Has anyone ever noticed the prevalance of what might be termed "spirit animals" as helpers to the heroines in Western animation?

The "spirit animal helper" is easily recognized.  It attaches itself inexplicably to the heroine, either before the story or at some crucial moment of choice.  It may look normal or strange for its kind:  sometimes it ( Read more... )

Took the following from my response on this post

http://bookish.livejournal.com/3144415.html?view=26197727#t26198495

Gone With the Wind shows what the American Civil War looked like from the perspective of a rich Southern woman living near Atlanta ( Read more... )

Watching Shrek IV, it occurred to me that Shrek actually fits quite well into the TV Tropes standard character list. Just not where you might expect him to fit ( Read more... )

I just saw the most hilariously-bad adaptation of a really-good Lovecraft story imaginable. I mean it's almost up there with Manos, the Hands of Fate for sheer idiocy.

Basically, imagine The Dunwich Horror set in modern Louisiana. Now imagine that the whole point of the story is given away in the first five minutes of the movie. Now imagine ( Read more... )

IntroductionI turned on this movie expecting it to be MST-able Grade B nonsense. I was very pleasantly surprised with what I found. Though the special effects are lame and its concept of space travel primitive by modern standards, it was actually an intelligent and well-thought-out movie -- one which deserved better treatment than it could get at ( Read more... )

Someone put what amounts to my own opinion on this in much better words than I could have done ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw the 3D version of _Nightmare Before Christimas_ ( Read more... )