Review of Frozen

So I finally got the chance to watch Disney's Frozen. Everyone's been talking about it so much. I've heard both positive and negative things about it. Mostly the negative things come from angry people on Tumblr about how there are no POCs (people of color) in the movie claiming it to be racist, however, the movie takes place in norther Europe where the dominant race is white. So I don't understand that. Anyway, racism aside, I was super stoked to finally watch this because I have loved all the 3-D films that the Walt Disney Animation Studios has put out so far such as Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, Bolt (not so much Chicken Little), but it seemed to have fallen short on what I like in a movie. Also, it was loosely based on The Snow Queen, which was a favorite of mine when I was younger. I watched it so many times. Also the voice of the lead female was Kristen Bell, my favorite female actor of all time. What about this movie should I not like?! Well apparently a lot.

So Frozen was loosely based on The Snow Queen, which was one of my favorite movies to watch as a kid. This one was about two sister princesses. One with magical ice powers, Elsa, one without, Anna. When playing, Else accidentally harms Anna and she almost dies. She is healed by some trolls and warns the family to never let fear control Elsa or her powers will get out of control. Sure enough the girls grow older and Elsa has locked herself away fearful to harm anyone ever again but her powers become out of control when she is made queen triggered by Anna announcing her engagement to a man she knew for only one day, turning their land into a frozen wonderland. Anna makes it her mission to go find Elsa to fix everything.

This movie sounds so great when setting it up, but that seemed to be the issue with the film. It just took a lot of time to set up and not a lot of time to resolve anything. You didn't get to know the characters in depth. There was no character building. It was just kind of like, here's our princesses, hope you like them. Elsa has some issues, but you won't really get to understand those. Here's an ugly ass snowman with absolutely no point to the movie other than delivering some good jokes and having you laugh at his ignorance to what heat will do to him. The character Christof was so cute, but he felt just like a regeneration of Flynn Rider from Tangled, just a bit "oafier". I just felt as if everything had been regurgitated and the story just had issues taking off on it's own.

On top of everything, there was a very large soundtrack behind this movie almost edging on musical level. However, none of the music seemed to fit the situation or the mood. Some of it felt like they were just singing to sing. Like a drinking game where you have to sing for the rest of the night or you have to take another shot. And the scene where Anna's sweet song sings against Elsa's fearful song clashes terribly. Usually two different songs that are sung butt up against one another are meant to melt and make a smooth melody, but this just felt like two people were trying to outsing one another with punk rock versus country. It just came out terrible in my opinion.

I wasn't satisfied with the movie until the very end. However, I was still unhappy with that because it seemed to have been wrapped up far too quickly. The story seemed to have trouble being built, reaching climax, but had no trouble going down that resolution slope being tied up in a sloppy bow, and thrown out in theaters. Perhaps the production team just said, "Forget it! You gave us a deadline, we're not done, but here! Here! Just take it!". I don't know.

The one thing I did appreciate was that an act of true love wasn't necessarily in the form in which you expect it to be in. However, when they first proposed that she needed an act of true love to cure her, I instantly guessed the ending, but assumed they wouldn't go down that route because they always go with the mushy love stuff. So I was very happy they actually went with what they did.

However, it was not a saving factor for the rest of the movie. Despite all the negative things I've said, it wasn't a terrible movie. It was just not reaching my expectation bar, which I may have subconsciously set really high due to my love for The Snow Queen, Kristen Bell, and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Overall, I give it *** out of ***** stars.
Not bad.

So Late! Oh, so late!

I'm sorry, I know I promised to upload "tomorrow" like... a week and a half ago, but better late than never? Right? I have to get this in before my next classes! That's for sure! So much has happened in the past couple weeks. Wow, I'm reading through my blog and I have been really lazy on sharing.

Let's start from where I last left off with my Quick Sketch class. So in quick sketch, the following week was our Creature Design. We were to combine at least three different creatures to come up with something entirely new. We had to come up with a little background story and so on. I came up with the Ragarroth. We had to do a bunch of thumbnails though. I'll give you some of my favorite thumbnails.

The winning design was the one that I ended up filling out a little bit more, and he came out looking like this

I receieved a decent grade ont his and a decent review. He wished there were more local tone and he said some of the body overlapping didn't quite match. Like the stomach meeting the thigh doesn't make sense and the tail. 

The following week, our assignment was to draw 3-5 drawings on 4 pages of "Props". Which for me, is very frustrating. I can't do mechanical, static, rigid things to save my life. However, once I got into the groove, things started getting better. 

They got better over time, but I just have such an issue with realism. Things got very off track this week as well. So I went to my morning class on Thursday and suddenly, it began to snow outside. By the time we were done with class, the school had to close due to Dangerous Weather Conditions. I had a friend come pick me up from school and it took her an hour to get to me when it usually takes about 20 minutes. By the time she picked me up, the snow was about 3 inches. It took us 3 hours to get to her house. My mom was going to meet us there, and it took her three hours to get to my friends house. Finally they picked me up and it took us 3 hours to get home. So grand total, it took me 6 hours to get home. Which, it's usually only an hour's drive.

Then I got snowed in at my mom's house because we refused to go any further. 

Here's pictures of us walking to Fred Meyer to get some food before we were completely snowed in

Video: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202550483617756&l=69252860436318288

Okay, so now, for this week. We were told to redesign our creatures because Lee White feels that he (and the school) pushes us through classes too quickly and he wants to slow down and take our time on something. So he told us to take our creatures home and fix them up. 

This was my end result:

So it's been a bit of a crazy couple weeks. 

Oh, I also put my two weeks notice in at Walmart to further persue my education. That way, I won't have work to get in the way of me doing homework. My only batle now will be against my procrastination. 

Oh, on top of that, we also adopted three little chicks so we can have some eggs when they get older!

Torchic, Janora, Majora

Like I said, big couple weeks. I promise to update more often.

Patience, My Friends

I have so much to share with you! But I've been so lazy busy. However, after class tomorrow, I promise to upload my latest work and share with you about the week!