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Simpsons Film in Preproduction
93,000 writes "According to Yahoo news, a Simpsons feature film is now in preproduction. In TFA, Nancy Cartwright is quoted as saying "We've just done the table read for The Simpsons movie, so although we've been promoting that we're going to do it, now we're actually doing it and are in production . . ." Also from TFA: "'They are working on hammering out a script, but there's no title or production date or release date,' studio spokeswoman Antonia Coffman told E! Online Wednesday. 'We always wanted the show to end first but it just keeps going. Now they've worked out a team to simultaneously do [both the film and show].'""
hopefully this will solve the problem of decreasing quality of episodes.
in the commentary for season 5 they talk about how an episode of the recent series is 2 minutes shorter (more adverts) than a season 5 episode. this forces them to remove an entire mini-story, which are often the source of many of the funniest moments.
though a movie format causes its own set of problems. I'd prefer they just went back to making longer episodes, but at this point I don't think a movie could makes things much worse so here's hoping for a return to form.
IMHO, the episodes he wrote are great, and I think this movie has a chance if they bring back some writers from earlier in the show's history. If not, I fail to see how the current team can produce both the show and a movie, when most would agree the current state of the show doesn't even justify this movie being made in the first place (from an artistic standpoint as opposed to financial.)
Well as exciting as this is I think its shows the end of the the Simpsons legacy. Animation usually ends with a feature movie. (Flinstones meet Jetsons comes to mind)
All good things must come to an end.
As far as Family Guy fans go, please don't knock the Simpons because you arn't (or ever were) cultured enough to enjoy them anymore. By all means stick with your slap-stick humor of choice. Personally I was always partial to The Three Stooges.
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Ugh, you've got to be kidding me. The Simpsons has sucked for at least the last 6-8 years. Unless you think comic genius is:
The Simpsons meet [insert current pop star] and have zany unfunny adventures.
Or the Simpsons [go to X country] and have recycled unfunny adventures.
This movie is the final dagger in the reputation of the once great show. Please Fox cancel the God damn show, we've got the Family Guy back again.
Slashdot needs a new moderation category, Cliche. Someone mod parent +1 Cliche.
Slashdot jumped the shark when it was bought. That's when the "editors" stopped reading their own site.
Its in a generic state , Unless you can show me a state where the capital city is named Capital City with a baseball mascot called the goof-ball .
It was never intended to actually exist in any state of the USA but exist in all .
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What we really need is a Family Guy movie.
What we need is movies with fresh plots, new ideas and in no way connected to anything on TV.
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