Bender's Game reviews (Spoilers ahoy!)

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the very first review is out!  (Be forewarned, its very heavy on the spoilers.

It also mentions a key plot point from Into The Wild Green Yonder, which the reviewer got from the trailer that is included with Bender's Game.  This is a big spoiler.  In fact, just don't even read it.  I'm warning you!

Fry apparently dies!!!!

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The plot really sounds much crazier than the first two but I think that in Futurama, that is never bad thing. As for the spoiler.... Well, how much serious you think it actually will be?

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Nice review, looking at the grabs it seems Cubert and Dwight have found some new kids to play with. The movie sounds awesome but I thought dark matter was fuel already and didn't need anything doing to it to make it fuel. I thought Nibbler just pooped it out and it went straight into the ship and it has power...

Also that review confirms again that the UK gets it a day earlier!...

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Note it may be that the professor's dark matter engine can run on raw unprocessed dark matter, however it has also been seen being fueled up with liquid dark matter fuel, and in the bird bot of Ice-Catraz their mission was to haul a space supertanker filled with "rich Colombian dark matter" (and 6000 hulls) close to Pluto to avoid the toll booth. Of course with a sober bending unit piloting the ship (much like a drunken human would) chaos ensues and it started an explosion in the penguin population.
It is possible that not every dark matter powered vessel can run on the unprocessed dark matter spheres.

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that review makes it sound awesome!

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Looks like this review's more positive than Screenjabber's Beast and Bender's Big Score reviews. Makes me more enthusiastic for the movie.

Edit: Crap. I read the ITWGY spoiler.

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http://www.screenjabber.com/futurama_bendersgameDVD

WOO HOO!

I absolutely cannot wait for this movie to come out. I'm going to talk to the Eng phys guys and get myself a time portal to November...

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The review makes me so excited, but the spoiler for ITWGY sounds exciting but...scary, as Ive said on one of the other boards, if something totally dramatic in the last movie happens and is meant to stick....new episodes are looking dim.


Oh, by the way, thank god the super collider didnt super-explode

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I'm still pissed off that it doesnt come out until dec 10 in australia, a month after the others, im so annoyed, if ITWGY doesnt come out earlier here then im gonna be even more dissappointed!

Btw, who actually decides the release dates, i need to "write" them a "letter".

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SWEET! I can buy it a day before American's buy it(!)

I'm watching it online first, but I'll buy it when it comes out. It's just so I can buy the DVD and go straight to the commentary.

I promise, I'm not watching ITWGY online.

And how did the reviewer find out information that wasn't seen in the trailer like Bender having no imagination and going to the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots?

Oh, and before I forget, I understand it's a spoiler, but just make it spoiler thing here:
http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=16502.msg968261#new

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got the online screening from fox I suppose. I think I'll write a script to refresh torrent searches every hour till it goes up... Im getting tired of hitting F5.

I think I might want to wait until actual release for ITWGY, do the whole avoiding spoilers and such.

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I wouldn't worry about the spoiler for the final movie, it just makes me think of The Sting but all was good there in the end wasn't it?...

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I'll put this in spoiler tags just in case...

Lets put it this way, as bad as it sounds for Fry I somehow doubt that he'll be killed off...when all's said and done he's the main character. Plus with the strong possibility that this will be Futurama's last hurrah I don't think the writers would want to end the show on such a sad note.

There's also the line of thinking that Fry's permanent death would be the big plot point in the entire film and they're hardly going to give that away in the trailer. It'd be the equivalent of them giving away Lar's true identity in BBS.

As Otis said, it's very reminiscent of the Sting and in all likelihood it'll probably serve a similar purpose with regards the Fry/Leela story arc. I'm 99% certain that Fry won't be dead come the closing credits of ITWGY.

But...having said that, it does ratchet up the anticipation for the final film...April can't come soon enough...

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It is possible the super dramatic event will just set up for the episodes! I'm banking on something like:

everyone thinks Fry dies Leela goes Sting 2.0 (but in front of everyone this time, so no hiding it in her head) -> find Fry again -> together at last!

The cool thing is that it can fit anywhere in The Mighty One / Other part to the story. If Fry goes off to save the universe without Leela, thinks nibbler was wrong about the other or something, gets himself "killed" Leela finds out shes supposed to be The Other, regroup and save the universe on try 2. Or Nibbler could just tell them from the start, Fry gets killed being the hero and comes back just in time for the Fry/Leela together scene and credits!

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Even if that rumor is true i dont think they would kill him off unless they knew the series was, god forbid, done.  For all we know there could be another fry from BBS that we didnt know about

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There's no way they will kill him, return to TV or not. You never dig a hole you can't get out of if there is any chance more money can be made!

I'm sure they will use his death to force Leela to get it together. I'm actually kind of looking forward to her getting a shakeup. The Sting was one of my favourite episodes, but with the entire experience happening outside her head hopefully her conclusion will stick. That whole only happy with Fry thing :P

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How about, leela gets in trouble, fry "dies" for her, she thinks he is dead but hes somewhere else, maybe ubducted by nibblionians for this war thing thats been going on for centuries mentioned by DXC. this should really be in speculation thread but oh well...

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I hate how australia gets everything AFTER everybody else... maybe I should just move to america, get the dvd,then come back

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I think I might want to wait until actual release for ITWGY, do the whole avoiding spoilers and such.

The temptation's always too great for me and I saw the spoilers for BBS and BWABB before seeing both films...though surprisingly it didn't ruin it for me one bit.  The spoiler I'd read (by accident for once) for BBS gave away that Lars was actually Fry but despite knowing this before seeing the film I still very much enjoyed it...if anything it gave the film a bit more humour as I found Fry's hatred for someone who was essentially just an older version of himself hilarious.

So knowing me I'll end up stumbling across spoilers for both Bender's Game and ITWGY but in truth I don't think it'll spoil the film for me, it never has done in the past.

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another review ! 

My hopes for this movie have just gone up a notch or two. 

also:

Is that Turanga Morris standing in the background of tbat one framegrab?  It looks to me like the setting is on the surface.  Maybe mutants are allowed above ground in Cornwood reality?

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Note it may be that the professor's dark matter engine can run on raw unprocessed dark matter, however it has also been seen being fueled up with liquid dark matter fuel, and in the bird bot of Ice-Catraz their mission was to haul a space supertanker filled with "rich Colombian dark matter" (and 6000 hulls) close to Pluto to avoid the toll booth. Of course with a sober bending unit piloting the ship (much like a drunken human would) chaos ensues and it started an explosion in the penguin population.
It is possible that not every dark matter powered vessel can run on the unprocessed dark matter spheres.

That would make sense, as in the game Sal says that you would need a dark matter engine and that those are rare. Therefore I would presume that only dark matter engines can run on raw dark matter.

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Also in the game Leela scores two wheel barrows full of dark matter spheres (full tank worth dark matter) for her efforts to rid the star of the evil sun god, they just take them up the ramp/stairs and dump it into the engine and go.

Oh and Sal says that you need to find Hubert Farnsworth the guys who invented its... and then Mom says something to the effect of "That old goat from planet express, he just got away, that mother loving no good piece of..."

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Arg. I need to see this so I can understand it and make you all seem like idiots.

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From the dvd features: Downloading Often Is Terrible (or D.O. I.T. for short)

It told me too, its not my fault.

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They can't REALLY kill fry, there's still the 4th movie. He'll come back somehow

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They can't REALLY kill fry, there's still the 4th movie. He'll come back somehow

It's the Wild Green Yonder that he apparently gets killed in, not Bender's Game. But I agree, he'll be brought back somehow...plus if he was going to be killed off for good it's hardly something they'd give away in the trailer, it's just a way of raising anticipation for the final DVD due to us all wondering how he's going to manage to cheat death this time.

And it's worked.

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Bender's Game previews look interesting.  Wonder why Leela has a collar on?  I hope they don't bump off Fry.  As it's been said before, maybe there's another Fry from BBS lurking around.   If this is going to be Futurama's last movie, it should go down in a blaze of glory instead of killing off Fry. 

Or maybe  Fry will die temporarly. 

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Well if it ends on a "real sweet note" I don't think it'll involve Fry being six feet under...unless they meant bittersweet but I've always had the impression that they want to end Futurama on a happy note, it's a light hearted sci-fi animated comedy above all.

Mind you...going back to the 'another Fry left over from the BBS fallout' idea whilst it's vaguely plausible where would he have come from? I don't think there were anymore duplicates of Fry left after Lars got killed...unless I'm missing something.

We will see however, shame we've got to wait till April, whilst Bender's Game looks interesting ITWGY is the one I'm most looking forward to...and official teasers allegedly involving Fry getting killed isn't exactly doing a good job of cooling my anticipation.

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I have the utmost faith that the Futurama writers are above some lame-ass Star Trek style "BUT HES ALIVE CUZ OF THAT TIME HE TIME TRAVELED LOL!" story.

It will be interesting to see what they mean by "real sweet note" too. It's one of the main reasons ITWGY is the movie I'm most looking forward too. But man, waiting until April?! I guess Benders Game will hold for a month or so, I bet the attached trailer won't do a damn thing to help the wait though. Probably just make it worse.

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I bet the attached trailer won't do a damn thing to help the wait though. Probably just make it worse.

I agree with that alright! I remember thinking "well...at least the trailer for ITWGY that comes with Bender's Game will satisfy my interest for at least a month or so making the wait more tolerable".

By the sounds of it I'm going to be completely wrong.

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Yes, of course Fry will be alive again by the end of ITWGY.  The writers know that there is still a chance that the show could continue past these four movies, so they cant very well kill off the main character.  Not to mention the fans would be royally pissed off.  I personally think that the 'sweet note' at the end of the movie is going to feature Fry and Leela holding hands, kissing, and walking off into the sunset, just like their holophoner images did at the end of The Devils Hands.  That won't be terribly sweet if Fry is a rotting corpse

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Didn't the trailer for Benders game come out on youtube well before the BWABB DVD? Shouldn't the ITWGY Trailer be coming up in october?

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I think they did yes, I for one remember seeing the Bender's Game trailer before my BWABB DVD arrived...but come to think of if I live in the UK and it was released over here about a week or so after it was released in America.

Despite this cloudy memory however I do expect to see the ITWGY trailer surface sometime in October and in the process making me even more impatient.

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Yes, of course Fry will be alive again by the end of ITWGY.  The writers know that there is still a chance that the show could continue past these four movies, so they cant very well kill off the main character.  Not to mention the fans would be royally pissed off.  I personally think that the 'sweet note' at the end of the movie is going to feature Fry and Leela holding hands, kissing, and walking off into the sunset, just like their holophoner images did at the end of The Devils Hands.  That won't be terribly sweet if Fry is a rotting corpse

Zombie Fry! That would be awesome!

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I got a screener copy of Bender's Game from FOX today.

All mighty beings in the sky willing, I'll have a review up on CGEF tomorrow night.

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WOOT! Can't wait for the review!

...among other things, *rushes off to update RSS feeds*

Everything so far points to this being the best movie yet! Going to have to find the closest place to the University to buy it too... I swear to god ill be there the night before.

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Sorry, no review tonight yet. Have to watch it once more before I can type something longer up.

Short summary: I like it more than BwaBB. The build-up takes a bit too long for me (you don't really know what it's about after 20 minutes still), but it's not unfunny during that time. Next three segments are all fun to watch, too.

Screenshot (don't think it spoils much/anything, but I'll put it into spoiler tags...)

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I'm curious as to what that collar is all about...

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20 mins build-up, this is the problem with movies designed to be split into 20ish minute chunks for TV I suppose...

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20 mins build-up, this is the problem with movies designed to be split into 20ish minute chunks for TV I suppose...

It's quite an eye opener when you watch the DVD's in Windows Media Player (or some other player in which you can always see the timescale)...I remember watching BWABB and 15 minutes had passed before anything had really happened. If it had been a normal episode it'd be over half way through.