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Spidery_Yoda wrote:

RTHKI wrote:

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

And why was he american.

the same reason romans are british

But all the adults were Shrek Scottish. I mean the answer why the kid is American is obvious: To appeal to American kids. But that's a pretty crappy reason.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Kids film elements always bother me. I watched Despicable Me on Saturday and it also has good reviews but I didn't enjoy it much because the way the characters were acting and the dialogue all screamed "we're aiming this at kids".

It's the little things they do and they bother me enough to make me not like the film. Toy Story 3 had none of that.

Spidery_Yoda wrote:

I know its a kids movie but it doesn't have to be so irritating and make 'kids film' jokes all the time. It's really hard to explain what I mean. I don't really know how to define what irritates me about these films but something to do with the dialogue just annoys me. Films from my childhood like Aladin never had any of those annoying 'kids film' traits (although what it does have is a bunch of pop culture references which really spoil it), and yet nearly all modern ones do. The dialogue and jokes they make.. I don't even know specifically what it is myself. It's not just the dialogue as well. In DM I could tell the little yellow guys were meant to be really funny to kids but they could've made it less obvious that they were trying so hard to make kids laugh. If you get me. I dunno. Try and be subtle. In How to Train Your Dragon, the dialogue would be going as normal but then there's be a "kids film line" and it would spoil the whole scene.

Another thing about Despicable Me was that the trailer absolutely ruined it. Trailers often spoil the jokes and 'wow' moments in films but the DM trailer had literally every single funny scene in it. It was a pretty funny film but i'd seen it all before. And since until recently I went to the cinema a lot, I had to sit through a lot of trailers so I couldn't help it. In fact the part I laughed at the most was right at the beginning when he Spoiler (highlight to read):
Parked his massive car simply because it wasn't in the trailer. It was a simple bit of physical humour but it did it well. I think all the physical humour with the yellow guys was done pretty poorly in comparison. The kids in the cinema laughed at them every time though so I guess they did their job. Seeing the Spoiler (highlight to read):
yellow guy in space when he took off in his rocket made me laugh too. Running jokes are good if they're not overused.

It was an ok film but it could've been better. I liked the design of his plane. It was shaped like a pointy metal shoe.

I know they're primarily kids films and they have to cater for kids, but they should put effort in to make it not at the expense of everyone else.

Acerider wrote:

That's a hell of an argument, a good one though. Are you reffering to when a corny kid joke or silly kid thing happens? Like when the characters say something immature kids find funny but adults find throws the sceneoff?

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Spidery_Yoda wrote:

Acerider wrote:

That's a hell of an argument, a good one though. Are you reffering to when a corny kid joke or silly kid thing happens? Like when the characters say something immature kids find funny but adults find throws the sceneoff?

Something like that yeah. But it doesn't even have to be a bad joke (although that's the main problem), it can just be some dialogue that one character says to another and it ruins the whole scene. I've been noticing it happening an increasing amount lately and I find it really grating.

Another thing that really bothers me (I mentioned it up there) is pop culture references in otherwise brilliant films. Film makers really really need to stop adding these all over the place. I mentioned Aladdin up there, and it's a brilliant film. Probably my favourite Disney one. But then right in the middle of this old, other wordly universe the genie does an impression of someone on tv or a 90s catch phrase or something stupid like that and thats it, scene ruined. Song ruined. Whatever was going on, the illusion is lost for the sake of a cheap laugh 10 years ago. Shrek is another one. Anyone watched it lately? It's a really good and original film.

But then there's a scene referencing wrestling for goodness sake and a scene referencing The Matrix as well, among many others. And once again the enjoyment is instantly ruined. I wish these film makers would stop spoiling good films with references made for easy and quick laughs. They never EVER age well and make future viewings really awkward to watch.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2010-10-18 20:07:43)