SailorFini's Media Reflection Blog

So it turns out that this is the first time I've seen the entirety of Shrek 1, I'm 14 and have only just seen all of Shrek 1. Because when I was a kid all I saw was Shrek 2 since we owned that on DVD, so I was never exposed to Smash Mouth's All-Star until it became a massive meme. Now I'm doing a reflection on this film after seeing it for the first time. Shrek has plenty of pop culture reference in it and I think it makes the whole thing a lot cooler. While it's not in the Ready Player One level of references, it's always super cool to see something that you recognise in another film. I think that it adds to the story as it makes it a lot more exciting, but I can see why other people may think that it distracts from the story. Mainly because they may start thinking, where have I seen that before and then miss part of the story. Ultimately I think having pop culture references in Shrek makes the movie a lot better. Hallejuah is used in the movie after Fio

That 70s takes a very unique approach to slip in potentially inappropriate content. They slip it in the same way someone would put in an Easter egg. For example, when they are looking at the obviously inappropriate magazine they never state it is, but from the characters reactions, we as the audience gain the knowledge of what it is. When checking through the Australian classifications, the show gets its rating for stuff like mild and frequent sexual references, adult themes and mild drug reference it's surprising it's not M. It's all too similar to Pixels PG rating when it had mild themes, violence, coarse language and sexual references, but a show like Love Live receives an M rating only for sexual themes even though it's a few scenes it happens in (Nozomi touches a few people inappropriately). Ultimately I think that 70s show should have landed an M, but then they probably wouldn't have slyly slipped in stuff. The way the show shows drug use it also interest

Just before I start this reflection I missed out on the first half of the film, so there's probably some important stuff I missed. For me personally, this is the only Jumanji I've seen as I haven't seen the new one, but I reckon it would be interesting to see the how each movie is different. One of the things I noticed while watching the movie is the CGI animals that show up in the film, especially after the boy tries to finish the game and then transforms into a monkey. Those monkeys, as well as the other animals, certainly haven't aged well. They look very out of place in comparison to everything, although these effects haven't aged well we have improved our CGI animals in movies as seen in the live action Jungle Book movie. The same would go for when the boy turns into a monkey although it's impressive it falls into some area of the uncanny valley. However, the vines are probably one of the most well-aged effects they look good and are sort of realistic