Shrek

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue May 04, 2010 3:49 am

Anyone other than me excited about the new "Shrek" coming out this month?

If you agree "I'm making waffles for everyone"

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue May 04, 2010 4:15 am

Actually, I really liked the first one. Last year I took a course of writing stories (it was for free and the teacher was a friend of mine who studied on Cuba) and understood Shrek's script is brilliant. Shrek not only laughs over Disney's and fairy tales cliches, besides being a good funny movie, also makes a mockery over the "rules of writing" found in classic Russian fairy tales and movies (you can google Propp, for example). So all the rules of the "hero's path" are broken one by one in the script itself. Brilliant.
About the rest of the tetralogy... uhm, I think it's very repetitive, they lose the magic and the intelligence of the first one and really doubt this four one come with something new. Just my opinion.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue May 04, 2010 5:38 am

selgin wrote:Actually, I really liked the first one. Last year I took a course of writing stories (it was for free and the teacher was a friend of mine who studied on Cuba) and understood Shrek's script is brilliant. Shrek not only laughs over Disney's and fairy tales cliches, besides being a good funny movie, also makes a mockery over the "rules of writing" found in classic Russian fairy tales and movies (you can google Propp, for example). So all the rules of the "hero's path" are broken one by one in the script itself. Brilliant.
About the rest of the tetralogy... uhm, I think it's very repetitive, they lose the magic and the intelligence of the first one and really doubt this four one come with something new. Just my opinion.

All this saying. Idiots like me still think its about the best thing hollywood can produce that i'll actually go pay 8 bucks to go see. Just call me a dreamworks and pixar fan.

P.S. Did you like the story line from Ratatouille?

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Tue May 04, 2010 5:55 am

I didn't want to call you idiot in any way, sorry if my post sounded disrespectful.
Cars is the only Pixar movie I didn't like. I'm a huge fan of them an yes, I loved Ratatouille, actually is one of my favorites.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue May 04, 2010 6:08 pm

selgin wrote:I didn't want to call you idiot in any way, sorry if my post sounded disrespectful.
Cars is the only Pixar movie I didn't like. I'm a huge fan of them an yes, I loved Ratatouille, actually is one of my favorites.

Oh, not at all, I think I might have worded it wrong! I was calling myself an idiot for being an old man watching cartoons LoL.

And yes the last 2 Shreks are not as good in plot as the original but the animation progression is just outstanding.

If it wasn't for Larry the cable guy in Cars I probable wouldn't have watched it, he made the movie almost tolerable.