movie: The Princess and the Frog

For the most part, I really enjoyed this. But then, “Disney Princess” movies are a fairly significant part of my childhood, so it's possible that it would have had to suck 9which it didn't) for me to not like it. I really liked the Jazz Age setting, and was grumpy anytime princess dresses replaced the 20’s frocks. I’m glad the final version is Tiana as a hardworking waitress, given what I’ve heard of earlier versions. Naveen looks less like a derivative ofGaston’s design. It may be helped that they played him as a dork.

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And you know, I know Disney knows Africa exists thanks to Lion King and Tarzan. I’m quite fond of both, but I wonder if, when deciding to have a black princess, they ever considered setting it in Africa with an African princess from one of the many cultures there. But then, when I heard about Guenevere in Merlin, my reaction was “Oh, so she’s actually a princess working undercover as a servant?”

Watched in 2009

Same thing as the reading poll, only much shorter, and with more categories. Just click the boxes for anything you’ve seen, or saw part of.

poll @ lj

All lined up like that, it really shows that, aside from movies, I mostly watched SciFi TV and BBc period dramas. And only a few anime and part of one dorama (which I did not drop, I just haven’t made it back to it). Obviously, I should work on that in 2010. I also intended to start watching Bollywood in 2009, but that didn’t happen.