Happy new Year! I'm so glad it's finally 2016. This is the year movie sequels finally start coming out; and, now I can say bizarre things like, I've been working on my Sims family for three years; and, I haven't washed my hair or gone pee since last year.
And hopefully this year includes an ounce of inspiration and maybe a stroke of luck. May it have mercy on us all. Wait, I think I said that last year...
And hopefully this year includes an ounce of inspiration and maybe a stroke of luck. May it have mercy on us all. Wait, I think I said that last year...
Happy New Year! I hope you (and I) both have all the inspiration and motivation we need :D
ReplyDeleteWhich movie sequels are you excited about? I have a few that I can hardly wait to see, though I think the second Hotel Transylvania has the top spot right now. When they come out, I'll want to see the next Pirates of the Caribbean, Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph, and Ice Age: Collision Course which apparently comes out this summer. It doesn't look as good as the other movies, but then, sequels rarely live up to expectations (although the third Shrek sequel just might be my favourite and both Toy Story sequels rock possibly even more than the first movie...
Where Shrek The Third is concerned, I actually disagree with you. It is my least favorite sequel...Whenever I watch Shrek, I just skip three and go right to the fourth, which is my favorite. My favorite Toy Story is, however, the third. It doesn't make me cry anymore, not now that I've seen an ever sadder movie. :D
DeleteI didn't know there would be another Frozen...I was, and am, most excited for Finding Dory (I mean, come on - it's Ellen...and one of my two favorite fish!). I'm actually not looking forward to Toy Story 5, because I already wrote that plot into my book, which I completed already, sometime in 2015. So as much as I love Toy Story, I'm sort of dreading it.
Ice Age: Collision Course looks like it will be a boring train wreck; but seeing as how I'm a closet fan of all the others, I'm hoping they surprise me...Though when it comes to names like Shangri Llama, I'm not sure they will. And Julian...it sounds like the name of one of those thingies from Madagascar. I don't know. Mongoose? Weasel? Prairie dog? I'm stumped. And Neil deBuck Weasel, hmm...Well, there's Buck, the weasel in Dawn Of The Dinos, so I'm guessing Neil deBuck is his brother or something...
I don't know. All in all, I guess I'm only really looking forward to Finding Dory. I did hear word of Shrek 5, but that could have been from an old blog that was written before it got cancelled.
lol, by "the third Shrek sequel" I meant the fourth movie . . . I liked the third, but the fourth is my absolute favourite of the Shreks! :)
DeleteI think Toy Story 3 is also my favourite from that series . . .
I kept waiting for the first Ice Age movie to get to the climax of the story, and then the movie ended; it always disappointed me . . . but the others are much better!
Finding Dory doesn't look that good, actually, but I've only seen one trailer, and any movie that introduces new characters tends to be less 'good' to me . . . :p
Oh! Hahaha! It makes sense now...Yes, TS3, when I saw it for the first time, had me crying in my chair. And laughing. It's a beautiful movie.
DeleteYes, the first Ice Age isn't as good as its sequels. I guess they were like cheese, and got better with age.
Maybe so, but new characters are also necessary. I would think that without Queen Lillian, and King Harold, and Puss, there would be no second Shrek, let alone a third or a fourth. They had to bring in the in-laws. Although how Charming can be a prince when his mother is a fairy and his father was never mentioned is beyond me.
Me, too; that scene in which it appears that the toys are going to die really got me! What a way to go, sliding slowly down a mountain of garbage and seeing exactly what will kill you the whole time...at least they were together...sad but beautiful!
DeleteTrue, but many serials seem to introduce new characters for no other reason than to 'have' a plot; as if they can't possibly create a sequel with the characters they already have. Seems to me that the Shrek movies didn't need Puss, though he was in #2, just as Ellie, Eddie, and Crash were introduced in Ice Age 2. I can't complain too much since those movies are all awesome, but Puss always felt really unnecessary to me...maybe because he and Shrek were doing that rude whispering-and-giggling thing, and having been on the receiving end of such things, I immediately disliked the new character with the audacity to participate in it :p
I guess I never thought much about Charming's lineage, though one can easily assume that the Fairy Godmother desperately wanted a child, used her magic to create/get one, and then decided that her kid, like other aspects of her life, had to be glamorous, which she could also use magic to arrange... :)
True. But if she can create the impossible, like cash and dogs and dresses out of thin air, you'd think that instead of going through the trouble of diets, she'd just whip up her idealized body and be done with it. I know I would.
DeleteYes, I do hate the whispering-giggling scene. Poor Donkey. You'd think anybody emotionally ready to get married would be above such childish behavior. Of course, in all four movies he uses what he is as an excuse to not become something else, so I guess he's not emotionally stable. That's one of the reasons he's not my first and foremost favorite character. In all four movies and in the Christmas special, he says, "I AM AN OGRE!" like his loved ones need to be reminded. I'm sure they see it when he yells and stomps his foot like a brat. Maybe I wouldn't behave any better if I were a monster, content to live my life in peace when I'm suddenly picked up and plopped into married life; but I also wouldn't say "I do" until I know I'm ready.
In my story, Puss was only introduced into the movie because he tried to kill Shrek, and Fiona finds out it was her dear old dad who paid him to do it.
But Crash and Eddie? Aside from Ellie's delusion that she's a possum, I don't see their importance. So let me amend my words that SOME new characters are important. And some are important but cruel. Like Diego. He's important to the plot, he's got a big role in each movie; and yet, he's a double agent. Yet, nobody hates him. Sid is honest and caring, but just because he's Sid, even his friends hate him. He's the Donkey of the Pleistocene Epoch. Diego's the sarcastic orange feline, tagging along with not much else to do, and Manny's the angry brute, like Shrek. Fiona and Ellie are just the sweet old girls trying to smooth things out between everyone. Honestly, I'm just surprised we didn't hear from Fiona's in-laws.