imo shrek isnt a movie made for children, its a move made for all ages. there’s obviously movies made for children, like most of the recent stuff (garbage) from illumination but most animation companies strive to make movies that any age can enjoy. not just children
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Personally, I’m pretty sure Shrek is intended for adults. Not that only adults can watch it, but that’s who it’s made for. People who has grown up knowing these fairytales as kids, so that now they will get the joke when this parody pokes fun at them.
Caught The Dark Knight on tv last night. It had been a few years since I’d seen it but I always hold it up on this pedestal of superhero and Batman movies and it absolutely still belongs there. Some superhero films have come close (though they could take some notes on villains and how much danger the entire world needs to be in) and this viewing just reinforced my opinions about how The Batman stacks up against it. However, I will add the caveat that the more recent film is like a comic book come to life while this (and the rest of the Nolan Trilogy) are like Batman in real life.
Brief aside, I will give that movie the edge in depiction of Gotham and Pattinson as Batman. Bale is phenomenal as Bruce Wayne (no direct comparison here) but Pattinson is incredible in the suit, just on presence alone.
Obviously, you have the Heath Ledger Joker but you’ve also got Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal acting out of their minds; just because Ledger smashed the charts doesn’t mean the rest of them weren’t also off the charts. In fact, the list of talent he’s overshadowing is testament to how out of this world the cast is. And that’s just the cast and performances, saying nothing about the direction, cinematography, effects (practical or two face cgi, which still holds up), score, script and everything is beautiful to watch (much more so than a certain film about blue aliens that’s about to get the first of a thousand sequels, proving once again that we’re in the darkest timeline).
Anyway, if you couldn’t tell, I really love this movie; it’s almost a shame that Ledger was so good because everything is firing on all cylinders and everyone’s so focused on him that it opens the door for the cynics (and there’s always cynics because people can’t just enjoy shit and we aren’t allowed to have nice things) to claim he’s carrying the movie. 
Dare I say it’s a masterpiece? 
10/10
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This is particularly significant, since I’ve always maintained that The Dark Knight isn’t about Batman’s battle with The Joker, but rather, it’s all about Harvey’s descent from hero to villain, his speech in the restaurant being not only prophetic but also a synopsis of the film itself. The fact that anyone hardly talks about Eckhart’s Dent this many years after, despite being essentially the principle character, is a testament to what Ledger accomplished in that makeup.
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Watched Top Gun (1986) yesterday and I honestly can’t understand what the writers were thinking.
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its my favorite gay porn mixed with american military propoganda
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Joker basically tells Batman as much during their final encounter, were all so in awe of Ledger we all forget that not only does Two Face close us out but also the he’s “two face” the whole time even if he only looks like him for the last act.
“Ha! Ha! Fast planes go ‘brrrr!’ And ‘splosions go ‘‘Murica!’”
Probably.
Which probably makes Maverick just “ Fast planes go ‘brrrr!’ And ‘splosions go ‘‘Murica!’” without the gay porn…?
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i havent seen maverick yet
Neither have I, I just assume, without Goose, it’s reduced to its component parts of planes, explosions and propaganda but shinier and sans homoerotic subtext.
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What?!
I don’t even understand what the point of either movie is. Is it the jets? Watch Independence Day. Is it Tom Cruise? Watch War of the Worlds. Know what’s in both of those movies that neither Top Gun movie has? Aliens!
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but top gun has multiple scenes of topless men
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So does the WWE and I don’t have to pay money to see that in a theater or log into a YouTube account to confirm I’m over 18.
… I may have said too much.
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People like competition films and the 86 film is one of the best competition films ever (there aren’t many outside of sports flicks). The music was fantastic. The flying was cool. The actors did a good job capturing the full blown arrogance of jet drivers (compare the bar scenes from the two movies and it becomes clear how well this was done in the first one). The volley ball scene is loved by straight girls, gay guys, and even straight guys everywhere. The movie didn’t test well bc of a lack of romance so they went in and added the love scene to further develop that (that’s why it’s blue filter, the girls hair was black bc she was already working a new movie). I guess people like Tom Cruise; I don’t really, but he fits the role. It was also the first movie about fighter pilots flying their planes. That had just never been seen before in a movie, so I’m sure that helped it do well.
I think you need to go watch it again 
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Saw Elvis my mom today.
It started off a little slow and there were some odd jumps back and forth between the ‘40s and ‘50s before it settled on the linear progression of time for the last 20 or so years of his life. From 1958 on though? Absolutely incredible.
Glitz. Glamor. Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. “Baz Luhrmann fever dream”. A little dose of mid 20th century American cultural and political history. Race relations and their influence on Elvis’ career. You name it, this film probably has it.
I don’t get the criticism of Tom Hanks’ Colonel Parker but I could be less cinematically refined than most. I loved that he was the narrator but also a lot of what he did on screen happened in the background; the more in focus he was, the more sinister the scene was portrayed as.
Austin Butler deserves an award or at least a nomination. The beginning of the film seemed kind of nervous to show him off so it takes some time to really feel his portrayal. Once the film shows his first performance, you almost experience the same animalistic instincts that swept up repressed 1950s America. By the end, the film is so confident in him they even mix in clips of real life Elvis to show how accurate Butler was.
My mom turned to me after and said that she lived all of the things they showed and it was the best movie she saw in long time. She’s got a bad back and is constantly shifting in her seat when watching things, especially long things like this movie. She also tends to lose interest every now and then or get tired and she said she didn’t move an inch or question when it was going to be over. It’s also the first time she’s really been out of the house (and especially to the movies in a while) because of the pandemic. So, even if I didn’t like it, her enjoyment would’ve been enough.
9/10
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I think it is because it has hard for a lot of people to see Hanks perform someone like The Colonel. Hanks is usually the nice guy and/or the American everyman sort of person not some oleaginous and disingenuous record producer.
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That’s stupid. People are stupid. I can see why actors are so afraid of being typecast.
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They are stupid and it is, indeed, one way that actors become typecast in rolls that being said Hanks has had no issue with being pigeonholed as the nice guy. That being said if I heard he was playing the Colonel I would doubt his ability as well. Villains seem out of his range as an actor but if he wanted to give it a shot I can’t blame him. He could retire tomorrow and leave behind a huge body of exemplary work.
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Then again, often times the best actors to cast in a role are those who are in real life the furthest from being like the role they’re playing. Two good examples of this that come to mind are DiCaprio as Calvin Candy, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow. It’s possible that, if given the right one, Hanks could play outside his usual field as someone totally unlike how he really is. It’s the mark of a good actor.
DiCaprio? I am sure he has played villains before he played Candy and done them well. President Snow is a role I remember Sutherland playing well but it was nothing revelatory even if I ignored the writing and direction.