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So many bits of Big Hero 6 have found their way into our home. The fist bump. "Last Hug." "Woman up."

Sean found a huge pile of cheap bead necklaces in the toy box and spent the next two hours playing with his "microbots."

One of my favorite movies of 2014.

My favorite movie scene of 2014
Hiro teaching Baymax how to fist bump in Big Hero 6.

I liked The Battle of Five Armies.

No, it wasn't perfect, but even imperfect, I believe it's a better retelling than the original book (as I’ve said before).

And let's be honest: I don't want perfection in creative stuff – I want creative stuff – I want invention and experimentation and the unexpected.

I don't want The Hobbit copy-pasted onto a movie screen and, (thankfully) that's certainly not what Peter Jackson gave us.

• He gave us love where Tolkien never thought to invest it.
• He gave Legolas a reason to defy his father and ride to Rivendell in fifty years.
• He gave the Arkenstone more meaning and more merit.
• He gave Thorin's line more of the tragic doom that seems to haunt all dwarves, satisfying the expectations set up by the oh-so-dwarvish ending of Desolation of Smaug (something else I talked about already, at length).

I am happy with the movie for all those reasons and a hundred more that I can't list, because I haven't seen it yet, of course.

The things I've mentioned, I trust will be there.

Not hope, the way I hope the next Star Wars movie will be good.

Trust. Belief.

Because Jackson has absolutely earned it.