Of course, the AFI voted Happy Feet and Little Miss Sunshine onto their list of the ten best films of '06, so. You can't win 'em all.
I saw Happy Feet the other day, and while I liked it, I was also disappointed. It's kinda depressing because if I had been ten, I'm sure I wouldn't have even noticed some of the things that really bothered me. I mean, Mumble sold out to commercialism, and the fact that he was happy with it in the end I felt subliminally encouraged the audience (mostly kids) that accepting defeat and changing oneself to guarantee a complacent life is the right way to go. I'm sure I overthought the film on an extreme level, but I felt that it was too episodic in its plot development. It was like flipping the pages of a story book. I was also somewhat put off by the attempt to sex up the penguins. Given that penguins waddle, I think the animators could have portrayed them more successfully by making them cute, not sexy.
Anyway, I also can't wait to see who's listed in the steroid report. I feel like if Barry Bonds was listed, now that the feds have the results, there's no reason why they would hold out on revealing it.
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Date: 2006-12-29 04:13 am (UTC)I saw Happy Feet the other day, and while I liked it, I was also disappointed. It's kinda depressing because if I had been ten, I'm sure I wouldn't have even noticed some of the things that really bothered me. I mean, Mumble sold out to commercialism, and the fact that he was happy with it in the end I felt subliminally encouraged the audience (mostly kids) that accepting defeat and changing oneself to guarantee a complacent life is the right way to go. I'm sure I overthought the film on an extreme level, but I felt that it was too episodic in its plot development. It was like flipping the pages of a story book. I was also somewhat put off by the attempt to sex up the penguins. Given that penguins waddle, I think the animators could have portrayed them more successfully by making them cute, not sexy.
Anyway, I also can't wait to see who's listed in the steroid report. I feel like if Barry Bonds was listed, now that the feds have the results, there's no reason why they would hold out on revealing it.