C. L. Schoon

"highly calibrated sarcasm machine"
(REAL NAME)
 
 
Location: Longmont, CO USA
Birthday: Aug 11
In My Own Words:
As you can see, I'm a girl with eclectic tastes. I am a newsroom writer who loves to read good writing and likes to groove to good music. Of course, my definition of 'good' spans old hair rock from the 70's to Mancini to Beethoven to Outkast. As for movies, I'm a big MST3K fan, (I'm big into postmodern subtext) and I love the classics. Thanks for looking me up!
 

Reviews

Top Reviewer Ranking: 161,454
Sleeping Beauty: Special Edition (2-Disc Set) <b>DVD</b> ~ Mary Costa
Between the classic Armitage backdrops and the beautiful animation (it's hard to explain to kids today that Maleficent was drawn BY HAND, not in a computer, a'la Pixar) this ranks among the most intricate animated films ever made.
This film is from an era when feats of animation were displayed without apology- the flames licking the vine that envelopes Sleeping Beauty's castle, for example(and really, the vine itself) are testament to a bygone time when stunning visual effects were all the more stunning for having come from a real hand, a real paintbrush, liquid ink.
The story itself is a departure, in classic Disney style, from the original Sleeping Beauty stories from… Read more