Wednesday, December 31, 2014

How "Frozen" Got to Now



Welcome to this very special edition of Mr Bee's brilliant movie buzz. It has been ONE YEAR since Frozen has been released. Due to the success of Frozen you would think that it's release has been over 10 years. Now come with me to a time before Frozen so I may show you what people's thoughts were before it was released.

Frozen is loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen . I say loosely based as the only thing it has in common with it is this woman with snow powers. ( now I am probably going to give away a lot of spoilers but if you have not seen this movie you must be living under a rock ). It has been going in and out of productions since the thirty's . Until about 2011 it was going to be hand drawn but it wasn't. I predict the reason to be that after Disney saw the poor results of the 2011 Winnie The Pooh movie ( I hate you Harry Potter) they chose not to do hand drawn. Then when 2013 opened we were seeing trailers and posters for all these movies but where was Frozen ? We did not see anything until July ! In about February we did see some posters but Disney pulled them because they said the real characters did not look like them. Then when we saw the first three trailers we were thinking to ourselves “the characters really do look like they did in the posters.” ( the characters only look a little bit better in the movie than they did in the posters but they look basically the same). After the first trailer in July we were thinking “this is what Disney was hiding from us?” Those of you who do not remember the first trailer was with Olaf and Sphen and it was funny but it seemed like it was ripping off the Ice Age movie. After Disney started promoting the movie heavily most of the publicity was centered around Olaf and people were worried that Olaf would be very annoying. Though on November 27,2013 it looked like Disney's bad publicity finally paid off because “Frozen” had become the highest grossing movie of 2013 and the highest grossing animated movie of all time. “Frozen” mania had officially struck the world, becoming the best selling DVD in the USA and the UK.
Now for a short review of “Frozen”. It is easy to see why this movie has gotten all the praise. It definitely does not follow the usual Disney cliches, as it makes fun of the “love at first sight” scenario. I like the fact that it talks about the sister angle that we have not seen in any other Disney movie. I also like how Ana commits the act of true love when she saves her sister. The music is excellent, this is a must see movie if you have not seen it already and if you have you may enjoy watching it again.
By Mr Bee 


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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Award Season Nominations 2015

Warning : some of the award shows on the above picture I may or may not be covering and the dates are not current dates




Welcome to the start of my award season
coverage. As I promised, I will be giving you my opinions and predictions for some of these award shows. The award shows that I am going to be doing today are going to be in the order that they were announced in. Ladies and gentlemen, queue your Don Pardo impression now (because, LIVE FROM NY, it's Mr Bee's coverage of the 2015 award season and now - your host Mr Bee). ( By the way, this is not live, but thanks for that just the same ) .


The Nominations for the Annie Awards

The Annie award nominations were announced about 2 weeks ago, Dec 1st 2014. I am here to give my opinion, although I haven't seen any of these movies yet, but plan to see at least one of them before the season's end. Let's start with the biggest category which is usually the last, but today I am covering it first and that is best animated picture. I have limited the field to three and those three movies are The Box Trolls, Big Hero 6, and How to Train Your Dragon II.
Now let's move on to best voice acting and I predict Ben Kingsley as a winner for his performance in The Boxtrolls. And now for best music, I predict Danny Elfman for an award for Mr Peabody and Sherman.

Now for directing, I predict an award for directing duo for the Boxtrolls (but I am not mentioning their names because I don't want to have to type them).
Don't think that just because Pixar didn't have a movie out this year that they are out of the running because they are not, as they still managed to get nominations for their television special Toy Story That Time Forgot.


The Nominations for The SAG Awards

For the SAG – Like with the Annies, I have not seen any of these movies yet, but I hope to see at least one of the movies before the end of the season. Now for my predictions BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN. I think Birdman will sweep the SAG awards. Enough said.



The Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards

As I said with the SAG and the Annies, I did not see any of the movies, but hope to before season ends. For my predictions BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN and then maybe the theory of everything (enough said). (for best animated movie I predict the Lego Movie


The Nominations for The Critics Choice Movie Awards (The CCMA).

Now for the Critics Choice Awards, as said before with the afore mentioned awards, I also haven't seen these movies, but plan to see at least one before the seasons ends (oh wait, I did see Guardians of The Galaxy- please check out my reviews). (I'm sorry that is kind of a shameless plug).



The best way to predict the Critics Choice Award is to look at the Rotten Tomatoes page on each movie, since a lot of the critics that vote on the Critics Choice Awards are also on Rotten Tomatoes. Here it goes: SELMA, SELMA, SELMA. If I have to pick a runner up, it would have to be Boyhood since Selma had a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and Boyhood at 99%. For fans of Unbroken, do not expect it to win because it currently has only 52% on Rotten Tomatoes (woops how did that get in there?) Birdman is nominated, but unfortunately I do not predict it will win a big award, but on the same token, I do feel it will win best comedy (Birdman currently has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes). For best action movie I predict Guardians of The Galaxy (YEAH!)

For best animated picture, I predict The Lego Movie. For best score, I predict Hans Zimmer for Interstellar.


Thanks for joining me for these award nominations rundown. Join me next time for my one year anniversary of Frozen blog.


For a complete list of all the Annie nominations visit: http://annieawards.org/nominees/
For the announcements for the technical SAG categories visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcS5Tu7CkEc

For the main SAG categories announcements visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdg-3lKErw

For a complete list of the Golden Globes nominations and for the nominations announcement visit: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/2015-golden-globe-nominations-complete-list-nominees/story?id=27513357

For a complete list of all the Critics Choice Award nominations visit:

By Mr Bee

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