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Miraculous - Le film (2023)
11/14 or 14/17
I am 100% aware of the show but only about 30% familiar with episodes. I didn't know what to expect but definitely wasn't expecting that! I really liked it. Animation, and sound, and music were all awesome.
My rating system is a bit strange but in normal terms it averaged out to an 80%. I have already recommended it to my sister for my niece - who we used to watch the show together but sense "grown out of it" - to watch it themselves. I will most certainly watch again or keep on in background while puzz-ing, and rewatch it in French as one other review suggests. Really appreciated it being made and those who made it. Thanks.
My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: Winter Wishday (2022)
Frostyshivers!
It's difficult to rate the Make Your Mark MLP without comparing it to the Friendship is Magic MLP. I feel like it's getting there though. It took until after the movie, after Chapter 1, and into Chapter 2 for me. Now, there's Chapter 3: Winter Wishday.
When I finished watching it - the day after it released on Netflix - I thought right away 8/10. The few ratings already posted matched exactly! So, it probably is a good, albeit early, indication.
I enjoyed the dialog.
"Frostyshivers back at you, Alphabittle!" - Izzy Moonbow.
More specifically, I liked some of Izzy's timing. Meaning some laughs you have to wait for.
I liked the cookie cottage making montage. The results were inspiring. It made me want to make my own. Especially Izzy's tree-cottage with the swirly lollipops.
I liked the beat-poetry scene, "Requiem for the Fallen Snow," and the animation that goes along with it. The bongos. The spotlight. The reflection of a snowflake coming out of a snowpony's eye dissolving into a thousand more, making one beautifully animated design on your screen.
By the end, I came to appreciate one more subtlety. That the animation does well for a "winter holiday" special. That's because, to this reviewer, it sometimes feels like I'm watching claymation. That's right, like how the classics were done. Not always, but just enough to make me feel a little nostalgic.
I probably won't watch this special as much as I have watched MLP: Best Gift Ever, but maybe somepony else will.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)
Finish Blade Runner Black Lotus
Among the terrible things we watch... this wasn't one of them!
Blade Runner is the movie that I have probably watched the most. Blade Runner 2049 won two Oscar awards. The animated Blade Runner Black Lotus series is set in between the former and the latter, in the manner of the Star War animated series being in between and connecting the movies.
This is a very violent and complete series that goes full-circle. Watched over a period of two weeks I started watching this series on a television and ended up finishing the series watching it on a projector - definitely worth it! The animation itself reminds me a little of the Sims; I don't know if you just become used to it or it simply gets better by the end. The story is slow in the beginning but by the time the first arc ends you get a feel for the show, and more characters are introduced (maybe because so many are killed-off...), and more story lines open up, and then the end builds quite quickly and dramatically. The music is something I really enjoyed.
I can see Blade Runner super fans having problems with it. I can see animation nerds having issues with it. But for someone that can separate themselves from that Blade Runner Black Lotus can really be enjoyed!