Frida Waterfall
Professor
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I'd like to get further into detail but here's what I can say briefly.
- First Half Better than Second Half - Humor was Better than "Bender's Big Score" and Possibly "The Beast with a Billion Backs", but still not Old Futurama Quality - Too Many Plotholes (at least for me)
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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Bender's Game: It's GOOD!
Best line: They're making a hobbit.
Was anyone else kindof turned on by Leela's pleasure reactions to the pain-collar. I hate when I discover a darker facet of my carnal ego...So. HOT. Considering that the collar shocks her when she has violent thoughts, utters profanity or has fantasies of a perverted sexual nature, and the damned thing was going off every 5 seconds, Then she not only got use to it but started to enjoy the shocks, I'd say that Leela's mind is a dark and scary place. I must say that I'd like to visit it and maybe move in...
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Castel
Crustacean
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That sucks, big time.
Sorry to be so blunt but....well, i didn't laugh one single time, the story is really uninteresting and there is absolutely no new characters devellopements or even links with the previous movie.
I'm really disappointed.
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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Ok I was trying to watch it online but the sites that I go gave me a virus and I was really annoyed. I am going to wait till the DVD comes out on Monday.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #166 on: 10-31-2008 15:39 »
« Last Edit on: 10-31-2008 16:03 »
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That sucks, big time.
Sorry to be so blunt but....well, i didn't laugh one single time, the story is really uninteresting and there is absolutely no new characters devellopements or even links with the previous movie.
I'm really disappointed.
You sound like me after watching BBS. I think it really advanced Leela's anger problems - it's just the way she is. Any guy who marries her wil either be some sort of machovistic submissive or like violence as much as she does.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
DOOP Secretary
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I think it really advanced Leela's anger problems - it's just the way she is. Any guy who marries her wil either be some sort of machovistic submissive or like violence as much as she does.
With any luck option 3 is someone who isn't scared by the crazy and who can calm the fire a bit.
I like how it brought Leela to the point of full blown Evila crazy (arch is probably going to imagine her carrying a revolver the whole time with no idea why), but so much depends on ITWGY now. If they totally ignore how angry Leela was in this movie it will be stupid, but if they keep it and use it, it could be great. Especially if that damn trailer spoiler is right, GAH I WANT TO SEE IT...
Crazy as hell Leela is great, its how she is, but purely psychotic Leela is bad.
Was it me or did Farnsworth seem to almost cruel to Leela several times? Granted, he's an amoral crackpot and she did tear his beloved spaceship to hell and back but he did seem to be a tad crueler to her than anybody else.
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Juliet
DOOP Secretary
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So I have finally seen Bender's Game and I thought it was good but not as good as the last two. Bender was great and so cute in the movie. Nibbler is cute in it too. So of the parts where ok and I do get a few laughs from some scenes. Amy a pure slut and I love her. The Amy/Leela making out scene is something for the guys to cream in their pants as they finally get a real scene. Really I don't think Marcus should of shown the picture unless he put it behind the spoiler cos that would spoiler it for everybody and a surprise when watching the film would be better.
Are I the only one that like mom/ Igner/Farnsworth storyline? I like the very end when Igner and Farnsworth were hugging. I thought that was clever. But the scenes after that where a bit lame and bit quick.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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First half was indeed better than the second half. On the genre of the movie: If the majority of the movie was to not be fantasy, they shouldn't have played it up to be a big fantasticapolooza. I was expecting at most 20 minutes in that they'd get to that part. On the underlining message of the movie: I thought that it was good that Futurama's newest adventure had an underlining message that resonates with troubles we face today. And, once more, it's good that the underlining message wasn't hit of the head and was actually made fun of, although it's obvious the writers support alternative fuels and less dependence on petroleum. I was glad they dedicated it to Gary. Too bad they hadn't written him in and recorded a part for him before he died. That would've made the movie even better. Yes, even better. As in it was already good. As in I liked it. As in get your coat.
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Frida Waterfall
Professor
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Today's Relation Plot: I didn't think that the Nibblonian Finklefarm plot was rational. Our problem with gas today is that it's too expensive, in limited quantities, and hold a possible threat to the environment. Dark matter, on the other hand, is a renewable resource and quite efficient. Knowing how powerful, intelligent, and secretive the Nibblonian race is, they should've found a way to escape the battery farm quickly. It would have made more sense to say that Mom was screwing the Earthican public with high fuel prices rather than adding all that other nonsense to it.
Plots Format I'm pretty upset on how they placed the plots. While it's not a total trainwreck of intertangling plots like "Bender's Big Score", all the plots in "Bender's Game" can be coordinated to a plot in "The Beast with a Billion Backs".
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Angelikfire
Bending Unit
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« Reply #178 on: 11-01-2008 20:53 »
« Last Edit on: 11-01-2008 20:57 »
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I watched it and didn't like it. This surprises me, because I am a big fantasy nerd and I thought I would enjoy BG more than the other two movies: I were wrong. In my opinion the plot was quite weak, and I'm disappointed at the lack of explanation about (unless I am mistaken, maybe I haven't caught it ). Please, enlighten me. But I have to watch it another time to explore it further. I hope it'll grow on me after some more viewings.
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Frida Waterfall
Professor
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Well, I didn't think either the first or the second were what could be called "good"...
So, thus far I'm still holding out some dim hope for this one. Again, I don't quite understand how they chose the plots for these movies--how these plotlines are what they came up with and settled on, after the years away--but I'm trying to still withhold judgment at this juncture.
I think that the crew had to meet deadlines for the release of each movie. Or they lost their touch. ("The Simpsons" did) i don't know what know why you guys don't like it because of the plot, it's by far the funniest, who cares if the plot is paper thin, it's not a drama, it's a comedy
Well, just three or four lines/gags made me laugh. And the plot is the most important element to me; it comes before the humour (that's why Futurama distinguishes - or maybe distinguished - itself from the other cartoons, IMHO).
Futurama is an animated comedy. As a viewer of comedy, I have my own criteria for each genre. So, as a viewer of comedy, I judge Futurama as a comedy (which it far exceeds my preferences). Therefore, when I decide my rating for each episode, I have humor on the top and plot (and plot-related subjects) directly below that.
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PatchChord_Adams
Bending Unit
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i don't know what know why you guys don't like it because of the plot, it's by far the funniest, who cares if the plot is paper thin, it's not a drama, it's a comedy
ok, everything deserves a decent plot not godfather 2 or anything, but decent. Bender's Game's plot was pretty decent, there were a lot of twists and turns. You can't determine a comedy by it's plot, BWABB was funnier than BBS, but BBS had a better, yet more confusing plot. That's why i liked BWABB better, and also Zapp
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soylentOrange
Urban Legend
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« Reply #199 on: 11-02-2008 23:31 »
« Last Edit on: 11-02-2008 23:34 »
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Here's my review of Bender's Game. I mentioned earlier that I thought it was the best of the three movies so far, and, after watching it again, I'm even more sure of that statement than before. Some of you have said that you didn't find it very funny. Personally, I thought it was hysterical. A few things that stood out were Walt's 'owl larva' line, the running references to the way in which darkmatter is 'harvested', Fry's line about riding Leegola, and the rabbit/hobo joke. I like futurama for three reasons. The first, and most important, is the humor. I'm willing to let a few plotholes pass by as long as I'm laughing at something going on on the screen. Second is the plot. Frankly, the plot was... tenuous at best. Again though, it doesn't matter so much when there is enough humor. The relationships between the characters are somewhat important to me, but I was so dissapointed with what they did to the Fry/Leela romance in BWABB that I was perfectly happy to have them ignore that for awhile. I'm sick of seeing the lovesick-loser side of Fry, and there is none of that going on here. One of the major themes in the movie is Leela's anger issues. That was done extremely well. I've never been so happy to see a cartoon character hack apart an army of orcs. The rest of the review deals with details from the movie, so don't read if if you havent watched Bender's Game! Seeing the futurama team tackle a real-life issue like energy shortages was an interesting change from what we've seen in the last two movies. The way the darkmatter was turned into fuel, and some of the details of its discovery left me a little confused though. According to Mother's Day, Mom hadn't seen Farnsworth for something like 60 years before the day she made the robots rebel, so why is it that Farnsworth was working in her lab 40 years after they broke up? Also, and maybe I'm just confused, but I thought the Professor said that he turned the darkmatter into fuel thirty years before Bender's Game takes place. If that's true, then why does Nibbler say that Mom was put in charge of mining the stuff thirty six years in the past? And how could she have started Mom's Friendly Robots to create mine workers, when Farnsworth was building robots for her for decades before that? I know the reason for making the events happen 30 years in the past have to do with the big secret that is revealed right at the end of the movie, but I'm surprised the writers didn't try harder to make the timline work out right,
All in all, this is a great movie if you care more about humor than the fine details of the plot. Just don't expect to see any shippy. Well... except for that brief Ginacaladriel-Leegola scene. Fracking hotttt! framegrabs: note to self: never spend an hour uploading 15 framegrabs to the internet ever again.
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