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David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie
Joel Keller writes "I conducted a brief interview with David X. Cohen, EP and show-runner for Futurama, about the release of the new DVD, "Futurama: Bender's Big Score," as well as the return of his show to TV. The interview was posted to TV Squad this morning. In it, Cohen talks about how the movies will be split up into episodes, some of the inside references that they inserted for the die-hards, and a quick preview of what the second Futurama movie is going to be about."
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Ick. Comedy Central is famous for getting shows like this and then killing them off quick. MST3K anyone?
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Didn't some guy named Matt Groening have something to do with it?
If you like Futurama you will like this movie. The movie dragged on for about 45 minutes to long because the ending was obvious through the last 60 minutes or so.
I loved the movie and I loved the nods and goodies they gave the fans such as Seymour.
My favorite part was during the opening graphics - the "old" cartoon showing before the Planet Express ship crashes into the billboard. I had to stop the movie and jerk back a few tears, it was the most intense feeling of nostalgia I've felt in a very long time.
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Speaking of Futurama, a week or two back, the BBC's intellectual quiz show "University Challenge" had a whole round (3 questions) on "Science References in Futurama"!
If I remember the questions were along the lines of:
(I.e. the contestants could conceivably have got the answers without knowing the show - more detail was given for q1 than I can remember - although they didn't do too well and Paxo looked a bit bemused).
I think that this confirms the sad truth that "Futurama" must be the most intellectual TV show of recent years (excluding University Challenge).
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I liked the early years of AS up until Sealab, Home Movies, Brak, and Harvey Birdman stopped making new episodes and ATHF got really bad (somewhere around the 3rd or 4th season). The only "new" shows I like are Robot Chicken, Venture Bros., and Lucy, Daughter of the Devil, and I haven't noticed my MythTV recording Lucy recently, so I hope it hasn't been canceled already. Everything else (especially Saul, Tim & Eric, and Xavier) is trash.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
Overall they put a lot more work into the quality of the show when you compare it to previous episodes.
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The only parts I didn't like were the song and dance routines. They were really poor when compared to the opera piece they did.
They really went nuts with the time travel. Which I liked. Sure it got confusing, but it was cheap and easy TIME TRAVEL. Chaos just comes with it.
I plan on buying the DVD when it comes out to show my support.
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2. (Hermes) Look it up, ya lazy bum!: http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/3-000058-1/ (read down a bit; further info at http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/futurama/cubes.html )
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Am I the only one that found the movie to be completely bland and devoid of any of the uniqueness that made the show what it was?
Don't get me wrong, though! I am a HUGE Futurama fan. I watched the show from the beginning and thought it was going to best new thing since sliced bread. And to be canceled ... Part of me believes that this was the most ignorant decision ever made in television history. But I also understand that Futurama is NOT geared towards the bottom of the IQ barrel like the rest of today's television, and it wasn't going to last knowing that intelligent audiences don't make "good little consumers."
I honestly got the impression that they just bought the movie's script from an unrelated writer and stamped the good ol' Futurama cast on the project. This wasn't the Futurama I knew and loved.
One of the things I loved about the show was its witty references to technology and how the 1,000 years of advancement had only resulted in backwards-thinking and useless gadgets. Indeed, this concept is enshrined in the name of the show, Futurama, which is a reference to the now-cheesy, B-ish displays at World Fairs that attempted to predict technology of the next era (e.g. today). Those goofy gizmos never materialized in our own time, but they seem to thrive in the year 3000.
So I didn't find any connection to the series besides the unsettling number of previous characters they decided to throw in for nostalgia. Most of them were out of place, but some of them were just down right degrading to the movie and .. believe it or not .. even the show. For instance, just why exactly did they feel the need to utterly ruin the emotions we all felt in Jurassic Bark's story of Seymour?!?! I won't apologize for the punctuation. It's a mystery to me what was going through their heads when they decided to event put Seymour in the movie, let alone killing him in the most lame, unexpected, and unimaginative manner. Wasn't the idea that Seymour lived out his years missing Fry? So all of a sudden we have him getting to see Fry right before he gets burnt to death? SERIOUSLY! WHAT THE FUCK!?
I could have lived with a mediocre movie, but they had to go and screw up part of my love of the series too!
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