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[mondhasen]

I got to watch Arrival last night and although it was hard to follow with surety at times (those who have seen it will understand) I liked its approach to extraterrestrial visits as well as how it developed and progressed. A few cliches here, a few new twists there...

Last week I started the new Pete's Dragon. Very Disney in its approach to families... wuss that I am, I started crying about two minutes in and finally shut it down after about half an hour. No Mickey Rooney here for comic relief.

Today the Library showed Trolls for a vacation week flick (kids are out of school). I have no interest in this film: I don't like the characters' looks whatsoever (I never liked those damned little Troll dolls/toys as a kid, either). However, I decided to do a pic for the board regardless, using googled pic for reference (I just realized now I forgot the eyelashes)



I was limited to three or four colors of makers so I couldn't get the blues in this. I'm not displeased with proportions even though these are freehand and not circle/line type sketch to drawings. But I still don't like the movie's animation look ;o)

Did I mention the new Ben Hur previously? It didn't appeal to me so probably not. Morgan Freeman's narration reminded me too much of Shawshank where he commented on Andy and the Sisters :D

Comments

[sunfire.livejournal.com]

Pete's Dragon is a treasure to me, so I won't watch the new one, I'm afraid of how badly dark and sinister this new version is. Trolls I never had any interest in. Those things always creeped the hell out of me, it's no wonder they call internet creeps "trolls".

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Internet Trolls! Now that could be a movie parody indeed ;o)

If you saw Frozen they had some sort of rock-troll critters in that as well. It's funny how they take an image and rework it like this.

[sunfire.livejournal.com]

I did indeed see "Frozen". The trolls were about as necessary and likeable as that moronic snowman Olaf was.

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness for Sven! I'm surprised at the Troll sequence and wonder how it managed to escape the cutting room floor.