So the most important month of gaming has come to a close and has pretty much determined what video game posts that I will do for the rest of the year. But for now, let's see what I have planned for next month:
So with summer officially here, I will try and plough through not all, but most of the summer blockbusters that are released in July which include How to Train Your Dragon 2 (not doing both films seeing as I've done the first one already, but might touch on the short films) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (what a mouthful. Unlikely to do a old and new review here seeing as I haven't seen many of the films, but a series review of this series is definitely happening). Planes: Fire and Rescue is a no because I haven't seen the first film and like with every Cars sequel or spin-off, its going to suck no doubt.
Not sure about video game stuff because there doesn't seem to be much things coming out this coming month, but we'll see what happens.
I have no plans to do anymore TV episode reviews until Doctor Who returns this August, but if I have time, I may do another Batman post to continue my celebration of the 75th anniversary of the caped crusader.
And as usual, all reviews, videos and songs of the week posts will run as normal.
And now for my theory.
Film Theory - Are Disney films getting too predictable?
OK so ever since I saw Maleficent, I've started to look back at the Disney films that I grew up watching as a child and notice that some of them are being quite predictable. You have a hero, a villain, a princess and everybody else serves as minor characters as well as one or a couple of comic relief characters. The hero falls in love with the princess, but the princess is held captive by the villain and so the hero goes to rescue her and succeeds with the villain either dying or having some other kind of defeat and as all Disney films go, they live happily ever after. Now I'm not saying that all Disney films are getting predictable, but I do think that a lot of them (particularly the animated ones) have a plot that is very predictable. Now when I first saw these films, at the time, I didn't have the critique skill that I have today so I just didn't know what to think. There is no question that not all, but most Disney films are great and for the most part, they are all based on some kind of literature like Shakespeare (The Lion King), Greek Mythology (Hercules), Fairy Tales (A lot of them) and even fictionalized history (Pocahontas and Mulan). Some might say that the source material of these films, make them predictable because generally, the source material they use is quite well known so of course, Disney had to find a way to make the films their own and do a good job of it, but I think there are a lot of them that have that Disney formula where they have to be musicals, have to have a hero, have to have a villain who can steal the show and of course, a princess. But when Toy Story came out, that changed not only the film industry, but Disney as well. They realized that from that point on, the films they make, have to be original and not use the same formula over and over again and this was established in the later films of the Disney Renaissance and beyond which still used the hero and villain formula, but toned down the musical element and made the female characters more independent and less of a damsel in distress which is when I started to think that Disney were reaching a turning point. Unfortunately during most of the 00s, they had problems with management and so forth which showed in a lot of their films released during that decade, until they made one of the most surprising decisions to acquire not only Pixar, but also Marvel and Lucasfilm. It was then where Disney went from being a company solely driven to make child orientated films, to a company making films suited to everyone. Superhero fans got the MCU, Sci-Fi fans will soon get a brand new wave of Star Wars films, CGI fans got Pixar films as well as films under the Walt Disney Animation Studio banner and even fans of drama got films like Saving Mr Banks and others too. So ultimately, are Disney predictable? In the past, yes, but nowadays, not so much. Its true that Disney love to make films with happy endings and memorable characters and they still do that today. Such films like Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen have shown us that unlike people like Michael Bay, Disney know how to tell a story and for the most part, they try their very best to tell such a story while trying to not make it too predictable and have characters in them that we will remember for a very long time. The legacy that Walt Disney himself left, has become one not to be reckoned with and I've enjoyed the work of Disney and will continue to for many years to come (just as long as they make the right decisions and don't milk a franchise that is doomed to fail).
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