Here's my pitch: Let's animate the live action Disney movies. They have these properties to draw from, and instead of making a live-action remake of them like Freaky Friday or Herbie, or a sequel like Hocus Pocus or Mary Poppins Returns, reinvent it as an animated feature.

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• The Shaggy Dog (1959)
• Pollyanna (1960)
• The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
• The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
• Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
• The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
• White Fang (1991)
• The Rocketeer (1991)
• Newsies (1992)
• The Mighty Ducks (1992)
• The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
• Cool Runnings (1993)
• Blank Check (1994)
• Heavyweights (1995)
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
• George of the Jungle (1997)
• Air Bud (1997)
• RocketMan (1997)
• Inspector Gadget (1999)

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It was not without criticism in its day...for mentioning sex and approving of class mixing.

I've still got mine!

I remember a legal scholar being asked what the founding fathers would have thought of the current supreme court, and they sidestepped all of the politics and said they would've been flabbergasted by all of the Catholics.

That one in particular is what got me started on this thought. I've been playing the game Grounded and it's really brought me back to that movie and realizing what was so evocative about the premise.

Rick Moranis is also freaking great in it. He somehow manages to come across in the movie as a cartoon character.

I've come to hate "Utilize." It has a decent purpose as "using to the fullest extent," or, "making do with something in a new context."

Instead, I just hear it as a replacement for "use" when someone wants to sound smart.

Actually just wants to ride his bicycle.

It takes years to build up trust in a community, making it so much more difficult to have a rapid response in areas that never see infrastrure investment unless there's something worth taking.

The people don't believe the diagnosis of their deceased relatives and want to prepare their dead. With ebola, the body practically dissolves as the virus erodes the connective tissues and multiplies, making infection of the living much more likely.

"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!"

And that would be lower than the current record-holder for Lowest Domestic Box Office, Zyzzyx Road, which brought home $30. It needed to technically have a theatrical run in order to pay the actors below SAG minimum, so it technically did.

Perhaps the Uyghurs have an opinion on the matter.

I think they're just supposed to be interests, not religions.

Just recently my 12-year old niece wanted to try some first-person shooters. We played Halo on the 360 and she struggled with the controls at first, but started getting a little better. It was much harder for her to find the way forward with the level design. She would see the spectacle in a cutscene, but not really be able to take in if something plot-relevant or something leading her to the next checkpoint was said.

We tried the Master Chief edition and she loved the switch to mouse and keyboard for aiming. Struggling against the controls less, she instantly started figuring out how to peak corners and reload behind cover. Following the plotline got a lot easier with subtitles through the explosions. Watching her really made me aware of the progress in level design. On the Pillar of Autumn, first level, you try to move forward and there's an explosion, so you see you need to path around it. Solid. Then, you try to move forward just a little bit later and there's another explosion in front of you, but this time you're supposed to keep going forward through it. She explored every nook and cranny of that space before moving forward. Without a gun, you encounter Covenant, should you turn around and go the other way? Nope, just push through it. We had an easier time with co-op, but it was pretty eye-opening to see all the friction points without years of playing these.

Watching clips of Campaign Evolved, it identifies and adjusts those exact points of friction. They also expand the role of Major Johnson in the 2nd level instead of nameless marines. They rely more on nav points, which makes sense in-universe, though I tend to prefer level design that doesn't require them. It also looks like they cut some of the moments that required back-tracking and that's a good change.

I'm not familiar with it, but it looks really interesting. I might have to go seek this one out.

Some movies I evaluate on a 10.0 scale. Some movies I evaluate on a 5 🍿/ 5 🍿 scale.

Cavender's Greek Seasoning. Do NOT use Greek cadavers in your food.

Using Playnite has been useful for me. Consolidating different libraries, then sorting by Critic Score or Community Score has helped me find the worthwhile games I've overlooked.

The first possum descending from Heaven.