Maleficent Live Action

After I finished watching the 2014 live action of Sleeping Beauty for the second time, I could one of my lifetime friends to discuss about it. I knew that, just like me and you, he was a big Disney fan and his favorite Disney movie is Maleficent. He also admit that his favorite villain is Maleficent and the reason why he loved her because she was the worst of the bunch, the villain of villains, the representation of pure evil.
I have to admit it, I was shocked (and confused)! He just admitted that his all-time favorite villain is Maleficent just for the fact that she is evil for being evil. Originally, in the Disney animated version, she cursed a child for not being invited to a party!
This lead me to start wondering why I didn't like Sleeping Beauty all that much (although my friend must never know or I will have a really long conversation of him trying to convince that Sleeping Beauty is the best movie ever) and I loved Maleficent. The reason was right in front of me: I loved maleficent because the villain had a background, a reason. There was reason in Maleficent's actions and I felt like I could have done the same!

I liked Maleficent because everything made sense in my mind, and I couldn't care less that they didn't follow the same storyline than the one in Sleeping Beauty. Yes, it would have been nice that they have followed the same storyline, but the fact that they changed it makes it intriguing and interesting. Unlike my friend, I started liking Maleficent because her actions seemed to have some logic, and not because she was a villain just for being evil.
Maybe this is more of a personal subjective preference, but I like to understand the details. I like to understand the logic of actions. (Maybe its because I sometimes dream that I could be a great detective, but who knows?) Maleficent gave me that, the movie passed from having heroes that where only meant to be born heroes and do good stuff and villains that were meant to do bad stuff, to actually showing reason and meaning being every action without caring if it is good or bad.
Finally, who cares if the storyline doesn't make sense? I watched this movie around midnight and I did not fall asleep (and it was my second time around)! I cried through most of the movie and I couldn't even pause it to go to the restroom. These are the characteristic of a good and intriguing movie that kept me completely hooked and it is the reason why I loved it!
Maybe it is because it has the characteristics I love in a movie (complex characters, drama, logical actions and decisions) or maybe because it has some traits of a good movie (great image quality, nice story, and amazing acting). Either way, I enjoyed it and thought it was extremely good and that is all that matters.