MAN THIS STARED AS A SILLY ASK HOW DID IT WENT SO DEEP??? HAHAHA
Thanks to @ilovetheajolotes for giving me the ¨lore¨ idea, this game it´s a masterpiece and i just can´t say how amazing it is, but alas i´ll leave it for now :3
(Archive) Animated movie of the day: Atlantis The Lost Empire (2001)
Originally posted: January 7th, 2022
Ah, the Disney Renaissance. Their musicals absolutely dominated the 90's, but from Pocahontas(1995) to Tarzan(1999), their box office returns started to go down. So, the house of the mouse decided to try and shift gears, and took a gamble greenlighting some rather odball movies. None of them paid off, but this ended up giving us one of my childhood favorites and frankly an underrated film that, while flawed, still makes for a very interesting experiment.
Distancing itself from it's predecessors, this movie isn't a musical which presents a refreshing change of pace. Songs wouldn't fit in this film anyways, with it's darker tone, heavy action focus and even violent imagery. The body count is shockingly high for a Disney animated feature, and unlike a film like Mulan a lot of them happen on screen.
So, yeah, the film is more violent. And scarier too(Rourke's death is quite gruesome). It's also more visually interesting in some ways. With character designs from creator of the Hellboy comics Mike Mignola, the art direction has an edge to it that complements the action set pieces and adventurous narrative. The city of Atlantis, while decadent, is breathtaking.
What about the characters though? Well, they're really fun! While not having the most deep story arcs, all have a very strong charisma and bounce off each other humorously (my personal favorite is Vinny). Protagonist Milo may be the most plain of the bunch but he's still a likable dork. As out of focus as it is, his relationship with Kida is also charming, both of them understanding the importance of cultural exchange.
And that's the deal. This film is closer to Raider's of the Lost Ark than Beauty and the Beast. It's a death defying adventure with just enough plot and characterization to justify the action. There's still some compelling drama here, but the focus isn't the romance or the self discovery. It's the crazy, cool journey.
Don Larson of the Yankees delivers the first pitch to Jim Gilliam of the Brooklyn Dodgers during Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, October 8, 1956, at Yankee Stadium. Larson would go on to pitch a perfect game (nobody on base, 27 batters up, 27 down)—the first and, so far, only time that any pitcher has done so during the World Series.
Photo: Stanley Weston via Getty Images/Fine Art America
okay i have been thinking about this for the past five to ten minutes and have decided to post because we need more good miami vice content on this hellsite. questionably baked theories ensuing.
What if Frank Mosca had been part of the meeting on the boat in the finale of season four?
imagining blood and roses never happened and therefore mosca is still alive (and we never get the sexual assault b plot thank god) tubbs and crockett receive word that their next assignment is to take down manolo. the catch: one frank mosca happens to have an in with the guy and taken a deal offered by the feds for early release in exchange for helping them. castillo doesn't like it but orders our boys to go ahead and do it, and crockett is downright fuming. he's unwilling until tubbs talks him off the ledge as usual.
so, we get Bereaved Sonny (tm) and tubbs and their little dance before the boat, that goes as normal, etc etc. fast forward to the explosion. instead of gutierrez having set it up, it was mosca, because he's fuckin mosca and everything's a set up. he steals away on the boat (probably'more gracefully than gutierrez did) and saves sonny in the process.
and then. when crockett gets amnesia and his head shuffled up, it's mosca taking care of him. even though mosca is aware that sonny's a cop, he's slart enough to realize that saving a cop would earn him a lot of favor with the feds. then he's like, oh shit. this guy doesn't think he's a cop anymore. he thinks he's his fucking cover id. and mosca proceeds to take advantage of this, pull the strings as per usual, etc etc.
reasons why this would have been better than blood and roses and the finale:
it puts on display mosca's manipulative behaviors for a longer time and more gracefully than what happened with him and gina.
instead of giving us a bunch of random characters we have no attachment to, we get a villain who we already have a history with and are attached to. it's all about the emotions
i just wanted more mosca/crockett enemies content. i love their dynamic
uh. mosca's satin pants. stanley tucci. i'm right.