Conotocarious

The animated version came out my senior year of high school. I saw it in a theater but I remember that even in college all the girls would bring the VHS tape to watch whenever we had the movie room to ourselves. I want to be a Disney animator those days and I was really into the making of the movies, the animation process, the animators, everything. I saw the Lion King ten times in the theater alone.

Saw this yesterday and I loved it. I am a huge animated purist but this was really well done. I always wanted a longer "falling in love" story in the original and they really did that very well here (library scene was my favorite, like many others here). Plus, I really liked Dan Stevens as the Beast. With every word he said it was so easy to see the petulant, spoiled prince underneath and sometimes in the original, you really didn't see that. You only see a big scary screaming monster or a cuddly teddy bear. I liked Emma as Belle even though her voice was obviously auto-tuned rather heavily. I loved how she really looked like she was falling in love with the Beast especially during the ballroom scene. The way she looks at him...it was really well done. It's a bizarre conundrum for me. As much as I don't think it's necessary to do remakes of the animated classics, I'm enjoying them immensely. If Disney is going to continue doing such a thoughtful job in their remakes, then bring on Lion King.

In the animated movie, I know the Beast unceremoniously chucks him into a carriage that spouts legs and orders it to take him to the village.

No, but I did. [/facepalm]

I feel like the contestant interviews go on way too long. Too many clues left on the board and the players weren't dawdling so I'm looking at you, Alex.

She probably just thought it would be hilarious to do it. Maybe she even had a bet with someone that if she ever made it on, she'd do that. I think it's funny. I liked her and am sorry she couldn't have stayed on longer.

So Sophie mentioned that she would be pretty nervous to encounter Kate at Kevin's play. I'm hoping that's explored more eventually.

I'm glad Jack's death is in this predictable way, because the speculation about him having a terminal illness or Alzheimer's disease (because he forgot something one episode, so of course!) ranged from slightly implausible to completely ridiculous.

I did that to my eyebrows and they never fully grew back in. Seriously, I'm so angry with the 90s for foisting this look on us. Now I'm looking at microblading.

I can't believe no one knew Mount Vernon. Loved the spelling category. I am getting really frustrated by how many clues are left on the board.

Yeah, it was staged. For tweets! Yeah, because twitter is all the new rage! Hey, let's make everyone look like an incompetent buffoon and embarrass a whole bunch of people publicly in the process. For....tweets! LOL!

I'm sure he wishes he had but he likely froze in the moment. It's like your brain turns to glue. He could have also played it off like "Oh this must be one of Jimmy's pranks!" but then it really would have looked scripted. Also, I can only imagine the "old man dementia" jokes if he shuffled off the stage to get help reading a card. He was in a no win situation and I don't think it was his fault at all.

I'm sure Viraj would have been singing a different tune if he had won the tournament. He really does come off as a sore loser and that's too bad since I was charmed by his Oprah anecdote.

I saw this last week. Yes, it was terrible, no surprise there, but I legitimately LOLed when Ana gets the promotion at work when Jack is fired and then the other assistant asks Ana if she's now expected to call her "Ms. Steele". Everything Ana says "I expect you to call me Ana, I don't expect you to fetch me coffee unless you're getting some for yourself, and the rest we'll just make up as we go along" is exactly what Melanie Griffith says to her new secretary at the end of Working Girl. Fantastic shout out to an amazing movie starring her mom (which this one wasn't).

I liked Gary too. But yeah, there was no way he could win. He had to know it which was why he placed such an odd wager.

I like her a lot but I haven't been too impressed with the short singing clips that have been released. It has no life at all. It's hard to describe, the animated one was bursting with life. You can almost feel the energy leaping off the cell. One of my good friends is an animator (not for Disney) and he used to send me stills of the animated Beauty and the Beast and point out all the flaws in the shots....illustrating why he considered the whole movie a bit slapdash. It's true it was made in 2.5 years while most animated features take around four years. But the story and the characters and the life it had were what made it great, not the tiny cleanup details in each frame. We were always arguing about that.

I thought it was pretty clear Viraj knew he was toast after his "aqua therapy" screw up. You could just see the wind go out of his sails. He fell apart. Even Alex was aghast. But I was rooting for Lilly so I was fine with it.