Update Blog - 6/25/22 (Patreon)

I don't know about you, but I think I'm ready to move on from all the Lightyear discussions. It's safe to say that, regardless of how you may feel, it has become one of the most talked about movies of the year and it's becoming tiring how some are desperately pushing their own agenda with this one film. Look, I've pretty much said what I wanted to say with this feature and with Buzz Lightyear in general. At the end of the day, it's just a movie and I got other stuff to do. So, let me tell you how my week has been.

- Released my review of Lightyear: A lot has been said about this movie, but I'd put myself among the people that say that this movie is good...not great, but still well done for what it is. It does have the critical disadvantage where people will put it at a ridiculously high standard as both a Pixar movie and a Toy Story spin-off, but I will admit that I still had a good time with it. There are still a lot of things that I do admire and are well done like the animation is beautiful, this new version of Buzz is very strong, the voice acting is great, has a surprisingly effective emotional core, and, while a minor moment, it handled the same-sex relationship very well where it played a significant role to the picture. However, the problems are still prominent as well due the the less-than-stellar script going all over the place with its story, some tiring clichés sprinkled in and the twist with Zurg still makes no sense to me. I'm honestly surprised that I find myself saying that Turning Red is the better Pixar movie this year than Lightyear, but I still enjoyed my time with it and it's still so far one of the better animated films we got this year.

- Editing the next Top 10: As Summer begins, it's the start of where I find myself a little more busy with friends and family, meaning that I didn't get to make a massive amount of progress with this video...at least not as much as I thought. I still took the time to work hard on this video and do as much editing as I can. However, with the additional research I had to do and looking for individual clips for the subjects, it took some extra time to go through each segments. Thankfully, I still did most of the video done. As you're reading this, more than half of the video is fully edited and all I need now is just a few more days to finish it all off. I can even say that it's looking real good so far, especially with animating that minimalist animation for the intro and the segments. I promise that this will be a good one, and it's looking to be in top shape so far.

So that's been my week, at least with videos. I think it's safe to say that I've been keeping myself busy lately, but some help to get my mind off of Lightyear can be some help as well...Wait, what's this?...An invitation to Rise? What does that mean? And why does the date say Monday...? Eh, it'll give me something to do. So, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!