Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"

This movie was more like a crippled love story between Alice and the Mad Hatter.

And somehow I saw it coming.
Since Mr. Burton let his good buddy Johnny Depp play him, there was but a small chance Johnny would be left out on the background. I never saw the Mad Hatter as an important element in the original story, neither would I be able to give a good reason why, of all the characters, he should be.
Even so, the crazy man was played by Johnny Depp, so expect awkward brilliance.

Though I wouldn't have had any problems with it if this "Alice in Wonderland" tried to be more like its predecessor, instead of hooking up our Alice with the "suddenly handsome" Hatter. Try imagining that in the animated Disney movie.

The beginning of this movie was boring and bland. The acting skills were terrible. Just until we found ourselves in Wonderland things seemed to get a tad more loose; the 3D characters, including the Hatter and the red queen, showed more emotion than most of the "regular" human actors.
If their bad performance was part of the act, they're certainly good in sucking.

What I didn't mind that much was the new story. Even though the title says "Alice in Wonderland", it was obviously not the story we were all familiar with. And I like that.
But there were so many empty scenes in this movie and the contrast between good/bad acting and decent writing was incredibly high; so the story might not have delivered its message properly. Whatever it was.

The Prince of Egypt and "The Disney Disease"

Is it true that some people dislike this movie because it might be too dark and too boring for children?

The problem with people these days is that they all have the Disney-disease; meaning that every cartoon HAS to be cheerful and get to its point as soon as possible, because "it's a cartoon, therefore it's for kids".
Though people have already forgotten that the original Disney cartoons, and other cartoons like Tom & Jerry, were never meant for children, but for adults.

Then why is "The Prince of Egypt" suddenly considered a children's flick?
Did no one ever came to the conclusion that it might be an animated movie for adults?

Personally I loved this movie as a child, so it also bothers me that some 40 year old RottenTomatoes-critic claims to know what children want.
This movie is obviously not comparable to Spongebob Squarepants, but it was never its intention to. "The Prince of Egypt" tells a tale from the Bible; the fact it included some humor is nice to have, but you didn't read any "knock-knock jokes" in the old book, so you'll have to be a bit realistic here.

The animation and music are absolutely stunning and contains more feeling than anything Disney ever produced, it's not comparable.
And this is another issue; stop comparing other animated movies with Disney. Acknowledge talent when you see it. If you don't have any valid points to make in a review, you should shut up.

This movie is absolutely worth watching, you don't have to be religious to appreciate quality.

2012 (the movie)

An overrated movie that feeds on the money of everyone who actually believes this "doomsday" nonsense.

2012 could have been a wonderful and terrific movie, even if it depended on nothing but the people's beliefs. But it isn't.
The story plot, next to (and together with) the world ending, wasn't original or interesting in the slightest. I couldn't care less about any of the characters' lifes, and neither did the characters care about each other; since mom jumped right into her ex-husband's arms 2 seconds after her boyfriend died a horrible death.

Next to him, nobody seemed to care about the foreign girl with the dog either. She risked her life to save the leading character's daughter and even her own dog, for Pete's sake, and yet nobody seems to remember her after her last scene.
She is the real hero.

I never believed in 2012, and this movie didn't make me reconsider.

Obama

This is a quick note about- and to his "fans":

I don't follow most of Obama's decisions, since I am hardly interested in what's going on in America.
But so far I know, Obama is already being ridiculed for the things he's done so far. Obviously, they were none of the things he promised to do, and they're stupid.

Yet I find it funny how people first treated him like an almighty God, and those same people now bash him to Hell. It brings me back to the time Michael Jackson died; people were being incredible hypocrites back then, too.

Listen people, Obama is an American. He lives in America, he was raised American and got all his fancy diplomas from American universities. He isn't different from the other presidents, who were also American. That he's "black" (more like: slightly tanned) isn't going to change anything.
His mother was white and he was raised white, in no way should black people or foreigners feel connected to him. The man is whiter than a bleached paper sheet in full sunlight. Yet white people, as for black people, thought a "historical moment where a semi-black man would become president" would benefit them. Obama thinks like a white man, so don't count on it.
Positive discrimination never helped anyone.

It's nice to see how the American people keeps having faith in their politicians and it's nicer for me to see how they end up with the president's boot in their face the very second they voted "yes". I can say nothing but "you asked for it".
You vote, you get, only not what you were told to recieve. But by now you should've realized that, so stop acting surprised and disappointed.

Good presidents died years ago.

Typical love songs

Songs that go "baby, I'll be true", "baby, we were ment to be", "baby, I'll never let you go" or even dare to use the word "baby" at all.

Easy sentences that rhyme with everything; they sure are tempting to use when writing a song. Too bad they don't mean anything and a zillion other wannabe-love song writers use the exact same lines. But not only unknown songs have these lines; famous songs and artists also have no shame in using a bunch of overused, meaningless sentences in their lyrics.
As long it earns you your millions, why should you bother anyway, right? It's not like you actually wrote this love song for someone you, well, love. I am not certain who started using the word "baby" as a love term, and I'm sure it was cute the first few seconds, but after every lame-ass rapper and popsinger started shouting it every second, it lost its "cuteness". Anyone who dares to use the word in their song is obviously uninspired. If a person tried to steal my heart with a love song and even dared to use the word "baby", they'd be expecting me to empty a rifle in their face.

Next to this issue, I noticed alot of songs using the earlier mentioned sentence "I'll be true". Very nice, but I don't need to hear these kind of sentences from artists who are either a minor/teenager or a person who had over 9000 affaires, relationships, or never one at all. Maybe they sing these songs for the 0.02% of the world population that does "stay true to their baby".
But not only are the people who sing these kind of songs total scumbags or whores, they sing the songs like scumbags and whores, in a scumbag and whore genre, dressed up like a scumbag or a whore.
It will impress nobody. It will convince nobody. Not the people who've experienced actual love.

Piercing the ears of babies

I was at an amusement park today, and while I was being bored, my siblings were enjoying themselves in the indoors playground. A short time later a family arrived at the spot.
While the father and 3 of his children went inside, the mother and her baby waited near the entrance. I looked at the child and I noticed her wearing o-so-very-adorable flower earrings. Immediately I felt like punching the mother in the jaw.

Most women wear earrings. It's their choice. Not a big deal. But when a mother pierces the ears of her baby, someone who can't and doesn't have a say in it, it just makes me sick.
I never liked the idea of small children wearing earrings, because it's obvious that in most cases they were forced into it. Piercing your ears hurts, you're making a hole in your skin with brute force; in no way that feels good. Especially when it's done wrong and it gets infected later on.

I still remember having a wild discussion about earrings with a classmate when I was younger. According to her "it was normal to have earrings" and if you didn't have them as a girl, you weren't normal. I replied, smart as I was back then, that if it was indeed normal, people would've been born with holes in their ears.
But we're not. We're damaging our own body because the media teaches us to. It became a standard. "Normal".

Women and girls, it's not a crime to pierce your ears, but keep your hands off of babies and children who don't even know what the shit is going on around them.