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Title: He Returns, With Bad News.
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on December 13, 2003, 02:37:18 am: I'm not staying, but you really ought to know about this.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/garfield/index.html
Title: He Returns, With Bad News.
Post by: Stryke 9 on December 13, 2003, 02:42:42 am: Four years ago, this would have been "bad news", in that it'd be telling about where our society's going as a whole. These days, it's nothing new- we've already seen that our culture's this bad, and oh so much worse.
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Post by: Ashrak on December 13, 2003, 02:51:51 am: GARFIELD!!!!!!! YAYAYAYYAYAYA
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Post by: Stryke 9 on December 13, 2003, 03:03:41 am: Why must everything be a movie nowadays, anyway? The Cat in the Hat as a cartoon, done in the style of Dr. Seuss, would have made a fine movie. The Cat in the Hat as a guy in a costume was downright terrifying- I can only imagine the horror a small child would feel gazing upon such a thing. Cartoons are not meant to be turned into movies, never. Ever. Unless they do something serious to make the proportions not so disturbing when applied to a realistic character.
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Post by: Gortef on December 13, 2003, 04:25:25 am: Not sure if it's bad news... you never know
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Post by: 01010 on December 13, 2003, 04:29:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Why must everything be a movie nowadays, anyway? The Cat in the Hat as a cartoon, done in the style of Dr. Seuss, would have made a fine movie. The Cat in the Hat as a guy in a costume was downright terrifying- I can only imagine the horror a small child would feel gazing upon such a thing. Cartoons are not meant to be turned into movies, never. Ever. Unless they do something serious to make the proportions not so disturbing when applied to a realistic character.

I thought that the Cat in The Hat was a cartoon movie anyway? Dr Seuss should never be live action, take the Grinch for example, you can't improve on perfection and especially not with Jim Carrey.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on December 13, 2003, 04:33:07 am: http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thecatinthehat/

It's like a clown made for doing evil impure things by something who'd never read Dr. Seuss nor seen a human.

Quote
you can't improve on perfection and especially not with Jim Carrey

That will some day be a truism old men tell to their grandchildren.
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Post by: 01010 on December 13, 2003, 05:02:15 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/thecatinthehat/

It's like a clown made for doing evil impure things by something who'd never read Dr. Seuss nor seen a human.

Actually, having watched the trailer, it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as I thought it would be and I prefer Mike Myers over Jim Carrey anyday but Dr Seuss just shouldn't be done live action, it just shouldn't.

The Cat In The Hat reminds me, unnervingly, of the creature from Stephen Kings "IT".
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Post by: Dark_4ce on December 13, 2003, 05:59:13 am: Well, all we gotta wait for now is Calvin and Hobbes. Where they'll rape the very idea and Make hobbes a magical CGI character who actually makes all the mischief and Calvin being this nice little kid always getting the blame for it.

*Shakes head*

Anyway, atleast Bill Murray is doing the voice for garfield. Which I think is cool, cause the guy who did his voice for the Ghostbusters cartoon, also did the voice for garfield. Kinda cool.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on December 13, 2003, 06:57:39 am: Nah, they won't manage to get at Calvin & Hobbes.

Family Circus, probably, but the only reason that they got away with, say, those nasty Calvin peeing stickers is because Watterson apparently didn't wanna go through the (rather extensive) trouble of tracking down the companies to sue them. Nobody could make a movie without his consent (wasn't he working on one, actually, or was that Breathed?), and he wouldn't give it. 'Sides which, C&H isn't very heavily branded- it wouldn't rake in the bills like the Seuss name does.

I mean, hell, look at it. The Grinch at least was only tangentially related to the actual book, and had next to nothing but the fact that it was an adaptation of a Seuss book going for it (except "zaniness" or some other term for what would appeal to a ten-year-old on a massive sugar high), and it made a disgusting amount of money.
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Post by: 01010 on December 13, 2003, 08:27:31 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
Nah, they won't manage to get at Calvin & Hobbes.

Family Circus, probably, but the only reason that they got away with, say, those nasty Calvin peeing stickers is because Watterson apparently didn't wanna go through the (rather extensive) trouble of tracking down the companies to sue them. Nobody could make a movie without his consent (wasn't he working on one, actually, or was that Breathed?), and he wouldn't give it. 'Sides which, C&H isn't very heavily branded- it wouldn't rake in the bills like the Seuss name does.

I mean, hell, look at it. The Grinch at least was only tangentially related to the actual book, and had next to nothing but the fact that it was an adaptation of a Seuss book going for it (except "zaniness" or some other term for what would appeal to a ten-year-old on a massive sugar high), and it made a disgusting amount of money.

A Calvin and Hobbes animated series was planned but Watterson canned it because it never felt right for him, I applaud him because he was having a tremendous amount of money thrown at him and he stood his ground rather than dilute C&H. Which is great because Calvin and Hobbes is without doubt the best comic strip in existence.
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Post by: Thorn on December 13, 2003, 09:02:15 am: What the hell? The comic stip is bad enough now... a movie! Gah..
The comic was good years ago... but Davis is running out of ideas....
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Post by: delta_7890 on December 13, 2003, 09:11:30 am: Quote
Originally posted by Thorn
What the hell? The comic stip is bad enough now... a movie! Gah..
The comic was good years ago... but Davis is running out of ideas....

Agreed. The old Garfields are great, but the last few years have been horrible.
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Post by: Nico on December 13, 2003, 09:19:34 am: The dude makes one strip a DAY, for god's sake. Since 1978, darn. Of course he's running out of ideas...
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Post by: Thorn on December 13, 2003, 09:22:44 am: That was basically my point...
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Post by: Stunaep on December 13, 2003, 09:58:10 am: Oh.... my... god....

That was awful.

And Garfield's move in the trailer. Which they shouldn't
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Post by: Carl on December 13, 2003, 09:58:35 am: no, the voice isn't right. and garfield is way WAY too energetic in the trailer. He's supposed to be really lazy. Liz even said so in the trailer, but the rest of it contradicts it. they better do a revamp before it's too late.
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Post by: vyper on December 13, 2003, 10:10:17 am: I hate streaming bloody QT...
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Post by: IceFire on December 13, 2003, 10:23:54 am: Interesting....a rental movie for sure.
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Post by: Nuclear1 on December 13, 2003, 11:58:38 am: :lol: :lol:

I can't believe this.
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Post by: Liberator on December 13, 2003, 12:14:49 pm: That's just wrong...
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Post by: Galemp on December 13, 2003, 04:30:03 pm: *twitch*

I can feel my synapses closing...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on December 13, 2003, 10:20:27 pm: Technically, Davis doesn't have any creative worries- he's got a stable of artists doing Garfield for him nowadays. I don't think he even draws some of them anymore.
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Post by: Setekh on December 13, 2003, 10:47:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by 01010
A Calvin and Hobbes animated series was planned but Watterson canned it because it never felt right for him, I applaud him because he was having a tremendous amount of money thrown at him and he stood his ground rather than dilute C&H. Which is great because Calvin and Hobbes is without doubt the best comic strip in existence.

True dat. I heard about the proposed animated series and clung to my colour printed volumes in horror. ;) Calvin and Hobbes rocks.
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Post by: Kamikaze on December 13, 2003, 11:00:07 pm: This belongs in the garbage can with other atrocities such as live action sailor moon, the mario brothers movie and other scary fetishist movies.
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Post by: 01010 on December 14, 2003, 04:00:18 am: Hey, hey, hey, I happen to [ilike[/i] scary fetish movies, don't EVER lump them in with the Super Mario Bros. movie. You sick sick man.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on December 14, 2003, 04:08:01 am: The Mario Bros. movie kicked ass, philistines.

I want jump boots. Or at least one of those Mad Max-meets-80s-punk cars.
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Post by: Turnsky on December 14, 2003, 04:10:56 am: :lol: i had a teacher that looked shockingly like a goomba from that movie... red coat and all..
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Post by: 01010 on December 14, 2003, 04:15:36 am: Quote
Originally posted by Stryke 9
The Mario Bros. movie kicked ass, philistines.

I want jump boots. Or at least one of those Mad Max-meets-80s-punk cars.

To tell the truth, I don't know why people rag on it so much, I actually quite enjoyed the film, I think that it has more to do with the fact that it has very little if anything to do with the game.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on December 14, 2003, 04:17:22 am: I don't really remember it all that well, just a few scenes, but... yeeh, it was pretty laughable.
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Post by: YodaSean on December 15, 2003, 01:44:52 pm: Nothing in the movie had any resemblence to the game. Yoshi looked like he escaped from Jurrasic Park, and IIRC Bowser was no longer a dinosaur at all :wtf: And the mushroom things belonged in a horror movie
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Post by: Nico on December 15, 2003, 01:48:06 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kamikaze
live action sailor moon

I've seen the trailer for that, and, well... :lol:
:D
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Post by: neo_hermes on December 15, 2003, 03:23:02 pm: there was a REAL Sailor moon? why in the living hell would they make such a thing.

Super Mario Bros Is a great movie i loved the Boots, yoshi, and the Princess. Bowsers cousins and the goombas made me laugh everytime i watch it.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on December 15, 2003, 04:20:27 pm: I loved the Goombas! Didn't really care for the film too much. But it was watchable.
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Post by: Nico on December 15, 2003, 04:25:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by neo_hermes
there was a REAL Sailor moon? why in the living hell would they make such a thing.

That's new, a live series out a couple monthes ago I believe :p
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Post by: neo_hermes on December 16, 2003, 12:58:42 am: Noo, IT should never exist why why why. :(
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Post by: Gortef on December 16, 2003, 01:23:29 am: I have actually watched all the episodes ot the SMLA. so far... dunno why though. Maybe because it's just so damn hilarious in many ways possible :lol:

Great thing if one think's it as a parody... otherwise don't bother :p