Another Stupid movie to Overreact to...

[dwmckim]

Fifty Shades of Grey - The Movie, eh? Well... huh... I don't know how to feel.

Fifty shades of blue?

 

[mimitchi33]

Now for another stupid movie to overreact to on the opposite end of the scale...

Apparently Universal has the rights to the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. How do I know? I read this article with basically the FUNNIEST thing I've ever heard.

Essentially Universal is suing the producers of a porongraphic adaption of the same book, which is essentially a porn book. It's clearly for right's reasons. But still... something tells me the X rated film industry is going to do a better, closer adaption of the book.

And then there's the underlying, where the heck are the Twilight lawyers on Fifty Shades of Grey anyway, since the book is just THAT kind of fan fiction of Twilight with name changes.

Now this sure will get an NC-17...
Speaking of Fifty Shades of Grey, one of the local radio stations did a parody of the song that goes "She's just somebody that I used to know" about a girl who acted out things from Fifty Shades of Grey, including sleeping with stuffed animals. (They always do these types of songs, like a Magic Mike song sung to the tune of "Puff, The Magic Dragon" and recently, a song sung to the tune of "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" which I forgot it's subject...)
On the Oogieloves end, there are a ton of Oogieloves things on eBay, including posters I've never seen before, film reels with the trailer on it, and some of the wands. By the way, the wand's packaging art looks cute.
Finally, is it me, or does Windy Willows from the Oogieloves remind me of the Sun Baby on Teletubbies?

 

[Drtooth]

Now this sure will get an NC-17...

No. Because they want the film to make money. NC-17 films cannot receive any marketing of any kind, and no theaters actually show them. They might as well make another Oogieloves movie. That's how much money an NC-17 film makes. Nothing. Fritz the Cat, maybe. Midnight Cowboy, I guess did something... but these things are hidden from public view. They almost made the powerful indie documentary "Bully" NC-17. but then no one would be able to see it, thus defeating the purpose. The Motion Picture Mafia of America hands out NC-17's to indie films, that if released by a studio would just get an R. South Park Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is considered dirtier than Trey and Matt's indie films, but those got NC-17's and SP got an R.

The studio will do whatever they can to make Fifty Shades of Grey an R rated film. That's the only way it will make money, and the only reason they're making a film based on a terrible book is to make money.

 

[QueenLanolin]

I wonder what's going to happen to the film for the home video release...someone has to pick up the rights to license the film. I'd suggest Hit Entertainment, they did a lot of kids movies and shows like Pingu and the Wiggles to name a few.

Heck, we even have Kidtoons Cinema, where you take your kids to the movies at 10 AM (I find that all together too early).

Bad news. Cinedigm (the company who owns Kidtoons) is going to discontinue that program NEXT MONTH. I am going to make a separate topic about it...the good news is that they are going to make a new version of Kidtoons under a different name by the end of 2013-2014.

 

[Drtooth]

I wonder what's going to happen to the film for the home video release...someone has to pick up the rights to license the film. I'd suggest Hit Entertainment, they did a lot of kids movies and shows like Pingu and the Wiggles to name a few.

Considering how Hit screws things up, I'd almost love that. Ken's own company would probably do it. Or I could see NCircle. Then it would get a 5 dollar price tag. Very fitting.

 

[mimitchi33]

Considering how Hit screws things up, I'd almost love that. Ken's own company would probably do it. Or I could see NCircle. Then it would get a 5 dollar price tag. Very fitting.

Or maybe Mill Creek. A lot of their stuff is found in dollar-store type places (The Teddy Ruxpin DVD you own was made by them, or either was one of the 5-episode volumes released in 2006.), most retail stores (The Toys R Us Express store near me has a ton of Cookie Jar DVDs, including those The Littles and Busytown DVDs they did) and even at Cracker Barrel (but it's all stuff like 1000 Classic Commercials and WKRP In Cincinati, I didn't see any kid titles there other than stuff like Underdog). Maybe they would get the rights to it.
Or I could see it airing as a New Year's special presentation on the Sprout Channel...

GOOFY TOOFIE! PICK UP YOUR PANTS!

When I first read about that, I wondered how Toofie's pant's falling down was allowed in a preschooler's movie, even though Garfield and Friends had a few instances of this in the U.S. Acres segments (which originally aimed for younger viewers than Garfield), like the time where Roy began a segment by walking around in his underwear...Maybe they're teaching kids to pull up their pants when they fall down?

I see tabletop ads in the Lenox Square food court.

Yeah, I though the movie was going to be extremley popular when I saw that the ads were everywhere during my California vacation. Speaking of which, a YouTube commentator on a My Bedbugs video said that The Oogieloves was the number one movie in Israel the week it came out.

But seriously.... the more I look at these things, the more they're filled with Mockbusters and less and less ACTUAL movies on the list. Heck, the only Madagascar they have at those things are the video games.

Drtooth, you'd be surprised to hear that my Redbox stocks "real" movies, but most of them are sold out. They have Madagascar 3, Toy Story 3, Hop, SpongeBob Squarepants, The Wiggles, The Smurfs, Cars 2 and The Muppets, to name a few. They are going to stock ParaNorman soon.

It came out like 2006 or 2007 or so, and I believe it went straight to DVD, but it's a CGI animated movie about fish and sharks and stuff.

I saw an ad for that watching Kewlopolis on CBS the year the block premired, and I saw an ad for that on the fourth or fifth episode of the series, so it came out in 2007.

I don't see Barney heading into obscurity unfortunately... it's STILL on today (as in producing new episodes), and it seems like every few years or so, they keep adding new characters into the mix: y'know back in the day, it was just Barney, with an occasional appearance from Baby Bop, or that yellow dinosaur whose name escapes me, then it seems like at one point they added a bunch of Muppet-esque puppet characters like a bird, a worm, a squirrel, and others.

And don't forget that the cast of kids keep changing! When I grew up watching it in the early 2000's, Selena Gomez was one of those kids on Barney.

Nah... it's either Creatures or Critters or something like that. It's one of the movies digital channel "This TV" runs endlessly. The creatures look like refugees from some Monster in My Pocket type toyline. They're actually cute for one thing. Not even close to grotesque.



Exactly. It was the shiny new thing and people loved it because it was shiny and new. Though I don't see why it was in direct competition for being on the same network. That's like Seinfeld being in competition with Friends. Dora, sure... it's on another network. Kids I know who watched that miserable purple sponge suit also watched Sesame Street in the same capacity. I hate how it's desperately clinging to a shred of relevance, though. As I said with the Oogielove movie, the era of the big cheap suit is over. There's Yo Gabba Gabba, but that show survives by the inherent hipness of the concept, the guests, and the retro-Japanese kids show designs. It was created by one of the dudes from Devo, I hear. But, as much as I hate Dora and Superwhy (but will admit to LOVING Wow Wow Wubzy), preschool programming is moving more towards animation than live action.

The Gremlins ripoff is called "Creatures". And also, when I grew up, I watched Dora when it first came out (I was three at the time), and it was my obsession as a toddler! It was like how my brother used to love Thomas The Train as a kid...I had to have anything Dora, blankets, dolls, you name it. And on the "Yo Gabba Gabba is based on Japanese retro kids shows", it's not the first kid show to be inspired by an earlier idea. Blue's Clues reminds some people of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, via the "everything talks" idea.

He makes points, but there's a thousand and one BETTER projects that get that point across. I shouldn't even need to list examples on this site, we all know them. Even violent super hero/action adventure shows have some good moral values in them (don't give up, always take the moral high ground, stand up for your friends...etc). Need I even mention a cartoon of a certain...uh... equestrian nature? I've even heard some great messages in South Park of all places..

U.S. Acres even had great morals, which were often spread through catchy songs like this one. (which is one of my favorites, along with What Harm Can It Do and I Should Fly)

. Seriously I wouldn't let my kids watch this garbage. Theres a LOT of garbage on this level too(Doodlebops, Wiggles, Teletubbies, etc) This is the sort of Satanic programming we were warned about in the 80's, lulz

Did you just call The Doodlebops satanic? I watch that every Saturday morning on CBS because the songs are so catchy and because I also watch Liberty's Kids (an awesome show, by the way). But the best one had to be "My Ukelele". Just take one listen, and you'll be amazed.

However, there's something that tells me the panic is all for naught, since there's no one DUMB enough to want to see this thing...

You knew I was gonna do that, didn't you?

Wow, a reference to Garfield and Friends! I love that show! I agree that Odie would love to see this, but Wade Duck would be scared of the Oogieloves!

 

[Drtooth]

Drtooth, you'd be surprised to hear that my Redbox stocks "real" movies, but most of them are sold out. They have Madagascar 3, Toy Story 3, Hop, SpongeBob Squarepants, The Wiggles, The Smurfs, Cars 2 and The Muppets, to name a few. They are going to stock ParaNorman soon.

Oh, they have those too, but I've noticed crappy, generic films filling up the number of ones you can order. The films people actually want to see they make a scarcity, but you can find these ugly homemade CGI abominations and weird horror films starring celebrities so far down the list you can't even attach a letter to them. When Madagascar 3 came to theaters, you'd think it was a no brainer to have the first 2 on there... but instead, you get some knockoff jungle animals in decidedly not jungle settings.

 

[mimitchi33]

Most people would hope this is acutally a joke, but it's true. The Oogieloves might be nominated at this year's Oscars. But I guess it won't make it there, due to how poorly it's been dealt with (okay, maybe there are some people who like it, but still...)
Amazon.com also has listed a release date for the Oogieloves movie: February 5, 2013-nineteen days before it's possible award show appearance.
I also own an Oogieloves poster myself-I got it for free when I saw Wreck It Ralph (some movie theaters often give away free posters sometimes). It's the one which mentions Thomas and Teletubbies on it.
And finally, I found an Oogieloves iPhone game. Yes, it actually exists. And it looks sorta hard for toddlers...I can't even figure out how it works!

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

If The Oogieloves gets nominated for anything at the Oscars I'll... well... I don't know what I'd do - but it won't be pretty.

And, oh, shoot, it has a DVD release date.

 

[beaker]

Look out. Yet another "cheap bootleg home video CGI piece of crap somehow getting a wide American theatrical release"