Elsa is a bitch IMO... All the problems and a crappy attitude, then comes out the hero in every little girls eyes...
Easy on the posts about Kennith. At least he had the balls to post this.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
I prefer when you over-analyze tires. Check out these:
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http://expeditionportal.com/exclusive-cooper-discoverer-stt-pro-review/
Damn it man, now I've got to think. I'm supposed to be avoiding strenuous mental activity. :rofl:
Looks like that uses the same basic tech as the other tire. If they haven't filled out the area above the bead, I'm still not interested. That spot was quite weak on the other STT I checked out, and it's a pretty damned important spot.
You can make a tire out of bricks, if you want, but if that area isn't chock full of rubber, it will always be missing something. I'm also not entirely convinced the ply turn up is happening where it needs to, but I don't remember if those guys ever gave me the information I wanted.
I'll have to get a closer look when I can. I don't trust the cutaway diagrams I see of those things. They just don't jive with what I've handled in person.
I don't like the idea of a dedicated sidewall deflection area. Looking at the tire, it appears to be an excuse for a molding pattern that is becoming more common. Focusing all the flex in one spot constantly isn't a good idea; especially where the tread section meets the sidewalls.
That extra nonsense on the lugs is a bit silly, as well. It's still a streetable tire. You can't savethe mud performance with those little scallops. All it's going to do is chunk more easily, regardless of the compound. That's nothing more than a talking point in a sales pitch.
They might have a nice tread compound, though. It sounds good, anyway.
The tire, however, could be prone to delamination, sidewall punctures/tears above the bead, chunking, and popping beads at low pressures. I could see these issues being a potential problem, unless they've engineered some way around it.
That, however, is a bit silly. People figured out off pavement tire carcasses years ago. This is one area of design that simply does not need to be updated. Every time someone tries, they end up making something worse.
A prime example are the Goodyears sitting on my spare wheel rack right now.
So much could have gone right with those. They made so many good decisions, but they just couldn't put the pencils down when they should have.
The focus should be on increased quality control, better molding techniques, inventive tread patterns, and experiments regarding tread compounds.
The number one problem with off pavement tires right now is poor quality control. After that, the biggest issue is pointless innovation. There's room for that in performance road tires, but we don't need NASA tech. We need stuff that's been working fine for decades.
That's one of the reasons I like my Generals so much. They haven't invented anything new, here. They've dredged up past adventures and slammed them on the table along with a seriously healthy sack of nuts.
I'm compromising on performance given the tread pattern, but they pay off in pretty much every other area aside from mileage.
The guy that wrote that article seems to be well-traveled given the offered resume, but he's fallen right into the trap every other tire reviewer has: I've got a new tire, I ran it around some rocks and light mud for a few miles and it didn't pop, so it gets a thumbs up.
When it comes to mud and rocks on street tolerable tires, you aren't going to see much of a performance difference between the good options until you hit Intercos, Michilin X whatevers, Simex or dedicated stickies. Everything else is going to get you as far as such a tire on your vehicle can. It's the other performance stuff, as well as durability, that separates them.
Cheers,
Kennith
Something about that movie in particular just doesnt keep our son tuned in. Just about any other Pixar/Disney movie he watch at least a few times but I really dont think we've ever made it past 15 minutes in before our little guy punches out from Frozen and wants Cars or Cars 2....
again...
for the 7000000000th time...
end to end....
never stopping....
help us
Hey kennith my mom made a really cool Frozen costume for my niece last Halloween . You want me to see if I can get it for you ? It's gonna be tight cause she's like 7 .
As always, we can always count on you to inform us how shitty tires are.
Perhaps. It depends on whether I can find a prostitute that can squeeze in there.
Cheers,
Kennith
Easy on the posts about Kennith. At least he had the balls to post this.
No such luck.. my kid is full on digital. If it doesnt work on the tv media streaming device, he has his ipad to fall back on. The only VCR he's seen is the antique at grandpa house, amazingly it still works.Look on the bright side; they do grow out of it. Feels like an eternity but it will stop, at least it did for me. It may have something to do with the VCR "died" and there wasn't a replacement to be found.
He can handle it . Don't worry about old Kennith . If he wants to watch gay kids movies its ok with me . I got a friend who likes to eat Cheetos and watch porn with an orange dick .