Why is this is so bad?

Why is this is so bad?

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Apparently not.

It's a story about a spoiled princess who tries to magically sneak out of a conflict with her mother, and then spends the rest of the movie forced to desperately try to repair the grade A fuckup mistake that turned out to be.
Marketed as a feminist movie about a girl seeking and gaining her independence.
With a title in the form of an adjective that only adequately describes one character in it - her father.

Didn't manage to properly elevate the stakes at hand which the whole thing feel pointless, also boring generic characters.

Merida is a qt tho

Advertising showed more interesting than what we got.

And the actual moral of the story is "don't make deals with witches, they fuck them up".

Loved it. Got anything and everything labelled with Brave (except the dolls.. ).

Pixar was still in their "cute little scampy sidekick" phase with the three brothers.

Other than that? I liked it. It did a good job of portraying both the mother and the daughter in the wrong, and gave a good way for them to change their viewpoints.

I mean, I have heard valid complaints about the movie, but it's been so long since I talked about it and almost everyone else levels such stupid complaints that I can't even recall the decent ones.

>How did this beat Wreck-It Ralph for best animated picture?
Fix'd.

Not enough porn

It wasn't that bad, I just didn't like it.

If it was Shrek, they would have all been bears by the end of the movie.

Everyone was expecting princess mononke with Scottish fairies and elves

but instead we got brother bear highlands edition

>Girl poisons her mother, and inadvertently her 3 siblings.
>Almost gets said family member's gutted and skinned, but lol she's a girl and she learned a lesson so that's alright so she doesn't get punished in anyway
>Depicts men as brainless, dirty oafs, or just flat out scottish rapists.
>That stupid fucking hair.

you expected to much of it.

>Unlikable lead
>Main plot is about unlikable lead's relationship with uninteresting mother
>Very strained and unconvincing attempt to graft modern day sensibilities onto a medieval setting.

My headcanon is that the witch is actually terrible at magic, to the point that she only knows how to do one spell well; changing people into bears. So she gets away with it by always finding a way to construe changing into a bear into the customer's request.

>but lol she's a girl and she learned a lesson so that's alright so she doesn't get punished in anyway
She doesn't get punished because it's a fairy tale, not because she's a girl.

>Very strained and unconvincing attempt to graft modern day sensibilities onto a medieval setting
I hate this. Of all the things I hate in historically-set fictional media, I hate this the most.
Is there a term for this practice? If not I'm just going to keep calling it "gaywashing."

The movie has bears and magic, the idea that a teenage girl doesn't want to enter into an arranged marriage and does something risky and stupid to get out of it isn't something that was invented in the 21st century.

>muh gurrlllll power

Shit won't sell. Never ever. SJW's are shitty customers.

The biggest issue, and I believe another poster put it more eloquently than me, is that the movie just sort of stops being interesting at the halfway point, and becomes predictable/no-fun.

if it's a fairy tale why does it play out like an sjw radical feminist's coming of age girl power fantasy

Went through like three different writers with radically different ideas on what the movie should be.

Not enough Maudie, not enough bear-mom.

I haven't seen any real Brave or Merida merchandise recently. Maybe the movie is now burned out on popularity & Merida will be dropped from the Disney Princess line.

It was pretty mediocre film on it's own but the fact that the trailers and marketing built up so much hype around the film, making absolute sure to give zero details about the main plot itself and spreading the tagline "If you could change your fate, would you?" everywhere, just for it to end up being Freaky Friday, didn't help.

Nah, they'll just keep her on the backburner of merch like Mulan and Pocahontas.

Ugly protagonist. Ugh.

Lacks 'oomph'. Be it negative or positive.

It doesn't have something that makes it outstanding like, i don't know, The Incredibles so good, and isn't an amazing disaster like The Good Dinosaur. So most people don't even remember it exists.

Supposedly it would have been a lot worse if Steve Purcell hadn't stepped in to salvage it.

The guy who made Sam and Max?
Huh.

Movie when?

It has an intriguing beginning, but turns into a chick flick/children's comedy about a daughter and a mother reconnecting while the mother is transformed into a bear. This is a Disney straight to video tier story. Which is too bad. Pixar completely fucked-up at making a good Disney princess.

I remember being super-hyped for it too. I thought we'll get a warrior princess. Instead we got a spoiled brat who almost fucked everyone over because she didn't want to do her duty and then didn't even want to do it by the end. All she did was clean up the mess she herself created.

The same thing that ruined ant man, changing directors, also the story wasn't really good in either version to begin with so it was doomed anyway, such a shame because the reveal teaser was amazing, if it was more like a don bluth film and less like the usual pixar formula it could have been great

I think she looks great. Unlike that pig nosed monster with diastemal, Riley from Inside Out.

>teaser trailer makes it look like a grand adventure with ghost spirits and great landscapes

>actual movie is LMAO MY MOM'S A BEAR

fuck you Pixar

*diastema

>Why is this is so bad?

Why?

Because this should have been AMAZING.

Look at Merida's design. Just look at her! Look at the setting! This should have been an incredible, atmospheric historic set piece, with the Scottish Highlands nearly stealing the show with their darkling majesty.

There should have been willowisps, and an encounter with Cu'Culain in the forest.

Merida's suitors should have been awesome and WORTHY. The story should not have been how bad she disliked her mom, it should have been about her struggles to trim it down to only one of them.

She should have ridden into the Circle of Stones trying to clear her head for the heavy decisions coming to her.

There should have been no goddamn witch or bear, she should have stumbled over the Wild Hunt.

She should have had a nightmare ride through the dark with the Hunt on her heels as she barely escaped with Cu-Culain's mystical help.

The finale should have been all three of her suitors joining forces with her father to defend the castle against a horde brought by the Hunter Himself to claim her as his prize.

The finale should have been a massive nighttime battle as the defenders of her home struggled and lost to stop the monstrous Hunter, every one being a goddamn hero.

Merida should have been terrified, but on the battlements anyway, sniping and making a real impact in the battle.

When her Father fell, Merica should have rallied her forces with a fiery speech on the storm-ridden battlements, pitched battle raging.

She should have ridden away from the castle as a desperate last maneuver, luring the Hunter with her, along with his Wild Hunt, and she should have made her last stand in the circle of stones.

As the Hunter rode to cut her down, as he entered the circle he should have become vulnerable flesh, and in that instant she should have shot him down and saved herself, her family, and all her suitors through her incredible bravery.

Instead, we got...what we got.

What a waste.

Compare this to Mulan. It doesn't even.

Almost every character decision leads to the audience rolling their eyes and groaning "NO! You moron!"