Frisco17
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Originally posted by Spacedal11: Its a message board for a canceled TV series...do you really need the ego?
Interesting statement considering the topic of this thread.
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MatMan
Delivery Boy
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Originally posted by i_c_weiner: MatMan: Disappointed you are? How so? I won't mention everything, as doing so will simply be reiterating many things already said but I've never been a huge fan of movie versions of cartoons. They never seem to pay off, though I had high hopes for Futurama. Plenty of funny moments, but plenty of groans too. I just don't think it sold itself well as a movie.
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Sil
Professor
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Welcome to PEEL MatMan The Edit button is your friend (try not to double/triple/quadruple post). Here's the PEELers FAQ for your edification
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Yoshiandmario3
Crustacean
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i here there is new episodes of this show coming out in 2008!
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Wet Blanket
Crustacean
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Hi. I’d like to start off by apologizing for the blatantly ‘wet blanket’ nature of my post. But then, isn’t that’s a big part of why we’re here? To dissect something we love into its most bland, minute elements? To throw a glass of cold water in the face of something whose only motive is to entertain?
Anyway, of all that BBS has left me to mull over, there’s just one thought I can’t seem to get past.
When Fry resumed his life in New York City in the year 2000, did he make any effort to prevent 9/11?
Yes, yes, groan and grimace at the ridiculous expectation that an animated sitcom could even begin to seriously address the gritty details of September 11th, but as unrealistic as the thought may be, it’s is still something we’ll all have in the back of our minds whenever we hear a story about time travel. Especially one that drops its main character into Manhattan at T minus 21 months.
So, what’s the consensus? Did proto-Lars save the day? Did he not? Was there just no 9/11 in the Futurama universe? Regardless, this doesn’t actually affect the movie for me. It’s just food for thought.
I loved the movie, and how Futurama is never afraid to add a totally new page to its increasingly convoluted mythology.
Hey, maybe The Bender-nator stopped the terrorists!
(Or does ‘Termin-bender’ sound better?)
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Wet Blanket
Crustacean
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Originally posted by Nixorbo: What, exactly, could Fry, a nobody pizza delivery boy in NYC, have done to prevent 9/11, assuming that any record of it had survived into the year 3,000? Well, my thinking was that he could get the job done with as little as an anonymous phone call placed the day before. But regardless, I wouldn't sell Fry short. Despite being a nobody pizza delivery boy, he does manage to save the world, if not the entire universe, on occasion. He's probably one of the busiest loosers in all of television. Though the arguments that Fry may not have known about 9/11 make sense. If he didn't experience it first hand, i guess it's within reason that he wouldn't know about a given historical event from a thousand years ago. Especially after most video tapes from the era were mysteriously erased during the second coming of Jesus. Though i wonder if that would affect YouTube and the like?
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Tzlk
Professor
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Hah. That movie was everything I love about Futurama and then some. A hilarious break from learning the federal rules of evidence. I tip my hat and raise my glass to a damn quality movie.
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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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Wow! This thread went to hell in less than 24 hours.
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Ryan Ro
Crustacean
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« Reply #267 on: 12-03-2007 22:12 »
« Last Edit on: 12-03-2007 22:12 »
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Watching the second time around, there are very good "ending" spots every 22 minutes or very close. Ep 1 would end with Nibbler screaming DOOMED. Ep 2 would end with Bender killing Fry in 2012. Ep 3 would end with the wedding being called off, starting ep 4 with "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad." The first "two episodes" were almost perfect, but I'm sure they'll do a little massaging. I don't think there is any way to make them 'stand-alone' episodes, this is ultimately a four-parter. Perhaps they will tack on a "Previously, on Futurama" to the beginning? Probably unnecessary though.
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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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Very true. I've been here for over two years and just how easily it happens still amazes me.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Kryten: Geez, you'd think on a message board with this many nerds, someone would get a Life of Brian reference. You would think. But, then again, you'd be wrong. The joke sounded familiar, yet I've never seen that one, so I'm not a good standing to recognise the joke.
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JustNibblin
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Ryan Ro: Watching the second time around, there are very good "ending" spots every 22 minutes or very close.
Ep 1 would end with Nibbler screaming DOOMED. Ep 2 would end with Bender killing Fry in 2012. Ep 3 would end with the wedding being called off, starting ep 4 with "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad." The first "two episodes" were almost perfect, but I'm sure they'll do a little massaging. I don't think there is any way to make them 'stand-alone' episodes, this is ultimately a four-parter. Perhaps they will tack on a "Previously, on Futurama" to the beginning? Probably unnecessary though. Yes, that's correct, and what was described in a recent interview. If you're curious, the explicit four-part structure is visible in the DVD extras, first draft script. There you can see the movie is divided into four acts (unusual for a movie), and the ending points are exactly at the 22 minute segments Ryan mentions.
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DrThunder88
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by km73: Yeah. With that kind of historical revisionism, people in the year 3000 probably thought 9/11 was perpetrated by Napoleonic troops shooting crossbows while flying WWI-era planes.
*Gasp* It wasn't?
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BenderUnit22
Crustacean
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Fry's love for Leela knows no limits.. It made me all choked up and teary towards the end. Very emotional!
One scene that cracked me up pretty bad was Bender zapping up NNY in his spaceships. Hilarious!
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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The little part that I like more than I think I should is:
"I kicked Fry out two hours ago. This is my new boyfriend, umm, what was your name again?" "Constantine." "Really? ::Snort:: That's stupid."
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