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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

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[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

I took a few linguistics courses in college and found the approaches used in the film fascinating. It's nice not to have your typical English speaking alien arrive on the planet. Which reminds me of Boulle's Planet of the Apes: had it been true to the book I think our simian friends would have sounded like a mix between Charles Boyer and Maurice Chevalier *Honh-honh-honh-Honh!*...

My son has the Moana Blu-ray on order through the library. I may watch it if reports are good.

Another MLP? I only saw the first one and I found it fun.