- i saw 'how to train your dragon' today. i am not entirely sure if it is because of my excessive love of dragons, but that movie may have been one of the greatest things ever. it was so much fun! and so much preciousness and awesome and toothless was exactly like my cat! like, in his mannerisms and everything and omg. love it
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AND YES, OMG. i really was they went that far, and, i mean, i haven't read the book so i can't say if it was a part of that, but i really did like the juxtaposition then between toothless missing a part of his tail and hiccup missing a leg. someone commented to me recently how it feels like we're in an era of golden animation again; the quality of stuff to come out recently has been exceptional, and i have to agree. i feel like dreamworks is finally stepping up it's game and, as the only real competition for disney and pixar, the latter too (particularly disney) are finally feeling the need to step back up to the plate instead of churning out shit. wall-e, up, the princess and the pea and now this have all been a+ animations, and they seem to have reawakened the old disney element of making their fun, family films dark again. between hiccup's leg in this and the human problem of wall-e and carl's wife miscarrying then dying in up! it's like they've finally remembered that being animated actually gives you the ability to experiment with dark themes without making a film about something dark and depressing. all these films are uplifting (some more literally than others lol) but all of them have moments of darkness and disability and yet they all come back from it. i love it.
also, haha, you probably didn't want an essay answer to that, but oh well.
AND YESSSSS, i was not expecting to like it as much as i did! i mean, i'm not that into cop shows, but it's great. (and haha, i keep saying that, but i love l+o, city homicide and rush. it's ridic.)
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