Winter Wonderland: Movies

I've been trying to find reasons to keep using my cryogenesis. The media is bombarding me with images of how NOT to use cryogenesis. I'm not sure if I'm glad that everyone can see what Killer Frost has done, or if I'm angry at how predatory the paparazzi are towards the victims. Mostly I'm just horrified. Nobody deserves to die like that. Not supervillains, not murderers, not anybody.
So I've devoted the past couple of days to therapeutic fluff movies and rediscovering what I love about my powers. I missed yesterday's Winter Wonderland installment, so here it is.
The classic cryogenesis movie is The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I never really got a feeling of bleak winter horror out of what the White Witch did to Narnia. It seemed like a really awesome place: snowball fights every day, misty breath, frosted windows, ice castles, kickass fur coats. And imagine what that would do for the winter tourism industry. You know the Archenlanders were totally skiing there. I would. I thought Narnia was much cooler in its beautiful stark winter than in spring with all those flower people and snooty lions prancing around. The White Witch had some very pretty sparkly ice effects. I kind of envy her, the way she never gets her outfit wet despite all the snow. The more recent Narnia movie has a really cool scene involving a frozen river. You know, whenever anyone crosses any frozen body of water in a movie, someone is inevitably going to fall in. It's like that rule in theater about how the loaded gun in the desk has to go off by act three. Except this rule is more likely to result in someone pulling the old let's-cuddle-for-body-warmth act, which I don't think you can do with a gun scenario. Unless it's a freeze ray.
Carrying on the tradition of evil cryogenetic women is the Snow Queen, in the movie of the same name. The movie takes place in a wonderful little Germanic town with ice skating, hot chocolate, sledding and all the other seasonal perks of living in a place that isn't Florida. I wish I could make it snow all over Florida for just one day. I've seen real snow before on vacations, but some people never have. That strikes me as unutterably sad. Anyway, the Snow Queen has an awesome sled and a polar bear and some sort of mirror mind control-ish power that I never quite got. I highly recommend the movie.
In the X-Men movies, Bobby (Iceman) has a cameo. He does a cute thing with his powers, making a blooming rose out of ice. I admire his delicate touch, and the way he got the ice so clear, but perhaps it's not a good idea to hand something that cold to someone you like. Just because you're immune to cold doesn't mean your sweetheart is. Also, she probably doesn't want to carry around a chunk of ice that will melt all over her textbooks. In later movies Bobby does standard stuff like walls of ice, but he doesn't get much screen time. I know he's fictional, but I'm kind of relating to him. My powers look a lot like his, except not as good. I might be able to make a wall of ice, but then I'd have to find some place to hide it until it melts. I tried making an ice rose. I had to make all the petals separately and then make more ice to stick them together. It was kind of blobby, but it looked rose-ish. Kind of. I don't think I've seen Bobby make snow in the movies either, but I think he can in the comic books. Maybe I'm the type of cryogenetic who's just supposed to make ice instead of snow.
More recently, there is Frozone in the Incredibles. I like how he breaks away from the stereotype of Aryan cryogenetics. Seriously, just because I can make ice doesn't mean I'm descended from people who lived in icy climates. That's like saying every hydrokinetic has the last name Fisher. It doesn't work that way, people! Frozone was more of a cryokinetic than a cryogenetic, because he used ambient humidity, but he managed to produce amazing amounts of ice, really fast. His power also produces fluffy snow, which I envy because he uses it to cushion a couple impacts. Also, he could hypothetically start a snowball fight AT ANY MOMENT. Imagine living with that potential. I just have my little hail balls, and I wouldn't want to use those in a friendly fight because they're solid ice. It's like having a pillow fight after stuffing your pillowcase with bricks. Frozone has very aerated ice for the most part. It's white, unlike the mostly clear glasslike stuff Bobby makes in the movies. Frozone also does that classic violating-the-laws-of-physics skating ramp ice thing, except he disintegrates it behind him to reuse the water. I totally wish I could do that.
So in essence, I've been avoiding the news and watching movies that make me want to use my cryogenesis in new ways. I've also invented a way to motivate myself to practice every day: Freeze Pops. Little tubes of flavored water, which I can turn into popsicles merely by holding them and concentrating. I think I'm going to run out of room in my stomach and Freeze Pops in my fridge before I hit the limits of my power or even get appreciably better at freezing things in my hand, but this is the best practice tool ever.