Escape to the Movies: Shrek For Ever After
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not a very good month for movies other then ironman2 huh bob? robin hood, shrek 4, and next week is prince of persia which, being a video game movie is destined to be a flop...at least june looks promising.
You have no idea how much ire that post has provoked. I'm iring so much right now, you better find a bomb shelter. And put it inside another bomb shelter. And bury it underground. Because I'm going to buy that God's Finger weapon, place about 10 titanium rods on the orbit, each weighting 50 tons, and launch them at your home, all with acceleration of 20km/s^s. After few seconds, there will be nothing left of you, make your time.Antacid said:
And I thought Shrek 2 was rubbish, It felt like a half baked epilouge.
Shrek the third was more of a half burned epilouge.
Shrek the third was more of a half burned epilouge.
Do I remember how good the first Shrek was? No, I remember how good the first 3 Shreks were. There were supposed to be 7 & they gave up at 5 (this is actually 5 if you count the Christmas special).
I'm looking forward to seeing this. I really really hate 3D animation (unless it's claymation), but I've given Shrek my one & only esception.
Can I think of actors who make me want to see a movie less? Yeah, Robin Williams, & Brendan Fraser. Seriously, when did American comedies start trading funny for embarassingly childish? Bad acting, over-the-top dialogue, unrealistic special effects, overblown reactions, puns up the wazoo, jokes & visual gags only a 3ed grader would find funny, & scripts that probably have to get PTA approval before filming.
That Dragon movie was terrible! :X My friend Omega dragged me to see it with her son. I only went because she was paying & I was bored.
I'm looking forward to seeing this. I really really hate 3D animation (unless it's claymation), but I've given Shrek my one & only esception.
Can I think of actors who make me want to see a movie less? Yeah, Robin Williams, & Brendan Fraser. Seriously, when did American comedies start trading funny for embarassingly childish? Bad acting, over-the-top dialogue, unrealistic special effects, overblown reactions, puns up the wazoo, jokes & visual gags only a 3ed grader would find funny, & scripts that probably have to get PTA approval before filming.
That Dragon movie was terrible! :X My friend Omega dragged me to see it with her son. I only went because she was paying & I was bored.
I agree with Antacid, only Toy Story was shit too. It was probably the first 3D movie I ever hated.Abedeus said:
That's why it was the first 3D thing I hated. I might have liked it a tiny bit if it had been stop-motion & didn't remind me of the Raggedy Anne & Andy movie.Abedeus said:
I thought "the Dragon movie" was awesome too. Also, Kung Fu Panda was really good. That formula seems to be working.ccesarano said:Fuck you on saying the Dragon movie was "okay", though. That movie was awesome.
(Ok, it went through the exact same plot as Kung Fu Panda and probably any other Dreamworks film, where the outcast is bad at something, then learns he is good at it after all, then blah blah yack yack happy resolution. But it was still good!).
But I'm not so sure that they used that plot structure on any other movies of theirs, and they've done a few. They do have outcasts in a lot of their pictures though (Antz, Shark Tale, Shrek, How to Train your Dragon, Kung Fu Panda)
It makes sense for the protagonist to have a unique mindset/ability which sets him apart from the rest. The ordinary isn't interesting. This naturally leads to an outcast situation.
It was a very good movie, DESPITE me not liking the protagonist very much. I enjoyed the humor, the animation, the voice-acting (apart from the protagonist+love interest, and they weren't too bad).
I sense that you are mistaking me for a troll. I merely wished to make a few points:Abedeus said:
1) Ppl should really check out Miyazaki's stuffs he's awesome <3 <3
2) Western animation is always hamstrung by committee plot design which restricts the kinds of stories they can tell and ensures that even if the story idea is clever the character conflicts are always loldimensional.
3) Audiences tend to put movies aimed primarily at children into a different box than those for adults and switch off their critical faculties. Lazy writing gets ignored and the movies get universal critical acclaim and 100% tomatometer ratings, which makes everyone involved look silly.
4) Animated movies are directed by experienced animation specialists who run animation factories with large staffs, limiting the pool of talent available and reduces the likelihood of someone who's a really good storyteller getting into a position of enough power to get a movie made. There's never been a twentysomething auteur animator that got to make an animated movie for a major studio. A Cameron or a Spielburgwould have to do mindless gruntwork for a decade before getting any creative power and why would they choose to do that?
5) The really skilled writers and directors are all working on movies aimed at adults, obviously, because why would any real artist accept a bunch of restrictions about what they can make movies about tied to a massive increase in production cost and the number of people who are going to want to influence the end result?
2) Does that make them really, really bad? Does it mean they eat children?Antacid said:
3) Yeaaah... I don't really recall a movie like that in the past 5 years. Maybe except for "Up". But Shrek, for instance, is not really a children's movie. It can be watched and enjoyed by everyone from age of 5 to even 80. Except for Shrek 3 and this piece of shit that came out recently.
4) I forgot that animators can't hire someone to write a script, dialogs and they would only have to focus on making the animations and graphics...
5) Because they can/want to/children movies also rack up a lot of cash thanks to video games based on the movie? It's all about the profit.