Update Blog - 11/30/19 (Patreon)

So America just had their big Thanksgiving and saw the big Macy's floats and have all the turkey leftovers ready until it's round 2 with Christmas. Meanwhile, I'm putting up the finishing touches to the last videos for this year and getting started to set up for 2020!

- Released my review of Frozen 2: I honestly didn't know what to expect out of the reactions of my review. From what I've seen across the Internet, Frozen 2 seems to have collected the widest variety of opinions from people who were disappointed to people who love it. It even gets extra complicated when fans and non-fans compare it to the original. I guess with what I presented in my review, I end up falling in a strange spot. I really like it, but I don't find it to be as good as the original (which is weird because most people I know who love it say it's better than the first). While I do notice that it was a struggle to find a great and suitable story to continue Frozen, I still love what Disney did with the animation and the soundtrack was epic, especially Elsa's songs! What's funny is that I notice how commenters seem to be more shocked that I gave it a score that ends with a .5 than the fact that it was ridiculously close to getting the AniMat Seal of Approval. Admittedly, I was nervous if the reactions to what I say will end up going crazy, but good thing that there's so far a lot of common ground that many can get into with this movie.

- Created my Top 5 Best & Worst Animated Films of 2019 (so far): While not entirely complete, I can happily say that I've finally completed all of my big countdowns for next month and finished it all off with the annual Top 5 Best & Worst! After my practices with the Top 10s of the Decade, I knew what I was getting into with this one and making the video turned out to work out very well. It still had its challenges and some puzzle-solving during the editing, but I'm happy that I've managed to pull through with that one. I will say though that it's not entirely complete, as I've still got 2 more animated features of 2019 to go and review. It will be especially tricky when the final one is out on Christmas Day and have this be released not long after. That's why I'll say now that by the time you get an early access of it on Patreon, it'll be a version that would be without Spies in Disguise in the meantime. But even before that, I still have one more movie to check out to see if there's any big updates I gotta do on this one...

- Currently working on my review of Playmobil: The Movie: I'm kinda lucky that I managed to get an early screening for this one! The sooner I can have it, the better so I can quickly make the change on my Top 5 B&W of 2019. I say kinda because I haven't heard a lot of great things about this movie. I'll give it that the trailers show some nicely made animation, but they don't convince me that it's great and some of the reviews already released indicate that the worst is to be expected. They say this is indeed a Lego Movie rip-off, but hopefully, that case won't be that bad, right?...Right?

- REMINDER: Tomorrow's the Big Patreon Update: Just a quick reminder that TOMORROW will be when I'll update my Patreon page, including implementing a new Tier List. If you wanna make any changes to your pledge to accommodate these changes and try some of the new rewards, now would be the time. To remind you of the changes, take a look at the article here.

And now I'm done with the 2019 videos and we're done with November. Now it's time to fully get our Holiday mode on and be ready to end this decade off with a bang! So until next time...

See ya later, dudes!