#like garrets skilled at wilderness survival but the framing wasnt like
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bmpmp3 · 5 years ago
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God so for the past three weeks I had this insatiable urge to rewatch the 1998 animated movie Quest For Camelot which was a movie I absolutely ADORED as a kid despite its reputation for being bad but I never found time to watch it until like an hour and a half ago so I just rewatched it for the first time in Actually A Decade and like yeah the animation is wonk as FUCK and the pacing is weird and some characters and comedic relief moments and songs can be.....a lot..... And like all the songs sound a little bit like bargain bin Phil Collins and the differences between the characters speaking voices and their singing voices is often Very Jarring but honestly.....it's not the worst movie lol for most people it'd just be a mediocre but inoffensive lil animated movie for kids I think folks are really too harsh on it lol
NOW don't get it twisted I Adore It Still even ten years after I last saw it xbxjdn I'm just trying to explain it from the point of view of someone who has okay taste unlike me orz BUT god so I was watching it and I was thinking about how much I loved it as a kid and how much I was enjoying it now at 21 years of age and I realized that it's because the main character and her love interest (the highlights of the movie) are written so much like mid 2000s shoujo manga and every thing made sense........the lovable and spunky but absolutely brainless main character (shes so stupid I love her...).......the handsome edgy loner dude who has Feelings...... The way their relationship develops.....classic shoujo manga....every time they were on screen I could Feel The Shoujo Bubbles........
Also okay goofin aside the handling of Garret as a disabled main character was not half bad (take my opinion with many grains of salts tho cause I'm not blind) like his blindness doesn't get magicked away or anything and it didn't treat his disability as the problem, the actual problem was the townfolks ableism which I thought like......bro that's a good message for a kids movie y'know? Itd be nice if more movies were like "hey kids don't be weird and shitty to disabled people" y'know......of course the movie probably wasn't perfect about it I mean it is an animated movie from the 90s where I'm pretty sure most of the budget went to getting big name actors and musicians and Nothing Else but it wasn't half bad......it was sorta good.......
Shame everyone looks super fucked up every three frames bdhfebbdbfb
Edit: also I KNOW the rescuing damsels line was no-homo'd like immediately after but I choose to believe Kayley is bi because I want to and I am bi and I like Kayley and I'm sexy and cool and no one can stop me
#feeling talky#like it wasnt perfect....it had many many flaws....but i dunno it was just nice#nice to see a disabled character where the framing wasnt based on 'usefulness'#like garrets skilled at wilderness survival but the framing wasnt like#'wow ur so good despite ur disability'#and it wasn't 'ur good because ur disability is useful' either which is nice i think#again i cant speak for blind people or any physical disabilities#but i do always think its a lil shitty when the message of a story about disability is all about like the 'usefulness' of it#ive got like....symptoms disorder.....been diagnosed with like all the adhd symptons but like#okay im about to say something real weird#growing up i lied to psychologists but only about one symptom???? i didnt lie about anything else but i did lie about my ability to focus#i cant control my focus for shit but some combination of adults constantly berating my entire gender or age group because of my own failing#(like yknow when folks are like kids these days have no attention span when u cant pay attention and ur like no its not kids these days)#(its just a me problem)#as well as like teachers in spec ed areas always talking about kids who were spec ed like us but at least cause they had specific talents#when ur a 14 year old who doesnt think she has any useful traits those kinds of sentiments dont feel good yknow....#anyway i would lie about my ability to focus as if i could control my hyper focus modes#cause i had to figure out something that could maybe be useful? does that make sense? am i making sense? gomenasai#so yeah now ive got all this documentation that i have like all the symptoms of adhd except some confusing stuff about focus djzjdhfhjems#now im an adult and i dont feel the need to lie tho!!! it wasnt until a few years back when to my psychiatrist i was like#bro i cant focus but i can focus so much but j cant control it and it sucks whats the deal with that is it insomnia#and he was like 'bruh i think u had adhd'#wasnt really in a place to pursue that line of questioning at the time but someday....ill be able to talk with a professional..........#anyway yeah i dunno qwq i got symptoms disorder and i dont like stories that are like 'disabilities are only okay if theyre useful to us' !#am i making sense!!! im incomprehensible!!!! quest for camelot is an okay movie and i love it a lot!!!!!!!!
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