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Otis P Jivefunk
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So it wasn't a Matrix Reloaded parody then?...
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Beamer
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I enjoyed the season premiere, but the next two episodes were very average at best - nothing too special or funny about them at all...
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JDB
Professor
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Are you guys gonna collect the DVDs after Season 10ish? I want to collect them to have the whole set, but I'll probably only watch them once.
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Beamer
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I'd be interested to hear the audio commentaries, but there's no way I'm paying more than $30 for them. I think I'd wait and see if I got them as gifts or something first, though.
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Otis P Jivefunk
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Originally posted by JDB: Are you guys gonna collect the DVDs after Season 10ish? I want to collect them to have the whole set, but I'll probably only watch them once. Y'know originally I was just going to buy Seasons 6, 7 and 8, but then in the lead up to Season 1 being released I just had to get it. This has happened with every Season up until now. There was a time when I was going to stop at 8, then I changed my mind to 9 because it still has some decent eps. I was going to get 12 as well mainly for 'Trilogy Of Error' and a few other eps... Now in reality I can't ever imagine a Season being released and me not giving into temptation and buying it. Even though a lot of the newer seasons are crappy, I still like watching them for the hell of it. I've decided fuck it, I'll just get the whole lot, plus it'll look sweet on the shelf...
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DotheBartman
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama: So apparently all the regulars stopped caring about this thread? Not so much the thread as the show itself, in my case.... Believe it or not I haven't been watching this season. I've been recording them, and I'll probably watch some of them in bulk when I have absolutely nothing better to do sometime (thanksgiving break maybe), but I just haven't been motivated to watch it anymore. I don't think the new episodes are bad, but....I've just gotten bored with them quite honestly. With Jean at the helm for so long, the show just needs a break from his style for another change, and the episodes are just becoming too interchangeable. And I have other priorities at the moment, so I've been less interested in favorite tv shows in general. So yeah, if I don't show up much in the future, that's basically why.
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by DotheBartman: I have other priorities at the moment. Like posting about how you don't watch a show at the moment ...
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Otis P Jivefunk
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The other animatic for The Simpsons movie is MUCH better, it has so many characters, funny lines and you can already tell the animation will be awesome just from the drawings. The dog whipping one didn't really do it for me either though...
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DotheBartman
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by newhook_1: So, I saw an early animatic for the Simpsons Movie on my girlfriend's X3 DVD today. It was the one where Homer had a dog team in an artic area. I'm a little dissapointed because Homer seemed very jerkassy. Anyone else see it? Like Otis said the other clip is way, way better; I don't know why they didn't include that (either along with the one they did, or just instead of it), especcially since it included more characters and more indication as to the actual plot. I haven't gotten to see the version on the X3 dvd, though I have heard that there is one major improvement: at the end, Homer originally said "Oh, why does everything I whip leave me?" which was a terrible line that thankfully seems to have been dropped.
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Dr. Strangelove
Poppler
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KELSEY GRAMMER(Sideshow Bob), Joe Mantegna(Fat Tony), and Erin Brockovich are confirmed to be in the movie. A rumoured plot involves Homer causing an accident at the power plant, poisoning the towns drinking water. The CITY'S RESIDENTS HAVE TO LEAVE SPRINGFIELD! Erin Brockovich being in the film support this.
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Beamer
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TREEHOUSE OF HORROR XVIIINTRO Pretty stupid, but the "Ain't my blood smart?" gag saved it. One of the better Treehouse of Horror intros. MARRIED TO THE BLOB For a segment with pretty much no storyline, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this one. So, the first scene with the meteor was lousy, but it got funnier as it went along. A lot of laughs here (and, being the hardcore Arrested Development fan I am, I loved the shout-out to Jeffrey Tambor ). Oh, and Invisible Carl! Easily the best story this episode (and my favourite Treehouse of Horror segment since Reaper Madness) A-YOU GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO GOLEM Ehhh, this was just pretty much average the whole way through. No real direction, and had way too many similarities to previous storylines in the ToH series. Not a lot of good jokes either, so pretty big "meh" for me. CTHE DAY THE EARTH LOOKED STUPID Another completely average segment. The idea of a real alien invasion happening just after the War of the Worlds incident was really good, but unfortunately, the writers spent far too long on that, and the real invasion was completely rushed and went nowhere. And the attempt at satirising the Iraq war at the end was totally lame - seriously, Simpsons writers, stop it. You guys used to be so good at satire, but you just can't pull it off at all anymore. Like the final segment of last year's episode, this was a good idea, but was executed so poorly, it destroyed all its potential. C-The first segment was great, the rest was very, very average. Which is a shame, because it was the stories with the most potential that were the worst... There really hasn't been a good Treehouse of Horror episode in almost ten years now (excluding Season 15's one). Another sub-standard edition to Season 18 - so far, only the season premiere has been really good, in my opinion. OVERALL SCORE: C
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i_c_weiner
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The Simpsons Movie Trailer The trailer was okay and all...I guess... C-
G. I. (ANNOYED GRUNT)
I actually enjoyed this episode. The theme of the episode was about how the Army is dumb, but I think some of the Iraq references were a little too much. I liked the End Credits Voice-Over part. Overall, alright, but not fantastic.
B-
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Otis P Jivefunk
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I'm not saying the Movie is gonna suck here, but the trailer sure does. The only thing which was good about it was the animatiion. The crane's animation reminded me of the tanks animation in the Futurama episode 'Roswell That Ends Well'. Homer's facial expression was spot-on, the wrecking ball gag was far from spot on though. I just hope this isn't like a modern videogame with pretty graphics and shitty gameplay...
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Officer 1BDI
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I'm not letting the teasers affect my opinion of the movie yet because I'm of the thought that they're meant to attract the current, casual fanbase, as opposed to the hardcore fans. Whoever's in charge of advertising probably feels that they don't need to aim to attract the strong fanbase, much of which is probably going to see the movie opening night regardless of how they feel the movie will do. So the advertisers are presenting jokes that some of us find "lowbrow" or "ridiculous" or simply "not funny" to pull in the less dedicated fans. I'm still hoping there's a diamond in the rough somewhere. Now, if the trailers reveal a painful storyline and such, then I'll be worried. I loved last night's teaser right up to the point the wrecking ball hit Homer. Everything was going so well, and then they suddenly launched into cartoonish physics (that is not how a wrecking ball would oscillate, damn it![/anal]) and Homer-in-pain jokes. Although I admit rock and "A Hard Place" made me chuckle. I agree with Otis: the animation on that scene was beautiful. So, I'm somewhere between B- and C+. I'm not going to grade G.I. [Annoyed Grunt] because I honestly wasn't paying that much attention to it.
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Beamer
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« Reply #28 on: 11-13-2006 20:48 »
« Last Edit on: 11-13-2006 20:48 »
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Originally posted by Officer 1BDI: I loved last night's teaser right up to the point the wrecking ball hit Homer. Agreed completely (the trailer aired down here last night after Futurama). Though I didn't think that the 2-D Homer and the 3-D crane went together that well, that looked kinda weird to me. Though maybe not, I don't know, I'd probably have to watch it again. But, yeah, like you said, the trailers aren't being made to attract the hardcore fans - they're going to see it no matter what, anyway. We know just from the animatic of the mob scene that there are some good jokes in the movie, so I wouldn't worry too much about this.
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Juliet
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I am watching the episode where Homer becomes an ice-cream man and the way he changed his clothes is cool Where does the original l scene come from?
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Juliet
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Oh wow thank you so very much
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Officer 1BDI
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« Reply #37 on: 12-11-2006 13:01 »
« Last Edit on: 12-11-2006 13:01 »
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I caught a rerun of "The Mook, The Chef, The Wife And Her Homer" the other night... or last Sunday (stupid finals screwing with my head). I thought the subplot with Homer and Bart joining/co-running the mob was weak, if that was even a subplot at all, but the main story was decent, and Michael's kind of grown on me. I hope he comes back. Last night's episode is the best I've seen in a long, long time. Save for the beginning (I mean, honestly, what was the point of having the kids walk in on Homer and Marge? They spent several minutes focusing on it only for it to drop out of the episode entirely. It bothers me that they turned it into a throw-away gag because I can't imagine why they'd want to use that gag in the first place.) and the shaky ending (Right before the tidepool filled (?), it looked like Bart and Nelson were trying to work things out, only for Nelson to suddenly push Bart away after they're rescued. Also, Brokeback Mountain reference = slightly creepy, IMO.) I really liked the story. Kind of. I mean, it had some other minor issues.... Ok, what really saved this episode in my eyes was the subplot betweeen Homer and Lisa, which I thinkg was perfectly executed. I'm probably biased, being a Harry Potter reader who reacted to "that death" way too much like Homer for her own liking, but it's been too long since we've seen decent interaction between Homer and Lisa. This was a refreshing look at their relationship. Lisa concluding that Homer's ending was better made my heart melt: she acknowledged that he'd been trying to "protect" her, and that she appreciated his effort, however bungled it was. B+ out of me. (German trailer gets an D+ for that horrendous hammer joke. Last-minute Grandpa appearance saved it from an F.)
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