bit of a flood scholar for many years.

I didn't really like any of the Pixar movies, and I think old-school Disney is a matter of nostalgia rather than quality animation and story-telling. Yeah, I'm an asshole. Whatever.

Frozen is different. I was pretty damned shocked.

To be fair, it has many flaws. The primary problem with the film is it's length. There isn't enough of it. The story is just too big to be crammed into that little "sell the seats" time slot. I was really feeling that all the way through; as if they just couldn't explore the details, which was a terrible shame given the plot, and certainly the visuals and music.

That said, it was outstanding. It seems they managed to subtly break nearly every Disney mold in that film. If you're paying attention, it's obvious. Not everything is neatly wrapped up under the surface, even if it appears to have been covered.

It's as if someone finally tossed an anime DVD through the window in that office, and light bulbs went off in every cubicle.

SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT!






Curse the girl on the cover, ruin her entire childhood, steal her family, terrorize her home by her own action, destroy her in her first public appearance, chain her up just when she explores freedom for the first time, leave her without romance in the end, and make her play second fiddle in the plot to add insult to injury.

It's all obvious, or seems so, but the increasing weight of it all won't be noticed by many. It's a great tragedy that could have been.

It's still a Disney movie. It's still corny, and there might be a bit more music than really should fit in that amount of film, but if it were an hour longer, there's no telling what might have happened. I've seen it three times now; calibrated and cranked up to eleven, of course.

Every time I look closer, I wish they'd have given it more time, or two movies. Fill it out, and roll the credits when the palace goes up. Finish the story next year.

Anyone else like it?

It might sound like I don't, but any time I watch something and wish there was more of it, I've obviously had a shit-load of fun. That damned song is as good as everyone said it was, as well. Pretty bad-ass.

Cheers,

Kennith
 

stu454

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I, I don't know what to say to that. I read every word, twice. This is bizarre and fascinating.

Kennith, have you been into the cough medicine again?
 

brian4d

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Isn't this the little girls movie? I like Disney and Pixar but no thanks. I'd rather re-watch labyrinth or the Never ending story.
 

chrisvonc

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1920SF

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My kids loved it. I'd rather watch Battlefield Earth on a loop than go through it again.
 

kennith

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:rofl:

Yup. I'm weird.

I wouldn't call it a little girls movie, though. If any of you guys work with 3D animation, it's certainly worth watching. They really did set the bar quite high in the physics realm, which is where most films like this just fall flat.

Cheers,

Kennith
 

Nomar

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I wont debate which character is or isn't my favorite.

I will say that the soundtrack is solid.
Idina Menzel takes a slight edge over Kristin Bell but both can belt it out.

Of course, I have the soundtrack on my phone.


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