I didn't think Wal-Mart was going to have Frozen II just yet, but it's the first series I've completed so fast. And I never thought I'd own it, because the characters are really annoying...but since watching it online is such a hassle and my computer always dies, I figured, at least if I have it I can watch it when they get stuck in my head. Plus, it gives me more options. I actually saw Shrek 4 about five times in one week because I was tired of everything else.
I think I'm going to buy more movies, if I can. It would be nice to have variety even if my computer does die. And I'm low on patience. Since November, I've replaced it twice. And since October, it's been repaired three times. I definitely want to expand my choices. Unfortunately I've got several series I don't think I'll ever be able to complete. I'm considering getting rid of the ones I own.
But today wasn't bad. I always get this rush when I complete a collection of anything. I even bought a juice I hadn't tried before, and it's working out pretty well.
I finally saw Frozen 2 yesterday ... I liked the first one better (more beautiful snow and ice, lol) but the second wasn't bad. A little too embarrassingly "singy" for me, and I'll be skipping Kristoff's forest singing thing the same way I skip Olaf's summer song in the first one next time I see it, but ... yeah, mostly it was pretty good :p
ReplyDeleteI liked the second one better; although I skip past the singing in every Disney movie ever. I just wish they could make a serious character for once, whose life isn't all sunny and good even if you're stuck in a tower, or you're a slave to your horrible family and under a spell designed to make you prettier than you are. I think it's horrible that all of their characters go through terrible things, but they just laugh it off; I mean, that's a terrible message for children.
DeleteDisney's not about serious and realistic, for the most part; you especially won't see that in their animated movies.
DeleteAlso, I disagree; kids can tell the difference between the good and bad things happening to the characters, so it's not like Disney is trying to make being a slave in your own home seem normal. Mostly it's about maintaining a good attitude despite the bad things in life, because of course, no one is without them, no matter how 'sunny' someone's life seems. :p
I'm not so sure they can. It seems so obvious to me now, but back then I had to have everything explained to me. I don't even know when that changed.
DeleteAnd I didn't mean to make them too serious; I just mean a character who isn't afraid to yell when she's angry, instead of break down and cry. The closest we came was Rapunzel when she finds out who she is. Admittedly I haven't seen very many Disney movies, but so far the girls only seem capable of alternating between doing something exhausting, like trying to run across a collapsing bridge, and sobbing their hearts out.
There's no way to say this without sounding pretty bad, but, you still need some things explained to you, and although that's normal, there are times when it's very obvious someone's making a joke and you've taken it all so absolutely seriously. I might be wrong, but it does seem to me that you and I were both "behind" all the other kids growing up ... and don't you remember all those adults suggesting Mom and Dad get us checked for mental disabilities and them saying they never would because we'd be labelled? I do think we might honestly not be quite normal in the head ... though we're more or less competent so can't complain, lol
DeleteTo be fair, the ladies in those movies are usually going through something serious - finding out your 'mother' is actually your kidnapper and has been using your body as her personal fountain of youth for eighteen years would probably devastate most people, even ones with friends and other support systems.
If the bridge you're talking about is the scene from Frozen 2, don't forget that the dam needed to come down (I can't remember why, I've only seen it once so far, lol) and Anna thought Elsa was dead, leaving her the last living member of their family just when she was finally getting something like a family back. I don't know, I guess, but it made sense at the time ...
And I personally like that the girls don't just cry all the time; admittedly crying is pretty much my first instinct to certain stressful situations, and it makes those girls my role models to see them accept a hard situation and go, "Okay, this sucks, so how can I make it better?" and then they actually find a way to do it. :)
No, I don't remember that. But people don't need to say anything; I can very well feel how slow I am.
DeleteI'm not saying crying is bad. I do my share of it. But just once, I'd like to see a Disney princess who actually behaves like a princess. Maybe pushing a chair over in her distress. All I'm saying is, just a little bit of anger. Once in 96 years.
Fair point; I admire Anna from Frozen in particular because she was left alone long before she was orphaned, and yet she maintained a shockingly wonderful outlook on life; no jealousy or bitterness, just forgiveness and happiness ...
DeleteI admire it, but it's not very realistic; some anger would make her more human :p
I never thought about it, but I guess Anna might have been so persistent about true love because she was so alone. I just thought it was a princess thing.
DeleteSomething I never understood about the first movie is that Anna implies to Hans that Elsa is very hot-headed, pardon the pun. But she's not an exception when I say that I've never seen a princess, well, lose her cool.
That's absolutely why she was so interested in finding true love - her argument to Elsa ("What would you know about true love? All you know is how to shut people out!") proves it for me ... she was alone for years, locked away in a castle without knowing WHY she was locked in, and deprived of contact with the only person close to her age in there ... and after their parents died I'm guessing it was way worse; she probably felt like she had no family left.
DeleteIt might be a princess thing, for sure - those girls are usually locked up their whole childhoods; no wonder they're desperate for human contact.
lol, good point; I'm pretty sure that's just because Elsa doesn't like to be touched, though; she's so afraid of hurting someone with her uncontrolled (at the time) powers. But Anna thinks it's all about not getting dirty, at first :p
I've never seen a movie about a princess who wasn't desperate to kiss any stranger. I thought they were all just kind of slutty; but I guess Anna's not so bad. But Fiona did it, Anna did it. Rapunzel didn't quite do it, but she thought Flynn might consider it destiny that he climbed her tower, and assuming is even worse. I think it's kind of awful that Disney justifies the craving for intimacy with just anyone because if they don't, something horrible could happen; like Anna dies, or Snow White never wakes up, which is the same; or Fiona is cursed for eternity. I did like that in Frozen, it was any act of true love, instead of it all boiling down to a relationship.
DeleteNope, just desperate for human contact ... and it's important to remember that they're mostly grown women from eras where people didn't live as long and tended to live harder and faster while younger, so not only do they have normal urges and probably less uncertainty about acting on them, most/all were raised reading/studying a lot (sometimes for lack of anything else to do), so they likely got used to the idea of relationships earlier in life than people do now. For some of them, it was likely the closest they could get to human contact, as well as a good escape from their awful realities, so it makes sense they'd want a real 'happily ever after'.
DeleteFrozen was definitely special that way ... but if you think Disney's bad, consider reading the old versions of the tales their stories are based on! Sleeping Beauty is one example - she was put into an enchanted sleep, raped, and nine months later one of her hungry twin babies sucks the thing that put her to sleep out from under one of her fingernails, and if I remember right, this wakes her up so she can fall in love with her rapist. Then there's the versions of the Little Mermaid in which she commits suicide and/or kills the prince ...
Some fairy tales are so messed up, but having said that, I still like the version of the Princess and the Frog in which the princess throws the frog into a wall one night.
Okay, so at least one princess threw something in 96 years. Was she angry, or freaked out that it was talking? I think I've only seen Tangled, Big Hero 6, Tinkerbell, Frozen, Moana, and The Little Mermaid.
DeleteI think she was angry; IIRC she had to share her meals and bed with the frog, and she was so grossed out by it or angry about something it said that she throws it at a wall, where of course it falls to the floor and turns back into a prince ...
DeleteTangled, Frozen, and Moana are three of my favourites; also Brave :D
I saw Brave! I forgot about that one.
DeleteI know the originals are pretty horrific. In Cinderella, the stepsisters cut their feet to fit into their shoes. In, I think, Jack And Jill; they work together to shove some lady into the oven, or something.
Hansel and Gretel did that, I think, to the witch who was going to eat them ... that one's fair!
DeleteYeah, I think they did cut their feet, and in one story an evil woman is forced to wear red-hot metal shoes and dance in them until she dies!
I know. Eesh. Still, they could have done things differently. I would've begun with dialing it down on Gothel's chest, and changing the lyrics to Show Yourself.
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