Simpsons Movie - seen it?

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:14 pm

I just saw it after work today. Anyone else see it? Thoughts? I thought it was pretty cool. Not exactly what I expected, but still great.

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leesh · Post by **leesh** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:08 pm

Is it worth it to go see it? Or one of those 'wait til the DVD' type of things.

I saw "Hairspray" last week...that was good. Worth it just to see John Travolta do his best in drag with the voice of "Dr. Evil". Seriously.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:22 pm

Not seen it yet,,,but I love the "spiderpig" trailer.....

Simple, stupid humor just kill's me.....

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:35 am

It's definitely a big screen viewer. The animation/cinematography is 100x better than the TV show, although the story itself feels more like a long episode than a movie. You can tell they worked really hard to make it look amazing, and it does. And there is just enough fun referential stuff to please hardcore fans like me without getting too obnoxious and lost.

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:36 am

And make sure you stay all the way through the credits. It's kind of long but worth it.

nattiep · Post by **nattiep** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:18 am

I loved it. It explains why the show has been sucking recently. It's brilliant.

phlemmy · Post by **phlemmy** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:06 am

I am dying to see it. Maybe this weekend. I have been so busy with work and band lately that I haven't hardly had time for anything else.

The Simpsons is my all time favorite TV show and I am glad they brought in some of the old writers to help out with the movie as the majority of the last 4 or 5 seasons has been about average.

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:40 pm

I am a diehard Simpsons fan. But I did NOT care for the film. Pretty disappointed in it overall.

Don't misunderstand, it had its moments. The skateboarding scene comes to mind. My favorite part of all was when Ralph came out in the 'O' to sing along with the fanfare. Duh duh duhhh

It was my first experience with digital projection film. That was nifty.

blazer · Post by **blazer** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:40 pm

I would go see it but frankly I don't have the D'oh to buy tickets.

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:05 am

I love the Simpsons!I used to teach english conversation in Japan and when I first heard about the Simpson TV show around 89 or 90 I had my parents record it and send me the tapes so that I could use it to teach my students colloquial english and phrases like "eat my shorts" and "bite me".

jdogric12 · Post by **jdogric12** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 4:08 am

Noel - eat my shorts. Just kidding. I can totally see how serious fans would be disappointed. It was very different than what I expected. Keep in mind this was supposedly written by Matt G and James L Brooks, as opposed to the team of 100+ Harvard grads that write the show.

octagon · Post by **octagon** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:06 am

I wanna see it but my 16 yr old son want's to see Hot Rod instead.Kids!

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:13 am

Haven't seen it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

I have a cat named 'Spider'...we'll have to see if we can get some footprints going on the ceiling...

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:26 pm

"Eat my shorts"

That was my summer of 1972 saying - it was the raunchiest thing I could think of to say to someone that ****** me off. Should have got a trademark on it.

longhouse · Post by **longhouse** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:29 am

In 1972.... I was one year old.