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  • Troy was OK, nothing spectacular. Well acted, though, other than Bloom, who was really out of his league. Bana was surprisingly good. Just a little long, coulda shaved 1/2 hour out of it. The classic story saved it, though

  • Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
Your favorite band sucks, and you have terrible taste in movies.
 #58837  by Zeus
 Sun May 23, 2004 12:55 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Troy was OK, nothing spectacular. Well acted, though, other than Bloom, who was really out of his league. Bana was surprisingly good. Just a little long, coulda shaved 1/2 hour out of it. The classic story saved it, though</div>

 #58838  by Eric
 Sun May 23, 2004 1:27 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Shrek 2 kinda disappointed too. I found myself falling asleep a bit during the movie. It had it's moments but I guess my expectations were too high.</div>

 #58842  by Zeus
 Mon May 24, 2004 12:12 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I didn't think Shrek was The One Animated Movie. It was good and a lot of fun, but I actually thought Monsters Inc. was better, so my expectations aren't quite as high as most. Hopefully I won't be disappointed</div>

 #58845  by Kupek
 Mon May 24, 2004 8:45 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I thought it was funny, clever and generally entertaining. And yes, I liked Monsters, Inc. more.</div>

 #58846  by kali o.
 Mon May 24, 2004 9:45 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Bah, I enjoyed Shrek 2 almost as much as the first. And though I bought Monsters Inc to show off my nifty new Entertainment center, I didn't really like it much.</div>

 #58848  by Zeus
 Mon May 24, 2004 11:22 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm still a big kid, so Monsters probably appealed more to me than most</div>

 #58852  by Gentz
 Mon May 24, 2004 12:37 pm
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I really hate Cameron Diaz, but I liked how the princess turned into an ogre at the end instead of Shrek becoming a handsome prince.</div>

 #58853  by Eric
 Mon May 24, 2004 1:10 pm
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>This isn't a spoiler at all!</div>

 #58857  by Kupek
 Mon May 24, 2004 3:56 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>The director (or is it producer?) of Shrek also did Beauty and the Beast for Disney. He really didn't like the message of the Beast turning into a prince at the end, but Disney wouldn't let him change it. Enter Shrek.</div>

 #58861  by Zeus
 Mon May 24, 2004 10:13 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Wasn't Shrek a book before a movie?</div>

 #58865  by SineSwiper
 Tue May 25, 2004 2:12 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I'm sure Hans Christian Andersen didn't like the fact that the Mermaid didn't commit suicide, or Victor Hugo with turning Quasimodo into a fucking gay "happy fella", or Tezuka Osamu with getting his work stolen (Lion King), or Hisao Ohkawa with the same problem (Atlantis). Meh, sounds typical.</div>

 #58868  by Kupek
 Tue May 25, 2004 11:57 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... =507846</a>

To my surprise, yes, a children's book. But I don't think they share the same plot details, just the same basic ideas.</div>

 #58871  by Zeus
 Tue May 25, 2004 1:16 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, it seems that Dreamworks Disneyfied it. And if the Beauty and the Beast guy directed it, it makes even more sense</div>

 #58872  by Zeus
 Tue May 25, 2004 1:17 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, it's most likely the producer, Jeffrey Katsenberger or something like that. He's one of the founding members of Dreamworks SKG (with Speilberg and Giffen) and was VP at Disney during Aladdin, Beauty, Lion King, and Mermaid</div>

 #58874  by Zeus
 Tue May 25, 2004 1:19 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Maybe it was Katsenberger that was involved?</div>

 #58901  by Gentz
 Wed May 26, 2004 12:37 pm
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Ha. I'm not the M&M mod anymore so I'm free to wreak as much havoc as I want : )</div>

 #58905  by Zeus
 Wed May 26, 2004 2:08 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I think we can let that one go, it's like saying Darth was Luke's father in an NT post and ruining the end of Empire......oops :-)</div>

 #58915  by SineSwiper
 Thu May 27, 2004 5:49 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I would say the traditional spoiler as a joke, but Shellie's actually playing FF7, so I don't.</div>