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Seth MacFarlane Hopes To Start FAMILY GUY Movie ‘Within The Next Year’!!
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Seth MacFarlane reveals to TV Week’s Josef Adalian that he hopes to start work on a “Family Guy” movie within the next 12 months.
“It’s time. In the past six months we started talking seriously about it,” MacFarlane tells Adalian. “I have an idea what it’s gonna be. It’s definitely something you could not do on the show.”
Hear it directly from the series mastermind's mouth here.
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Those manatees write some pretty damn funny jokes.
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remember that time we all watched a dvd movie that we thought was a family guy film?
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What's going to be in the movie? Graphic anal sex between Lois and Brian?
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OH, frightfully witty! Do you normally let other people do your thinking for you, Herc, or are you just a mindless drone when it comes to South Park? Seriously, if you want to rip on McFarlane, have at it, but at least have the dignity to come up with your own insults.
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it's something they can't do on TV...<P> Imagine my surprise while I was watching Blue Harvest on DVD with my daughter and the "F" word popped up.. OOOOPS!
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July 16, 2008, 4:06 p.m. CST
I hope they progress into 90s references instead of 80s
by Flim Springfield
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I am so excited! Just like that time I saw... **cue pointless non-funny non-relevant clip**
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probably end up being retarded
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but I can't help it. The obnoxious parroting of South Park just really, really pisses me off. I like the show, and I more or less enjoy Family Guy, well parts of it anyway, but I can't think of anything sadder than an internet troll war erupting between fans of two different-wait for it-fucking cartoon shows.
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I'll pay to see this in the theater. I got suckered into seeing the Simpsons by my little brother. Big mistake. But I have a good feeling that McFarlane will get everything right that the Simpsons film got wrong.
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That's what this movie this will be...South Park described this show perfectly: it's more 'irrelevant' than 'irreverant' with somewhat funny pop-cultural references that don't advance the plot. Worthy of a chuckle or two; but I find it a bit overrated.
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South Park blows. And the Simpsons (albeit and important and influential show) hasn't been good since the late 90's. Family Guy rules. Best sitcom on television next to Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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You're right on the money.
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It's Quagmire...<p>And the line is "Giggity, Giggity"... sometimes, "Giggity, Giggity, Goo!"<p>Just in case you really wanted to know.
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Quagmire is HILARIOUS. You don't know what you're talking about.
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I'm not dogging Seth or faulting people for liking Family Guy...I'm a fan of American Dad. I just don't get all the hype personally..but I watch it. Usually somewhat funny but I don't find it as 'amazing' as others.
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are pretty funny. No need to get so frustrated with Herc! You have to admit South Park totally had a point with the manatee thing. Family Guy is pretty fuckin random sometimes! I'll probably see the movie though....the show can be good for some laughs as to where south park usually has a message.
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First he's got to finish watching all this summer's movies so he can insert them into, "remember when we...." and then give his animators time to draw a Batman and Iron Man costume on the family.
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christ, 2 hours of non sequitors?? wont play
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The only thing he hasn't done is air unbleeped curse words and show frontal nudity without black bars. Oooh, I can't wait? Seriously, they've touched upon: Incest, necrophilia, beastiality, pedophilia, cancer, the physically handicapped, the mentally handicapped, bulimics, AIDS, homosexuality, transexuality, underage sex, terrorism, politics, S&M, every single religion, murder, dismemberment, and about fifty different instances where Quagmire gets a boner just offscreen. Granted, a lot of that is funny, but what taboos is MacFarlane shooting for that he can't touch on TV? Shit, what's left? Peter eats a turd and vomits it in Lois's mouth while anally raping Brian? Because I think that was in season 4, wasn't it?
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I'm so happy you put the manatee picture up. The South Park guys totally had Family Guy's number.
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July 16, 2008, 4:24 p.m. CST
God, this manatee jokes are lamer than the worst gags on FG
by ev1ldead
I don't give a flying shit if the stories are pointless. Each episode has at least 2-3 laugh out loud moments. That's more than 15 seasons of Two and a half Men, 10 episodes of a new Simpsons episodes and all spoof movies since Scary Movie combined.
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Minimum effort in terms of writing, animation, etcetera against maximum result in terms of shitloads of idiots still buying the DVDs. This show hasn't been good since it came back. The early shows were top notch. Now it's just smug and lazy in every department. When it comes to animated sit-coms Family Guy is easily the worst of the bunch. King Of The Hill, American Dad and South Park all shit on Family Guy from a great height. I should also point out that I'm a little disappointed that Jon Benjamin had a stint on this show. He really deserves better.
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like the show. but they'll make it "hardcore" and drop a few f-bombs for the kiddies, who will of course lap that shit up.
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"...so hows that family guy movie coming along?"<p> "IT FULLA POP CULT GAGS!!!!"<p> "thanks, Ollie."
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if it gets an R
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Never. How much crack are ScottinDC and fassbinder79 smoking? Curb Your Enthusiasm and Family Guy arent even in the same comedy universe. Family Guy back in the early days was funny I think, but since its comeback has been terrible save for a few gags. Thats why I cant stand it when people note how the Simpsons isnt as good as it used to be - Family Guy hit rock bottom a hell of a lot faster than it ever did.
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I hope it's Live Action and Chris Tucker plays Cleveland and/or Loretta.
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Seriously, the worst movie I saw last year; two, and only two, funny parts: the beginning and the end. The rest was a wasteland.
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no preview, no edit button? *grml* It's like the time Fred Flintstone buyed his first pc.
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Just for the record Simpsons still has enough laughs sometimes to have not hit rock bottom just yet I dont think...
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Technically, Aqua Teen turned a profit considering it had a budget of like 18 dollars, even in its ultra-limited release. And about a tenth as many fans as Family Guy.
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The link on the feed takes me to the AICN Vortex of Terror©.
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it's just UN-inspired, lackluster, LAZY writing where the jokes DON'T drive the plot forward by any means...and I thought that BEFORE the South Park episode...and the SP movie was pretty much the REASON they added a best animated feature catagory to the oscars. Stephen Sounheim said that the South Park movie was one of the BEST musicals he's ever seen...I probably will go see a Family Guy movie cause I do like the show and I laugh at it...I just know it's not going to make me think...which South Park and The Simpsons allow a person to do. You know, cause it has a plot and stuff.
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Bud..you need to read the posts...you called me out for liking family guy more than curb? Uh dickhead..I am the one who said FG was OVERRATED and I never even MENTIONED Curb....read the posts before saying anything - your post made you look like one steaming pile of fucking moronic shit.
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Gee, we haven't seen that before. FG has stolen from the Simpsons which is witty and clever without being vulgar. Seth needs to take a lesson from them, but he won't. The lowest common denominator is his cash cow.
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I actually like Family Guy and I even think this is a bad idea. They already did a direct to video movie and it was mediocre... I don't think anyone wants to see a Family Guy movie. Not to mention they're the last to the party, Southpark and Simpsons already did it.
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...they aren't going to wait until after the 17th season of the show?
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I accidentally posted it a few hours early. It'll return after midnight.
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and i hear Ron Pearlman is hard to work with...i hear this lady asked him for an autograph and he took a dump on her chest....what an ass.
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Jesus dude chill the fuck out! so I got some names mixed up, sorry. Oh and Im a girl so please address me properly as a cunt from now on and not a dickhead. thank you.
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July 16, 2008, 4:39 p.m. CST
Animate 90 min. of random YouTube clips, you got the movie.
by Flim Springfield
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July 16, 2008, 4:40 p.m. CST
It will be the first ever movie with virtually no plot.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
it will consit of nothing but lame STAR WARS jokes and "Like that time when..." Yes OVERRATED doesn't begin to describe this show.
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Can't wait for Smigel's puppetry antics.
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"...I left the shields down on the Enterprise." -Cut to Peter in the Genesis cave- "KHAANNN!!"
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"...I let that robber get by Spider-Man." -Cut to Peter patting Spider-Man on the shoulder.- "Hey, don't worry. It's not our responsibility."
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"...I quit that lab assistant job." -Cut to Hans Zarkov holding a gun at Peter.- Zarkov: "Don't you want to be a hero?" Peter: "No!" (runs away)
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is if there was a cutaway gag 10 seconds into the first scene, then a cutaway gag from the cutaway gag, and so on until eyes start bleeding.
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"...I tried to organize a birthday song for Grandpa." -cut to the Griffin family lip-synching Ray Charles' "Night Time is the Right Time" on staircase to Peter's dad, complete with Stewie as Rudy...Peter falls down the stairs and maims everyone.
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cancelled, to not only renewed, and still going, but McFarlane even got to do another show which is still on. I won't stoop to his level and put in a 9/11 plane joke. That would be disrespectful. However it does make you wonder what if.
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"...I tried to hack into NORAD." -Cut to Peter sitting next to Ally Sheedy in front of a computer. JOSHUA: "Shall we play a game?" Peter: "Global Thermonuke-u-lar War." -Soldiers bust in the door. Peter points to Ally Sheedy: "It was her!" Soldiers beat Ally Sheedy with rifle butts.
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"...I told Fredo Corleone he should get his own family." -Cut to the Fredo whacking from Godfather 2. After we cut back to Al Neri sitting in the boat alone, pan left to see Peter and Quagmire in a similar rowboat staring in shock. Peter: "So, um, eh...how are they biting today?"
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PEOPLE DON'T LIKE FAMILY GUY! I can't see how you can hate this show? I can see how you don't like it, but to hate it?
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I stopped for drinks at the Mos Eisley cantina... Cut to Luke telling Peter "I'll be careful." Peter "You'll be dead!" Kenobi cuts off Peter's arm. Then 3 minutes of Peter holding his stump and saying "Ah.... Sssssss. Ow...... Sssssss. Ow.... Ah...... Sssssss. Ah......"
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Your fantasies are invading our talkback reality.
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C'mon, regardless of whether your tastes in humour the SP being released as a technically adept musical was quite an achievement on it's release. <p> I found the movie a riot and South Park consistently entertaining throughout it's entire run, with it's hit rate solid. Not to start with the Family Guy rivalary but I've watched a few and just don't get the appeal at all. <p> Long before the SP/Family Guy riffs the whole 'This reminds me of the Time' is fecking ridiculous. Within 12 months to start a movie on that level of writing? <p> GUARANTEED it will have the line "This reminds me of the time South Park released a movie" in the flick and the Family Guy apologists will be claiming it's astute sly clever witty observational humour.
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REMEMBER THE TIME THEY RELEASED A FAMILY GUY MOVIE IN THE THEATER (WACKY FLASHBACK) ROTFLMAO!!1!(*&&^
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Use it plz Seth.
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Actually, it will probably be funny as hell.
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It'll be funnier than that dreadful, forgettable and not very funny Simpsons movie, that's for sure. <p> Why the manatee cheap shot every time you get Family Guy news?<p> Also, I saw a big article on the new Cleavland show coming this fall. Not mention of it on here though.
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Haters are losers.
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of course it's difficult to hate the show- it's one of those pieces of shit that protects itself from fanboy hate by being the kind of trash every fanboy attempts to write, and therefore, by default, has to try to protect. it's a fat white guy hiding behind a shield made of reinforced cynicism and star wars jokes that haters only hate because they are 'taking it seriously'. it purports to 'push the limit' and 'smash political correctness', but how can you do either when you have nothing to say, other than what has been said by every fratboy-pandering stand-up dane cooke knockoff before, but with more pedophilia and bestiality jokes thrown in for good measure? family guy is not a response to anything but the constipated taboos and censorship of america. sure, great art challenges perception and attracts controversy, but great art also thrives on a message, on a cause, or at least a good caricature, good art doesn't exist to simply feed on the controversy it attracts. it's the creative equivalent of jerking off into a empty tub of ice cream and surviving off your spunk for weeks. that's why, unlike the relatively more human, if not universal humor of simpsons (golden years) or the office, family guy is only funny to a handful of impotent cocksuckers that are sure they are sticking it to the man by laughing at a gag where a teenage girl with a fragile ego gets sexually humiliated. BECAUSE ITS WHAT THE FEMINISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE HAHA!
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You just won the internet with that statement.
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That was a pretty quick switch ID change.
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I think we'll have to disagree about agreeing, but agreeable disagree about our lack of agreement. Agreed?
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the dexterity it takes to jerk off a dick this big has given me the fingers of a god. i can ID switch in nanoseconds. bad news; i'm you too.
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At least, in the being remotely funny department. I can agree on that.
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With everything you said, while at the same time sympathizing with the impulses that drove you to say it.
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as both kevinwillis.net and kazzer, i'm having a hell of a time challenging, rebuking, then sympathizing with myself, thus confounding the fanboy community. what contrary opinion can i produce next?
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That shit is LONG overdue.
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Family Guy rocks, you fan boy douchebags!
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I hated Family when it came back and I did agree with South Park's attack, but now that it has been a few years since Animation Wars aired, I re-watch Family a lot, a lot, a lot more than I re-watch South Park. That's what happens when you don't have an A/B/C story structure.
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He proved to be a master of the "Hero says something, cue to comedic counterpoint" type of humor in Iron Man. A perfect fit.
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That was amazing analysis. Frighteningly astute.
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Where's my Venture Bros. movie, dammit.
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so I've watched it another three to four times, and it really hasn't improved much with each subsequent viewing. South Park, on the other hand, has aged quite well. Family Guy already did a movie, which was okay, but nothing exemplary, and the Futurama movies are passable, but wouldn't fly in the theater. I think South Park was the one exception amongst them, and I seriously doubt Parker and Stone would have another one in them (if Team America is any indication, they don't), so I'm really not jazzed about the idea of any new adult toon comedy movies.
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Andy Dick is in jail for pissing outside of a bar and sexually harassing a teen girl. <p> Police "suspect" he might've been under the influence of controlled substances...
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That, along with the subtle as a nuclear explosion manatee picture sums up every article on Seth McFarlane that Hercules has ever done.
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Yeah sure. It's hilarious when someone trashes Family Guy but praises South Park. Like...South Park appeals to anyone with an IQ over room temperature.
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It's like that fucking ridiculous review of "Sex and the City" Massawyrm posted last month or two months ago. If you have a boner for disliking a TV show or movie, why bother posting news about it? As we all know from the Hellboy reviews, a few of the site contributors actually like Family Guy. Why can't Herc just pass off this news item to them if he dislikes the show so much? But no, he'd rather take an obvious and tired AND stolen potshot. Heaven forbid Marc Cherry ever decides to produce a Desperate Housewives movie.
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You guys call me when Family Guy wins a Peabody.
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paid to spend 90 minutes sitting in the dark bored out of my skull..
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...South Park constantly offends just for the sake of shock value, and this aspect to the show has grown extremely stale. And while I revere Trey Parker's insistence on writing and directing almost every episode, the number or original episodes per season grow far fewer these days. South Park is utterly ingenious when an episode comes along that mercilessly satirizes something from today's headlines, ending with a moral and logical message despite the extremely un-PC approach it took to get there. That's South Park at its finest (Terri Schiavo episode, bi-curious Butters episode, etc), but it IS a rarity these days. I find Family Guy to be extremely dull after a good seven minutes, but I guess I can understand why people still like it. The show is very unpretentious (unlike South Park), plays to library of pop culture knowledge we nerds pride ourselves in, and is often very funny in an extremely irreverent way. But due to its sense of humor and plot style, it takes very little talent to write a consistently funny Family Guy script. In fact, every single joke is interchangeable from episode to episode, its frequent attempts at satire pale in comparison to the glory days of The Simpsons that FG so obviously rips off, and the characters are all unlikeable, unoriginal dickheads. It takes a fucking boatload of talent to write one of the few genius South Park episodes that turn up every once in a while.
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If "The Simpsons" had done its movie in 1995 or so, when they started talking about it, the movie would have been considered revolutionary. No matter how good the movie turned out to be in anyone's opinion, the Day of the Simpsons passed some time ago. "South Park" I have found intermittently funny - loved giant monster Streisand and some other eps, was bored to shit by still others and really enjoyed the movie. I've made it through two "Family Guy" episodes because I told myself I wouldn't criticize the show based on having seen five minutes of a handful of episodes when I got home from work and deciding from those five minutes they were all the same. Having seen two full episodes and goodly chunks of some others at random I came to the realization that they ARE all the same - just a framework from which McFarlane and his team hang dated references and one-liners. The character bits are flat and repetitive even compared to "Simpsons" and "South Park." And Stewie must die. Sorry, but it must happen. When does the dog get to fuck Stewie to death? Wait, they can do a hugely referential half-hour that's nothing but an extended telling of "The Aristocrats" with special media "jokes," featuring Stewie as a baby that gets fucked, spun around the room by his brother who has the baby's penis between his teeth, shoved up its sister's vagina and father's ass and finally anally raped to death by the dog. Now that's an act.
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By Roger Ebert “Batman” isn’t a comic book anymore. Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is a haunted film that leaps beyond its origins and becomes an engrossing tragedy. It creates characters we come to care about. That’s because of the performances, because of the direction, because of the writing, and because of the superlative technical quality of the entire production. This film, and to a lesser degree “Iron Man,” redefine the possibilities of the “comic-book movie.” “The Dark Knight” is not a simplistic tale of good and evil. Batman is good, yes, The Joker is evil, yes. But Batman poses a more complex puzzle than usual: The citizens of Gotham City are in an uproar, calling him a vigilante and blaming him for the deaths of policemen and others. And the Joker is more than a villain. He’s a Mephistopheles whose actions are fiendishly designed to pose moral dilemmas for his enemies. The key performance in the movie is by the late Heath Ledger, as the Joker. Will he become the first posthumous Oscar winner since Peter Finch? His Joker draws power from the actual inspiration of the character in the silent classic “The Man Who Laughs” (1928). His clown's makeup more sloppy than before, his cackle betraying deep wounds, he seeks revenge, he claims, for the horrible punishment his father exacted on him when he was a child. In one diabolical scheme near the end of the film, he invites two ferry-loads of passengers to blow up the other before they are blown up themselves. Throughout the film, he devises ingenious situations that force Batman (Christian Bale), Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to make impossible ethical decisions. By the end, the whole moral foundation of the Batman legend is threatened. Because these actors and others are so powerful, and because the movie does not allow its spectacular special effects to upstage the humans, we’re surprised how deeply the drama affects us. Eckhart does an especially good job as Harvey Dent, whose character is transformed by a horrible fate into a bitter monster. It is customary in a comic book movie to maintain a certain knowing distance from the action, to view everything through a sophisticated screen. “The Dark Knight” slips around those defenses and engages us. Yes, the special effects are extraordinary. They focus on the expected explosions and catastrophes, and have some superb, elaborate chase scenes. The movie was shot on location in Chicago, but it avoids such familiar landmarks as Marina City, the Wrigley Building or the skyline. Chicagoans will recognize many places, notably La Salle Street and Lower Wacker Drive, but director Nolan is not making a travelogue. He presents the city as a wilderness of skyscrapers, and a key sequence is set in the still-uncompleted Trump Tower. Through these heights, the Batman moves at the end of strong wires, or sometimes actually flies, using his cape as a parasail. The plot involves nothing more or less than the Joker’s attempts to humiliate the forces for good and expose Batman’ secret identity, showing him to be a poser and a fraud. He includes Gordon and Dent on his target list, and contrives cruel tricks to play with the fact that Bruce Wayne once loved, and Harvey Dent now loves, Assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The tricks are more cruel than he realizes, because the Joker doesn’t know Batman’s identity. Heath Ledger has a good deal of dialogue in the movie, and a lot of it isn’t the usual jabs and jests we’re familiar with: It’s psychologically more complex, outlining the dilemmas he has constructed, and explaining his reasons for them. The screenplay by Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan (who first worked together on “Memento”) has more depth and poetry than we might have expected. Two of the supporting characters are crucial to the action, and are played effortlessly by the great actors Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. Freeman, as the scientific genius Lucius Fox, is in charge of Bruce Wayne’s underground headquarters, and makes an ethical objection to a method of eavesdropping on all of the citizens of Gotham City. His stand has current political implictions. Caine is the faithful butler Alfred, who understands Wayne better than anybody, and makes a decision about a crucial letter. Nolan also directed the previous, and excellent, “Batman Begins” (2005), which went into greater detail than ever before about Bruce Wayne’s origins and the reasons for his compulsions. Now it is the Joker’s turn, although his past is handled entirely with dialogue, not flashbacks. There are no references to Batman’s childhood, but we certainly remember it, and we realize that this conflict is between two adults who were twisted by childhood cruelty — one compensating by trying to do good, the other by trying to do evil. Perhaps they instinctively understand that themselves. Something fundamental seems to be happening in the upper realms of the comic-book movie. “Spider-Man II” (2004) may have defined the high point of the traditional film based on comic-book heroes. A movie like the new “Hellboy II” allows its director free rein for his fantastical visions. But now “Iron Man” and even more so “The Dark Knight” move the genre into deeper waters. They realize, as some comic-book readers instinctively do, that these stories touch on deep fears, traumas, fantasies and hopes. And the Batman legend, with its origins in film noir, is the most fruitful one for exploration. In his two Batman movies, Nolan has freed the character to be a canvas for a broader scope of human emotion. For Bruce Wayne is a deeply troubled man, let there be no doubt, and if ever in exile from his heroic role, it would not surprise me what he finds himself capable of doing.
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Just saying.
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honestly, get out into the sunlight, and stop taking yourself so seriously.
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Who said they have to?
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Sounds like Airplane. And every movie the Marx Brothers ever made. Now I'm not putting McFarlane's work in the same league as these giants but what I am saying is that if the jokes are consistently hilarious I won't mind. South Park's criticism is valid but...I about passed out when Joe got his legs back and had to leave in the hospital in a wheel chair anyway. "You mean you guys don't have poop bags? BONNIE. NOBODY ELSE HAS A POOP BAG."
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Personally, I would prefer it if they took a script for some movie that has NOTHING to do with family guy and just threw the characters in. That would at least be somewhat clever and unexpected. The show is probably the most lowbrow thing on tv, but it's still damn funny. It's better than the new Futurama movies, that's for damn sure.
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it's hard to like his show.
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Yeah, that "Sex and the City" review was ridiculous. I'm not a fan of the show so I don't plan on seeing it, perhaps ever, but I wouldn't exactly relish the opportunity to bash it. That said, I do frequently revel in my hatred of anything from Michael Bay, so I guess we all have something we love to hate; I just wish the site had another television pundit to balance out Herc's overwhelming biases.
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July 16, 2008, 6:46 p.m. CST
Read the 10 page outline: It's a snuff/ child porn ring/ timetra
by DRACULA_WANTS_THE_AMULET
Stu's behind it. All the flashback jokes are nods to things that havent happened yet since everything flashs forward in time, so it's not funny until 6 years from now. Stu starts a child pornography service to kill pedophiles to sell snuff films to frame his mother.
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Personally, I actually feel American Dad is usually considerably funnier than Family Guy (the writing doesn't seem as lazy - it doesn't rely on unrelated references to achieve a laugh...it uses plot and character to do that). Novel concept. If you haven't seen it, check it out...it's not perfect, but it can be damn funny.
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come on doc, i take myself only about as seriously as lisa kudrow does! *clip of the the 'friends' cast sipping coffee with lisa kudrow doing something wacky, chandler shoots her in the head with a handgun, and says something characteristically sarcastic, like 'could you be less dead?"* see dr sauch, i'm emulating your hero now, i take nothing seriously, especially not producing art, so you're obligated to let me fuck you in your pimpled nerd ass *AS A JOKE*
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Choke on it, Herc. Choke on it.
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Will Stewie be in it? I like that kid, he's a riot.
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No, seriously...you mean there's people on this talkback who, an hour into the Simpsons movie, were actually saying to themselves, "Gosh, I sure hope Marge and Homer get back together again! And that Homer can prove himself a capable father to Bart! Oh, please let it be so!"<p> ...Or, as the credits rolled on that South Park opus, "Wowsers, I was really worried about Terance and Philip there for a while, I gotta tell ya!"<p> ...Or, during *any* "King Of The Hill" episode: "It sure puts a lump in the ol' throat every time Hank comes through for his annoying, pudgy gay son!"<p> No shit...you're actually investing time and/or money in a cartoon comedy seeking to be intellectually or emotionally challenged, or to leave with some sort of socially responsible, redeeming message to take to heart and enrich your life? "I laughed, but you know, I think I grew a little, too..."<p> Then buy a fucking clue...sentimentality and "responsibility" are the mortal enemies of comedy. Laugh first, wonder why later.
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The episodes don't stand up well to repeat viewings and the pop culture jokes are stale by now. Kind of like Shrek 2.
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and other hilarious 5-second jokes that fall flat or are so out there in TRYING to be politically incorrect that it ends up sounding more like a satire of shows that are politically incorrect...I can't believe they are making a movie out of this show. Fucking DVD sales be damned!!!!
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I just can't see this working well. Its too pop culture-ish, it'll be dated by the time it hits DVD. If they were going to do a theatrical, they should have used Blue Harvest because that at least has shelf life.
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The success of the Simpsons is the only reason we have animated shows like SP and FG on TV. It is a very clever show. The lower tier characters of the Simpsons have more life in them than South Park and Family Guy combined. South Park is mean spirited, but very funny, and topical. Family Guy is a throw back to 80's marketing and basically anything random. Family Guy is not funny. Cheap, easy laughs.
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1) Peter watching vintage porn<br><br>2) Meg loses 15 lbs<br><br>3) Quagmire says, "Giggity-giggity-goo!"<br><br>How to turn these ideas into a movie? Simple!<br><br>Peter gets turned onto 70's era porn by Quagmire, who says "Giggity-giggity-goo!" and tells Peter 70's porn is the best because he likes his woman to have big hairy-bushed poon-tangs. "Giggity-giggity-Awwww-right!"<br><br>So Peter watches Deep Throat first (and we see the real deep throat blow job), and demands that Lois deep-throats him, which she tries and is unable to do.<br><br>Meanwhile, Meg goes on a diet and loses 15 lbs and becomes a hotter, younger version of Lois. Quagmire says, "Giggity-giggity!" everytime he looks at her.<br><br>Upset that Lois can't deep throat him, Peter goes back to the box of 70's porn and finds Taboo II, and watches it. It is from this movie that he learns that incest is okay, and decides he wants to fuck his newly hot daughter.<br><br>So he seduces Meg and fucks her brains out, and since she used to be a big eater, she can deep-throat him.<br><br>Lois finds out, and cries on Chris's strong shoulders, and they fuck.<br><br>Quagmire watches all this through a window while jacking-off, and says, "Giggity-giggity-goo!"<br><br>And that's the fucking Family Guy Movie, entitled, Family Guy: We Fuck Each Other Now.<br><br>Oh, by the way, did I mention that Family Guy is a complete piece of shit show? The single most derivative and unoriginal piece of crap show in television history, and the first time they do something original on that show will be the first fucking time?<br><br>Fuck Family Guy... fuck them in the stupid asses. Family Guy wears fucking clown shoes, and if I saw Family Guy, I'd kick Family Guy's ass.<br><br>Fucking Seth McFarlane (who's a decent voice-over actor when he's not ripping off every show and movie in film and television history for his unfunny fucking show).<br><br>And most of all, fuck those fucking Manatees!<br><br>Thank you!
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Christ, you're an ill-tempered, malignant little tumor.
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when Fox cancelled Family Guy... except that was good news and this is bad.
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...At a couple of opportunistic schmucks holding up an escape from the Death Star by trying to rescue a couch from the trash or you move on. Simple as that.<p> Me, I don't find endless scatalogical references and transgender surgery howlarious, so I kind of stopped watching "South Park". To each his own.
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[and if these talkbacks were formattable then in all caps 72 point Impact font the entire post would be a quite from Jay Sherman:]<p>IT SUCKS!!!
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July 16, 2008, 8:22 p.m. CST
This is like that episode of Family Guy that didn't suck
by Napoleon Park
This is like that episode of Family Guy that didn't suck.<p>Oh, wait, no such episode was ever made or written.
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This show is shit.
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Think about it. What the thing they can't do on the cartoon show? Recast all the characters with live actors. The only question is, how to do Brian? with a real dog (ala Underdog) or with CGI.<p>Or Peter could back out of the driveway and run him over in the opening scene - problem solved.
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... if you're such a fan of Family Guy, how come you didn't appreciate my over the top use of topical humor and gross-out gags, all with an extreme sense of sarcasm and bombastic, hit you over the head sense of being totally out of proportion with my humor?<br><br>Isn't that what you people like?<br><br>What, you didn't appreciate my very unsubtle homage to Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back?<br><br>Isn't that the kind of overly obvious schtick you enjoy?
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He gets two shows and a movie? Let someone else have a crack at making a crappy cartoon
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it's not that i don't agree to all your critiques on TV now, there's no question about the state of modern tv being in a dire, boring, self-involved mess. yes, why the hell should the audience care if marge gets back with homer, or hank stands up for his gay son, it's a one trick pony that's been beaten to death. if it were good art, the audience should care. You care about character billy elliot, you hate the decadence of great gatsby, you feel conflicted about hitchcock's characters, or about the mafioso in godfather. that's good art, man, because it illicits a sentiment, and taks about some aspect of society. you're an idiot because you suggest responsibility and sentiment are the enemies of art and comedy. some of the greatest stand-up, bill hicks, george carlin and pat tiernan, it may have been irreverant and even mean-spirited at times, but it was COMPLETELY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT. by your humor compass, the people most lacking in responsibility and sentiment, addicts and soldiers, should be the funniest, and yet THEY'RE NOT. from what i'm hearing, your solution to the problems of marge and homer or hank and his gay son is not to make it fresh and make the audience care about it, it's LET'S PUT SOME RANDOM HUMOR IN THERE BECAUSE I GREW UP ON MONTY PYTHON. hank molests his son, and marge gets cerebral palsy, you think that's the answer? all this 'i'm too afraid to care' shit is why simpsons went down the shitter in the first place. it's none of my business if your dad beat your ass every time you cried and the end of ET and so you're afraid of appearing the faggot, but don't let it pollute your opinions on art and comedy you HUMORLESS CUNT (borrowed phrase)
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If you'd read my earlier posts, do try to keep up with us here, you'd see I'm really not that huge a fan. I just hate these sad little cross-burning festivals that go on every time a story about McFarlane or Family Guy is brought up. And ironically invoking Jay and Silent Bob? Doesn't really work when 80% of the posters here and elsewhere are dead serious ringers for the comic internet jerk archetype. Besides, just what point are you trying to make? Attacking bad comedy by using another form of bad comedy? Mission accomplished.
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i will hate what i want to hate...at first, family guy was funny...and it was great that fans were able to force fox to bring it back to the airwaves...but the show is now stagnant as we come to learn that seth is a one trick pony...now a robot chicken movie...thats what im waiting for...seth green is the funniest midget on the planet...and has the hottest gf...i want to smell his fingers
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July 16, 2008, 9:21 p.m. CST
bay talks friday the 13th remake...here is someone to really hat
by bacci40
It's a re-conception of the original. We're introducing a whole group of new kids. What we always try to do is add a little bit of freshness to these movies that were really scary back then and update them for a new audience." "I haven't seen the director's cut because he's still cutting, but I know this one will really be scary; it's also funny, as well. It's a fun college adventure that goes awry." He added that plots from the first two "Friday the 13th" films have been used in the remake. want proof there is no god? stan winston is dead, this fuck is still walking around with great hair
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for a show thats supposedly so terrible and hated, there are sure a lot of people willingly taking the time and effort to simply say how much they dont like it.
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July 16, 2008, 9:35 p.m. CST
Will Herbert finally consumate his relationship with Chris?
by Bobo_Vision
I think thats his name...Herbert. The popsicle dude.
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Spreading yourself a little thin?
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Oh, what? no clip. Thought we had a clip...
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July 16, 2008, 10:07 p.m. CST
The "Movie Movie" movies already have the McFarlane comic touch
by Nasty In The Pasty
Rote replication. Plus fart jokes.
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And I directly attribute the show's decline of late to his almost total lack of screen time.
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July 16, 2008, 10:13 p.m. CST
If it's anything like the first Family Guy movie
by phantom_of_teh_paradise
I'll pass. What a piece of shit that was. And they dropped F-bombs in it...didn't make it any funnier. I think this is a terrible idea and it'll make a billion dollars and blah blah blah blah
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You're a long-winded, grammatically challenged pseudo-intellectual. And um, THE GREAT GATSBY and THE GODFATHER? Not funny. Honestly. Didn't chuckle once at either.
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1. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. VIOLENCE. 3. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. SCREAMING. 3. See, I'm, uh...having an awkward...uh...conversation...you know...it's funny...uh...because it's...you know...long 4. Pop culture reference? Pop culture reference! Pop culture reference? Pop culture reference! 5. Chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight Chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight chicken fight
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both sp and family guy have episodes that are fucking cringe worthy. and some laughable ones. bitter assholes.
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Would be SWEET! Or a Danger Mouse movie. <P> Whatever, Family Guy is funny as shit, and American Dad got a lot funnier in the second season. Seems no one here saw it. If you don't think Seth can write a plot you aren't watching American Dad, they did this funny as hell Bond rip off. <P> I think anyone who is upset about Family Guy still being on the air are all whinny Arrested Development fans who are upset there show didn't come back. Also Seth is an arrogent asshole but he is very smart and whenever he talks he pretty much slams FOX, kind of like Matt Groening does except Seth will point fingers. That scene at the start of their comeback show (South By South Quehog) where Peter list all the shows that failed in between the time they where off the air was classic. And on the 100 episode where Seth says at the end, well maybe next time they won't fucking cancel it for 2 years. Also Seth actually tries to do things for the fans, such as try to get the show back on the air. I never heard about David Cross or Bateman pushing real hard to get Development back. Also those people who complain about the dumb repetitious plots of family guy, developments are just the same. Micheal wants to do something, one of his piece of shit family members ruins it, Micheal kind of saves the situation, everyone wants more money. Repeat, plus that show had its moments but I don't enjoy episodes ever a second time. With family guy its like big stupid trivia contest sometimes. There are a lot more shows to be angry about being on the air, Family Guy isn't one of them. Just be fucking Happy its not the mid 90s and the only cartoon on TV was the Simpsons (and maybe Duckman or the Critic). You don't like Family Guy, and you probably don't like pot.
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Are my idiot Co-workers who watch TBS and tell me how they just saw a new episode on it. I caught my roommate watching the VERY FIRST EPISODE and he was trying to tell me it was a new episode. I don't get the whole deal of shitty syndication channels playing up the fact that they are the home for old shows, or HBO shows. Who watches those channels??? well my co-workers. <P> Also how I like how Seth almost was in one of the 9-11 planes and didn't act like a oh so traumatized person about it, he was like, eh its like almost walking onto the street nearly getting hit by a bus.
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what, you didn't laugh when you read the wikipedia entry for gatsby and godfather? why not? not enough funny citations? kiss my ass
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the idea that you have to pick/chose between Family Guy and South park like they were Marvel and DC or Elvis and the Beatles is bogus.<p>Defecation into your oral cavity or urination onto your ocular organs, pick one. No, it's okay to not want either. And, yes, both were funny... at one time.
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July 17, 2008, 12:02 a.m. CST
Remember that time the family Guy movie was just 3 episodes stru
by Johnno
Sure I still liked it, but c'mon that was no fucking movie...
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Way to criticize, word-for-word, Family Guy in the same way South Park did. Additionally, I like both shows. I dont know either creator of either show and could care less if they like each other's shows.
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I agree with your irritation with the TBS Family Guy fans. The worst thing TBS does, though, is stretch the image in their "HD" broadcast of the show.
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is what we should be mad about here. And AMC....until Mad Men came along, I say they should just give it to TCM, and Breaking Bad.
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Dude a majority of people who watch family miss the references to begin with. Do you think any of them have seen Anchors Away? THANK GOD Adult Swim pointed that out for us. Also anyone who's memorized A New Hope and took the time out of WOW to watch Blue Harvest and didn't laugh at the line, Get kid. Now Don't get penisy. Then may Allah have mercy on your soul.
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Well go on the internet and complain about it. Hang on.... Love this show, it makes me laugh, and when it comes to a comedy programme, that's all I ask for. Seth Macfarlane also signed a $100 million contract to keep this, American Dad and the soon to be released The Cleveland Show on air till 2012, so maybe he's doing something right.
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I hate how people have to PICK SIDES!!! Why can't someone just sit back enjoy a couple jokes. People are too extreme "Family Guy is fucking stupid!" Are you jealous that McFarlane is now like rich as fuck while you sit around beating off to Victoria's Secret magazine. People need to get lives. You can like shows or not like shows and not have to be extreme about it. Guess what I watch South Park, American Dad, Family Guy and Simpsons... OMFG I didn't pick a side!!!
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these two have chemistry
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that Syphillis MacFartlane is not a likable person and that, oh yeah, Family Guy has really sucked the last couple of seasons.
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...will be fucking fantastic!!!!
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i can see it maybe many years down the line, at least for new viewers, fans will already get most of the things i figure but as of right now the show's already 9yrs old and even when season 1 episodes play, the references still work. i mean sure there are many modern references that may not ring as well but many are much older than the show itself and are part of pop culture and whatnot so there will always be people who get it. i suddenly feel weird though about that Anchor's Away thing...i recognized it the first time i saw it, i even laughed at the fact if you look carefully at Stewie's reflection on the floor, they didnt bother to change it so its still Jerry. anyway....if you dont like the show, dont see the movie and problem solved.
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I can't wait 'til it comes on Cinemax, preferably right before some soft core.
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I was just thinking about it and, c'mon, Superman can't have a kid.
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At least 15 minutes of the movie will be devoted to the Kool-Aid Guy randomly busting into buildings. Sadly, these 15 minutes will be spread out into an endless peppering of 1 minute appearances at every opportunity.
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to pay $12 to see 1 1/2 hours of what I see for free every week! Family guy can be funny at times, but not $12 funny.
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but seriosuly guys, Family Guy has worn out its welcome...the first four seasons were genius, but then it got ridiculously repetitve and started doing things JUST for shock value (mother teresa overdosing, anthing involving herbert, the most worn out joke EVER)....the show used to be genuinely funny and yeah, offensive, but it was so well done I didnt care what they came out with,and the randomness and irrelvance seemed fresh and kept you on your toes-now it just drones on, same old same old...the last genuinely funny one was the Dingo and The Baby episode-I'll admit, that was class...but since then, it has just ran out of steam. It could have had a gutsy ending with that story of Stewie actually taking over the world when Peter kills him at the end-if Stewie had actually stayed dead, and that was the end of Family Guy I would tip my hat to Seth, as it would have been an ending you never saw coming that would have been actually quite appropriate. But nooooo....the show goes on.
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I think the one thing on Seth's mind should be the declining ratings of Family Guy. It started out strong; but now is in 3rd place in its time slot behind Dateline and Cold Case (weekly Nielsen ratings). And given the amount of people showing FG hate on this board, the ratings make more sense.
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Robot Chicken wins. There's no need for further parodies.
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I have some shocking news to fanboys you can like both SP and FG and Simpsons also you can watch Lost and Heroes Marvel and DC I know this comes to shock to some but you be ok
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Is because when the random cuttaway gags bomb, or the longggggggg idle moments, it makes the show seem that much weaker. And the ratio of good cutaway gags to bad cutaway gags is slipping over the course of time. Despite what Family Guy defenders maintain, you DO need SOMETHING to hang the whole thing on, or else it crumbles. Family Guy can work, and sometimes really well, but it seems to work that much harder nowadays for a laugh.
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it's a total ripoff of The Simpsons.
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still one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and Imaginationland is right up with there. Cartoons that need a movie more than this one: Venture Bros., Home Movies, King of the Hill, Futurama, American Dad.
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South Park has a handful of funny episodes, and then MOUNTAINS of terrible ones. Plus they only manage to make like, what, 6 episodes a year? Whilst McFarland pumps out like 26 Family Guys, 26 American Dads, and then also does work on Robot Chicken. The humor may be rooted in non-sequitors, but the shows are always packed to the gills with hilarious jokes that I laugh at until I cry. Each episode of SOUTH PARK features one joke, repeated endlessly, usually informed by some kind of politically retarded half-assed neocon frat guy propaganda that makes no sense. The rest of the humor rests solely on the fact that Cartman has a funny voice. I mean, SOUTH PARK does have some funny episodes, usually about one good one per season, whereas FAMILY GUY is consistently and relentlessly funny.
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...but probably not. Most shows don't translate well to the big screen. South Park was the only show to do it successfully, IMO. I was crying with laughter during that movie. I'm not sure that Trey could manage another these days though. I will predict that the Family Guy movie will be better than the Simpsons movie. Granted, not a high hurdle.
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Jezz now it's just a quilty pleasure I guess. <p> Oh shit, maybe everything I like sucks? <p> Damn you aicn Talkbacks. God Damn You to hell.
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It's more or less the same show rewritten slightly episode after episode.... they really have no right to criticize Family Guy. Oh wait--could it be that the creators of South Park are jealous that Family Guy is more relevant and popular among today's TV audiences--kind of the way South Park was 7 years ago? Time marches on, South Park--there's always going to be "the next big thing." The least you could do is age gracefully.
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It was ridiculously dated from DAY ONE, unless you found references to The Incredible Hulk, The Brady Bunch, The Great Space Coaster and Happy Days in *1999* to be up-to-date cultural riffing. People can hate on the Shrek movies all they want, but at least most of the references were to movies and TV shows released within at most a few years back. Yeah Seth, EVERYONE's going to get it when Stewie says "Oooo, ooooo, look at me...!", then sips a can of cola while smiling at the camera in slow motion(???).
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