I resolved to watch more interesting movies this year after realizing I hadn't strayed much from my comfort zone in 2013. Rewatching these middle school favorites seems like a pretty poor way to kick things off, but I had a strong urge after seeing The Hobbit 2. Anyhow, these mostly hold up, especially that sense of wonder, at least in the first two. The third one has a lot of padding that kind of detracts from that (I'm sure it didn't help that I was watching the extended additions). As much as I enjoyed watching these again I can't help but feel that we shouldn't have to wait years between projects on such a scale and with such engrossing mythology. It doesn't seem terribly hard to write, and I'd love to like sit down every week and watch another chapter of this sort of thing. Game of Thrones and to a lesser extent Adventure Time have the right idea, but those are just nine hours a year and eleven minutes a week respectively. I know money's a big part of the problem, but I'd be down for animation too. It's just crazy to me that the market's flooded with so much crap and something like this only comes around once a generation.
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