Monday, November 25, 2013

And the Torture Commences

Hey guys....

So the semester is coming to a close. That means I'm too busy to be writing this blog post and have chosen to write it anyways. It also means there are five and a half weeks until the year ends and since I've watched 3 Disney movies since last we met I only have 7 more to go until my New Year's Resolution is complete. I'm confident that I'll make it but I'm staying cautious, just in case.

Let's get this over with.



I watched Treasure Planet a few weeks ago. According to the special features on this movie the animators attempted to make this movie look like an illustration created by the great Father of American Illustration: Howard Pyle. They failed. Miserably. Some of the concept art looks vaguely Pyle-like; but most things that feature pirates these days have a tendency to do that since he basically formulated our pop-culture idea of what a pirate looks and acts like.

You know what movie I'd rather watch that features pirates? Muppet Treasure Island.



After I hurt my brain watching Treasure Planet I damaged it further by watching Brother Bear. This movie makes an attempt at discussing a very hard topic and then seems to realize how hard the topic is, freaks out, and then glosses over the surface by not resolving the issue at all. Epic fail.

Why are those stupid moose in this movie anyway? They don't do anything for the plot. All they do is walk around and make stupid comments.

Finally, a bludgeoned myself rather harshly by watching Home on the Range. And I DID actually watch it.....in fast forward motion. I don't feel like I missed out on much though. I guessed the plot in the first 8 minutes (because that's as far into it as I got before I realized that I had to sit through another hour and 12 minutes of junk in order to get to the end). There are seriously no redeeming qualities to this movie. It doesn't even have the same standard of quality animation that Disney prides itself on. It looks like something put out by Nickelodeon. How did this movie ever even get approved for production?

To conclude: Disney had legitimate justification for putting out cheap, low grade movies in the 1940's. I can even understand their poor choices during the 1970's and 80's. But they should know better by now. To put it in perspective Home on the Range came out in 2004; ten years before that Disney came out with the Lion King which is considered to be one of the greatest animated movies of all time. Ten years is not that long of a time in the grand scheme of things. For shame Disney, for shame.