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Shrek (2001)
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Here is another prime example of a terrible film gaining popularity by fooling the audience into thinking it is cool.
Shrek is a fairly weak and unimaginative fairy tale. It contains some absurd sentimentality but hides it behind lots of cool' and wacky' characters. Shrek is ugly! Amazing! He can therefore be cynical and make funny comments about other people/films. He has no need of a personality because he is ugly surely one feature is enough for one person? The Princess it tough! Superb! She can therefore have a fight. Its so cool that a woman can do one other thing in a film apart from being a love interest these days. But who ever imagined a woman hitting someone?!? And the Donkey. He is probably the most unfunny character ever. Still, being witless does not necessarily mean the character is bad. Unfortunately, he wipes the floor with Jar Jar Binks in the most irritating character ever awards.
The animation is fantastic and inserts interest into otherwise boring set pieces. The film looks excellent and pretends it is cool. Therein lies its success.
V (1983)
The high budget film of the TV movie Independence Day ID4
Independence Day ID4 was probably the film I have had the most excited anticipation for. V had produced cracking entertainment for a TV movie with limited budget, actors that would go on to horrendous straight to video movies and unknown directors. What a great movie ID4 was going to be with the opposite of all that. Er... Everyone came out of the cinema saying it was just a crap version of V. And it was. But where I am sure they were pretending V was not up to much, it not being very cool to like 80s TV programmes, what they really acknowledged was how good V is.
Everyone knows that TV series are not as good as they used to be. This one is so good it really should have been a film. It is probably too long for some people's filmic attention span but that just means more interesting characterisations for the rest of us. It is probably also too intelligent for some people's expectations of a film but that just makes them stupid. So much is covered and so many styles are incorporated even to the extent of including a hilariously bad rendition of the Star Wars theme when the aliens land.
As a final word on how good it is, compare the special effects of V with ID4. Apart from the alien effects, V's are better. As for the computer game....
Natural Born Killers (1994)
The worst film I have ever seen
Top 5 worst things about this film: 1 - Utter lack of wit. 2 - Highly pretentious director. 3 - Moronic. 4 - It is the definition of boring. 5 - People only like it because they think it is cool and they are clever for liking it.