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Don’t Forget!! FUTURAMA MOVIE II: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS Slithers Onto Comedy Central 8 p.m. Sunday!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
David Cross is in this one!
The trailer:
8 p.m. Sunday. Comedy Central.
Futurama Movie III: Bender's Game!!
Battlestar Galactica 4.1-4.10
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Now Baltar is looking at Kara's tits.
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I didn't like this one... After seeing Bender's Big Score, this was a pretty big let down.
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I love futurama and all these movies that are coming out. They are much better than anything family guy has done in the past two years
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Um... That's Adama ;)
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still good but not as good at bender's big score. BBB had a lot more of the classic futurama comedy that made the show great, and even inside jokes. i loved it!
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"And Needless to say we dragged their bodies to the dock...where seagulls fed upon them." The whole story that the classic upperclass aristocrat robot tells about accidentaly killing some humans is one of my favorite futurama moments. I have to admit the first time I watched this I was slightly underwhelmed, but on the second viewing with some friends I ended up enjoying it a lot.
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I think its insufficiently resolved why she does what she does with a certain famed sexlexia sufferer... we never really get an explaination from her why she does it or what it means to her. Considering the amount of time and effort the series has invested in her relationship with Kif, I kind of felt this was handled without much sensetivity to the character. Still loved the movie, though... a great tribute to the writers' love of sci-fi fantasy literature. Just wish they'd adequately respected our investment in the characters...
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Oct 19, 2008 5:12:21 AM CDT
I love the new theme for the Battlestar Galactica covers.
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Someone is always blatantly ogling tits and Edward James Olmos is always looking away, either embarrassed by the unabashed perv checking out the funbags or, more likely, struggling to restrain his own desire to get a good eyeful of sweater meat. Awesome.
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...will be dealt with in the next two movies.
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BBS was horrendous
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with sunday night football, family guy, dexter, mad men, etc.
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He was also in ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS. What's your point?
Subtlety nailed down one of the main issues I had with BwaBB. If she hadn't gotten married to Kif only scenes before, then *maybe* it wouldn't have bothered me, and then there's Fry's superfluous girlfriend and some other things that didn't quite hang together. Not a disaster, but in no way as good as "Bender's Big Score" (which was just as funny last night as it was when I first saw it).
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But there are moments in Beast with a Billion Backs that are so incredibly weird that I had to stand up and salute them. Despite not being as good as the first film, BwaBB is not predictable in the least. Like many of the episodes it is actually kind of thought provoking. In other words, it's some of the best science fiction television has seen in some time (Battlestar Galactica notwithstanding, or so I've heard). I for one cannot wait for the next film.
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kinda weird that it didn't get leaked like the previous two films. Guess fox found out whoever was doing it.
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So all the reviews and/or plot summaries pretty much tell you what's going to happen in this thing...tonight was the first time I've seen it. And I was shocked that the tentacled sex maniac planet doesn't show up until 3/4 of the way through the movie! And we don't know the tentacles are 'gentacles' until even later...Thanks for the spoilers marketing department. At least I didn't know how it ended. Overall, another solid outing for the Futurama franchise. Not as smart or tightly written as Bender's Big Score, but still very funny with numerous easter eggs for the fans. Top notch work once again.
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Futurama remains one of the best comedies on television...it's packed from head to toe with comedic bits (which demand repeat viewing), similar to 30 Rock and The Simpsons. It has far superior 'random' weird humor than say Family Guy, and the characters and story lines intertwine in ways which remind me at times of Seinfeld or Always Sunny. If only The Simpsons had remained as consistently well constructed. But, in all fairness, The Simpsons is producing many more episodes at a faster rate than its sister Futurama.
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The first one was tolerable, but this? Just awful from start to finish.
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I'm glad you too appreciate the consumate sci-fi weirdness that is BwaBB... I really admired them for staying creative and even exploring some new territory, filled with imaginative ideas and interesting philosophical questions. In some ways, the story made me think of the kind of sci-fi Kilgore Trout (or, in real life, someone like Vonnegut or Philip Jose Farmer) might write! Bizzare and even a little upsetting, but with a certain element of sweetness and always a few cool thoughts bubbling around. Although unfortunately the movie does strike a few sour notes, I think its my fav of the two simply by virtue of its moxie. And its hilarity. "That's why his blood is so good on pancakes!"
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I liked the first one, but I really felt this one was alot closer to where they left off. The only thing that stuck out to me was the lack of a Leela/Fry story, that's been central since the series began and culminated in the final episode. Now it's just a "Hey, well Leela's still around, she'll do" type thing, it just seems like a big shift in Fry's character.
Damn I'm a nerd thinking about character analysis of a sci-fi cartoon... -
it is Lee.
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I agree--smartest sci-fi on TV right now. Weird, speculative, humorous, a huge bucket of sci-fi pop culture...it's in a class of its own. I mean, what else can you even compare it to? I think going the DVD movie route was wise, since the show really would never find a wide audience (like The Simpsons) simply because it is so wonderfully rich, diverse and odd. The Family Guy audience doesn't deserve this, in other words.
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And the coolest thing is that they're not even content to just stay the course as the best thing on TV... the movies prove how dedicated they are to expanding and creating an even denser and richer universe for the show to live in. Whatever you think of the two movies, the are densely plotted sci-fi from comedy writers who CLEARLY have a deep, deep love for the genre and the associated literature. Even if BwaBB doesn't always work perfectly, their love of Sci-fi/fantasy is almost always unapologetically bared, even to the point of expanding the range of the show to a kind of sci-fi horror and then to metaphorical fantasy. Its incredibly bold, and hence rewarding for those willing to invest some thought and energy in it (which, btw, is not everyone judging from the surprising negativity some folks have abotu the movies). And you are right; to see the polar opposite of BBS and BwaBB, see "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story" which plays it safe in absolutely every since of the word, and really demonstrated why FG should have stayed dead (not that it was always awful, it just had absolutely nothing to say, and no where to go when it came back). I hope that the success of these DTV flicks gives the series at least one more year of life, even if sometimes it comes up short of the lofty goals it shoots for...
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Well said--agreed.
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There were parts of Beast that were good, but much of it was pretty embarrassing to watch. BBS was much better and had a single coherent story to follow. Not 6 different storylines going in as many different directions. I hope Bender's Game is better, but I really wish they'd just go back to 22 minutes episodes.
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that's why nobody wants it back, 'cept Comedy Central, which is desperate to strike Family Guy gold. "the show really would never find a wide audience (like The Simpsons) simply because it is so wonderfully rich, diverse and odd." Yeah, that's it! It's too good to get ratings!
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Look at the top rated shows on TV and tell me with a straight face that ratings always equal intelligent, well written, artful shows. Ratings really have nothing to do with quality...so yes, it just may be too good to get ratings. People who constantly tune in to 'Two and a Half Men' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' aren't going to get Futurama. The show isn't for them. It's just the way it is.
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Fans of animated series didn't watch Futurama. I tried watching, hoping it was another Simpsons. It wasn't.
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