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Alex's Trip 12.30.2007 04:53 PM

Futurama: Bender's Big Score
 
Did anyone see the new Futurama movie? I haven't seen any other threads about it.

It was hilarious. I got it for Christmas (my dad and I actually bought it for each other). We watched it last night. It was great. Lots of great jokes for the fans. They writers really had the fans in mind when writing.

Anyone see it? What did you think?

Al Gore: Finally, I get to save the Earth with deadly laser blasts instead of deadly slide shows!

Leela: What's the secret of time travel doing on Fry's ass?
Fry: It was bound to be somewhere!

HaydenAsche 12.30.2007 05:03 PM

I never even heard about this. Ha.

fictionfriction 12.30.2007 06:12 PM

i only heard about this the other day, i read some pretty bad reviews though. still i'm sure i'll watch it sometime..

avantgarde1 12.30.2007 06:32 PM

i really liked the beginning of it where they go into the show being canceled and then picked back up, that was hilarious.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 12.30.2007 06:46 PM

Odd, I was watching the Futurama movie last night.

There are so many holes in the time travel in that, but oh well.

You know one of the only time travel movies without huge holes is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?

Trasher02 12.30.2007 06:51 PM

Hehe Cinderella's big score...
I'll probably watch it if I'll bump into it sometime.

StevOK 12.30.2007 06:57 PM

My wife and I watched it, and it was fucking hilarious. I even watched the math lecture in the special features.

girlgun 12.30.2007 07:19 PM

my dad bought it for my son for xmas and i haven't watched it... but i guess i will!

i also made my dad buy him a bender action figure (he's metal and you wind him up... he's got a beer bottle and cigar) and zoidberg action figure. you can screw on a different head. ha.

Alex's Trip 12.30.2007 07:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
Odd, I was watching the Futurama movie last night.

There are so many holes in the time travel in that, but oh well.

You know one of the only time travel movies without huge holes is Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure?

I don't think the time traveling accuracy was a big hook of the movie...

Everyneurotic 12.30.2007 08:06 PM

you can buy this now?!

and no one had told me about it?!

shame!

ZEROpumpkins 12.30.2007 10:06 PM

It's not out in Australia but I've read some good reviews of it elsewhere. I really want it. BTW Bill and Ted has some massive time traveling holes (where they just think stuff and it happens, it can't happen unless they actually make an attempt to do it!!) but it's most likely deliberately making fun of the concept of time travel.

ALIEN ANAL 12.30.2007 10:24 PM

i cant stand bender
find him annoying

ZEROpumpkins 12.30.2007 10:33 PM

No way, Bender's the greatest!

ALIEN ANAL 12.30.2007 10:39 PM

why?
i find him so boring, oh so hes a bad ass and hates lots of things.
i guess i just dont relate to being a robot

avantgarde1 12.30.2007 10:45 PM

i can't stand zoidberg... his dialog is corny and his voice gets on my nerves.

ZEROpumpkins 12.30.2007 11:14 PM

Zoidberg is also the greatest. What's wrong with you people!?

Alex's Trip 12.30.2007 11:28 PM

Bender is pretty awesome, but I think he is a tad over rated. People always talk about him but nothing else. I think Kiff is under rated, and so is Leela.

Zoidberg on the other hand can't get enough praise.

ZEROpumpkins 12.30.2007 11:31 PM

Kiff annoys me.

Alex's Trip 12.30.2007 11:58 PM

Lol, I think he is hilarious. Him and Zapp together.

Savage Clone 12.31.2007 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by girlgun
i also made my dad buy him a bender action figure (he's metal and you wind him up... he's got a beer bottle and cigar)



I have that!

Everyneurotic 12.31.2007 01:00 AM

 

atari 2600 01.01.2008 02:25 PM

I happened to catch "The Farnsworth Parabox" on Cartoon Network during their marathon the other night. What a great episode.

I haven't watched this just yet, but am getting around to it sometime soon. I'm fairly sure this will rival or maybe even best The Simpsons Movie, which, as I wrote before, was (at least on the whole) a colossal disappointment.

It looks like this was produced during the same time The Simpsons one was made. They both look and sound phenomenal. For me the only laugh-out-loud moment during the whole Simpsons deal (in an sequence which is an obvious nod to the "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer" episode) was the "boob lady" crack about the eskimo shaman. Then again, I would have probably enjoyed the humor more in the theater with an audience. Seems to me that there are at least thirty individual Simpsons episodes that could potentially be stretched to a full-length feature that would have been so much better than the bland fare offered up in the first theatrical release. Here's to hoping the next one will be much better.

On a side note concerning straight-to-video releases, I really liked Superman: Doomsday this year. Check that one out.

On further side notes concerning this post, some rapidshare links for those of you not doing torrents can be found at the following pages:

The Simpsons Movie
http://bestrapiddownload.blogspot.co...07-dvdrip.html

Futurama: Bender's Big Score
http://downloadmovie1.blogspot.com/2...7-dvd-rip.html

Superman: Doomsday
http://downloadmoviee.blogspot.com/2...ation-dvd.html

afterthefact 01.01.2008 03:35 PM

I have it queued on Netflix, but it says it's on a long wait, so I guess I might just buy it. May as well, I have every box set, it would fit in nicely :)

afterthefact 01.01.2008 03:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atari 2600


How exactly do these work?

Sheriff Rhys Chatham 01.01.2008 04:16 PM

I saw it but it just doesn't seem the same. Not sure what it is.

Alex's Trip 01.01.2008 05:01 PM

I felt like that at the beginning of the movie because of the different opening and such (and this sort of thing happens a lot with tv to movie translations) but it didn't really seem too different to me after the first 10 minutes.

atari 2600 01.01.2008 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by afterthefact
How exactly do these work?


First off, you must admit you are a newbie hehe.
Secondly, torrents are better, but that is besides the point here.

Seriously, all you need is winrar which is free.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1 &q=download+winrar&spell=1

You download each part of the movie from each rapidshare link.
There are no passwords. This is tedious since rapidshare only allows one download like every ninety minutes, so you must wait in-between downloads of individual parts.

step-by-step
Download and install winrar.
Then click a link I gave, go to the page and copy and paste the first rapidshare url into your browser. You then proceed to download all the parts one by one.
When you have all the parts, highlight all eight .rars and right-click to "add to" winrar. It takes a few minutes, but this will assemble all the files into one single .avi file.

I know that The Simpsons one is over 700 MB and too big to burn to a vcd. If you want to burn, just do so to dvd-r or split the files down to pieces less than 700 MB each and burn to two vcds. I just watched it and then trashed it.

Everyneurotic 01.01.2008 05:42 PM

ordered, will let you know in a month.

atari 2600 01.01.2008 06:31 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by girlgun
i also made my dad buy him a bender action figure (he's metal and you wind him up... he's got a beer bottle and cigar)



Quote:

Originally Posted by Savage Clone
I have that!


I kind of want that!

afterthefact 01.01.2008 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atari 2600
First off, you must admit you are a newbie hehe.
Secondly, torrents are better, but that is besides the point here.

Seriously, all you need is winrar which is free.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1 &q=download+winrar&spell=1

You download each part of the movie from each rapidshare link.
There are no passwords. This is tedious since rapidshare only allows one download like every ninety minutes, so you must wait in-between downloads of individual parts.

step-by-step
Download and install winrar.
Then click a link I gave, go to the page and copy and paste the first rapidshare url into your browser. You then proceed to download all the parts one by one.
When you have all the parts, highlight all eight .rars and right-click to "add to" winrar. It takes a few minutes, but this will assemble all the files into one single .avi file.

I know that The Simpsons one is over 700 MB and too big to burn to a vcd. If you want to burn, just do so to dvd-r or split the files down to pieces less than 700 MB each and burn to two vcds. I just watched it and then trashed it.


Yes, I am a newbie. There, I admit it.

Did I ever tell you that you're awesome? I will be doing all of the things you just said shortly.

atari 2600 01.01.2008 06:45 PM

Cool

These aren't crappy videos. They are reasonably good quality.

Recently, I stumbled across the link for The Simpsons one because, unfortunately, after the dvd was released there were a few "dummy" torrents out there. I wanted to see it at the theater, but I just never made it. Effectively, I went to see 3:10 to Yuma and then Superbad instead. And I'm glad I did. I'm also glad I didn't pay money to see The Simpsons Movie. I think when I heard Albert Brooks was doing a voice (once again), it filled me with way too many expectations.

afterthefact 01.01.2008 07:06 PM

I never saw the Simpsons movie because the Simpsons have gone way downhill lately anyways. They were great when they were all there was, but since the somewhat recent surge of cartoons aimed at adults, the age of the Simpsons staff is really showing. Their jokes are stuff my grandma would laugh at now.

atari 2600 01.01.2008 07:13 PM

That they were trying to make a movie for a broader audience is very apparent. The intelligence of their true fanbase was disrepected and insulted with this, as Sideshow Bob would put it, "clap-trap." How so many bad ideas could have seen the big screen is what gets me. Evidently, The Simpsons writing staff are now a bunch of yes-men who think they can do no wrong. What we find is almost like a parody of the satirizing of larger issues in certain episodes. It was backbone and substance that made the show great in the first place. And that doesn't come easy. Like all good art, one has to be very self-critical to realize the true possibilities of the particular artistic vision. Over-the-top shenanigans with Homer have been the mainstay of the show for a long, long while now, but the stuff that's in this movie is so just...formulaic and unfunny. Homer and all of the characters have rarely seemed more like "cardboard cut-outs" than they do in this movie.


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