The Simpsons.
Hotsauce84
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Much funnier than Transformers and Harry Potter put togethers!!!Plus I saw Bart's widdle diddle. 
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oh shit I forgot that was dropping tonight!!! If only I had realized a half hour earlier, I might have made a midnight showing. I think a matin??e tomorrow is in store.
i was full of
for the past 6 or 7 years, I have very low expectations
for the movie. It looks like a 90 minute episode of the
2006 version of the show. AKA
I'll see it, no doubt - but I expect to get more
pleasure from re-watching my Season 4 DVD's.
After season 11 things went really downhill - the show should stop.
I'm in the cinemas sunday though.
this show is probably my favorite cartoon ever, by far one of the BEST shows ever, and thats only counting about seasons 3-10.
anything before or after that was pretty fuckin worthless. but right in that middle section it was fucking GENIUS
fuck a family guy, fuck a south park, fuck an adult swim...they all have theyre moments but simpsons did humor with style, grace, subtlety and usually timelessness (wait, no constant pop culture references? no fucking worthless points trying to be made? no stupid political bullshit that will make the show outdated in a year or two? and its still HILARIOUS? amazing!!!)
a pretty fuckin well-written show. pretty much ANYBODY can watch it and appreciate everything that happens.
im hoping they brought some of the old writers back. i saw a newer episode the other day and i dont think i laughed once. in fact i was feeling a little embarassed for how HARD it was TRYING to be funny and failing miserably. but, i watched part of the season 9 DVD a couple days ago and was laughing out loud multiple times every episode.
what im sayin' is the simpsons WAS a great show. ive lost interest so much now that it might as well have stopped running 7 years ago.
im gonna see this movie, but i have no expectations at this moment.
Your dentist is awsome. Mine plays ABBA, which is worse than the drill noise.
That said, I have found the show unwatchable in the last 6 years, and I blame the writers for out and out laziness and complacency. With that in mind, I will NOT be seeing this movie in the theatre, and I am still on the fence if I will even watch it on DVD. Frankly, I see no reason to reward and pay money to people who have shown utter contempt for their audience over the last six years.
DUDE. In the last few years, it has been hot fucking garbage, and COMPLETELY unable to sustain an original plot for 22 minutes without resorting to the most tired humor.
The show used to break ground...Now? STALE, 3 day old shit.
I stopped watching the show regularly sometime in the late 90s, and the Simpsons Movie was waaaay funnier than any of the episodes I've caught in the last 5 years, and probably as good as a Simpsons movie could be in 2007, but nowhere near a prime Simpsons episode. Anyone expecting some Next Level shit will definitely be disappointed, but anyone who wants to go see a perfectly good comedy will have a good time.
I think the color issue is more to do with crappy standard definition Fox broadcasting. Not even HD DVDs look as good on a 50" plasma as they do on an 50 foot THX screen.
the show's been around for almost 20 years so i'd imagine it would be hard to not run out of ideas. i wouldn't say it's complacency or laziness.
Sure comes across that way, as they run over the same goddamn plots over and over...I mean, how many times can homer leave marge or vice versa before you should put the show to bed?
Regardless, I've been watching them for over half my life, since before they even had their own show, so I don't really have a choice but to go see the movie (and I'm looking forward to it )
what i noticed about the recent seasons is that there is less plot and more random stoney nonsense and pop culture allusions. it's not as assaultive as family guy which is a barrage of that in comparison, but it seems like the earlier seasons of the simpsons always had some moral plot and the new ones are just kind of aimless. i'm just glad they stopped doing episodes with musical numbers. those suck so bad that they don't even rerun them on the syndication channel here. i'd rather take these pointless random episodes than hear a 3 minute song about the springfield monorail.
there have been a couple of episodes in recent years that i liked though like the one where Homer and Bart convert to catholicism. Marge envisions Catholic heaven as everyone doing river dance on a giant cloud. That was so good
edit: i found it
Please to not hate on MONORAIL Song...
Seriously, though, i agree with your other take, and that is one of my main beefs. if they can't sustain a story for 22 minutes, why bother with 90?
One of the best.
"But Main Street's still all cracked and broken!"
"Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken!"
what happened to domestically abusive homer who would strangle bart all the time?
now its just homer the boob. on some three stooges shit
simpsons used to be a caustic parody of american values liefstyles and pretensions
it lost that edge and got real milktoast
This is absurd! The difference between the earlier seasons and recent
ones is absolutely phenomenal. Edith Head spelled it out better than I
could hope to, but it comes down to the difference between plotted
episodes with a theme and a message, and a bunch of random jokes about
celebrities and recent headlines just pointlessly thrown on the screen.
The Simpsons used to bring me to tears with laughter - I have watched shows
in the past few years when I was unable to laugh ONCE. And the re-hashing
of plots is so common it is seriously pathetic. I have hopes for the movie,
but they aren't very high - and I can probably wait until it's on cable.
it's still got some great moments and good jokes. Not mad at it at all.
Be warned...there are going to be some 8-12 year olds in there who are going to say "ohhhhhhh" when they hear the word "ass" or constantly interject things like "I like this part" or "cool, Milhouse!"
This could definitely be a "wait for dvd" type of movie, but I still had a good time. It's kind of fun to see it with a full house because laughter is contagious yo!
My advice, do not wait for this to come out on DVD. It's a great big screen experience.
Do you not watch a lot of movies?
Saying, I liked the film too but...