i am sooo bad at watching movies lately.. been munching series though... anywho its sunday and i actually felt like a a movie today... and Netflix was kind to suggest this fine one...
Robots is about a young robot boy, Rodney, who has grown up poor but dreams big. As a kid he listened to the greatest bot in the world Bigweld. Bigweld fed Rodney the wish to invent by saying that no matter the parts you can still shine. So after finding a need and tinkering around and a little advice to follow his dream, he travels to robot city to show his invention top Big Bot. But the road is long and it is not without trouble.
I actually went to the movies to watch this back when it came out. I did love it but somehow i never seen it again nor heard much about it in general. The movie is in short about a youngster from "the country" going into the big city and meeting all sorts of robots who either help him or try to stop him in making his dream. I love the humor in this one. It is sweet and refreshing and just makes you wanna follow your dreams.
oh and you will totally get the feels as Robin Williams is voicing in this one.
so there you have it a very under-appreciated cartoon for this Sunday :) enjoy
Over the years my bestie managed to teach me that Sundays are best spend watching animations... and well i do like my cartoons... and although i have been at work today or more because of it im in a brilliant mood for cartoons... but being a little tired i choose to go with one of my favorites...
The road to El Dorado is about 2 swindlers Miguel and Tulio who after an unfortunately ending of a street gamble - mainly going wrong because Miguel must have the map showing the way to El Dorado - they end up on a ship bound to the new world (south america if i know my history correctly) The ships captain is not to thrilled by unwanted passengers on his ship wants to throw them of on cuba to work as slaves... Miguel and Tulio not to happy about the idea finds a way to escape and then the journey to find El Dorado..
so like i said an old time favorite of mine... i think i might at some point have watched it in English but this is one of the few animations i almost always watch in Danish just because the songs is sung by a danish artist called Bamse (danish word for teddybear just in case you were wondering) and well his music to El Dorado is as epic as Elton John is for The Lion King or Phil Collins to Tarzan... so yeah that is the reason why i always watch this one in Danish... also it actually have great humor in danish to meaning it was pretty well translated.. this is sadly not the case in the more modern animations...
I have really looked forward to watching this one ever since i watched the trailer for it.. so in a weekend embraced by friends i finally got around to putting it on..
The Book of Life holds the stories of every person to have ever lived on this earth. One of these stories is about 3 friends; a girl and the 2 boys courting her. So on one night of the dead, La Muerte and Xibalba kinda makes a bet on which boy is gonna get the girl.,, La Muerte chooses Manolo, the boy who makes music from the heart and Xibalba chooses Joaquin, the boy who always fight for what is right.. After a small pig incident Maria however is sent away to become a proper lady (why is it this happens so much in movies). The fight between Manolo and Joaquin continues through the years and when Maria returns home the game is getting tougher... ending in Xibalba cheating a bit... so now the question is who will marry Maria and who is gonna rule the world of the remembered?
i dont really know why but the day of the dead has always intrigued me.. something about celebrating your dead loved ones instead of crying for them.. and the little i do know about the day of the dead is that it is a celebration in remembrance of those you love. anywho the movie.. I love that they chose to build the movie as a story told.. meaning you have these kids that are listening to a female guide telling them a story about a love triangle... and as a nice touch all the characters look like these little wood figurines that the guide are showing the kids.. to me that is a very nice detail. I also love that they have kept the drawing style in what i would know as Mexican culture (don't know if Mexicans would agree...) but generally the animations is complete and wonderful to watch...
so with all this good said this movie must be perfect.. well sadly no... the animation is wonderful but they choose to totally sellout on the music.. using different love songs at cued moments.. thing is it just doesn't fit right.. if they had made music fitting the story with a Mexican style to it this movie would have earned top marks and in my book even a cult status.. this is how well carried out the animation and story is.. to bad they didn't give it all and gave it the proper music that it truly deserved...
anywho i do recommend it because even with the dreadful choice in music it is an above average movie...
well i needed a break from the girly world.. i might love the chick flicks but it can get to much after a while.. just like pretty much anything else.. anyway got myself lost on the wanna watch list.. seriously how did it get so long? anywho started at the alphabetically top and went from there and well chose 200mph.. figured i could use some speed...
so 200 mph is about Rick a young man who lost his brother in a car accident during a street race. Following the aftermath Rick tries to settle the dept by racing the same guy his brother raced... so he team up with his friends to get his car up to the challenge in the course of a month. during this month though things starts to happen fast around Rick all to intimidate him... so well you get the picture right?
yeah that takes one of my list.. that would be progress just alittle over a thousand to go.. bloody h... anyway.. the movie the movie... the movie isn't bad it's not great either but still not bad.. it is predictable and well has a little to much odds for my liking.. and to be honest the climax of the movie truly sucked.. like big time.. it was not what i expected but it was not a good alternative so.. well.. but hey i got a few laughs and there were some cool cars.. but really wanna have speed and cool cars go find fast and furious.. it will give you a better treat....
i was so looking forward to this one.. and for quite some time to... i even set up to watching it and my besties wasn't up for it since he wanted us to watch it together... so i waited.. last weekend (oh i know it's like i live on another planet these days) we got around to watching it and i was not even the slightest disappointed.. . might be the love i have for all them animations... anywho...
frozen is about 2 siblings a strained from each other after a small accident one night when they were kids... so they grow up pretty much alone all the time.. when the oldest sister Elsa comes of age she is crowned which require a small (like huge) party.. during the party the younger sister Anna falls for this guy and decides that marriage is a great idea... Elsa isn't really up for that idea and in a state of anger she lets her powers of ice show and well then the trouble kinda starts and Elsa runs away leaving everyone else confused and slightly scared of their new queen. Anna on the other hand just wants to get her sister back and that leaves her with only one choice... go get Elsa back... yeah that sounds like an awesome idea...
yeah i was one of those people who found the video with Olaf and Svend and shared it with basically everybody who let there guard down just for a minute... anywho Frozen... well i know enough stories to know that this is an interpretation of the Snow Queen. also i'm danish.. H. C. Anderson is kinda mandatory... but well pretty much all Disney movies is interpretations of fairy tales... I love those and i love this... i love this a lot actually. It is about sisterly love, it is about finding yourself and mostly it is about being free and accept who you really are instead of hiding..
and as a bigger sister i can recognize small things that are just things sisters do... and even more.. i think it really captures how siblings just love each other unconditional... well most siblings do though... and that is like the thing little girls all over the world is gonna see to... and lets face it this is a fairy tale for girls.. well most Disney's are by the way...
well now i'm just gonna go back to singing along to this wonderful movie that i'm gonna love owning in the nearest future :D
I might have mentioned this but i'm kinda a big fan of Nathan Fillon... i find him quite funny and very talented.. so when i started looking at the series part of my wanna watch list it just seemed like the right time to start watching firefly... thing is i had already started watching it but then my precious (that would be my external HD) suffered a breakdown and was not to be recoved...
so we have gone way into the future... the earth is no more (at least i don't think so) and the verse (guess universe is to long a word) is controlled by the Alliance. In this world is a very special firefly (oh that would be a space ship), a firefly named Serenity. Serenity is the home of a very wacky crew lead by Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds. Mal bought Serenity after the war that gave the alliance the power. He has along with him his "armybuddy" Zoe, her husband Wash, the mercenary Jayne and the young and truly adorable mechanic Kaylee oh and the companion Inara... and together they share a lot of adventure throughout the 'verse'... especially after taking on passengers...
i absolutely loooooove the humor in this show... and i find it more than sad that there is only one season.. i better get my fingers on the movie serenity just so i can get a small last fix of this thing XD
there is one thing about this series... as far i figured out there is one order the show was aired and another order that it was supposed to air in.... the later being the one on the boxset.. or that is what i seem to remember... this making it a quite discussed theme among watcher being that it is the wrong episode posting.. but so far i manged to watch 14 different episodes so i think i'm all good there XD
anywho where was i again... hm seems nowhere... bugger... well other than the humor (which is hilarious) there is this thing that i tend to always fall for in this land of the series... well written characters... in this case it might even be a small dose of really good casting.. i don't know how to really explain this so i'm gonna go with an introductions of the members of Serenity.. this also makes me practice getting some more photos on this dang thing :P
Met the one and only Captain Malcolm Reynolds also known as Mal.
Mal served in the war as said above. Afterwards he bought a firefly, a transportship and named it Serenity after the battlefield of his last fight. He sees the crew as his family and is very protective of them. Also he has chosen a new carer of a mostly gray nature. Yet for a criminal he has a very high sense of moral... oh and he just comes with some of the very best quotes
"i swear by
Zoe is the very much kickass second in command. Where Mal is kinda light in his way of being Zoe is more practical. Their time together in the war has made a very special bond between them.... one that Wash, Zoe's husband, is a bit jealous about.
Bringing us to Wash the insane yet brilliant pilot of the Serenity.
Every now and then he just comes with some funny things and then he fly around that firefly like a mad man...
"Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction"
" We live in a spaceship, dear"
The sweet and love Jayne... Jayne is a mercenary and boy does that man love his guns! And yes it is a funny picture i found of the man but i just found him so cute with this nice hat his mother made and sent to him... oh and when he is trying to trade "Vera" for "what Mal got" that was just absolutely priceless :)
So Inara is a companion which basically is a future version of a courtesan. She rents a shuttle and goes around doing legal business while the rest of the crew goes around doing there not so legal stuff... She do however care deeply about the rest of the crew and she seems to be quite happy about Mal ;)
And now to my absolute favorite character in this show... Kaylee, sweet adorable Kaylee.. she is just so damn cute.. seriously i just wanna go and hug her! She is sweet and innocent and really has the cutest smile ever.
she is the youngest member of the crew and it is very clear that the others treat her like a little sister protection wise. Let's just say that Mal gets more than one evil look when he hurts her feelings..
Now that is the original crew... in the very first episode Serenity is taking on passengers... some of these stays on the ship becoming a part of the crew...
this guy right here is Shepherd Books... Shepherd has just left the Southgate Abbey to go see the "world"... However it has been suggested more than once that he is not a shepherd but you never get to a truth in this... though he is not really against shooting people.
When boarding in the first episode the nice doctor Simon comes along to.. bringing with him a well blind passengers. The blind passenger being his teenage sister River. Thing is Simon kinda kidnapped his River from a school/institute thing because she was sending him weird letters that made no sense. River is however somewhat weird... broken somehow.. which makes some right interesting things happens...
so that was a whole lot of stuff on the people in this show ;) there is no doubt i liked this show a lot is there :)
i am sooo bad at watching movies lately.. been munching series though... anywho its sunday and i actually felt like a a movie today... and Netflix was kind to suggest this fine one...
