" 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.
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Date: 2007-11-19 01:20 pm (UTC)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.