Springfield Vermont to host Simpsons premiere

[joeSoap]

Beat off 13 other Springfields (http://www.star-ecentral.com/movies/buzz/buzz.asp?file=archives/buzz/2007/7/12SimpsonsMo&date=7/12/2007)

[jebus]

anyone else think that, despite this nice act, Matt Groening is, and probably has always been, a complete and utter sell out? I mean I could take the landslide of Simpsons merchandise when the show was producing quality TV, why shouldn't the creator make as much money as possible off of his idea and all, but continuing on the series for years after its expiry date, and ruining it's cultural legacy for the sake of a bit of extra cash?

I chose to take his statement on the forthcoming Simpsons Movie that the script was written 10 years ago, as a way of telling disillusioned fans that the movie won't be as bad as the current dross he is serving up on Fox/Sky

[Risteard]

I disagree jebus.
Melikes the new episodes.

[jebus]

I disagree jebus.
Melikes the new episodes.

There's always one I suppose :p Honestly though I don't know how you can sit through something like the recent 24 episode of the Simpsons, given the show's previous heights. I genuinely get more of a chuckle watching generic daytime comedy shows than the Simpsons these days

[endabob1]

There's always one I suppose :p Honestly though I don't know how you can sit through something like the recent 24 episode of the Simpsons, given the show's previous heights. I genuinely get more of a chuckle watching generic daytime comedy shows than the Simpsons these days


Odd because they're now written by the same people :p

Apparently all the original Simpsons writers have moved on which is why the shows are more one dimensional in recent series,
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2124371,00.html
I think Family Guy & South Park have long overtaken the Simpsons as the funniest Cartoons.

[SaucyJack]

Have to agree with Jebus, it's a bit late in the day for a Simpsons movie....the Simpsons used to be my favourite show, haven't watched it in about 3 years, cause it's been pretty bad, just a bad caricature of it's former brilliance...the current writers, whether new or old just lack that certain skewed comic sensibility....

[jebus]

Have to agree with Jebus, it's a bit late in the day for a Simpsons movie....the Simpsons used to be my favourite show, haven't watched it in about 3 years, cause it's been pretty bad, just a bad caricature of it's former brilliance...the current writers, whether new or old just lack that certain skewed comic sensibility....

All true, but I still lay the blame for this at Groening's door, he could have, and should have, pulled the plug on the show a long time ago.


I think Family Guy & South Park have long overtaken the Simpsons as the funniest Cartoons

Agree 100% on South Park, Family Guy though has trailed off in the last 2-3 series for me

[jebus]

Good piece on the declining standards of the Simpsons actually in the Guardian today, heres a link (http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2124145,00.html)

[Risteard]

Even if you accept there has been a decline in standards in recent years (I do, but still think new ones are class), why should it be wound up?
Its similar to people saying Teddy Sheringham/Paul Ince should have quit football years ago because they're a shadow of their former greatness.
I don't get it.

[jebus]

Even if you accept there has been a decline in standards in recent years (I do, but still think new ones are class), why should it be wound up?

It's just on a purely personal level, I used to be a Simpsons obsessive, now I want to smash my TV to bits when it comes on the screen. I could just not watch it, but I equate that line of thought to my Pepsi problem, I know it's bad for me, a large part of me wants to just stop, but I just don't seem to be able to. Although at least with the Simpsons I've jumped the first hurdle, in that I tune in to see what episode it is, if it's one of the newer ones I turn off straight away, if it was made in the 90s I watch it, and if it's that bloody episode where they go to England I turn off the TV and go outside and kill one American, and one Englishman as a way of calming my rage :)

[Risteard]

Hows that going for ya?
Would you watch it if it was brand new?
are you going to the film for example?

[jebus]

Hows that going for ya?

Good, although I'm pretty sure this will all end in some international incident


Would you watch it if it was brand new?

Probably, but I'd also drink 3 litres of Pepsi a day if I was in a complete self-harming


are you going to the film for example?

I will alright, but I go to the cinema about three times a week, and have paid to watch movies that I know are going to be terrible (Captivity anyone?), so it would only be out of spite that I would ever say I'm not going to go and watch a Simpsons movie. Plus Groening did say the script is 10 years old, so I'm hoping for a return to the old days

[Lionel Ritchie]

... newer ones I turn off straight away, if it was made in the 90s I watch it...

sure they were saying it had lost it's edge before the 90's were half kapput.

I think the Simpsons is still one of the very best animated shows on TV. More importantly if it wasn't for it raising the bar, pushing the envelope and whatever metaphor you're having yourself -shows like Southpark, family guy, american dad etc.. would be used as time filler links on porn channels and be seen nowhere else.

That show saved animation from having the fcuking Flintstones as it's footnote for the 20th century.

[Risteard]

I will alright, but I go to the cinema about three times a week, and have paid to watch movies that I know are going to be terrible (Captivity anyone?),
Likewise myself, though i missed Captivity sadly.
Even allowing for 3, you might have passed on seeing Night of the Sunflower.
Don't.

[Block G Raptor]

I've been to that Springfield on teh way to being deported from Canada (Long Othello Don't Ask):o
It's a pretty small dead end town. remember having a bit of a giggle with X-Mrs Raptor going into the petrol station and asking where homer Simpson Lived (like they didn't hear that one 50 times a day)