why do people like shrek so much?
Look at this crap
shrek looks so retarded esp. animation wise. the new dreamworks movie Shark Tales looks just as bad. i love sharks and i refuse to see this movie
shrek looks so retarded esp. animation wise. the new dreamworks movie Shark Tales looks just as bad. i love sharks and i refuse to see this movie
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Originally posted by burningwheel
Look at this crap
shrek looks so retarded esp. animation wise. the new dreamworks movie Shark Tales looks just as bad. i love sharks and i refuse to see this movie
there was a dreamworks trailer before the incredibles which i found odd
However, I really enjoyed the trailer and am sadly excited about it. Madagascar. Looks pretty funny. plus, i have a thing for penguins.
I think that Shrek and even Pixar a little bit are popular because parents want to take their kids to something wholesome. Disney movies are outdated and the Disney feel only works if the movie is goo,. so less kiddy animation sells well.
Pixar's talent is being able to exceed Dreamwork's films, while still maintaining a G rating (Shrek is PG).
I like the direction they're taking it in with The Incredibles. The humor is a little bit less bland, less physical.
Cars I just plain don't get.
First Pixar made A Bug's Life, then Dreamwork's Ants was made and actually beat Pixar's film to theaters. Shrek is fairly original, more of a riff on Disney films than a Pixar one, unless you want to argue that the title character has some vague resemblance to Sully in Monsters Inc. I think Dreamworks gets a pass on that one. Anyway, after Finding Nemo, A Shark's Tale comes out. They're all different movies, but it's like Dreamworks cribbed the notes in Variety about the Pixar films and wrote their own stories around them. I'm just waiting for Dreamworks' next animated feature to be about a family of superheroes or maybe about race cars.
Anyway, the Dreamworks films are non-stop in-jokes. How many kids are going to get all the Godfather references in A Shark's Tale? I don't know how kids find them funny when all the jokes are referring to things they've mostly never seen or didn't experience. I mean, we see plenty of parody, satire and homage in other comedies, but they either play to an older audience or they add it as another layer to the jokes. When I saw Shrek 2 with friends and all those kids were laughing at the 80's Flashdance references and whatnot, I decided that kids somehow laugh when they're expected to, not necessarily when they find something funny. I mean, some of that stuff was really funny because I knew what they were making fun of, but by the end I was tired of that stuff too because it was just one in-joke after another. Even the Simpsons mixes it up with their own jokes that are actually topical to the plot.
I agree that the animation, by attempting to make the characters and settings more realistic, actually makes it much worse. I probably won't be able to stand The Polar Express because it makes the same mistake. There should be a set of commandments for 3D animation, the first being that the more real you try to make your characters look, the less believable they will be. The human eye can spot the slightest incongruity in a human character's movements, and it takes me right out of the film when I see it. (I could spot problems in the LotR trilogy the same way. Drove me nuts.) I have a much easier time accepting (aka, suspending disbelief) if the features and movements are actually exaggerated. Still, I know plenty of people who think that Shrek's human characters exceed anything Pixar or even 2D anime have done, and will think the same of The Polar Express. Hey, plenty of people think this Gateway is pretty nice too.
I think it's really that simple.
I agree that Pixar is a little too wholesome, but there is no doubt they are the superior studio. Shark tale is proof enough that Dreamworks can't produce consistent hits.
Originally posted by Scott
Maybe when Pixar gets away from Disney they will get edger.
you clearly don't understand Pixar.
Nemo was for me the best 3D technical animation movie.
i liked Pixar's Bug's Life movie
Originally posted by Neø
shrek doesn't teach you much, so it's pretty worthless IMO
i liked Pixar's Bug's Life movie
Shrek is supposed to teach moral values : like tolerance, to fight racism, love ...
Anyway, I'll say Shrek moral teaching is a chip one (read simplistic). They are far better movies for that : like Philadelphia, the purple color, Mississipi burning ... (add your own list here).
I took Shrek for what is it : entertainement. And yes it was a good one.
Originally posted by talksense101
Shrek is a light hearted movie with a good theme. The first movie was based on the quote "beauty is not skin deep". It is unfortunate that you came out of the movie thinking the ogre is ugly. Maybe you need to listen more to the scripts...
the thing about Shrek and Dreamworks is that they don't have good writers. Pixar is what Disney used to be. Enjoyable on many levels. The humor is funny to both kids and adults. The adult only jokes are subtle and not harsh or crude. Shrek and Dreamworks take the easy way out. Crude/vulgar/harsh.... watching Shrek, it just doesn't have the same effect on me. I don't want to see cheap toilet humor. Pixar is above that. Pixar is above dissing other studies or movies in their movies. When I watch a Pixar movie things impress me, the writing style impresses me, the little touches impress me, it makes me think how they can have such smart/creative people who come up with this stuff and tie it together so well. Pixar gives me the same effect watching movies as Apple does using a mac. I think it's pretty rare and special and it shows in their unprecedented success
Originally posted by Neø
shrek doesn't teach you much, so it's pretty worthless IMO
i liked Pixar's Bug's Life movie
Bug's life is a remake of the Kurosawa movie "the seven samurai". One of the best movies ever made.
Originally posted by applenut
you clearly don't understand Pixar.
Do tell.
Originally posted by Scott
Do tell.
see above.
if you think Disney is what keeps Pixar's movies from being reduced to the shit that most studios consider "edgy" than you don't recognize the intentions of Pixar and their philosophy.