The Critic

Everyone's a critic,
That doesn't mean everyone's a good critic.
I myself am a critic, that's why I have this blog but what astounds me now is how people when they are giving their opinion on someone else's work... it's usually a bad one?
I mean, people! There is a difference between criticism and constructive criticism... but you just don't understand!
Take me for an instance.
If someone asks my opinion on something I'll immediately look for the first thing I liked (even if most of it wasn't great) and I'd point out everything I like about something before I even say "But if I were you, I would just add this, or maybe try something different here"
I know I may be complaining but the thing is I can take criticism, as long as its constructive. But if you only tell me what I'm doing wrong instead of what I'm doing right I am going to feel very disillusioned. So if you are taking criticism from someone else just ask, "Okay... but what did I do right?"
Always see what you did right so you can work on that and what you did wrong, you can try to change to get that right too the next time.
Criticism, it's hard to hear, but as long as the person tries to add a positive, I'm willing to accept.

Rugrats Movie

You get a lot of kids films, so many that only the ones like the Lion King or Shrek are remembered.
But an animated film to first break the mode is this one, the first non disney film to crack the box office was the Rugrats Movie in 1998.

This film, it really affected me when I was young... I rented it so many times as a kid and when I saw it a year ago in a DVD shop I had to get it.
This would probably have to be one of the darkest kid films I have ever seen, (And I'm including Coraline in that description)
Everything about this film is dark. In the most innocent of ways.
Five babies in the wilderness with a wolf trying to kill them.
No one seems to remember that fact.
Tommy actually breaks and was going to sacrifice Dil.
No one seems to remember that bit.
This movie... everything about this movie so outreaches what the show was about in so many levels.
The premise was simple, what they did with it was amazing.

This movie was made for 3 year olds, but it has the depth of any adult film. It shows children real life things, not fantasies, and it is always films like this that get me.

But I ask you Hollywood, why is it that we always have to wait years apart for films like this and Coraline? Why are you afraid to go to these dark places that kids need to see.

This movie shows life through the eyes of babies, and how things we don't think are important as adults were so much more important as children.

I may be a baby watching these kids films, for only watching  these kid films and refusing to grow up to this reality where we are meant to care more about money and sex than this.

But if we have kids films like this, all I ask is, why should I?