Parents seem to be either killed off, not mentioned, or mentioned dead in animated/cartoon movies.

This conversation about deaths in animated movies, comes from a person on my Facebook page. They were arguing that movies do not need to kill off a parent in order for the movie to be good. (She saw How to Train Your Dragon 2).

This then sparked a conversation about how most animated movies, tend to not really include parents significantly in movies.
To just name a few movie examples of movies in which the one or both parents are killed off:
The Lion King (Mufasa's death still makes me cry)
Nemo
BAMBI!
The Fox and the Hound
Lilo and Stitch
Frozen
Tarzan
The Land Before Time
How to Train your Dragon 2
Shrek 2
Anastasia
etc. 

The list goes on when you think about parents not being mentioned at all or are mentioned dead as well such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin...

Overall, it kind of makes me wonder why movie studios choose to do this. Maybe its because without the parents, the child is forced to grow up and movies in which people grow up and learn who they are suppose to be , tend to be popular. 

Real life Hogwarts School

Hogwarts Larping is now apparently real. Registration opens in a few months for those who wish to travel to an actual location. Your register, get sorted into a house and take actual classes based on the Harry Potter world. You can also play sports such as quiditch. I personally do not know if i would register and pay to travel to a place in order to role play and dress like a wizard, but this seems like it would be the best vacation present ever for a person my age who actually grew up with the books. As well as for kids who are introduced to the movies and books now.

Interstellar

A few days ago, I ventured to the theater to watch the movie Interstellar. I love space movies, because when I was a little kid I wanted to grow up to be an astronaut. Oh by the way...

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I really enjoyed this movie even though I have heard that this movie is not one of Christopher Nolan's  

best work (He is the one who directed Inception, and the Batman movies such as Batman begins and The Dark Knight and so on.) The cinematography is amazing because it gave a sense of suspense being in a nothingness of space with the risk of going through worm holes in order to travel to different galaxies. The filming at Earth also shows the depression and survival the humans are trying to endure even though Earths climate was become awful due to frequent dust storms and the inability to grow food besides corn in the soil.

Basically the movie is about finding a new planet for humans to live on because Earth is dying and the climate no longer promotes sufficent vegetation growth for food and has poor air quality to breathe. Therefore the main character is told to pilot a craft through a worm hole/ black hole in order to investigate planets to see what is inhabitable. The problem though is that time is of an essence because the planets are close to a black hole that warps the time movement on the planets. Therefore if they risk spending an hour on one planet, an hour there means that 7 years or more would have passed on Earth so the race for the human survival is running out of time. 

Overall, I highly recommend the movie if you enjoy space and survival movies. 

RAT BURGERS!

Citizen Burger Disorder is yet another online multiplayer game with easy login and sign up for free. The goal of the game is to make burgers, but the game goes on even though you run out of supplies. What makes this game fun are the bugs, and no not real bugs. The game itself could be broken in a lot of ways but it is still fun when others join your restaurant. I discovered that when you run out of hamburger meat, you can always just grab a rat in your infested restaurant and cook them too, but you have to hold on to them or they will just be some fried rat that still runs away.
So far my experiences with the game have been weird and interesting because some people that join in your game will steal all my burgers or just make a mess. Some will try to capture all the rats and place them in the sink, because for some reason... the rats in the game will stay in the sink. Maybe because they are drowned?

POL 337-343

Postmodernism Space, Geography, and Built Environments

As noted in the readings, post-modernism space is mostly related to digital environments. This makes me think of video games, because video games can be built to have its own set of time and space in which the participant interacts with. An example I can think of this is the Sims games . Sims relates to this because, besides the preset homes you can just place your sims into,  you basically can build the whole space as well as your character (sim) from scratch so it can interact with the environment of the game that is available.

Halloween Costumes of the Past

I personally think that the Halloween costumes of the past were better looking and creepier than what they are today. Today you basically have the men wearing anything, but most of the women costumes are pretty much sort of sluttyish. Also the kids are wearing what ever popular movie was on that year or what ever looks cute on them.


For example, here are some picture of the evolution of costumes for girls.

But maybe the costumes of the past were scarier because they were mostly home made , and therefore they were more creative?

Also were Halloween costumes meant to be scary to ward off evil spirits and other monsters? I shall look that up some other time, in the mean time. Here are some vintage Halloween costume pictures.

I Don't Care If a Human Dies in a Movie, I feel worse if an animal dies or is hurt.

This weekend I finally decided to watch The Human Centipede. I been avoiding it for some time because I heard it was very graphic and gross, but honestly I thought it was not that disturbing. Besides the poop scene of when the lead of the centipede had to go which forcefully made the middle person eat the poop, I was not really bothered. I also felt worse for the dogs that were mention in the movie, which were the first experiment to be put into a 3 centipede thing. Overall, this movie is not for everyone, some gore but not much. A bit gross a few times.