Lissea's Constant Complaints

People really don’t like it when you say you like something but can’t understand why it’s loved, do they? I’m guessing I’ll be putting off talking about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. That will probably blow up more than one of my fantastically bad migraines! Well, back to the fun. I swear it took me half an hour to find that schedule button. All the tutorials are from a previous version of Blogger! Anyway, as it’s still a hot topic for me, today you’re going to hear more of my complaining about scam “volunteer” Beta Readers. They just keep coming. I’ve had nine so far, and have scheduled Twitter posts with tips on how to notice them as they’ve become such a big part of my life. I’m turning into a right lobbyist. I have already spoken a lot about this in my Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/1n4d8yx/beware_professional_beta_readers/ so I am therefore going to focus on things that have come about since I made it. So these guys come along, largely to a Beta Re...

  Today I'm going to complain about Spellbound (2024), and boy does it feel like it was made in 2024. Spellbound is the most, and most obviously, derivative movie I have seen in quite some time.  Every shot in this movie feels like it was taken from another, well-known movie. There's one at the beginning that feels exactly like How To Train Your Dragon when Hiccup is flying with Toothless, for example. When this is not happening, it is trying to imminante something else while also giving off a wannabe quirky vibe combined with uncanny valley. It is trying to be too many things too, but being none of them. You're just left with a feeling of weirdness. I'm getting a sense of Secret Magic Control Agency here too, but Spellbound seems to be trying to copy its bad elements rather than what was good about it. The protagonist feels like a more annoying Anna from Frozen with the body language of Mirabel from Encanto. The creators are clearly trying too hard with this, and it bo...