What's everyone up to right now?

[Pat Mustard]

Find yours truly in the lower left

But did you answer the true question for dark matter, is it any use in making beer?

Congrats. Hope you get lots more published

[Pat Mustard]

What I'm doing now is watching the UK Labour MPs kill their own party, and getting angry about it.

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What I'm doing now is watching the UK Labour MPs kill their own party, and getting angry about it.

Hilarious, isn't it?

[Pat Mustard]

What I'm doing now is watching the UK Labour MPs kill their own party, and getting angry about it.

Hilarious, isn't it?

Not really, being a lefty myself.

[Kitty Galore]

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...

Late to the party again. I don't know how anyone gets "The Snow Queen" from that movie. Yeah, what they said, there is snow, and a queen. That's it. I was looking forward to seeing an adaptation of The Snow Queen. Still am.

[c172]

Watching a TedXPurdueU talk on facilitated communication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxEqaIYucrw

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Drinking tea.

Like every decent British person.

[Expired]

Drinking tea.

Like every decent British person.

Sod that, I've got a stiff drink.

[Alex K]

But did you answer the true question for dark matter, is it any use in making beer?

If I were Michio Kaku, I'd say absolutely, in the future we will have breweries running on dark matter!

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Drinking tea.

Like every decent British person.

Sod that, I've got a stiff drink.

Ooh, what you drinking?