How many times have you faced
someone whose mouth is agape before the words “You don’t like…?” are shot from
their mouth, roaring towards your opinions like a bullet to the side of a large
barn door. You attempt to justify your opinion but you get a shake of the head
in return. After a while you begin to make concessions. You stutter that “It’s
not as bad as…” or “I didn’t hate
it.” But it’s no good. That person now looks at you like you are something brown
and stinky on the bottom of their shoe. I get this look often and not just
because of my personality. Just as there are films which you may be embarrassed
to like, there are others which you are embarrassed that you don’t like. While
I don’t dislike any of the films below, I don’t like them as much as ‘society’
tells me I should. I expect ‘society’ will now also hate me for the opinions
I’m about to express below, but anyway here are Six of the Best Films I Should
Like More But Don’t.
Showing posts with label The Lion King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Lion King. Show all posts
Sunday 19 May 2013
Wednesday 26 September 2012
The Lion King
A few months ago I took part in a blogathon/questionnaire type
thing in which one of the questions was ‘Which ten classic movies haven’t you
seen?’ Among my answers were the likes of Citizen
Cane, Casablanca
and North by Northwest (which I’ve
since seen) but by far the biggest response to this question came from people
who couldn’t believe that I hadn’t seen The
Lion King. So when a friend at work (who was equally shocked) offered to
lend me a shiny Blu-Ray copy I had to take it and give it a go.
Mixing a coming of age story, Hamlet, Bambi, parts of
Genesis (the ridiculous stories, not band) and anthropomorphic animals, The
Lion King is about a young Lion called Simba who was set to ascend the throne
after the death of his father but was halted by his evil Uncle Scar. Wandering
for years in the wilderness he learns about the world with the help of a
Warthog named Pumbaa and a Meerkat called Timon before rising to the challenge
of deposing his wicked Uncle.
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