Frozen advocates homosexuality? Oh nooooooooo.

It's pretty funny, here I was thinking that I was running out of material for Frozen Fire emblem February, when suddenly from out of the sky descends a new issue. Does Frozen advocate homosexuality or even force it on us? This is what the Well-Behaved Mormon Woman (as she calls herself) thinks. As she states on her blog "The gay agenda to normalize homosexuality is woven into Disney's movie Frozen not just as an underlying message - it is the movie."

I was planing on talking about something like this before this month, but then this "Well-Behaved Mormon Woman" makes it more of an issue so then I knew I knew for a fact that I was going to talk this.

So before I begin I want you to read her actual post before you read the rest of this. It may be a hard to stomach, but if you can sacrifice ten minutes of your life to read it, my arguments will make more sense.

http://wellbehavedmormonwoman.blogspot.com/2014/02/movie-frozen-gay-homosexual-agenda.html#.UwREw7TY-lI

Okay now that your finished I can begin. I would like to start by using the old Vollmain13 adage: Does it really matter? Well this woman thinks so, but really does it matter?

For those of you who know me well, you probably know what I would say next. But let's pretend that I didn't say no, and that I do actually care about any of this. I could also could say that this is coming out of nowhere and that she just made it all up. But then I would be a big fat liar because I have noticed this during my three viewings of the film. And I can also safely say that it isn't just me either, because there was this guy behind me who seemed rather obsessed with the internet fan pairing of Elsanna.

 "Kiss her already!"

If you can't tell I was really mad at that guy.

So yes, yes it does matter, but is it really as big as she makes it out to be? Well let's find out shall we.

So as you all know Frozen's popularity has sky rocketed ever since it's release, and has earned $957,948,374 dollars as of February 16th. It seems like everyone likes it. People has made amazing art based on it. People dress up as Elsa and Anna all the time.

There are tons of videos of people singing Let it go on youtube, as well as in public. And don't get me started on how I can't go anywhere without someone talking about it.

You've probably seen the video where two young sisters sing "Let it go" at the top of their lungs. Pretty cool right, well the "Well-Behaved Mormon woman" says that, "While most watching this video, likely found it adorable, I shed tears." Geez lady calm down.

Through out her post this "Well-Behaved Mormon woman" goes on and on, about how awful the movie is and how it's going to corrupt our children. Talk about a huge overreaction.

The "Well-Behaved Mormon woma--." Sorry I can't keep saying this title she has given herself. Every single time I say or hear it I cringe, and that's probably because it sounds like something anti-suffragists would say. "Well behaved women don't vote, and don't even care." I'd also like to mention that being a Mormon myself I don't think that writing a blog to share your religious views is the best idea. I feel like it can make other people dislike you and your religion more. But anyway back on subject.

She acts like the whole movie is about advocates, or even brainwashes people in to wanting to be gay, where really it doesn't. I'll give her one thing, yes Elsa's story is a Allegory about being gay. I put emphasis on allegory because, where I think she is right this story is about being gay. But please tell me if I'm wrong is there any part in the entire movie where they are blatantly advocating being gay, or where they try to forcing it on us. This is not a rhetorical question, if you can name a moment where this happens, please by all means comment and tell me that I'm wrong.

As I stated above she acts like this is the entire plot of the whole movie. "Yes I totally agree with you, the whole movie is these characters doing nothing but tell us how great it is to be gay. There is no grand adventure that Anna goes on to find her sister, and there most certainly not anything in the movie about how love at first sight can be bad. Because that would be stupid."

Despite popular belief Frozen is not only an allegory about homosexuality, that is only one really small piece of an elaborate multifaceted movie. I know a real shocker.

Get it because it's the Marvel character, and Marvel is owned by disney? No? Okay never mind.

She also goes on to say how we shouldn't enjoy the song "Let it go" because it is a gay anthem or something like that. I'm think everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I can see where she's coming from, but that isn't the only thing the song is about. One could argue that the song is also about not beginning afraid to look weak if you cry. It's also about how we should enjoy and explore our talents even if others dislike them. In fact you could also say that, that is also a part of Elsa's story arc in the movie.

Now if you don't agree with me and think we should censor this movie and make sure that our children become infected, then I think I should show you all the movies you can add to your list.

1. Rapunzel from Tangled wants to leave her tower, but can't (A closet perhaps?) because of her "Evil" stepmother.

2. The Genie from Aladdin is trapped inside a magic lamp (whats that world that starts with c and ends with loset?)

3. The main character from Happy Feet is looked down upon because he is "different."

4. This one isn't even hard. I can just say Paranorman, and you'll know what I'm talking about.

I'm really just getting started, but why not add movies that should be censored and boycotted for different reasons.

5. There were these crows in Dumbo. Pretty sure they themselves are a very racist interpretation of African americans.

6. Lady and the Tramp has those Siamese cats.

7. Peter Pan's got that Native american tribe. This movie actually gives these guys red skin.

8. The Dreamwork's film Madagascar has a scene were one of the characters pretty much says the S-word.

Anyway I guess the point I'm trying to make is that kids movies have gotten away with a lot, and no one has really been mad about it before. And I'd also say that it really doesn't matter that Frozen has a homosexual allegory in it. Because at the end of the day I'm a straight guy, and even if Frozen was trying to make me "turn gay" it wouldn't happen, because really I don't think guys are attractive, and nothing is going to really make me change my mind.

So keep on singing "Let it go" Idina Menzel, and forever hit those high notes. 

How far Disney has come.

So Frozen is sweeping the world, and it seems like everyone except people who don't know what they're talking about love this thing. What people who don't know what they're talking about you ask? Well this is exactly the point of this post, as you will soon find out.

So the second time a saw Frozen I overheard a conversion of the couple behind me after the movie was over. The guy was saying how he didn't really like the movie because they had some poor advertising for the movie. Which I can agree with, because when I say the teaser trailer and saw Olaf running around I was saying to myself, "What have they done?"

But then the guy said that he also didn't like how it was a "chick" movie that was advertised as a musical. Now I don't really know what was going on with this guy, but if that was what he thinks the movie is about then I have concluded that we saw to very different movies.

First of all despite popular belief this is not a "chick" movie. This is a movie about sisterhood, which is something disney hasn't really tackled before. Now you could argue with me and say "But Lilo and Stitch was about sisterhood" and while I do agree with you Lilo and Stitch was more about families in the end, because you know ohana means family.

That isn't the only thing this movie is about, it's also about...

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!

... how the sisters save each other, instead of the one of the two main male characters saving the girls. Well you may also say that this isn't the first disney movie to do this, and again you would be right.

But if those are the only two things you find when you watch this movie, then you my friends have sadly missed the two most important points of the movie.

This movie is really about the two main characters arcs which I will now examine in more detail.

So Elsa's story arc is about being who you really are. She has this power which the people find dangerous and she must go and live on her own, and decides to live with the fact that she has this power.

While the story seems to react it's climax a little while before the end of the movie it is an important one. Elsa lives on her own because the people don't except her, and she doesn't want to hurt anyone.

By the end of the story she learns to control her powers, and the people learn to except her for who she is. It's a story about being different from everyone else, but still being yourself, and for that I like it a lot.

But while Elsa's story arc is main plot that drives the movie, we must also look at Anna's arc because it is very important. At the beginning of the movie Anna is separated from her sister because of her parents, talk about emotional abuse. After years of having no love in her life, she thinks that to be happy by finding a man.

And this is important because of what her sister says after she wants to marry Prince Hans after they just met.

Wait what? Remember this is coming from Disney the same company that for years keep trying to push the whole love at first sight crap. I mean almost all of their animated movies feel like their shoving this down our throat. It's kinda like disney thought that women were stupid, and weren't really happy without a man.

Here is an example, the little mermaid. I used to really like this story but I see now that this story is about a woman who can't (more like won't) be happy without the perfect man.

So what happens? Well she gets the guy and lives happily ever after. But guess what that's not what happens in the actual story. In the actual story the prince turns out to be shallow, or as I like to think not ready to fall in love with someone he just met. And then Ariel runs out of time and dies.

More accurately turns to sea foam.

So for a Disney movie to do something like say that you can't marry someone you just met is AWESOME!

So Anna's arc is about learning that you don't need someone else to be happy. And without this arc we couldn't have this awesome moment at the end of the movie.

So yeah next time you hear someone disliking Frozen for "chick" movie, remind them how far Disney has come.

Have fun.

Video games and grinding, and what Fire emblem does right.

So you've spent three hours leveling up all of your units in the arena, and you have one unit left to grind with. He/she needs just one more level. It all comes down to this next fight, the stakes are high, if you win you gain enough experience to level up and gain some money, if you lose your unit will be dead. It's too late to back out now. What's going to happen?

Your opponent lands a lucky hit and you die. And gosh do I hate grinding! It's pretty much the one thing I hate about Role playing games and MMOs. It's so stupid. Yes game I get that you want me to be a certain level but it just feels like padding your game out.

Now I love Role playing games, they are awesome. A few of my favorite games belong to this genre, I love it. The main problem pretty much everyone has with these games is grinding. And with good reason, grinding makes you stop what your doing and have to sit through tons of pointless battles. For those of you who don't know what the heck I'm talking about, let me enlighten you.

So your playing your game minding your own business, and your going to fight the next boss or major enemy, and you get your butt kicked. So what do you do? Well your going to have to find some way to get stronger so of course your going to fight the enemies you've been fighting for awhile. And keep doing it, and the enemies start to seem really easy to kill and it begins to get boring. But you have to keep fighting the same stupid enemies so you can continue.

And I mean I get why they do this, it's so you get stronger and so there is a sense of progression. But it makes the game not fun to play when you're practically forced to do this. And believe me you will have to do this a lot.

I'm going to talk about a game that critics and fans love, Xenoblade Chronicles. This game is awesome, it's got an epic story,

A huge world to explore,

And fun gameplay.

Disclaimer: this picture is not of actual gameplay. But I liked it anyway.

 And it seems like everyone loves this game, because it is pretty awesome. I just wish I knew how big it was going to be so I could have bought more than one copy. This game goes for more than a hundred bucks now, ugh. Why didn't I buy more than one?

Anyway this game is pretty awesome. But there is one really big problem with this game. I feel like I have to grind. There are several points in this game where you pretty much can't progress unless you grind, and that's bad. If your forcing this on they player they are going to want to play the game less, in fact this is the very reason I have yet to finish Xenoblade. Why can't you make a game where you level us up after you go through some of the story? That way you are progressing and enjoying the story at the same time. Wait Xenoblade does that?

So I've establish my views on grinding pretty well, but what does any of this have to do with Fire emblem? Well you can grind in Fire emblem, and they must be doing something very well because I actually want to grind in Fire emblem. What, how can that be? Let me explain again. Fire emblem is a very, very, very hard game. If a character is defeated in battle you can never use them again, unless you start they chapter over. And each enemy could deliver a killing blow to any of your characters, making the game be more about unit placement, and make sure your characters don't die more than anything else.

So on some maps there are arenas where you can send your units to fight. If they win they gain experience and money, if they lose they of course die. And you can't influence the course of the battle in any way. You send them to the arena, bet a certain amount of money, and hope they make it out alive. The only thing you really can do is push the B button to yield the fight, and not lose your unit. 

So they've made grinding feel necessary and fun at the same time. Sure it really sucks if your unit dies, but man is it satisfying when they make it out alive.

 So I don't really know what they got right, but man does it make grinding bearable.

Happy grinding. Wait did I just say that?

The Lego movie review.

"But Vollmain, this isn't related to Frozen or Fire emblem how could you?" Hmm what? Sorry I wasn't listening.

The Story:

So the movie starts off with this epic scene where the bad guy "Lord Business" breaks into a vault inside a volcano, where Vitruvius (a wise old wizard) is guarding an ancient artifact known as the Kragle. Lord Business takes the Kragle after defeating Vitruvis, but before he leaves Vitruvis speaks of a prophesy of the "special" who has the power to beat Lord Business.

8 and a half years pass and we meet Emmet Brickowski, a minifigure who lives in the new world that has been created by Lord Business. Emmet literally blends into the crowd because the world that he lives in has a strict set of rules, that have pretty much brainwashed the entire population.

After a mysterious woman bumps into Emmet, he finds a magic artifact which knocks him unconscious. When he wakes up Emmet is interrogated by Bad cop, because Lord Business thinks that Emmet is the special, and because the artifact is stuck to Emmet's back. Afterwards they take Emmet to the Melting chamber to remove the artifact and kill Emmet, then the woman Emmet met earlier breaks him out. Emmet learns that Lord Business is going to end the world on Taco tuesday, and that he must save the world.

The Movie:

Yes this has nothing to do with Frozen or Fire emblem! But I have decided to also post things not related to those two on the weekends to change things up. Anyway, moving on.

This movie, this movie! It's awesome. You know how the trailers make it look extremely awful? Well it's not, this movie is lots of fun. You may be saying that in the last post I told you to stay away from animated movies, but I was talking about certain movies about dinosaurs, and nuts.

Why do these movies exist?

So what do I like about this movie. Well I could say the whole thing, and just end the whole review right here but what fun would that be? I don't know, pretty fun for me. Well the jokes are particularly hilarious. Almost all of them are about the way Legos move, and also lego in jokes, but theres also references to Batman stuff, and man it's just awesome. Everyone in the theater was laughing all the time. It's a testament to the writers of this thing, good job guys.

There are tons of different characters in this movie that are all fun to look at. While not all of them get tons of backstory and character development, almost all of them get tons of laughs. And the ones that do get development are well written. In fact one of my favorite characters in the movie is Bad cop, Good cop, who is played by Liam neeson. They make this character a likable villain from nearly the beginning, and I loved it every second he was on screen.

One of the interesting things about this movie is it's ability to make things funny and sad at the same time. A few of the characters in the movie die, and yet you laugh and get sad at the same time because of the unique and funny ways they die. At one point of the movie I was sad and laughing at the same time. It's kinda like your torn because it is a very dramatic moment but is also really sad at the same time. And you know this isn't a bad thing. It seems like it should be but it's not, it's kinda weird.

Music and Presentation:

The Music in this movie is interesting, from the trailer they make this song "Everything is awesome" seem like it's really obnoxious. But in the context of the movie the song takes on a very different meaning. They sing it at the beginning of the film when they are in the city, the same city the Lord Business has made into a dystopia. And the irony is that everyone loves a song that is about conforming. Everything is awesome my butt! This place is almost as worse as Brave New World, and 1984!

As you can tell I like the music, as it adds a lot to the overall experience.

Now for the presentation. With this being The Lego movie almost everything is made out of legos, and I mean everything. All the explosions are made of legos. All the water is made of Legos. It's sort of looks like a mix of stop motion mixed with CGI and it works very well. You really do feel like you're watching legos move around and talk.

The Verdict and Final thoughts:

When I saw the trailers for the Lego movie I wasn't very excited, because of some of the lego shows I've seen on TV. But I thought, hey why not it looks like stop motion, and legos. So I went and saw it and my mind was blown. This movie is excellent, and I can't even think of anything wrong with it. I was going to give it an eight with the title of "Awesome" because of the song, but really this movie is way better than that. So I give it ten out of ten stars!!! This film is a "Masterpiece!"

Go and see it, after Frozen of course.