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[meganbmoore]

 We are watching Shrek 3 at work.  It reinforces my opinion that, like Highlander, there should be Only One (Shrek movie)

not necessarily "bad" or anything, but...

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[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

I think I'm one of the only people in the world who didn't hate Highlander 2: The Quickening with a fiery passion. In fact, I kind of liked it. It was so out there insane-bizarre/warp the mythology we created in the first. I mean, there were aliens and a shield blocking out the sun! And Sean Connery prancing around modern-day Scotland. His "Why the hell are you talking to a skull" conversation with the actor in Hamlet was hilarious.

I dunno, I don't think the movie took itself that seriously, and contributes a really bizarre sequel to the Highlander canon. The third one, now, that shouldn't have been made.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I do not hate Highlander 2 with a fiery passion. I do, however, think it may have been better if it had been it's own movie instead of as a sequel. There were, as you point out, some great things in it, it's just that Highlander left no room for a sequel.

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

I just read the trivia on it on imdb, and I'm curious about the "renegade version."

I actually didn't think you hated it, just that people in general tend to. I think you'd find some value in it, at least that it's so absolutely whacked out you almost have to admire it, heh.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

As you pointed out, it has Sean Connery asking a man why he's talking to a skull. And I seem to recall swordfights on flying skateboards. You know me...

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Agreeeed. I watched this on the plane to NYC and actually began channel-surfing on the plane. It's never a good sign that I'd rather watch old eps of Law & Order than a movie that's just come out.

I just didn't laugh at all.. Whereas the first movie made me howl with laughter.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I few of the parts that I watched were amusing(Shrek trying to be king, and the queen taking out the wall) but mostly...yes, much, much groaning.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Totally word. Except I really did enjoy most of shrek 2.

The third was was pretty worthless, though.

But I must say, as I always do when discussing Shrek, that I have yet to forgive the writers for the ending they gave us in the first movie.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I couldn't really get into Shrek 2 because I thought the animation was really ugly as they explored their "look at what we can do" cgi abilities. I would have liked it a lot more otherwise.

I only watched parts of Shrek 3, but at the end, my easily pleased coworkers said they wished they had popcorn so they could throw it at the TV screen

What problems did you have w/ the ending of Shrek 1?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

" I only watched parts of Shrek 3, but at the end, my easily pleased coworkers said they wished they had popcorn so they could throw it at the TV screen"

I watched in on the airplane to Paris, and I kept thinking, 'is it just stress and traveling that's making this movie suck? Or is it really as bad as I think it is?'

And then I thought about it, and was like, yep, it really is this bad.

"What problems did you have w/ the ending of Shrek 1?"

Okay, Shrek 1 was all about Fiona and Shrek falling in love, and taking cracks at some classic fairy tale troupes - and what was stressed was that you could fall in love regardless of what the other person was - princess and ogres could fall in love. (Subtext = cross-racial relationships for the win!)

And then in the end, instead of the curse breaking and returning her to her original form (which, if her parents and my memory are anything to go by, was a princess) she turns into an ogre. Which, is you know, is great and all, except that it implies that if you love someone who isn't like you, one of you better change, so we're all in relationships with people just like us. (And it make that scene where Shrek is singing 'Don't go changing on me,' horribly ironic is a way the screenwriters most likely didn't intend.)

So I never really forgave them for that. In my head, they kiss, the curse is broken, and beautiful princess Fiona goes off to live with ugly, ogre Shrek, because damn it, they love each other, and they're going to make their relationship work, even if it's hard.

On that theme, I think I would have liked Shrek the third better, if Shrek had actually turned out to be good but untraditional at governing, and then had to man up and become King even though he would have liked to evade the responsibility and go back to his swamp.

That the movie allowed him to just pawn his duty off on someone else grated horribly.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember thinking along those lines when I first watched Shrek, but I let it slide because they were telling themselves they were writing a kids movie(which it completely wasn't in any mway but they didn't realize that) and could see why they'd be leery of not making them both ogres or both humans.

I thought that too in Shrek 3 and was hoping that it would eventually lead to his getting his act together and stepping up to do what he needed to do, but that didn't seem to be happening(but I was paying less and less attention as it progressed so I can't be sure)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, Shrek was pratically human! He was just large and green. (And know that I think about it, the obesity metaphor is even more disturbing than the interracial one....)

And no, he did not get his act together and attention is wasted on that movie.

[fa3ryg1rl.livejournal.com]

I liked all 3 Shrek movies, but I think they did go downhill with each one. I tend to like things other people didn't though, I must just be weird.

[aoimidori.livejournal.com]

...but it was kind of boring and the humor kind of repetitive? :p that was how i felt about it haha. i mean it was entertaining in some parts, but definitely not worth spending on. :|