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    The Chipmunks

    The first movie, and I say this a LOT, was a sly stab at the music industry. Not even a subtle one. A big fat slap in the face, basically saying that new musical talent are basically slaves that record producers toss meaningless amounts of toys and gadgets (that come directly out of whatever...
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    Boston/Cambridge area Muppet Movie Screenings April 20

    I'd love to go to one of those, but I can't make up my mind of which one I want to see... the Triple Bill of all three movies? The New Movie on a double bill with Being Elmo? The Labyrinth/Dark Crystal showing? I'm sure I wouldn't be able to get all 3 of them...
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    Scooter at The TED Conference

    Yeah... CGI is cool, but it shouldn't replace everything. There's a lot of live action films that look incredibly fake because of it (Star Wars prequels... cough cough). There's something magical a Puppet brings to a performance. You can't really meet Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, but you can...
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    The Chipmunks

    The more I think about it, the third movie lost a lot of potential for being a gimmick film. To me, an ideal third film would have been something like this... Chipmunks 3: Alvin's World Tour. Dave, and the record label have put together a huge concert tour around the world, which inflates...
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    TV shows you wish would come back

    I just wanna see Dave Coulier be a voice actor again. Really, I'm like the only one that liked his Peter Venkmen. Plus, I prefer his Baby Animal to Howie Mandel's (though I heard a book and tape where Animal was Maurice LaMarche... wonder how it would have been if he was cast as Baby Animal in...
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    First Look at Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles

    To be clear, he's just going to produce, but clearly he has influence in the project. I forget who's really directing and writing it, but it's someone who worked on some crap horror action movies or something. Yeah, but the thing is, Laird is a complete stick in the mud. He would NEVER...
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    Opinions Obliterated?

    I actually checked out his message from the other thread and found the answer... He wasn't watching the shows that the thing was advertised during. I replied there... basically, if you don't watch certain things on TV, you don't get the specific advertisements for that demographic. I can't be...
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    The "It's A Great Time To Be A Muppet Fan" Thread - No Pessimism Allowed!

    I pretty much stopped watching Saturday morning programming all together, so I have to get my knowledge of McDonalds premiums via their website. If you don;t watch certain things, you won't see the advertisements. I've been watching at least one prime time show a week, and the last week or so...
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    Opinions Obliterated?

    I've often found that the ONLY technological advancements we're getting are exclusively in entertainment, and priced in such a way that the general public doesn't completely finish picking it up until it's just about to go obsolete. There's no sitdown and enjoy the flowers anymore, cause they...
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    First Look at Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles

    Apparently, Bay's telling people to Relax and that this isn't going to be as bad as he's making it out to be and that he's working with one of the creators to give a "richer backstory." Somehow I don't believe that. At best, the Transformer movies turned into pro-war propaganda, which I call...
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    Potential New Muppet Show

    Dumbed down's not even the word. Try cowardly. Everyone's so afraid to make some sort of risk these days, and once they do, it does indeed pay off. ABC had nothing but trouble with sitcoms for years... then all the sudden they strike ratings gold with The Middle and Modern Family. That's...
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    Potential New Muppet Show

    Nickelodeon is still in its "we wanna be the Disney Channel" phase. They really don't want to give any animated programming a chance unless it becomes an instant success like Spongebob really wasn't. It's like they couldn't wait to cancel Catscratch and El Tigre because they didn't want to...
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    TV shows you wish would come back

    I know that Disney is releasing an Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon. Looks pretty good so far, though it thinks it's Teen Titans... but I really wish that Disney brought back Spectacular Spider-Man. Perhaps the finest Spidey cartoon ever. The 90's series is okay, but even that paled in comparison...
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    The ant and the aardvark

    The New Pink Panther show? Yeah... I saw it and it's pretty good. They didn't muck around with it like they did with Pink Panther and Son or that one where he talked. it's pretty much just updated to have more modern jokes, like ones about arcade games. Most updated versions of cartoons...
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    First Look at Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles

    I ranted about it elsewhere, but there really shouldn't be any surprise. I knew Michael Bay was involved, therefore I knew it was gonna suck. The bigger surprise is if it was any good. I think he's intentionally trying to make the movie bad to tick everyone off because he can. He's the...
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    Arthur - Where is the Show Going?

    Canada's content laws are CRAP. It's all about how every project gets tax credit IF you only hire Canadian writers and actors. There shouldn't be anything wrong with that, but in the 2000 era Berenstain Bear cartoons, Stan and Jan weren't allowed to write for their OWN creations. That's why...
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    Courtney Love Mad at the Muppets

    Yeah... she sounds like a completely terrible person. Really... just all and all completely bad. Terrible musician. Even Yoko didn't screw up the Beatles a tenth of as much as she screwed up Nirvana.
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    Question about major element in Dragon Tales

    You're basically asking for rationalization of a completely irrational cartoon. There was a Dragon in a wheelchair at one point. If they live in such a magical world, couldn't they just magic her back to health? By all means the show doesn't need to make sense.
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    Painful Classic Moments

    It's a rare gem, sure... but there's a reason it's rare. It goes on much longer than most Muppet segments, it's too straight forward to even be considered a spoof, and the family isn't even funny. It's not a Guy Smiley game show, that's for sure.
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    First Look at Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles

    As long as the cartoon doesn't remotely follow that. Why bother making the movie so that no one in the world would want to see it? Still... screw the whole thing. The IDW comics are enough for me, just got the Infestation issue yesterday and it's very solid. Reminds me of the Tales of the...
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