Brave: a review

 

I just came back from seeing "Brave."
I don't know about you guys, but I loved it; and FINALLY a female lead in an animated picture! After all these years!

I love watching and reading movie reviews, so I watched a review by JesuOtaku on Thatguywiththeglasses.com.
I normally love JesuOtaku reviews for anime and manga, but I totally disagree with her Brave review. (She compared it to Brother Bear for goodness sake!? The only good thing about that movie was the two moose brothers.)

While I agree with her that the trailers where a bit misleading, I wasn't expecting a whole "Princess actually fighting the villain" film; the world isn't ready for a completely female awesome action film for kids.

I was upset upon learning that Pixar didn't expect Brave to rake in the cash like Cars and Finding Nemo. Before today, I've heard nothing but hype about this movie, and it delivered everything it promised!

The movie has quite a bit of "low brow" kind of humor, but it's hilarious and it works, considering the  characters are supposed to be the stereotypical Scottish warrior (don't get pissed at me, I'm from Celtic/Viking stock, and I know perfectly well how they acted :P); I was literally slapping my knees and laughing out loud! The humor does not disappoint, and the final scenes are so epic and heart rending, I cried! Tears were falling down my face! It's a lovely ending to a great film and everything works out just like you want it to.

It's a fun movie, with a good message about familial communication and connection.

Plus, one of the best soundtracks I've heard in a few years.
And even if you don't like the whole film, it's very pretty to look at and it has one of the best soundtracks I've heard in years.
5/5 gold stars from me.


*****Beware, here there be spoilers!!!!*****




The movie starts out as the tried and true, Princess doesn't want to get married (which I'll admit  has become a movie staple.)So, Princess Merida pretty much says "No." to all of her suitors (which isn't the least surprising), and this pisses off her mom, Queen Elinor. After a fight, Princess Merida runs away into the woods and gets a spell from an old witch, that turns her mother into a bear. In order to turn her mother back, they have to be able to forgive and understand each other.

Another Book Of Shadows

 I decided to do another BOS, mainly re-writing information from my first Book, into this one, because I have a lot of taped in pages; and I don't like how it looks.
I had an unused art journal, so I glued on a piece of paper that looked old, and I glued those little gem things on the page.
I painted little swirls of hot glue, I think it looks fancy. The strap holding it closed is a Velcro strap from a fleece blanket.



A close up. I titled this one, "To Know." One of the Four Powers of The Magus.
To Know: Audacity is no use, without the knowledge and will to see magick done. I glued on a little key, to symbolize the Unlocking of hidden knowledge.

Brave, polymer clay

 I am super hyped for the new Pixar film Brave. And, so I used my skills with clay to make this (in my opinion) AWESOME figurine of Princess Merida.

 A small quiver of arrows.

Her hair took the longest time to do.

A shot of her bow. Made of clay and threaded with silver string.