mickeythechamp

Interesting to see Griffith showing some of what you can assume is his opinions or at least the opinion of the times and/or the studio. A religious drama that is just all around okay. I don't really agree with the overall narrative and the concept of the ending, but overall a good little drama that is somehow a little too long for what it is. It simply had to be more simple to really land in the basic pile.

A young women living on the edge of crime and faith is forced to face her true path after she is confronted during a crime.

This movie is a pro religious movie that shows some divine powers at the end, or at least I think that was what that was. It is a rather simple premise about what faith is all about and from that standpoint it succeeds at being that. It is not religion propaganda enough for me to really discourage it for what it is.

I liked the priest character. He was rather cool and collected a nice character for this story. Same with the girl a rather important character played well here.

It is a rather simple but overall affective premise and story and the movie executes it rather well with only a few hiccups. The movie could have used a bit more dialogue boxes to really sell the plot, since I was lost a few times, especially in the beginning and there is a bit too much back and forward at the end. Cut a little of the beginning and end and you have a simple but affective short. Probably 11-10 minutes is what it should be.

While the ending is symbolically beautiful I hope that was what it was supposed to be, symbolic. If it´s literal than this short is a bit too much, but I think it´s up to some interpolation to a sedan extend.

Most of the sets look good with fine detail, but the bedroom of the woman is rather lacklustre and clearly a set room. A bit too simple and bare is what I´m hinting at.

A fine little short that I enjoyed with a bit too many hiccups for me to really call it truly what it is. A basic mediocre movie.

Watched the Danish dub

Some movies should stay in your nostalgic mind as it always was. A fun classic that you could put on every day of the week, but this one, even this one was one of my least favourite VHS´s to put on for some reason. When something is even uninteresting to you as a kid, you know it's not the best. I must say this is not at all the worst movie I have watched from my childhood, but it´s just not the most interesting thing either.

Obelix falls in love with a young gall girl who sadly is already in love with a young gall. They are kidnapped by the Romans and Asterix and Obelix most set out to rescue them, always being one step behind.

The animation is absolutely stunning! So many wonderful hand drawn backgrounds and great character designs, if not a little bit of their time and comics. There are so many stunning images here like the two young galls in the dessert and every architectural background in Rome looking like a blueprint with a lot of details to them. This is a feast for the eyes and the character animations and designs are all great and has so much character.

It´s fun how a childhood sadness still upsets you till this day. The drowning and dog in sewer scenes still upset me to this day like they did when I was a kid. It is ingrained in my body somehow and I don´t like Asterix and Obelix not being friends! They can be upset and bigger but never be not friends.

That is also a huge complaint I have about this movie. Obelix doesn't really seem like himself. He is dumbed down significantly for my liking ,being a huge dumb child. Asterix is as he should be, clever but also cunning. The village wizard is also not quite right. There are a bit too many character deviances for my liking making some very recognizable characters to me seem nearly unrecognizable.

The other big complaint to me is the overall pacing and plot here. The movie seem so slow and boring and that's a bad thing for a kids movie. The overall plot seems senseless and just events happening without much impact. The ideas are good. Asterix and Obelix enlisting in the Roman army, that's fun! Them fighting in Coliseum, great, a love story, yup, but having them all half-done is just not that fun to watch. It wants to do too many things here in one movie and they don´t have that much of an impact sadly. The love story is barely a thing, the enlisting doesn't really affect anything and that is the word of the day, unimpactful. There are too many plot elements that are just things happening for having something to look at, they barely synch up with the overall mission and the stakes are never really felt here. The urgency should be higher so we the audience care more. Even the coliseum fight seems boring and doesn't have enough screentime. Focusing on maybe 1 or 2 of these aspect might have made the movie more fun and interesting as we then could fully utilize the idea and gimmick used here.

The humour is a bit hit or miss but overall pretty fun. The movie have to really get going though. I would say the movie really first pick up at the enlisting, 20 minutes into the movie, that is a lot of the runtime that just feels a bit boring.

I liked this movie a little less this time around that I remembered but is it bad? No but just rather boring and just not living up to the hights I know this series can be. It is also still a fun nostalgic look no matter what but man this movie just needed a bit more of a second draft and maybe even being 2 entirely different movies, utilizing all the ideas to their full potentials instead of being just a lot of ideas thrown at the wall.

Damn what a sad ending. This is a huge nothing short, it is only around 3 minutes but it really puts no content into its runtime. There isn´t a lot to work with and if I had not read the description of what the plot was supposed to be I would be completely lost.

A woman walks from door to door in a hotel with a policemen to look for her husband.

Without the discerption I just gave of the plot it would be hard to really pick up what this short was about at all. It is a simple premise but it is not explanted at all and I tried to take myself out of knowing the context and imagen me going in completely blind and I am not sure I would get what the ending was about. But what a sad ending to this story.

There isn't really much of a plot here. Just ransom people doing random things. I guess a little comedy thrown in. But if you want to go that route this might be a movie about what movies could be, a look into other worlds, if only it was interesting worlds. It is very random what happens in the different hotel rooms and it´s hard to read the different scenes what was supposed to be going on.

The editing was actually rather good. The seamless editing between the doors were really good.

A really nothing short that is just not worth a lot to me.