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Yeah, the only thing on this entire list that I really care about is that Futurama is coming back. And all four of the DVD movies fall kinda flat on the whole basis that they both tried to be a movie and tried to be four stand-alone episodes. And failed at both.
See, the advantage that the series had was that when they ran long, they could pick the worst parts to trim out. When they switched it up to a four-ep movie format, suddenly they were both forced to pad the main story to fill out ~90 minutes, and they were forced to disregard the overall pacing so they could keep all the secondary stories within a strict range of runtimes. On the flip side, they had to sacrifice any pretense of quality on the secondary stories so they could try to keep the main stories flowing well enough to be followed. It just didn't work the way they'd hoped, even if it succeeded in bringing new life to the series.
@Purple Dave: "And all four of the DVD movies fall kinda flat on the whole basis that they both tried to be a movie and tried to be four stand-alone episodes."
I think it's more like they just tried to be movies. It was the same with the Simpsons movie. They took a 30 minute show and tried to expand it out to 2 hrs. If you look at the Family Guy movie, they put 4 episodes together so they could keep the fast pace of the show and still fill 2hrs.
The Simpsons and Futurama movie (I only saw one) were made more to be 2hr movies and so the energy level is much lower.
@worsethannormal:
I've never seen the Simpsons movie, and that may be true, but I'd really like to believe that the Futurama crew could turn out a really good movie if they made it a _movie_.
See, I bought the first two seasons of Tripping the Rift, and I liked them. Then they released a movie, and it kinda sucked. It wasn't until I'd watched it a second time that I realized the reason for that was because it was four unrelated episodes that had been smashed together. But the crazy thing was that when the third season came out, those same episodes worked fine on their own.
The difference is that with the Futurama movies, each one is supposed to work as both a cohesive movie and four stand-alone episodes. Only they don't.
In the second Batman Forever clip, when Bruce Wayne asked, "What's in there?" I half expected Alfred to reply,"Only what you take with you. You're weapons. You will not need them."
@Bill-Lee: well I don't have a problem with any of the 6 Batman live action movies(7 with Adam Wests which I like too), but then again I like Star Wars 1-6 and unlike most my favorite(of the originals) is ROTJESB(which is unheard of among die-hard fans)
Why does Ten Forward look so small in that Nemesis clip? I realize that the Enterprise E was smaller in terms of crew compliment than D, but that looked no bigger than the retrofitted galley on Voyager.
@EdificeComplex:
It looked the same size because it was the same set, and it wasn't Ten Forward, it was just an officer's lounge. Ten Forward was the size it was because it served three times as many people, on a much larger ship.
Leia and Solo making out was pretty much the only actual sexual expression out of the entire Star Wars Saga (the green slave girl's boob and Leia slave girl outfit doesn't count.) Might have done Lucas a world of good if he added some sex to Star Wars. No wonder they needed clones.
As for Sgt William Candy, I'm glad they cut it. That was pretty stupid especially when Candy sounds like what one would consider the stereotype of a Southern fried idiot.
Some of those are awesome!!! The Terminator one ive seen before. What a crazy ass clip.
Now I know I might turn a few people here....but Watchmen was amazing. I personally cant wait for the super-duper extended edition. This scene was left out and I think its absolutly beautiful and tragic all in the same go!!!
@CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): A lot of "official" postings on YouTube block embedding now because the embedded players code can be exploited to download copies of the video. Disabling embedding also prevents websites like KeepVid from snagging downloadable links.
@CyberSlug Labs: Why have the link there in the first place then??? Its a borrowed code. Nothing more. Rather than blocking safe users who just want to add the link to a safe legit website. Why cant they just find a better way of stopping the downloads!!
Another thing that pissed me off was something so trivial that its worth overlooking once. But hundreds!! Thats just not cricket. I tried to watch an Iron Maiden vid on youtube and it said 'sorry not available in your country'. Im sorry WHAT!! Iron Maiden is british fuckin metal band. I can understand an american vid not playing over here. It happens a lot with ther MTV player and that I can live with. But blocking UK users from watching UK stuff!! Eh!!!????
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The middle one with Shatner in the short tunic reminded me right away of Zapp Brannigan in his uniform jacket with no pants. It takes a real man to carry off something like that!
Several Trek book authors riffed this thing MST3K style at Shore Leave a few years back. It was sensational (and probably the only way I could have sat through the whole thing!)
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See, the advantage that the series had was that when they ran long, they could pick the worst parts to trim out. When they switched it up to a four-ep movie format, suddenly they were both forced to pad the main story to fill out ~90 minutes, and they were forced to disregard the overall pacing so they could keep all the secondary stories within a strict range of runtimes. On the flip side, they had to sacrifice any pretense of quality on the secondary stories so they could try to keep the main stories flowing well enough to be followed. It just didn't work the way they'd hoped, even if it succeeded in bringing new life to the series.
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I think it's more like they just tried to be movies. It was the same with the Simpsons movie. They took a 30 minute show and tried to expand it out to 2 hrs. If you look at the Family Guy movie, they put 4 episodes together so they could keep the fast pace of the show and still fill 2hrs.
The Simpsons and Futurama movie (I only saw one) were made more to be 2hr movies and so the energy level is much lower.
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I've never seen the Simpsons movie, and that may be true, but I'd really like to believe that the Futurama crew could turn out a really good movie if they made it a _movie_.
See, I bought the first two seasons of Tripping the Rift, and I liked them. Then they released a movie, and it kinda sucked. It wasn't until I'd watched it a second time that I realized the reason for that was because it was four unrelated episodes that had been smashed together. But the crazy thing was that when the third season came out, those same episodes worked fine on their own.
The difference is that with the Futurama movies, each one is supposed to work as both a cohesive movie and four stand-alone episodes. Only they don't.
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It looked the same size because it was the same set, and it wasn't Ten Forward, it was just an officer's lounge. Ten Forward was the size it was because it served three times as many people, on a much larger ship.
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As for Sgt William Candy, I'm glad they cut it. That was pretty stupid especially when Candy sounds like what one would consider the stereotype of a Southern fried idiot.
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Now I know I might turn a few people here....but Watchmen was amazing. I personally cant wait for the super-duper extended edition. This scene was left out and I think its absolutly beautiful and tragic all in the same go!!!
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Why the hell has youtube become such god-damn Nazis over sharing links. Assholes.
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Another thing that pissed me off was something so trivial that its worth overlooking once. But hundreds!! Thats just not cricket. I tried to watch an Iron Maiden vid on youtube and it said 'sorry not available in your country'. Im sorry WHAT!! Iron Maiden is british fuckin metal band. I can understand an american vid not playing over here. It happens a lot with ther MTV player and that I can live with. But blocking UK users from watching UK stuff!! Eh!!!????
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