I have been consumin media like a fellow human being

[crantz]

I'm working my way through the best animated film nominations and winner and one that should have been nominated but wasn't. They have all been great fun.

Boxtrolls: seen! Enjoyed, confused about whether a subplot in it was part of evil plan or villain's hobby.
Big Hero 6: seen! Ahhhhh so good so many tears.
Book of Life: seen! Wicked nice art, fun and easy to watch.
Princess Kaguya: not seen! On table in front of me. Soon, my precious.
Song of the Sea: not seen! Have to wait for release like a chump! It never came to town.
How to Train Your Dragon 2: saw it in theatres like someone who can remember to go see things. Beautiful music.

I haven't read any prose in weeks and my inability to write is an unexpected discovery of my mental ecosystem.

I have, however, seen Jem and She-Ra for the first time and watched a ton of murder mysteries.

I discovered that despite purchasing them, I had not read my volumes of Pokemon Adventures in nearly two years so the last two nights have been guilt binge reading. I was not expecting so much death.

I'm reading a nonfiction book about the Brothers Grimm and the women that collected the fairytales for them. Not conducive to my own writing but the bit where the book randomly goes "and some scholars think they were incestuous!" was fun enough.

Comments

[msilverstar]

your lists are good lists!

also: I realize you were a Benedict before Benedicts were cool!

[crantz]

Thank you! It was fun watching the movies to make said list. It's really hard for me to work up the energy to watch movies, so that's a Big Thing for me.

It is true! I chose Benedict a looong time ago in honour of one of my fave city of heroes characters, Benedict Jones. And then Sherlock happened and people kept trying to buy my username!

[whatistigerbalm]

If I had time to watch one, which should I watch?

[crantz]

You know, I'm not sure! We don't agree on a lot of stuff, besides Asterix and early Top Ten!

I'll tell you the details of them:

Boxtrolls: young boy raised by strange trolls who live in boxes, who are being 'exterminated' by a man who desperately wants to be a 'white hat' and join the cheese-eating elite of a town. Has a morbid little girl as co-star. Lots of gross imagery, done with puppets. By the same people as Coraline and Paranorman.

Big Hero 6: Candy-coloured computer animated adventure of young boy with awesome big brother and a robot the brother made to take care of him and the young boy's college friends (supergenius) as they turn themselves into heroes to get justice. Not a traditional hero/villain clash at the end. About smart solutions to problems.

Book of Life: The guardians of the dead choose two boys as their champions in a bet to see who has to rule the shittier land. Everyone is designed to look like wooden puppets, it's very bright, and steeped in traditional mexican stuff by a mexican director. The only problem I had with it, really, was that a lot of the songs that the main boy sings are things like Radiohead. I don't like pop references that stand out in a story - though I guess it could make sense in the sense that the conceit of the story is that it's a museum guide telling it to some modern children.

How to Train Your Dragon 2: P. much more of How to Train Your Dragon 1, same tone and notebeats. I liked the first, so I liked the second.


So go with whichever one sounds like the most fun to you!