This weekend is the fourth ever D23 Expo, the Disney Convention in Anaheim held every two years, and for the first time I’m going! I’ve been a charter member of D23 (the official Disney fan club) since it started, but I’ve never been able to make it to the Expo until now! I’m incredibly excited, and a little nervous, about all there is to see and do, and my goal is to share it all with you. I plan on tweeting as much as I can, so follow me @lovepirate77, and I may be cross-posting some of that to Tumblr so check me out there as well. I’ll also post nightly recaps of each day’s announcements and activities, with my reactions to any news, sightings, and the experience in general.
This year’s D23 Expo is shaping up to be the biggest yet, with some huge announcements and first looks in store. Continue reading
I’m an optimist. I always have been, even through the roughest patches of my life. But being an optimist is hard work, and is often ridiculed. Today, movies filled with darkness and despair are seen as more “real,” while optimistic movies are ridiculed as being juvenile or unrealistic, and happy endings are easily dismissed by many. So by all accounts,Tomorrowland shouldn’t exist. Big motion picture companies don’t spend $190 million on an original science fiction film about how hope and the mere act of not giving up can save the world. And, unfortunately, judging by the film’s mediocre results at the box office they probably won’t again in the near future. But to continue on the path we’re currently following would be, as Casey Newton would put it, “feeding the wrong wolf.”
Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
I haven’t done a Friday Favorite in a while, mostly because no one read them, but I was in the mood to revive it for at least today. Whenever the Oscars roll around, I always find myself thinking back to go the great films throughout 100 years of movie history. And whenever I find myself contemplating the power and history of film, I always turn to one, 3 minute montage that completely embodies film for me. Take a look:
Welcome to “Friday Favorites” which highlight some of my favorite movie-related things.
There’s an exchange in the preshow for Muppet*Vision 3-D at Disney World that goes a little something like this:
Sam the Eagle: Will you stop this foolishness?
Gonzo the Great: What kind of foolishness would you like to see?
To me, that statement is the essence of the Muppets. And with that in mind, here’s today’s Friday Favorite, presented without context:
At the end of my D23 movie news roundup from yesterday I mentioned Tomorrowland. I didn’t want to go into the film there because I feel like it needs a bit more explanation, especially considering how little we still know of the film. You have to go back to last year for the earliest reports of the film. Brad Bird, who wrote and directed The Incredibles and Ratatouille for Disney/Pixar was announced as the director for a new film for Disney, bumping his rumored project with Pixar about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. People immediately began speculating that Bird was returning to Disney for a sequel to The Incredibles (something, incidentally, that needs to happen).
That wasn’t the case, however, as the title for his new film was revealed to be 1952. Continue reading
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