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Simpsons on the Silver Screen
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Matt Groening is going to actually go through with it. This article
says that the cast of the Simpsons has signed on for at least 3 feature films. Hooray!" I hope they call them Episodes 4, 5 and 6.
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Woo-Hoo!
Doh!
Maybe we can have a 10 minute futurama opening cartoon. Kinda like the short clip of Dexter's lab the played during the Powerpuff Movie.
You know, you could make an absolutely hilarious parody of the Star Wars saga using the Simpson family.
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Lets just hope that he is not on the George Lucas movie release timeline.
According to this, The Simpsons are going to be on Inside The Actor's Studio, on Nov. 18. How freaking cool is that?
James Lipton: Homer, what is your favorite curse word?
Homer Simpson: D'oh!
Unfortunately, Nov. 18 is when they tape it, not when they broadcast it...
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oh geez.
has the simpsons jumped the shark too?
James Woods: Well, my work is done here, I'm off to fight aliens on a faraway planet.
Marge: My, Mr. Woods, I'll look forward to seeing that movie!
James Woods: (Chuckles, eyes dart nervously about) Ahh, yes...heh...a movie....
Like "The Itchy and Scratchy Movie"?
(54% new footage)
So the only thing different? A further expanded plot. Ok... I'm not sure that makes any difference, in the grand scheme of things, but I'd probably go see it anyway.
The downside is, unless Matt brings in a ton of animators or turns the background over to a Beowulf cluster (I can just imagine that...) of renderers, the show doesn't gain anything cinematic, so big screen, eh!
Maybe they'll get lucky and score a hit like Blame Canada, eh!
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I don't know how well the simpsons will translate to the big screen. Part of what is so groovy and wonderful about the show is the seeming randomness of it. There are little plot consistancies, but there is not a single focus or drive behind the series. It is a combination of many things and an excellent reflection of all the things that are right and wrong with America.
I predict that when the movie start coming out, the simpson will jump the shark. Not a bad run, really.
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Isn't this a repeat?
No, wait.. this same rumor recirculates every few months, that's right.
As much as I'd love to see it happen, I'll believe it when there's something resembling a formal announcement.
spacey synthesizer music
Kodos: The man-planet has produced a Simpsons movie!
Kang: Set coordinates for the obscure, T-shirt-producing planet known as Earth!
Together: AWAHAHAHAAHA!
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All TV and no Silver Screen make Homer.. something.. something..
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I don't think that the Simpsons translate well to a feature film. Like the article said, they don't even fill a 22 minute show with quality. Even some of the best episodes were of the form BAA, where there was a five-minute substory to hook into the next two acts. So that's about a fifteen minute episode.
Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?
I don't think so; let's not forget that the show started as 1 min shorts. I think that if they do make a movie, it should be in the form of "22 Short Films about Springfield," which (in an homage to Bach and a wonderful movie about Glen Gould) passed a semi-coherent theme back and forth between subplots. I think that The Simpsons could really do something creative and kinda tweak with traditional notions of film, linearity, etc.
It would be like their sendup of Lola Rennt with three stories told from different perspectives (a later episode that was actually quality, even though the story itself was about seven minutes long).
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If you read the article, you'd know it was 14 years. Geesh.
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A simpsons movie? That's unpossible!
Boy, I guess the ole' boy got used to having two sources of income when Futurama was on and now just can't cope with one cash cow.
Let's hope that the writers of the feature films are those that wrote during the Golden Age of The Simpsons (Seasons 3 - 7 give or take). Honestly, if the style and quality of the movie is at all similar to the show in the past few years, I'm not sure I'd be able to sit through the whole thing. Even the writers and producers admit on the Season 2 DVD commentary tracks that Simpsons today is a little bit more low brow, hyperactive and random, and with a lot less character and plot.
Maybe some of you like this Family Guy-like style, but I think it has degraded an amazingly intelligent funny show to just an occasional funny show (I won't be a jerk and try to state that it's not funny anymore). Nevertheless, I hope the producers and writers consider these films more seriously than the show as it now stands, as I would love a great Simpsons movie. Otherwise, I'll just have to stick with Futurama (almost as good as the Simpsons when they were great, but not quite).
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I can't wait to see the Behind the Movie about this one.
Bart: Homer was too drunk to play his parts. He couldn't even remember his lines!
Homer: Oh yeah you little... Do'h!
And god knows we all still miss 'My Little Pony' - the icon of both entertainment and education... a beacon in our miserable little lives.
...mmmm okay.
Wait, no.. I'm thinking of 'Care Bears'. Oh, the humanity.
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1) A Simpsons movie is unlikely to run 2 hours. Most animated films (excepting Miyazaki) run about 90 minutes.
2) There are around 22 episodes in a standard Simpsons season.
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The show's been going downhill ever since season 9. The episodes still have their moments, but they just don't have that charm that they did before. I mean, I've seen everything pre-9 a dozen times, and they're still fun to watch. I see a new one once, and I'm sick of it halfway through.
Now there'll be not one, but a few movies that I'll have to sit through. The Simpsons (and I'll bet money that they'll refer to themselves in the third person. Something else they've only really done since the 9th season. "Should the Simpsons get a horse?", "The Simpsons are going to japan!") will go on some "zany", contrived adventures, and I'll have to watch just in case its good. I'd rather just see what they did right in the beginning; let the characters create a situation, instead of inventing a situation, and forcing the family into it, even if its contrary to their personalities.
I suppose this is more a rant against recent simpsons in general, but if they make a movie, that'll tick me off, too.
She said "Daddy" once. But just one word doesn't count, I know. Even if Elizabeth Taylor said it.
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Skinner: (on intercom) The rehearsal for characters in the new movie will be right here in our school's cafeteria!
(in classroom, all hats get sucked to the roof)
Skinner:oh, yes the air conditioner system will be fixed this weekend.
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TMNT had three movies. Granted the third blew, but the second was pretty good.
The Simpsons have been going downhill for the last few years. I've been a devout fan watching even the reruns every day for the last X years... but recently I've decided to stop. You can only see that damn "elf jockey" episode so long before you realize they've mostly run out of good ideas. Granted, the show still manages to make me laugh once in a while, but it's definitely lost it's magic in recent years. To be honest, if they're having trouble making 30 minutes (or 23 minutes or whatever) funny, I simply can't see them keeping the show funny for a complete 90 minutes. I'd love to be proved wrong of course...
It's really too bad that Futurama and Family Guy were cancelled. They were great shows with a great style of comedy behind them. I really hope someone realizes that all these so-called "reality" shows are retarded, and gives Futurama another chance. It has/had almost limitless potential.
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d'ough!
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If only he had done this when Phil Hartman was alive.:(
Can they make a coherent movie eight times that long?
Probably they can. And while this may not be the best example, look at Beavis and Butthead do America. While it wasn't anything that could be called great film, it was amusing and true to the original show.
I think Simpsons can do something similar and be just fine.
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We came here to make a movie. A simple movie.. a movie about a radioactive man. But you slick small town folk ruined it! We're going back to Hollywood, where people are still good to each other.
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Homer: The important thing is.. it's got the perfect part for you.. either one of you. It's about a killer robot driving instructor, who travels back in time for some reason. Ron Howard's attatched to direct!
Ron: I am not!
Homer: Well. He expressed an interest.
Ron: No I didn't!
Homer: Did too!
Ron: I did not!
Homer: You lie!
Alec: Yeah, Homer, most movie scripts are 120 pages. This has only seventeen. And several pages just have drawings of the time machine.
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[sign on a closed-down movie theatre that reads: Yahoo Serious Festival]
Lisa: I recognize all three of those words but that statement doesn't make any sense.
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Lionel Huntz: This is the clearest case of False Advertising I've seen since I sued the movie The Never Ending Story
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Reporter: Don't you think it's dangerous to send civilians into space?
Homer: I'll handle this... the only danger in space is if we land on that terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
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"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
I mean come on, one of the things that so endearing about the simpsons is that they have carte blanche to do whatever in any given episode.
No episode affects the next, with minor exception (eg. Maude flanders death), and because of that the creators are not limited as to what can happen; A fact they seem to relish, even mock with in-jokes: "Oh look, we've won a trip to Delaware"
But major motion pictures are built on structure (ie. most commonly three acts, set-up - crisis - resolution)
So it would seem that some major event (ie. The movie's selling point)would have to occur involving the Simpsons in the motion picture (Obviously the set-up doesn't have to be that lrge because these are characters we already know and love). And due to the scale of a film, wouldn't that major event have to be permanent/immutable, somehow affecting or tying into the series?
So finally how is the film to work as a concept without fucking with the time-tested formula?
What will Bart be writing on the blackboard?
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I will not sign major motion picture contracts without reading them first.
I will not sign major motion picture contracts without reading them first.
I will not sign major motion picture contracts without reading them first.
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I saw Matt Groening in Montreal (here) a few months ago at the Simpsons Reading (Just For Laughs Festival). He confirmed that there would, in fact, be a Simpsons Feature.
The show (reading) was pretty cool, too. (-:
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"With 53 percent new footage!"
"Derp de derp."
They are:
1. "Woohoo!"
3. Some more obscure quote from the show;
2. Diatribe about the show's declining quality in recent seasons; or
4. "Worst movie ever."
Take your pick. (Of course, if anybody can figure out a Beowulf cluster joke to shoehorn into the topic at hand, I'm willing to add a #5.)
... I was grounded for bending my wookie.
You heard the monkey, make the trade...um, I mean movie
They first were on the Tracy Ulman (sp?) show as a little 5min crudely done cartoon. I can remember the first year it went from that to a 30min show, which has now turned into the greatest cartoon series ever created =).
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There was a recent episode on Sky TV in the UK where it had the family 'before Maggie' and Bart was envious of Lisa (and had to sit in a corner for trying to get rid of her), but once Lisa said "Bart" he liked her. Anyways, at the end of the episode (back in 'present day') Homer complains about wanting to hear Maggies first words. He puts her in her cot, closes the door and she removes her dummy and says "Dada".
Of course, there was the other episode where she could speak quite well once it was discovered she was an alien...
I hope they call them Episodes 4, 5 and 6.
Yeah. I hope they don't.
You could have said the same thing about South park before the movie came out. And I don't have to tell you that the movie was super funny.
I think the difference is South Park (as well as the Beavis and Butthead movie) were great because the premis of the shows rarely, if ever, were really focused around a plot; the plot in both being nothing more then a simple frame to law a series of jokes and gags around.
So changing the show from 22 minutes to 90-120 minutes wouldn't be hard. The Simpsons, on the other hand, do have (or try to) stories behind them, and the show relies on the stories as part of what makes it good. Trying to stretch one of those stories to 2 hours will be very difficult.
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he should name them 7,8,9. that would be a funny jab at Lucas.
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"(Of course, if anybody can figure out a Beowulf cluster joke to shoehorn into the topic at hand, I'm willing to add a #5.)"
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How about that for #5?
I have watched the simpsons for years, how long have they been on exactly? I can remember seeing episodes even when I was a kid.
If you can't remember when The Simpsons started, then you still are a kid.
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A good analogy would be Beavis and Butthead. Each epi-choad of B&B had around 5 minutes of action. The movie was apparently developed by stringing together nearly independent, slightly expanded, episodes with several 'glue' scenes that essential comprised the overall plot. It was amazingly effective.
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About the only things a movie format has to offer that can't be done in a TV show are (1) swearing, which really only means a half-dozen or so new words since the show really pushed the boundaries out in this area in the early 90's, (2) Nudity, which in cartoon form doesn't seem that popular outside of Japan, and (3) A longer format, which is dubious since they can always split an episode into two parts. None of this seems to really offer much in the way of new ground for them to cover.
Sooo... I think the best we can hope for is a long version of a TV series episode, maybe with a bit more time spent in the writing phase than your typical TV studio allows. But given the string of crappy movies that have been out in the last few years, I guess the whole thing isn't really all that bad. I'll see it - especially if there's a Futurama short at the beginning.
Of course, there was the other episode where she could speak quite well once it was discovered she was an alien
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Dude, the first time I saw the Beavis and Butthead movie I just about crapped my pants I laughed so hard.
Wait... you're talking about Frog Baseball, right? The second time I saw them in a theater, in that "Do America" thing, they weren't nearly as funny.
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I'd like to present a challange to you all: Please name any TV shows that became GOOD movies. I can't think of any.
Here are the TV-to-MOVIE examples that I can think of:
The Avengers
X-files
The Saint
Scooby-Doo
The Brady Bunch
Lost In Space (although I did like seeing Heather Graham in latex, it still sucked)
That doesn't give me much hope. I guess X-files wasn't horrible, but it wasn't better than a good episode, and it wasn't worth $7.
Wait, i got one, the first Wayne's World.
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TMNT was a great comic book that met its demise after a cheesey cartoon! The movie was just rubbing salt into the wound.
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They'll make live action movies of the Simpsons that really suck. Tom Arnold will play the grandpa since he'll be too old to be the dad in that one ... well I guess there is always plastic surgery, but I digress.
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I was one of those fans of the pre-movie Transformers. Granted, the animation was worse than after, but still, it was so bad, that Optimus had to come back to life.
Now, saying that, I loved the movie right up until HotRod became Rodimus. He was such a sucky leader. I wanted Galvetron to kill him. Plus the toy wasn't near as cool as Optimus.
Yes, I liked the show, and yes I had the toys. I don't think the Simpsons will go in the tubes because of a movie in the same way that Transformers did- I mean, the 2 best characters died in the first 10 minutes or so. If Homer and Bart die in the first 10 minutes, who is gonna replace them? Maggie-mus and Apu-tron?
Simpsons, to me, appears to be getting old, until, that is, I watch an episode I haven't seen, like a new one, or one from seasons 2-6 (I watched the original skits on The Tracy Ulman Show, too). I think the best way to keep the movie true to form, is for a lot of interlinking skits to be tied together following a bigger plot line. This would keep it true to its current successful form.
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And a desperatly aging Leondardo DeCaprio with lots of makeup doing Millhouse
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If you read Slashdot, you'd know that no one reads the articles. Sheesh. :)
"Lola Rennt"? I think you misspelled "Rashomon".
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Some of the Star D^HTrek movies
The Addams Family
Charlie's Angles
Mission Impossible
The Fugitive
Some of the Saturday Night Live skits (ok just 1-2)
Dragnet
The Untouchables
While I thank you for your efforts and agree that the quotes themselves are certainly funny (and I agree with your sig) I'm not sure if the moderation is accurate. Since you've compiled funny film related Simpsons quotes I originally thought that "Informative" would be a better mod. However, on further reflection, "Redundant" is always the most accurate mod for any Simpsons references on Slashdot since most of us geeks could probably recite them in our sleep.
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
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Actually no, you saw the cartoon on the Tracy Ulman Show, and no, it wasn't that good, but it was a great break from seeing tracy ulman try to entertain the audience...
I hear that Star Wars played at some places with a live orchestra but I didn't manage to see that unfortunately.
The simpsons claimed to have the second biggest orchestra on tv (after star trek) so maybe that would work, but I don't know.
Bevis and Butthead. It was hilarious untill that whole "Fire!Fire!Fire!" fiasco. It's like the writers had to suddenly insert some level of political correctness.
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Lola Rennt is also known as "Run Lola Run". It's a nice short German movie which takes three attempts to get to its ending.
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How does one go about signing up a crew of animated characters to a movie deal? What "beenies" would one offer to sweeten the pot? The promise of replacing the dull animators brush with a new soft one, or ensuring the coloring remains within the lines.
Or maybe the alternative tack, akin to "you'll never work in this town again", threating to erase thier legs or restore them to thier original Tracy Ulman show coloring and crudeness.
And yes, I realise that the "crew" probably referred to animators, voice actors, etc.
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I know the picture. But the Simpsons episode in question was pretty clearly a "Rashomon" parody.
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That's not how I remember it!
I just saw Rashomon recently. It told the story from different points of view, but had completely different tellings of the same event based on the point of view in question. The Simpsons episode didn't change a thing, it just added more detail with each retelling. There was a brief bit of Lola Rennt in it (the scoring and the scene with Lisa running to school) as well, but I don't dare consider it much of a parody of either.
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