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This one is a stretch, but I thought I'd put it down here anyway. In the first, (and best. fight me!) Muppet Movie, Gonzo has an awesome song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEjm3k6uY0. Much much later in Muppets From Space, it is revealed that Gonzo is actually an alien. Now before you know he is an alien, it is just a sweet, delicate, beautiful song. But once you know he is an alien, it could be read, (at a stretch as I said before), as him pining for his half remembered interstellar home. BrigadierSensible has a new favorite as of 11:21 on Sep 22, 2019 |
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Jestery posted:In S T A L K E R by tarkovsky Fun fact, this film is what inspired Burning Man as we know it today
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Sep 20, 2019 14:17
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BrigadierSensible posted:This one is a stretch, but I thought I'd put it down here anyway. I'll fight you. Christmas Carol is the equal of the Muppet Movie for having the best Scrooge ever. Treasure Island has the best music. Hans Zimmer gives a poo poo with the score and the songs are all bangers.
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Sep 22, 2019 02:41
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Arcsquad12 posted:I'll fight you. Christmas Carol is the equal of the Muppet Movie for having the best Scrooge ever. Christmas Carol is great. Michael Caine was great, and has said it was one of his favorite roles. I also loved Tim Curry as Long John Silver. Honestly, I like just about anything the muppets do, I even enjoyed the TV show from a few years ago, which gave us this great scene https://youtu.be/3AZz9TSjZCM
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Sep 22, 2019 03:08
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I love all this Muppet love and will not fight about it. Just popping in to say Waldorf and Statler were great, and having them be Marley and Marley may not have been subtle but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VsiKOJOXMJU e: the subtle point is there's only one Marley in Dickens His name is not Bob BaldDwarfOnPCP has a new favorite as of 03:30 on Sep 22, 2019 |
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Sep 22, 2019 03:28
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My kids still shout 'hoity toity, Mr. Godlike Smarty-pants' randomly because of the Muppets CC and it warms my cold heart
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Sep 22, 2019 03:42
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TheAlmightyFrog posted:Christmas Carol is great. Michael Caine was great, and has said it was one of his favorite roles. I also loved Tim Curry as Long John Silver. Honestly, I like just about anything the muppets do, I even enjoyed the TV show from a few years ago, which gave us this great scene https://youtu.be/3AZz9TSjZCM Even better is that in the Jason Segel Muppets movie from a few years ago, the off brand Moopets' drummer was "Animool" and was played by Dave Grohl in a bad Animal costume.
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Sep 22, 2019 04:15
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couldcareless posted:Even better is that in the Jason Segel Muppets movie from a few years ago, the off brand Moopets' drummer was "Animool" and was played by Dave Grohl in a bad Animal costume. The greatest cinematic achievement of the 2010s is that movie somehow not being completely garbage. All the odds were against it, and it somehow prevailed and was a really good movie.
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Sep 22, 2019 07:12
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Cleretic posted:The greatest cinematic achievement of the 2010s is that movie somehow not being completely garbage. All the odds were against it, and it somehow prevailed and was a really good movie. It's sequel was also surprisingly good. The interrogation song was great.
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Sep 22, 2019 11:25
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My absolute favourite little thing about Muppet Christmas Carol, which is one of my favourite movies, is the decision to have Gonzo play the narrator and directly quote the book. The book is terrific and, unlike most Dickens, concise. My second favourite thing is Rizzo saying "Thank you for making me a part of this" when Gonzo uses him as a window rag. I'm not hard to please.
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Sep 22, 2019 11:48
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I really like Gonzo as Charles Dickens interjecting with "Who did NOT die!" at the end
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Sep 22, 2019 14:07
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A friend once said that he had never seen Muppet Christmas Carol, and didn't plan to, because "it's just A Christmas Carol, but with Muppets. What's the point?" From that day on I knew not to trust him
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Sep 22, 2019 22:57
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Flint_Paper posted:A friend once said that he had never seen Muppet Christmas Carol, and didn't plan to, because "it's just A Christmas Carol, but with Muppets. What's the point?" A real friend would have put it on right then and there.
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Sep 23, 2019 00:25
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Flint_Paper posted:A friend once said that he had never seen Muppet Christmas Carol, and didn't plan to, because "it's just A Christmas Carol, but with Muppets. What's the point?" 
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Sep 23, 2019 01:47
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A Muppet Family Christmas is the superior Muppet Xmas movie. Fight me. Every December, me, my wife and our friends still watch a standard def vhs recording that I burned on a dvd with the best commercials 1987 had to offer. Fake edit: we also drink heavily throughout 
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Sep 23, 2019 02:51
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Cacafuego posted:A Muppet Family Christmas is the superior Muppet Xmas movie. Fight me. I do find 1987 commercials interesting. Used to do a traditional drinking rewatch of betamaxmas.com (an old goon project) just for the ads and seeing Ole Ronnie give his super gone Xmas speech.
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Sep 23, 2019 02:58
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Cacafuego posted:A Muppet Family Christmas is the superior Muppet Xmas movie. Fight me. That sounds really fun and I think we'll have to adopt this tradition.
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Sep 23, 2019 02:59
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Cacafuego posted:A Muppet Family Christmas is the superior Muppet Xmas movie. Fight me. Same, but my friend, myself, and significant others watch The Christmas Toy instead. It's horrible.
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Sep 23, 2019 03:23
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IUG posted:Same, but my friend, myself, and significant others watch The Christmas Toy instead. It's horrible. Used to watch that too. Pixar blatantly ripped that off for $billions
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Sep 23, 2019 03:26
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Posers in this thread not arguing over which version of The Muppet Christmas Carol is best. The one with or without "The Love is Gone" song sequence.
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Sep 23, 2019 03:36
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Gejimayu posted:Posers in this thread not arguing over which version of The Muppet Christmas Carol is best. The one with or without "The Love is Gone" song sequence. it's uhhhhh not really much of a debate
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Sep 23, 2019 05:08
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Straight White Shark posted:it's uhhhhh not really much of a debate It's more of a test to see if you're a replicant.
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Sep 23, 2019 06:51
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The best version is the one with the octopus in it.
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Sep 23, 2019 13:41
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couldcareless posted:The best version is the one with the octopus in it. I was at an art show once, and there was a guy who had painted a skyline for Toledo, Ohio. In the river of that painting was a big octopus. When asked about it, the artist said that it was a reference to the Goonies, and went on to explain all about the deleted scene, and how there isn't an octopus in Toledo either, but this is his Goonies joke. It wasn't a good joke/reference, but the painting was kinda cool.
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Sep 23, 2019 14:03
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I was watching the Goonies over the weekend (streaming on Hulu) and I still can't recall in my mind when we started stopped calling 4x4's SUV's instead of ORV's. It's so weird hearing Chunk crying about OVR's with bullet holes. It was also an opportunity to point out to my kid which actor is which. "See that guy, he's Thanos. That other guy, the pudgy man dating the mom in Stranger Things. That girl, the mom in Raising Hope." Which then devolved into bingeing on Raising Hope (also on Hulu).
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Sep 23, 2019 14:13
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Hate it when those Hulu advertisers get in here.
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Sep 23, 2019 14:51
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How the gently caress did Muppets in Space get made? It really seemed Disney was trying to do the Muppets justice with Christmas Carol and Treasure Island, but the space one killed them for more than a decade until Jason Segel pushed for Muppets movie.
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Sep 23, 2019 14:58
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How the gently caress did Muppets in Space get made? It really seemed Disney was trying to do the Muppets justice with Christmas Carol and Treasure Island, but the space one killed them for more than a decade until Jason Segel pushed for Muppets movie. Disney didn't own the Muppets until 2004.
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Sep 23, 2019 15:06
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Aphrodite posted:Disney didn't own the Muppets until 2004. Are you sure? Of course I could be mistaken, but I thought they had licensing at least, if not ownership, as early as 1991 shortly after Henson's death, and it was Sesame Street that was the sore spot because Jim made it clear that he would never allow anyone to get access to it that would exploit it. I'm going largely by the six-part Defunctland series that was posted over the last few months. I obviously could also be misremembering and/or misunderstanding a few things. I am slowly losing my mind. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVoGf1JTVeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_eOs_CSVas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jJQ2IeDvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl4mlq6zAxw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Agx492B4FY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfsynRHZK0
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Disney was in negotiations to buy them, but Jim's death ended those for a while. They did get a licensing deal for Muppets attractions (like Muppet Vision 3D) and distribution on Muppet productions though. And then From Space was Sony.
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Yeah, I see that now going back through the videos. As I said, I'm slowly losing my mind, I forgot, I apologize.
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Push El Burrito posted:Hate it when those Hulu advertisers get in here. You know who really hates it? Gypsy in 'The Act', also streaming on Hulu. I never actually watch Hulu so I only notice all the stuff when I accidentally click on the app. It's almost a Catch-22 situation currently streaming on Hulu. I should probably get around to canceling it.
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Sep 23, 2019 16:56
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Aphrodite posted:And then From Space was Sony. Suddenly all is clear
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Krispy Wafer posted:You know who really hates it? Gypsy in 'The Act', also streaming on Hulu. Don't be afraid of the dark. Come watch what we do in the shadows. Edit: streaming on Hulu Edit 2: gently caress
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Sep 23, 2019 20:48
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So if Disney owned Muppets from 2004 onwards then they're responsible for those horrendous straight to DVD Muppet "movies" like their Wizard of Oz adaptation and the It's a Wonderful Life knockoff?
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Sep 24, 2019 01:12
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Disney is responsible for a whole poo poo load of direct to video sequels of dubious quality
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beanieson posted:Disney is responsible for a whole poo poo load of direct to video sequels of dubious quality I mean that was their business plan for decades. Make a great animated movie to emotionally hook kids to the franchise then make cheap as hell DtV sequels that generated insane profit margins because “look mom, it’s Beauty and the Beast 2! Can I have it pleasepleasepleaseplease...”. I’m not above it. I own multiple Tinkerbell movies because of this.
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Promoted Pawn posted:I mean that was their business plan for decades. Make a great animated movie to emotionally hook kids to the franchise then make cheap as hell DtV sequels that generated insane profit margins because “look mom, it’s Beauty and the Beast 2! Can I have it pleasepleasepleaseplease...”. At least the Tinkerbell movies are interesting.
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Frozen 2 comes out the day after Christmas here and I gotta tell you I am not looking forward to that shitshow. With two daughters aged 6 and 4 though, there's no way I'm avoiding it.
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BioEnchanted posted:At least the Tinkerbell movies are interesting. They're not bad at all! They were the first CGI 'test runs' that John Lasseter did with Disney to get a feel for their capabilities. He got his feet wet on Princess and the Frog to see how Disney did things on the traditional animation/art direction side, and then Disney got their feet wet with him on the soft-launching of a digital Tinkerbell franchise to show everyone how he did things. Kinda cool. Memento posted:Frozen 2 comes out the day after Christmas here and I gotta tell you I am not looking forward to that shitshow. With two daughters aged 6 and 4 though, there's no way I'm avoiding it. Do you want to drink a six-paaaack Drive your car off of a briiiiidge Pissed Ape Sexist has a new favorite as of 07:36 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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