What's everyone up to right now?

[pocaracas]

Hehe... I think I saw a documentary on the production of Frozen... and it went through tons of iterations, until it became what we have...
So much cut and paste happened in there that the end result can have that feeling of... huh?!... wut?! why?!

But kids like magic... girls like princesses and there were two in one movie!! (well, one of them became queen).
And Olaf was just cute and there to sell toys, because... what else in that movie could sell toys? the reindeer? the stone trolls?
Movies are huge advertisement spots for toys. That's why we're getting a Cars 3 and why Toy Story is getting a fourth.... and star wars is to go up to 9... (just going by Disney movies, here! )

Ooooo, in the original story, "The Snow Queen".... this queen is the bad guy. But you know Disney... they just can't port a good story to the big screen, no.... must change it, make it "better".

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From the wiki:
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"Hans Christian Andersen's original version of The Snow Queen is a pretty dark tale and it doesn't translate easily into a film. For us the breakthrough came when we tried to give really human qualities to the Snow Queen. When we decided to make the Snow Queen Elsa and our protagonist Anna sisters, that gave a way to relate to the characters in a way that conveyed what each was going through and that would relate for today's audiences. This film has a lot of complicated characters and complicated relationships in it. There are times when Elsa does villainous things but because you understand where it comes from, from this desire to defend herself, you can always relate to her. 'Inspired by' means exactly that. There is snow and there is ice and there is a Queen, but other than that, we depart from it quite a bit. We do try to bring scope and the scale that you would expect but do it in a way that we can understand the characters and relate to them."
– Producer Peter Del Vecho, on the difficulties adapting The Snow Queen[40]
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Can't have an evil strong feminine character, these days... bad guys must be... guys.... or corporations... or countries... or para-military groups (again, guys).

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All-in-all, you need to have the mindset of a child to enjoy the movie.
I can do that... it's so easy.
- Assume witches are hunted and murdered.
- Assume the royal family would not have their child exposed to such barbarism.
- Assume ignorant obnoxious royal family who refuse to listen to the "people" who help them.
- Assume that mastery of mutant powers is something that can happen over the course of a mountain climb... or a 4 minute song! How difficult can it be? Think about a shape on ice or snow and it materializes! Ice bridge - pow! snowman - kar-pow! (oh... that snowman has some actual man in him... meh )
- Assume that people who live in a country in Northern Europe don't know how to handle the cold and are left powerless to go after one person.
- Assume that a thing that has immediate effects at the start of the movie, can last several hours to take effect, later on... -.-' (remember when Elsa hit Anna when they were kids? and then hit her when they were in the ice castle?)
- Assume the same power that created the friendly Olaf, can easily create an evil ice-bouncer.

I think that's enough...
Most movies require some level of suspension of disbelief... some try to provide a reason for things that don't exist in our world (in Tangled, it was a rare magic flower)... some don't bother...

[pocaracas]

Well then... be consistent and keep at it.
Don't let mum dictate what you can or can't do... you're a big boy, now!

Yeah she stepped in it, she has no control over my Facebook feed.

She tried to pull the "you represent the family" shit on me just now. I rattled off all of the things that she should be proud of.

HAHA represent the family!!
Doing a fine job at that, by my book!
Not so by her book... but what matters more? the opinion of an internet stranger, or your own mum?!

[Expired]

Going out with staff from work on our summer social, the cleaning ladies are mental so it should be a good night.

[robvalue]

Well, I had a really good nap. So good I had no idea what time it was was when I woke up. Or what day it was.

I am currently enjoying the warm contented feeling that can only follow dropping the kids off at into the pool.

Emptied.

Fixed for accuracy

[Esquilax]

So of course, because everything went so smoothly yesterday- we got our place- there has to be one last little kick in the nuts: all of a sudden, nobody wanna loan us a truck to move our stuff. There's a perfectly good one just sitting at the place we're leaving from, but god forbid those old assholes make even a single thing easy: gotta futz around and make it as difficult as possible!

I will be so glad to be done with this. I'd just hire a truck if I could afford it.

[robvalue]

[vorlon13]

Contemplating James Earl Ray, Lynnette "Squeaky" Frome, Sirhan Sirhan, Lee Harvey Oswald, Joseph Paul Franklin, Sarah Jane Moore, John Hinckley Jr, and . . .

[Esquilax]

Okay yeah, we just hired a truck. There were some variables we tweaked to make it work.

[Joods]

Okay yeah, we just hired a truck. There were some variables we tweaked to make it work.

I am so terribly sorry that you have to go through all this bullshit while her family refuses to do the right thing. I hope you both can distance yourselves from them for good once you get settled into your new home. If I lived closer, I'd be over there helping you all out.

[Esquilax]

Okay yeah, we just hired a truck. There were some variables we tweaked to make it work.

I am so terribly sorry that you have to go through all this bullshit while her family refuses to do the right thing. I hope you both can distance yourselves from them for good once you get settled into your new home. If I lived closer, I'd be over there helping you all out.

Thanks for that.

We're not even telling them where we're moving to. They'll have no choice but to stay away, especially since we'll be across town from them, we'll never accidentally meet. Only the family closer by, who've proven themselves to be actual family over the past week, will know where we'll be.

And you guys, if any of you happen to be out in the Springs.