{"id":4247,"date":"2012-07-26T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:42:24","slug":"a-few-points-in-defense-of-the-film-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=4247","title":{"rendered":"A Few Points In Defense Of The Film Brave"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>(Merida and Angus, drawn by me in the style of E.C. Segar)<\/h6>\n

If you read my blog you know that movies aren’t really my thing. My main passions are comics and music (and I try to keep the music chatter to a bare minimum here). I do, though, very occasionally make it out to the theater. These days my theater-going is usually confined to kids’ movies, since I can haul my daughter along with me. Such was the case when my wife, daughter, and I went to see the most recent Pixar film, Brave<\/em>, a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

I absolutely loved Brave<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I make a point to read\/know as little about a film as possible before seeing it, and so I knew very little about Brave<\/em> going into it. Not too long after I returned from the film, though, I decided to get online and see what kind of reviews the film had received. I was really surprised by the lackluster reaction to the film among critics. Not only was this contrary to my own feelings about the film, but it also contrasted sharply with the very positive online Brave<\/em> chatter I’d seen via Twitter. So here is not so much a “defense” of Brave<\/em>, but just a few random thoughts on what might be behind the odd disparity between the critics’ reviews and casual viewers’ reactions to this film. Needless to say, beware spoilers:<\/p>\n