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Does anyone keep forgetting The Simpsons Movie exists?
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airmangataosenai
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I laughed a good amount. It's the only worthwhile thing to come from the franchise in the past decade.
March of the Crabs
Member
I didn't mind it when I watched it but I haven't watched it since release. I'd probably be more negative if I watched it now.
PetriP-TNT
Member
I cannot believe that someone thought Spider Pig was so funny that it had to make a cameo on the show X years later
Cipher Peon
Banned
I hate the show, but I really loved the movie!
But yes, I do forget it exists, whoops
But yes, I do forget it exists, whoops
PlatypusDude
Member
As far as a Simpsons Movie released in 2007 goes its actually pretty good. Not an all time classic or anything but it's more Season 9, than the seasons that follow, not as good as the peak, but still perfectly watchable and enjoyable.
pauljeremiah
Gold Member
The South Park film is still very watchable.
I agree with that change. I don't know why the writers keep trying to pair Lisa with Milhouse.
I thought Spiderpig was pretty funny.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Same. I've seen maybe the first 15 minutes or so but I've never watched it. Not even being an elist fan or anything, the movie just slipped by me.
It's actually sorta odd because I forget they even made a movie, like the OP mentions. After years of watching the show, I should have been all over the movie. But I think I was already past watching the show on a weekly basis when the movie came out.
For as big as the franchise is, the movie totally get forgotten. Probably one of those things that should have been made years before.
Other end of the spectrum is Beavis and Butthead Do America. Anytime I hear someone talk about the show, we end up talking about the movie.
What the fuck!!! Almost 10 years?! Where are the years? ;__; I remember watching it with my dad cause we watched Simpsons together every day on Prosieben. Aaaand Pokemon release in that timeframe and he bought that too. Love you dad.
Movie was okay as far as I remember.
Night Terror
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I don't know. It had some good points (one of my biggest faves being the song that's being used when Marge and Homer first meet) but it tries too hard to do that weird hollywood humor it's absurd. That's not what the Simpsons are about.
Also this ^
What the fuck!!! Almost 10 years?! Where are the years? ;__; I remember watching it with my dad cause we watched Simpsons together every day on Prosieben. Aaaand Pokemon release in that timeframe and he bought that too. Love you dad.
Movie was okay as far as I remember.
Also this ^
Well yeah, there's that too. Catchy songs too. There were elements to that movie that didn't scream "TV Movie".
You could say the same about Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Memorable and praised because it didn't feel like another episode that was just expanded.
As a full blown musical it was something else - Uncle Fucka and Blame Canada were a riot to see in the cinema. Here in the UK audiences were crying out in laughter collectively at the showing I was at and I can't recall any other film in my 33 years to hook a cinema audience to do it so well
¡HarlequinPanic!
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the biggest crime was that it came out a year before the country was introduced to sarah palin. think about how the alaska scene would've gone~
I fucking hated it, definitely think it came waaay too late and was just a shitty (yet sucessful) cashgrab.
The whole EPA thing I thought was nonsense, with half the setup being Grampa's freakout in the church feeling really weird and forced cause they just needed someway to set it up and have lost the ability to do good plot setups since like season 9.
President Shwarzenneger? Wolfcastle is already that character, another obvious show of pandering to the lowest to not harm box office.
Showing Bart's penis, Homer super blatant swearing.
Spider Pig, what the actual fuck was ever funny about this? Everyone at the time was singing that stupid Spider Pig song, none of it made any sense and I will never understand what about it was funny.
I watched it one time like 8 years ago and the more I think about it the more it really does just get on my tits.
EDIT: Another great example of lowest common pandering is the Moe's one on the previous page.
The whole EPA thing I thought was nonsense, with half the setup being Grampa's freakout in the church feeling really weird and forced cause they just needed someway to set it up and have lost the ability to do good plot setups since like season 9.
President Shwarzenneger? Wolfcastle is already that character, another obvious show of pandering to the lowest to not harm box office.
Showing Bart's penis, Homer super blatant swearing.
Spider Pig, what the actual fuck was ever funny about this? Everyone at the time was singing that stupid Spider Pig song, none of it made any sense and I will never understand what about it was funny.
I watched it one time like 8 years ago and the more I think about it the more it really does just get on my tits.
EDIT: Another great example of lowest common pandering is the Moe's one on the previous page.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Ironically the TC is wrong off the bat as lots of fans were growing tired at the time and the movie was actually good.
I like it.
I like it.
Let's just use Halloween of Horror and Barthood as easy ways to discredit that. They have both aired this season.
Strangelove77
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I liked it, but it definitely felt like a mix of old and new, so it was flawed for sure.
And don't get me wrong, it's good for me because my expectations were low - I expected season 11 and forward quality but there were actually things in the movie that reminded me of earlier episodes, not all of it though. It still had some modern Simpsons poison running through its veins. But it's probably the best thing to come out of that show since season 10.
It also had a really good Scorpio wannabe.
It's alright. Could have been shit tons worse.
And don't get me wrong, it's good for me because my expectations were low - I expected season 11 and forward quality but there were actually things in the movie that reminded me of earlier episodes, not all of it though. It still had some modern Simpsons poison running through its veins. But it's probably the best thing to come out of that show since season 10.
It also had a really good Scorpio wannabe.
It's alright. Could have been shit tons worse.
gutter_trash
Banned
I never watched the movie.
The series should have ended then
The series should have ended then
The show did better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdEpjGlwsWQ
Homer: Little Theo, you grew up before our eyes.
Bart: Hey Dad, how come they're taking The Cosby Show off the air?
Homer: Because Mr. Cosby wanted to stop before the quality suffered.
Bart: Quality, shmuality! If I had a TV show I'd run that sucker down to the ground!
Homer: Amen, boy. Amen.
akidnamededdy
Banned
I watched it maybe a year or two after it came out. Wasn't terribly impressed or terribly offended. Forgettable. I'd stopped watching the show years before anyway. I remember hearing Spider Pig jokes for way way longer than seemed reasonable afterwards.
Gentleman Jack
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Almost everything I remember about the film comes from either the trailers or the awful merch push that surrounded the film, like the conversion of 7-Eleven into Kwik-E-Mart and the terrible simpsons-branded food they hawked there. They still sell that awful donut, too.
"Forgettable" is the correct answer.
The movie just felt like a really long, stretched-out episode.
All I recall is Spider-pig, President Schwarzenegger, Bart skating without clothes, and a very ill-fitting scene of Marge having an emotional breakdown message for Homer.
But it made a ton of money and broke a few records, so it was a big deal at the time, I guess.
Escape Goat
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I dont think I ever saw it. I was pretty over the simpsons by that point.
I thought the 7-Eleven/Kwik-E-Marts were kinda cool. Garnered a lot of traffic.
blame space
Banned
seeing the Simpsons movie opening night with a theatre full of Simpsons fans is a top 10 movie moment for me. I think the movie is fine.
Led_Zeppelin
Member
I didn't like the movie but to be honest I haven't liked the Simpsons since 1999. Seasons 1 to 8 are the best of the show, BY FAR. Maybe some chapters of season 9 and 10 can be included as honorary members of the Season 1-8 Club but the rest since Season 11? No way Jose.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Bart's dick
WrenchNinja
Member
I saw it with my friend and he was asleep during most of it. I forget what happened in the movie after them escaping the dome.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
This is how I feel.
Also, Marge's goodbye to Homer on the wedding tape is heartbreaking.
Why would you do that?
Member
I don't like The Simpsons (as in, I'm not a fan of any of the seasons), but I really enjoyed the movie. I thought it was well received by fans of the classic seasons of the show at the time, so I'm surprised to see various negative things said here.
Brian_FETO
Banned
The commercials gave away all of the jokes besides the Bart skateboard sequence
There's a problem when you see a movie in theaters for the first time and kids are all singing the Spider Pig song right when it starts because it was in the trailers
There's a problem when you see a movie in theaters for the first time and kids are all singing the Spider Pig song right when it starts because it was in the trailers
I liked it and thought it was the most/only worthwhile thing to come out of the franchise since, I don't know, season 11? A lot of "new Simpsons" to it but there was some stuff that made me laugh and actually surprised me (Marge leaving Homer, which has been done a hundred times since I think, but was acted in a surprisingly honest and broken down VA performance from Kavner).
I also haven't seen the movie in maybe 7-8 years so it could be much worse than I remember, but my lasting memory of it is that I mostly liked it.
I also haven't seen the movie in maybe 7-8 years so it could be much worse than I remember, but my lasting memory of it is that I mostly liked it.
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