Writer's Block During NaNoWriMo; Hurray!
21,752/50,000. Crap, I need to do 2,248 more words to get up to speed, but I'm having a bad case of writer's block. Doesn't help that I'm distracted by the thoughts of all of the schoolwork I have due next week that I seriously need to work on, as well as my addiction to the internet. The biggest distraction of all was discovering 'The Thief and the Cobbler', but that isn't a bad thing.
I looked up the movie when I looked at the Nostalgia Critic movie line-up and noticed people reacting weirdly to it being reviewed, asking if he was going to review the Recobbled version or the 90's version. I did a quick youtube search of it to see what it was about, and I ended up finding a great animated movie. I learnt about it's actually kind of sad past (30 years working on it only to get released incomplete and macekre'd, as well as getting criticized for ripping off Aladdin despite being the very movie that partly inspired Aladdin in the first place is pretty sad) and watched the Recobbled version. The plot of it is okay, nothing mind blowing, but it has some very sweet and awesome moments. I do have to say that it does a good job of telling a story silently as the two protagonists never talk, and I like the use of chekov's guns in the movie. The theft of the back scratchers had a pretty smart use, and the return of the mouse near the end was really sweet. The animation, though? Holly hell, is it awesome. I barely know anything about how to actually animate, but I'm throughly impressed by the colors and the effects in this movie (the chase in the palace just blew my mind away). The visual gags also got a good laugh out of me. I'm afraid to say any more because then I suspect I'll just be spewing praising crap that I don't truly understand, so I'll leave you 30 or so people who read this by chance on the friend page on one of the communities a video to let you watch for yourselves. Note that this is the 'Recobbled version' that tries to put the movie together the way the original director, Richard Williams, wanted it to. To achieve this, the editor used pencil sketches and even story boards alongside with the final animation, so don't be confused at the random switches to the pencil tests:
I'll wait to see the NC's review of the movie before watching the 'Arabian Knight/The Princess and the Cobbler' version. Granted, I'm only assuming he's going to review those two instead of the 'Recobbled' version, but the 'Recobbled' version wasn't released in theaters and is hardly as nostalgic as 'Arabian Knight' now, is it?
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I am looking forward to the winter break like you wouldn't believe it. And now after writing up the summary for 'Samantha's Winter Party', I really wished it snowed here.
-Puffy
I looked up the movie when I looked at the Nostalgia Critic movie line-up and noticed people reacting weirdly to it being reviewed, asking if he was going to review the Recobbled version or the 90's version. I did a quick youtube search of it to see what it was about, and I ended up finding a great animated movie. I learnt about it's actually kind of sad past (30 years working on it only to get released incomplete and macekre'd, as well as getting criticized for ripping off Aladdin despite being the very movie that partly inspired Aladdin in the first place is pretty sad) and watched the Recobbled version. The plot of it is okay, nothing mind blowing, but it has some very sweet and awesome moments. I do have to say that it does a good job of telling a story silently as the two protagonists never talk, and I like the use of chekov's guns in the movie. The theft of the back scratchers had a pretty smart use, and the return of the mouse near the end was really sweet. The animation, though? Holly hell, is it awesome. I barely know anything about how to actually animate, but I'm throughly impressed by the colors and the effects in this movie (the chase in the palace just blew my mind away). The visual gags also got a good laugh out of me. I'm afraid to say any more because then I suspect I'll just be spewing praising crap that I don't truly understand, so I'll leave you 30 or so people who read this by chance on the friend page on one of the communities a video to let you watch for yourselves. Note that this is the 'Recobbled version' that tries to put the movie together the way the original director, Richard Williams, wanted it to. To achieve this, the editor used pencil sketches and even story boards alongside with the final animation, so don't be confused at the random switches to the pencil tests:
Click to viewI'll wait to see the NC's review of the movie before watching the 'Arabian Knight/The Princess and the Cobbler' version. Granted, I'm only assuming he's going to review those two instead of the 'Recobbled' version, but the 'Recobbled' version wasn't released in theaters and is hardly as nostalgic as 'Arabian Knight' now, is it?
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I am looking forward to the winter break like you wouldn't believe it. And now after writing up the summary for 'Samantha's Winter Party', I really wished it snowed here.
-Puffy