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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].'""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons#Movie
That's unpossible!!!
Fox owns simpsonsmovie.com
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I wouldn't go that far. Simpsons has evolved, but I wouldn't say it's stopped being funny. There's a reason it's still around. It's because people watch it and are entertained by it. Matt Groening has had the foresight to keep the Simpsons a "living" thing by changing it slightly with the times. I think a movie has big potential as long as they don't let someone else take the reigns.
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
The movie begins with the same theme song sequence as the show, the family ends up in the living room staring at the TV, but the TV is missing. A road trip begins as the Simpsons search for their missing TV. Their search takes them across deserts, to the Hoover Dam, in the trunks of cars, and ends up in Washington DC, all while being chased by cops and robbers. By the end of the trip, they finally find their TV and they go home. /err wait
South Park did it!
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Is Maggie finally going to speak? Smithers finally coming out of the closet? We get to find out where Springfield actually is?
Come on guys, there has to be some big unveiling for the movie!
I've finally found a movie to camp out for a week in advance in order to watch it!
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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.
Hey it's already available on Bit Torrent!!! And the script has already been converted to PDF. Ok just kidding.
Homer - Arnold Schwarzenegger ("D'Oh - I'll be bach")
Marge - That redhead from Suddenly Susan
Lisa - The actor who was Frodo Baggins
Bart - Jeremy Irons
Maggie - Who cares? Stick a pacifier into someone's mouth and bob's your uncle
Ned Flanders - Bruce Willis
His wife - Angelina Jolie
His kids - Don't care
Apu - Amitabh Bachchan
Montgomery Burns - Anthony Hopkins
Crusty the Clown - Michael Jackson
Sideshow bob - Robert Miles
The police chief - Michael Moore
His son - George W. Bush
Principal Skinner - Robert Redford
Mayor of Springfield - John Malkovich
-Shaunak
Nope, this comes from "Deep Space Homer" (I think that's the name), the one where Homer gets launched into space with Buzz Aldrin and Race Bannon. At one point in the episode Homer accidently breaks a container containing an ant colony (Now they'll never know if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space!), just as the news is breaking in with live coverage. The world gets a shot of what looks to be a giant ant (floating right next to the shuttle camera).
Anchor Kent Brockman draws the only assumption that can be drawn: (stolen from snpp.com)
Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
This movie has the potential to revitalize the show. Remember, the quality of South Park had decreased somewhat until the release of South Park: The Movie. The movie in turn gave impetus to the TV show. Strangely enough, some have even said that the post-movie seasons of South Park are far more intellectual than the pre-movie seasons. Now, that's a matter of personal taste, but I think that this movie could do the exact same for The Simpsons television show.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Try learning the meaning and origin of something before chirping in.
QUIT USING THAT PHRASE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS!
'Jumping the shark' references a Happy Days sketch in which the Fonz jumps over a shark on water skis. For many, this episode epitomised the moment that the show stopped being funny (or in a broader sense, as good as it once was) and thus the phrase has been adopted to reference similar points in other shows and even non-television situations. For example:
Slashdot jumped the shark when it hit 700 thousand members.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
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.
--Oh, oh, oh, Jolly Mon sing!
I want to be retired when I grow up.
/. jumped the shark when we had our first dupe.
I feel sorry for the ten people who were here to witness the end of an era.
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man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
Advancing characters in an animated show has nothing to do with altering physical appearance. What it entails is first establishing the characters with the audience, and then building up a psychological bonding between the two to increase identity and sympathy. This is a common and large goal of any writer.
For example, if you were to watch just one episode of The Simpsons, you'd think Homer is just a regular angry fat man who is a bad father. But after watching more episodes you get to sympthathise with the character. He works hard to provide for his family and really loves his kids, even though he finds parenting a struggle. This is what advancing a character is about - turning them from a drawing into a fleshed-out and believable human being by exploring their relationships with other characters such as spouses, children and parents. This is shown through emotionally charged episodes in the early seasons.
Then you look at the recent seasons and see that character advancement is impossible because full emotional capacity has been reached. We know what happened to Marge's father. We've seen the marital problems between Marge and Homer. We've shed a tear of sympathy for poor misunderstood Lisa. We've seen the childish Bart deal with love and other 'adult' issues. It is nigh on impossible for a writer to create such emotionally charged plots without retreading old ground. The only thing to do is put them in a yet another 'funny' and wacky situation with some flavour-of-the-month celebrity. OH LOOK HOMER BOUGHT A HELICOPTER WHAT FUNNY ADVENTURES WILL HE HAVE?
Not to flame, but give me some fucking credit and don't take things too literally in the future.
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
> And characters are sooo flat.
Well it *is* animation, after all...