One - Writing the next chapter of 'Shades of Fear' which I am calling Recognition. In this chapter we get a flashback of Captain and his group discussing what was the worst to happen to them and what is so bad about the Black Road. Then the journey starts.
Two - I made the mistake of starting "Top Gear", and now I am on season 13... only 9 seasons to go before I am caught up.
Three - Since Christmas, I've had a game pile that I have needed to finish. I've been playing Monster Hunter so much that I am still playing it, but I needed to break away from that and finish some of these other games that I've had for too long.
...It's not a good excuse, but I usually need something else to do while watching Top Gear. I mean you can only watch non-Volvo cars for so long...
Anyway, with the announcements of the most recent Oscar's winners, I got a look at some of the nominations and made my own opinions about them.
And then I saw the nominations for Animation.
Out of the five, I have only seen two (with plans to see the other three when I find them) - The Croods and Frozen. I saw the Croods by accident, and have seen it three more times since. I really liked the animation, story, and the acting of Nick Cage and company.
Frozen, even though it won (by standards I don't approve of), I don't think was that strong.
Let me put it this way - I believe Tangled was a much better movie.
In fact, the more I think about it, I really don't like Frozen.
Frozen (which is suppose to be based on the Hans Christian Anderson story and yet has absolutely nothing to do with it...) is about two sisters, one which has superpowers, and them doing everything wrong and yet everyone likes them.
I'm sorry, that's a harsh statement, let me explain.
The story starts off with the sisters playing with snow powers and and accident happens that "freezes the brain". They get taken by their parents to trolls (who only show up twice in the movie), and the elder says that a frozen brain is easier to fix then a frozen heart, and then proceeds to alter her memories completely... why? I mean, you can talk about "It's magic, you can't explain it."
Well, I say... yeah, you can.
Magic, in it's form of fantasy standard, can easily be explained. Back when I was young, and had to do a medieval study, actually learned the history of magic. The uses, the ideas, and even it's sources (like the different beliefs and why it was done). But this movie? It just says, it happened. Born with it.
So you know what that means... That "Let it go", has an undertone for coming out of the closet.
(Seriously, re-watch the music video for that song and see now that makes a lot more sense.)
Granted, there is nothing wrong with that, hell that's the undertone of what the X-Men movies are all about. And it is a good song, really powerful with Idina Menzel (which I have loved from Wicked and Rent).
But the story... the story isn't that strong. And I don't understand the moral at all...
Like, blame the parents and don't go and marry someone you just met and princes are assholes...
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Or, if you want a change of pace, play Tomb Raider.
Now, as I was saying previously, I have a stack of games that I am still going through. Last night, I was trying to decide what game I wanted to try and finish. It was either TR or Dead Space 3. I thought that TR might have a shorter experience and not a lasting experience.
I was wrong. And REALLY wrong.
I had delayed playing this game because of the mixed reviews I kept hearing from it. I have played the old Tomb Raiders (1-3), and after the 3rd I had stopped for years... 13 years in fact. Except for the movies (which I still say to this day is the only video game movie that was actually accurate to the game), I stopped following the series because it got... weird.
SO how do I think the reboot turned out?
I like it!
It's like Uncharted but I don't want to beat the shit out of my controller. (that's an inside joke for Matt, who still says that he has never seen me as pissed off as me playing that game, and I BEAT GHOST AND GOBLINS).
I also want to say that I haven't beaten it yet, but damn it just keeps getting more extreme by the hour.
The story has it's weak points though... but only when it doesn't involve Lara or the island. Story writer Rhianna Pratchett is actually the daughter of my favorite author Sir Terry Pratchett, and I think she write strong female characters well. But some of the action scenes transitions are awkward, but I don't know if that was the writer or game directors fault. But it's a little complaint compared to the awesomeness that the game provides.
It is violent, so I due warn you about that, some of the most violent death scenes I have ever seen (but that does work with the game cause that was how the other games were), but it does have it's amazing moments.
So compared to each other, which is winner for strong female characters? Frozen or Tomb Raider. I just have to show one scene...
Later~
Will
