Animated Movies: The Croods & Epic

I will talk about the 2 movies I watched some time ago...

I will start with...

I did enjoy watching this movie very much, not my favourites, but still quite enjoyable, the animation was amazing, I like very much the interactions between the characters, the lovely message they wanted to convey, the story is solid enough, most characters are well developed and rounded, my complain is the start as archetype villain into, not wanting to be mean and offensive, "excuse not black-white villain by avenging his son".


Now with:

It's a family movie, literally, it may not resonate with many people, but it's a surprisingly good movie, even though, the humour and story maybe kinda bland in a good and bad way, but the movie's strengths are the amazing character development, the animals designing and the beautiful backgrounds.
I liked the movies very much enough of wanting or would buy the DVD, yes, I liked this one more than Epic.

Rant: likeable and unlikeable characters to evaluate quality of a game/tv show/book/movie, isn't subjective?

I do always have an issue when people make a review about a game or tv show or film or book or comic book or graphic novel, they write or say for example:

"this A game has likeable characters so it's good" or "This B animated show has dislikeable characters therefore it's bad".

With these examples, that's where my problems resides, a quality of a story doesn't reside if the characters are likeable or not, because people have different opinions on what they consider likeable or not, it's quite like in Harry Potter books and movies, each person who read the books has a different vision of the characters, so of course the actors wouldn't be like exactly or very similar to the character as the readers had in their minds, so the right way to evaluate a character is by analysing and see how well-rounded they are, not if likeable or not.

The purpose of well-rounded characters, it's not with the intention to make the character likeable or glorified or to be a role model but to treat as a person first with flaws, virtues, strengths, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, the amount of resilience, convictions, ideals, not a black-white character but much deeper and complex, more to the character than what meets the surface.

Many people has the bad habit of judging a character or evaluate them basing on what's on the surface of their actions, don't even question why he/she did, when given reasons is:
"because he is a jerk" or "because she is annoying" (each person has a different ideas of what they consider annoying or jerk) and when they say why they think a character is annoying or jerk:
"because it did A,B,C,D,etc.",  but the actions/reactions/personality traits and why he/she did it, that's what a well-rounded character is. Remember Understanding is different from Liking, understanding a character doesn't mean you like the character.
It's noticeable likeable and dislikeable is a matter of a personal subjective opinion and not an evaluation.
If the characters are well-rounded or not, it's an evaluation.

there is many well-rounded characters I dislike, Umbridge, Voldemort, Amon, Lucius Malfoy, "Father" Homunculus, etc.
as much there is many well-rounded characters I like and love, Atemu/Atem"Yami No Yugi", Yugi Mutou, Harry Potter, Izayoi Aki, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Azula, Aqua, etc...(yeah, too many to list).

also there are few well-rounded characters which I feel indifferent or like and dislike, Snape (sorry fans, but he is in my like and dislike list, in another words, in the middle :p), Mazaki Anzu (same with Snape), most of the Homunculus, etc.

I hope I was clear :).

Cool Pottermore News

Pottermore FB Page, Twitter and Pottermore Insider announced Teaser Questions starting tomorrow at 17:00 GMT on Facebook and Twitter, Pottermore Insider at 16:45 GMT...

These Teaser questions will be visual and audio from 15th March to 24th March...

According to Pottermore Insider:

The next instalment of Chapters Eight to Fifteen promises even more mystery and intrigue, and in anticipation of this we’ve devised a series of audio and visual Teaser Questions based on details from the upcoming Moments on Pottermore.com. 
Starting tomorrow, Friday March 15, a Teaser Question will be posted every day for the next ten days at 16:45 (GMT) on the Insider and at 17:00 (GMT) on our Facebook and Twitter pages. 
These will increase in difficulty each time: some will challenge your attention to detail, some will require a good knowledge of the book, and some need only imagination and wild guesswork.
Before trying the Teaser Questions, read the tips below for how best to tackle them: 
One – things are not always what they seem in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and nor are they in our Teaser Questions. 
Two – look out for hints here on the Insider, and on our Facebook and Twitter pages. 
Three – get help or help others by joining the conversation and sharing your thoughts, whether in the Great Hall, your common room, or on our Facebook and Twitter pages. If you follow us on Twitter, you can use the hashtag #pmteasers. 
Four – consult your copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to jog your memory or provide inspiration. 
For now we are keeping the answers a secret, but all will be revealed soon enough. 
Good luck.

I'm quite excited, because I think it's neat for them give teaser questions before the release to discuss about the questions during this 10 days, keeps us entertained before the release of the next instalment...since Teaser questions ends in 24th March, then maybe Monday 25th or Tuesday 26th will release part 2 of Prisoner of Azkaban.

talking about the 2nd instalment, it will be about 8 chapters, it's one more chapter than I expected, I thought would be in the last instalment, but there's more meaning to it than it looks...
2nd instalment will be consisted of Chapter 8 to Chapter 15, Chapter 15: Quidditch Final, right before chapter 16, "Chapter 16: Professor Trelawney's Prediction" , the 2nd instalment finishes a chapter before the book hits it's climax, I see what you did there...

Rant | Analysis: Difference between Harry Potter fans and fans of the movies

Read it if you like Harry Potter, it's a wake up call.

Yes, it's complain about who claim being "fans of harry potter" when they haven't read the books, but also attitudes of the actual fans towards this kind of "fans of harry potter" (also the competitive ones) and the ones who "rolls their eyes and thinks *this crap again*, just because someone just watched the movies doesn't make them less of a fan, because you read the books doesn't mean you're better than everybody else" (those are the ones who annoys me well, because you're incorrect and not understanding the real fans point).

My only few problems with those who claim being "fans of Harry Potter" and haven't read the books, just watched the movies, because they loved the movies. you're not fans of Harry Potter in general, you're fan of the Harry Potter Films and nothing else. I may have sound rash,here is a example...
 if you said "I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter movies!", then yes, it's more than welcome, but if you say "I'm a big fan of Harry Potter but I haven't read the books and not interested!" and here is my reaction:

in another words, I'm not okay with that.

I hope the ones who rolls their eyes, understands what we fans meant is this, that's why we get pissed for the reasons mentioned above, it's not for the sense of superiority or think we're better fans or greater fans than the ones who just watched movies, our problem is who claim to be fans when they're fans of the movies, put simply, we just hate when they say they're fans of harry potter in general instead of fans of the movies.

when you say "fans of Harry Potter", means in general and not specific to 1 section, because it's as if they say it being Harry Potter fans as if Harry Potter are movies only, when we all know it's a fantasy literature while the movies is just an adaptation of the books (the same for video games, except the ones of exclusive of JKRowling like the Book of Spells(just so you know, Pottermore isn't a videogame, so I'm not including it in the video game list).

So who love the movies and never read the books and consider themselves fans, you are fan but FANS OF THE MOVIES. If you only watched the movies and you are fan of them, say you're fan of the movies.

Fans of Harry Potter, correct them when it happens and explain why and don't be rude.

I hope this cleared up some confusion!

Regarding the competition between some stupid actual fans, who behaves like children discussing who likes more the hero in the playground, being a fan isn't a competition, making it a competition makes forgetting what you love of what you're fan of, people have different ways of display their love for the series, such as reading and making analysis of characters, locations, the story, the themes being explored, others collecting items and books of Harry Potter merchandise or decorating your house or bedroom with Harry Potter stuff, making role-playing, writing fanfics, draw and making fanarts, create RPG of pen and paper, discuss and talk with other fans by gaining and see and learn from new different perspectives, etc.

See? don't be harsh to those who are being competitive, just make it clear, being a fan means love over story  or character or animals with different ways of displaying their love for it.

I hope made my point and message understood to fans of harry potter, fans of harry potter movies and the ones who rolls the eyes and say "this crap again"