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[McTraveller]

Double-posting feels poor, but this is a new entry:

Damsel is a way better "princess" movie than anything the House of Mouse has put out in many years. Finally writers that trust the audience a bit, very little narrative spoon-feeding.  And, I daresay, a good way of how to do a strong heroine.  A little trope-heavy, but not cliche; overall I think it is a very good dragon flick.  Some seriously fine dragonfire effects too!

It does have a really strange visual tone to it though.  The color palette and filmography style is "high Disney" but the content is darker.  Such an interesting juxtaposition.

Part of what I mean about filmography is the imaging is "too crisp" (basically, too digital & too high a frame rate) - I want me some film grain or something, at least. And make it real, not digitally simulated!

There were a few janky green-screen cuts... and an odd dichotomy in CG quality from cut to cut...but not terrible given what looks like a made-for-TV budget.  There is some surprising intelligent detail, too - like a sword that got hit by dragonfire has annealing discoloration on it.