Another Stupid movie to Overreact to...

[SuperGzilla12]

Still, the fact they encourage kids to act up in the theaters? Brilliant. They're not going to take that to any other movie ever.

Exactly...

I can certainly get behind interaction in what they watch at home, but getting them to do that in the cinema is a horrible idea.

Especially since this is probably the first cinematic experience for those kids in the audience, it gives them the wrong impression on how to handle themselves in that environment. They're not old enough to determine that they're supposed to be noisy and one movie but not at another.

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

GOOFY TOOFIE! PICK UP YOUR PANTS!

 

[SuperGzilla12]

GOOFY TOOFIE! PICK UP YOUR PANTS!

Yes, indeed...

 

[beaker]

I support the Oogiloves movies and concept just to see Dr Tooth go bananas
I kid. 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

 

[SuperGzilla12]

I support the Oogiloves movies and concept just to see Dr Tooth go bananas
I kid. 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

Mate... did you just compare THIS...

...to THIS?!?

 

[Convincing John]

Oogieloves really wouldn't have worked any time of the year.

Oh sure it would. The perfect one-time showing date for this (or any other Oogieloves) film is Feb. 30th.

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

I just was clicking around Muppet Wiki and found that Jim was working on something somewhat similar to this in the 80s...

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Varied_Adventures_of_Mischievous_Miles

Of course, Mischievous Miles would likely be nowhere near as grating as the Oogieloves.

 

[Drtooth]

There is one huge difference. That movie would have really been interactive instead of false interactivity like Oogieloves.

The movie concept centered on a mechanism for changing the course of the film’s plot in response to the reaction of the audience. In 1980, this would have required multiple projectors and an agile projectionist, but later, the ability of an audience member to impact the direction of a storyline became standard in digital games and entertainment.

There is NO way that would have worked. I dunno how Clue worked before Home video, but a choose your own adventure movie seems completely impossible when it comes to logistics. It's probably not even feasible now with digital. What Jim wanted vs. what this movie did was that the yelling and shouting was supposed to do something to the movie. What this film did was just have people yell at characters that don't do anything and have a preprogrammed response, so if nothing happens, they sit around answering their own questions. Just like most of kid's television today.

 

[D'Snowth]

I just was clicking around Muppet Wiki and found that Jim was working on something somewhat similar to this in the 80s...

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Varied_Adventures_of_Mischievous_Miles

Of course, Mischievous Miles would likely be nowhere near as grating as the Oogieloves.

Isn't that kind of like how Handmade Video was essentially similar to what we now call reality TV?

 

[Drtooth]

In a sense, that's more akin to a vlog than what we call reality TV. Maybe closer to the travel shows on PBS if anything.

Because, as we know, reality TV is actually staged or goaded events edited down and manipulated, and half the stuff we consider reality is actual competition/game shows.