Am I the only one in America that doesn't like Shrek?

[curse10]

I thought the first movie was pure bile. Cliche, stale pop-culture jokes that were old months before the movie came out. Mike Meyer's scottish accent was only funny in So I Married An Axe Murderer (back when he was funny and not a sell out). Eddie Murphy's donkey character is offensive. Do we need another "chuckin' and jivin'" black character in movies? And the whole plot is cliche. It's been told a 1000 times and this was not a good rendition.

[sniffa]

1. i second your hatred

i hate shrek sooo much. that f'n donkey too, but onLy cuz eddie murphy is the voice.

[lazarus]

2. add me to the list

I was most offended that the princess had to turn into an ogre for them to stay together. Apparently, both partners have to be ugly. :eyes:

[donsu]

3. you are not alone

nt

[gpandas]

4. there's a lot of us n/t

[sniffa]

7. we shouLd start a support group

i aLso hate 'raymond'

[curse10]

10. oh man, I fucking hate Raymond

everyone does not love that fucking douchebag! He's almost as unfunny as shrek. :-)

[CTLawGuy]

18. the show should be called

"nobody loves raymond"

[meegbear]

5. Right here baby ...

have no use for it.

[Skittles]

6. add me

freaking annoying

[Lavender Brown]

8. I don't like it!

Even the voice of Cameron Diaz irritates me.

[freetobegay]

9. Add me to the list!

[skypilot]

11. I didn't see it until...

...it came out on video. I wasn't impressed. I didn't hate it or anything, I just didn't find it all that interesting. It was a very simple and uninvolving story and it seemed to be over so quickly.

[elfwitch]

12. I don't hate it, but...

it sure as shit wasn't better than Monsters Inc. It didn't deserve to Oscar for Best Animated Feature. Not over a Pixar film. Not any day of the week.

[curse10]

16. I loved Monsters Inc.!

Now that movie was funny! But I've loved all the Pixar films. A Bug's Life is my favorite.

[Kadie]

13. Walking thru the store the other day

I couldn't believe how much packaging has his face on it.

Candy, cereal, etc. What next? They even make m&m's in shrek colors. YUCK!

[SheepyMcSheepster]

14. i haven't seen shrek, don't plan to. nt.

[Commendatori]

15. I hate Shrek more than all of you combined.

I hate the donkey, I hate it all.

[CTLawGuy]

17. no,

I'm not particularly fond of it either.

[Delano]

19. You either love it or hate it.

I'm not crazy about it, because of its crassness and ugly drawing style. It's very...AMERICAN - so maybe that's what's bugging you about it - it unapologetically caters to the tastes and biases of middle America.

I have to admit I'm on the fence. I don't get why people love it, but I can't quite hate it either. Made me chuckle a few times.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Hate it!

As does my fiancee... as Homer SImpson would say

"It was the suckiest suck that ever sucked"

[Speck Tater]

21. It saddens me

to see people who fail to enjoy such marvelous pieces of entertainment as the Shrek movies.

How cold and bleak must the life of such people be. Things in which the rest of us find humor and joy, they find only bitterness and cause for complaint.

Who, then, is the more fortunate person, the one who emerges from the theater filled with excitement and good humor, or the one who leaves the theater filled with anger and disappointment? Does bitter cynicism really make one's life more meaningful? It certainly does not make one's life more pleasant.

I have gladly added Shrek and Shrek II to the long list of movies that brought me much pleasure, and feel genuine pity for those who, for whatever reason, have not been receptive to what the movie offers to give. I remember leaving the theater after Waterworld and noting the many complaining voices around me, and feeling deep sadness that these unfortunate people had not had the same exciting and entertaining experience I had just had. We all entered the same theater and watched the same movie, how could it be that, when offered the choice, they choose bitterness over joy and turned their back on the good time that was their's for the taking?

What is it, precisely, that drives a person to resist being entertained and choose self-torment instead? Could it be that Heaven and Hell are really the same place, and that those consigned to Hell are really in Heaven, but differ only in their inability to experience the joys and wonders of Heaven?

How sad is that?

[sniffa]

24. how sad is your Life?

[Speck Tater]

25. Very happy indeed.

This weekend I'm going to see The Day After Tomorrow and I'm sure I will enjoy it immensely, even though I'm sure there will be a certain bitter-sweet tinge of sadness as I leave the theater listening to the chatter of the cynical complainers who's only satisfaction seems to derive from finding fault in everything as a way to bolster their sense of self-worth by pretending to be somehow "superior" to the mere mortals who actually enjoyed the film.

But they will be soon forgotten once I get home and put on the DVD of Plan Nine from Outer Space and enjoy, yet again, all the enteratinment that it has to offer.

It is truly a world filled with joy and happiness.

[Skittles]

28. lord

you need to get over yourself

[curse10]

29. oh please

just because I want QUALITY entertainment doesn't mean I'm choosing self torment.

I love movies. And it saddens me to see bad movies being made. And it's even sadder that the American people will pay good hard earned money to see this swill.

There are plenty of good, entertaining movies out there. We shouldn't put up with the mediocre or bland.

There is nothing like leaving a movie theater and not being able to stop talking about how good the movie was. It's two hours well spent. But to waste my time and money on this bile? That's what is sad.

[Speck Tater]

34. The definition of "quality"

is very subjective. I too enjoy quality entertainment. We only disagree on the definition of "quality".

All I'm really asking is not whether a given movie has some kind of "absolute" quality, but whether some people find it entertaining.

And secondly, who, I ask, is the more fortunate, the one who enjoys 90% of the movies he sees or the one who enjoys 30% of the movies he sees? The one who enjoys only 30% may rationalize his lack of enjoyment by blaming the "quality" of the movies, but the fact remains that the one who enjoys 90% has 3 times more fun in his life, and 1/3 as much disappointement.

So the question is, who is more fortunate, the person who life consists of 90% enjoyment and 10% disappointment or the person who life consists of 30% enjoyment and 70% disappointment?

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to be among those who find value in something where others can see only "swill."

In point of fact, if someone can see the value then the value is there. And if someone else cannot see the value that is there it reflects not on the value that has proven to be there, but on their own inability to see value where it exists.

[geniph]

35. "if someone can see the value, then the value is there"

I like that! Very healthy outlook, I'd say.

It shouldn't make any difference to anyone what other people do and don't like, anyway. All that should matter to you is whether you, yourself, were entertained or not. Critics' opinions don't matter, your friend's opinions don't matter, and certainly the opinions of random internet forum users don't. Your partner's opinion matters insofar as they might complain the 50th time you put Caddyshack in the DVD player! ;-)

[jobycom]

31. I agree, it truly saddens me, too

when people don't automatically agree with me, or change their opinions once they learn mine!!

:hi:


(Those who know me realize I'm serious!!)

[PragMantisT]

22. nope, can't stand anything Meyers has done n/t

[Richardo]

23. Not as long as I'm drawing breath...

Monsters Inc was far far superior. Any Pixar product is.

[KoKo]

26. Left the first one, and wouldn't bother with the second one...

Yuck! I did feel badly that I was so out of the "mainstream" though. :D. Didn't it do very well the first time? Maybe people are desperate for more bathroom humor. Any HUMOR!

[tridim]

27. The CG was sub-par

It's not even that the graphics were technically bad, just uninspired and not very artful. I didn't care much for the story either, but that seems to be the norm in Hollywood for the past 20 years. Good stories are very rare these days.

[jobycom]

30. Lord Forquat and the Fairy GodMother don't like him!!!!!

But I love him!!!

[THUNDER HANDS]

32. I liked it

Shrek 2 is funny. Harmless and easy to swallow entertainment.

What are you looking for, Shakespeare?

[Redbear]

33. I loved Shrek.

It may be because I took a totally different view of the story.

The moral was not that Fiona had to become ugly to be happy with Shrek, but that Fiona the ogre is just as beautiful, if not more beautiful than Fiona the princess.

It's society's bizarre view that only Barbie dolls are pretty that is lampooned.

[Lorien]

36. You are not alone, and I feel kinda bad about that

I know a number of people that worked on the Shrek films, including Kelly Asbury, one of the co-directors, and Jeffery Katzenberg, who was one of the Producers. I have a lot of respect for those guys personally, so I'm hoping that I don't run into either one anytime this year because that film would surely come up in conversation (and I thought it was dreadful)! I'm not surprised at all the potty humor; Kelly was the "king of farts" at the small studio where we both worked. We even made up a superhero-a bio-gas propelled Kelly-that always popped up on the company bulletin boards. Combine his humor with Mike Myers's....ugh, not good!

[Guy Fawkes]

37. I don't like Shrek OR Finding Nemo!

[TrogL]

38. I hated the ending

What's with the karoke?