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2011 Golden Globe Alert!! FAMILY GUY Writer To Team With INSPECTOR GADGET 2 Director For Live-Action HONG KONG PHOOEY!!
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Were you thinking, as you were watching them, that nothing could be worse than the “Underdog” and “Scooby Doo” movies?
Alex Zamm, director of Carrot Top’s “Chairman of the Board” and such straight-to-video fare as “Inspector Gadget 2” and “Dr. Doolittle: Million Dollar Mutts,” is now teaming with “Family Guy” writer-producer David Goodman for “Hong Kong Fooey,” the tale of a talking-dog janitor who transforms into a supernaturally gifted martial artist.
Brett Ratner is listed among the producers.
Not familiar the 1974 source material, in which Scatman “They Turned Out To Be Unreliable Assholes!” Crothers voiced the title character? Clippage:
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Congratulations, Hollywood. You have now scraped the bottom of the barrel.
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Jul 12, 2009 8:04:55 PM CDT
still its not as bad as making a live action Hong Kong Phoey
by mysterious_volvo
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Jul 12, 2009 8:05:16 PM CDT
i mean, what kind of a retard would ever do something like that
by mysterious_volvo
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Tried to milk a cow.
Hong Kong Phooey..
Didn't know how.
Hong Kong Phooey..
Pulled the wrong tit..
Hong Kong Phooey..
Covered in shit.
I miss that song. Oh to be 6 again. -
EEWW.
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Since he hasn't had the opportunity yet to write racist jokes about Asians. Or would he have another go at black people, because of Scatman Crothers?
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Next for Hollywood Nick Toons movies Ren & Stimpy Rocko's Modern Life Doug The Adventures of Pete & Pete Angry Beavers
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This
Viewmaster: the movie
Lauren Conrad on the new york times bestseller list
Transformers 2
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but if they made a Count Duckula movie maybe I'd get the full series stateside. Hey assholes, make a Count Duckula so I can get my fuckin' cartoon in the U.S. of A.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, it is terrible, this idea.
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Jul 12, 2009 8:19:03 PM CDT
Oh, and Mysterious Volvo, get over it, we all yell First once
by doctorzoidberg
So ya popped yer cherry, plenty of guys will still think you're cute.
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Stupid fuckin' enter button. When did they move that on the keyboard?
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I'm disappointed now.
Gotta agree with SoylentMean on Count Duckula. That & Trapdoor (by the same guys, I think), would make fucking great movies!
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Jul 12, 2009 8:23:33 PM CDT
at least there not making a Battleship movie or Smurfs movie
by walrusholder
Oh wait, wow my son turns one at the end of the month what kind of shit movies am I going to be taking him to.
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Jul 12, 2009 8:23:34 PM CDT
OT- Morgan Freeman has been screwing his step-grandaughter
by yackbacker
Now that's something I would have expected Orci & Kurtzman to invent. But how fucked up is that shit?
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I can't type today. Sorry.
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Danger Mouse! Now THAT would make one hell of a movie.
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That's painful.
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Yes.
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Jul 12, 2009 8:29:31 PM CDT
ackack, IT'S BECAUSE I.Q.'S IN THE USA ARE DROPPING...
by charlesthomasmathews1978
At an incredible rate. I hate to say this as I love the USA, almost as much as Canada, but it seems like everything in the States is turning to shit i.e. movies, music etc... The country is definately getting dumber, Transformers has made almost 350 mill in almost 3 weeks, American Idol is the most watched show on TV and 60 million people voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin. I'm sorry but your country is done. It would be amusing to watch the states go down in flames if it weren't for the fact that you'll probably take the rest of the world with you.
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Just as I clicked on the story they started playing the theme song on Boomerag which they often doing during the break. They use 'em as bumpers.
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The end is nigh, nay, imminent even!
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Jul 12, 2009 8:34:38 PM CDT
Dingbatty, Boborci IS TOO BUSY CASHING HIS $1000 PAYCHECKS....
by charlesthomasmathews1978
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Don't ever forget our friend Jazz.
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Jul 12, 2009 8:40:06 PM CDT
Oh, and for the record "Scatman" is the worst nickname ever
by yackbacker
I vomit in my mouth just thinking of the name.
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Boomerang. --Gotta love it when the parents need a distraction.
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for a used what?
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I forgot about Palin. That's the fifth horseman.
So for those keeping track...
Hong Kong Phooey: The movie,
Transformers 2,
Viewmaster: The movie,
Lauren Conrad making the NY Times Bestseller list,
and Sarah Palin
Need two more! G-force anyone? -
Jem...... Jem is excitement. Oooohhhh ooohhh oohh Jem, Jem is Truly Outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous. Woooohh ooohhh ahhhh. Jem is my name, no one else is the same! Jem is my name!!!!!
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you're right.
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Shia anyone?
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It's the FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE!
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You see? Didn't I say that nostalgia is a mental illness? And you didn't believe me. WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME????
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I never really got that. Was it like a magical filing cabinet? And if you're a fucking Kung Fu dude why the hell are you still working as a janitor?
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Jul 12, 2009 9:09:06 PM CDT
I can just see Brett Ratner shitting out of his mouth about
by bone_white
how big of a fan of the old cartoon series he is, bigger than most fans.
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At least that's semi-GOOD nostalgia. Plus it'd be based on a cartoon NOT produced by those horrible people who brought us Scooby Doo. Hanna-Barbara created Cartoon Hell, and Scooby is its Satan. Note to Scoob: ROO YOU!
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or fuck off!!!!!
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admit that red is the new orange.
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Someone make the movie industry stop doing this to us. What Hollywood has become is proof that there is a God and that he hates us.
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A Bob Clampett Cartoooooon!
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You're up next!
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Anyone?
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Is a given!
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Two years ago they went on strike and screwed up productions everywhere. Then they got what they wanted and rewarded us by writing crap. Keep up the great work fellas...
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Loved it when he would go to MuniMula.That's Aluminum backwards!
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Seth Rogan is the owner of a store that sells animated cartoon animals. One happens to be a great big purple gorilla named Magilla. He's been trying to sell him for years but nobody wants him. One day some bank robbers buy him so he can help break into a bank. The robbers don't know what they are getting into, because Magilla comically doesn't understand what's going on in his rush to please his new owners causes chaos. During the excape little girl name Ogee ends up getting kidnapped. Magilla must soon come to realize that he's part of the gang and save the little girl. But can he stop bumbling long enough to become a hero? Thanks, I'll wait for my check.
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...that dog janitor jumped into the filing cabinet and came out a kung fu crimefighter??
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Jul 12, 2009 9:29:20 PM CDT
And cue the cries of raped childhoods and blatant racisim in 5..
by yeti
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Jul 12, 2009 9:32:42 PM CDT
did underdog actually make a profit in some alternate universe?
by ironic_name
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C'mon, Chairman of the Board director??? Oscars written all over it.
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Hong Kong Phooey got violently axed in the midsection by a deranged Jack Nicholson.
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They can't ruin my childhood. It's my adulthood they're making painful.
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how did I miss that?
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...she said LAMB CHOP is available!
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intrigues me.
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That's Angry Beavers. And um, well. Joke's ruined. Not that it was much of one and oh forget it.
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I can't even get the number of the horsemen right. I have no idea where I got seven from. I should know these things. (slaps face)
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Sheeeeesh!
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Jul 12, 2009 9:39:26 PM CDT
Who are the asshats who think live action is a good idea?
by cherryvalance
Come on. How many times do they have to get that wrong? Just do an animated movie. I loved Hong Kong Phooey as a kid. There is no way I'll see this.
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that is all. thanks for listening
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Jul 12, 2009 9:39:46 PM CDT
a teaming of 2 non entities devoid of talent will fail spectacul
by ironic_name
this will bankrupt whoever makes it.
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Well done, sir.
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You know, the Useless Awards?
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I love HONG KONG PHOOEY and his sardonic fanboy cat. Watch the show - the cat is a fanboy who reacts to EVERYTHING as if it were the lamest news ever. Oh, yeah - you're all the ****ing cat.
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And Kevin James as Sgt. Flint.
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brilliant title to this item!
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So if Dreamworks made a CGI film about a hamster who's a spy will that get another studio to make Secret Squirrel? shhhhh...
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...I think I'll call him HUCKLEBERRY!!!
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VERY FAST AT UNHOLSTERING HIS PISTOL.Hmmmm....what to call it?
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Stephen Chow leaving Green Hornet! He'd rather play Hong Kong Phooey than be Seth Rogan's sidekick!
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"EXIT, STAGE RIGHT", I'm thinking some kind of a feline, with an overbite! Any help?
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Three for three baby.You're batting 1,000.
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Cute animals, kung fu. Stupid plot that critics eat up.
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And fuck yes, get Michael Bay for it!I maintain that after we've run out of childhood cartoons and board games to exploit, the next phase of Hollywood will be adapting Ray Stevens videos. Surfing USSR: The Movie - A Brett Ratner production!
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Jul 12, 2009 10:43:54 PM CDT
Remember the time I was Hong Kong Phooey's sidekick...?
by nasty in the pasty
[smash cut to] "Hey look. It's Hong Kong Phooey."
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Hasn't he done enough gay shit?
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Slow day, eh guys?
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and got none.
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And without him..this ain't no motherfucking Phooey.
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the bad assedest Autobot around.
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That is eighth circle of Hell shit right there.
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Not because it was such a great film (or, so everything has led me to believe since I never saw it) or because it was a box office smash, but it DID apparently do well enough to spawn a sequel, which is both mind-blowing and heartbreaking. The original live-action film looked HORRIBLE. Just ...horrible. The TV trailers alone made me want to vomit out my own eyes! Then came that Underdog movie. It's like all the chimps who have been writing or greenlighting movies in LaLaland took a long vacation and left a severely retarded one to shout wildly at anything to approve of it in their absence. A LIVE ACTION Hong Kong Phooey movie?? Fuck - a HONG KONG PHOOEY MOVIE, at all? See, here's what I don't get with all the "childhood nostalgia" plays and studios flocking to "safe and familiar" stuff during these risk-averse times: why spend tens of millions to do it? Ok, so you think there's some pent up demand, or enough nostalgia over something that people might pay to see it? Then why the hell not take the original source material (for stuff like this that been pretty much dormant for a decade or two, except somewhat on CN/Boomerang) and put a few million into deluxe DVD package and major marketing push? Skip the whole studio production costs, skip right to the other stuff you'd be doing for a full-blown global theatrical release, and if all this supposed demand really is there, people will buy it. Right? Shit, put 90 minutes of the stuff in a 2 or 3 week theatrical release to really kick off the DVD release. Maybe with something like Transformers or GI Joe making a live-action movie works out better because you can spawn franchise films and lots of lucrative, long-term merchandising deals. But for fucking Underdog, Garfield, and Hong Kong Phooey??
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Jul 12, 2009 11:18:21 PM CDT
Six Demon Bag, JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS IS A GOOD MOVIE.....
by charlesthomasmathews1978
I avoided it like the plague when it was out in theatres but I caught it on TV a year later and it was, to my surprise, a great little movie that actually had some good ideas and worked pretty well as a satire of the American music industry. It's a perfect model on how you intelligently adapt something and I recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it especially to Boborci who couldn't write a movie that good if his fucking life depended on it.
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from south of the border?SPEEDY GONZALES, the fastest Mouse in all of MEXICO!ANDALE!ANDALE! ARRIBA!ARRIBA! IHA!IHA!
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of the Shining..(axe in the back again)
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So I can expect well crafted humor and jokes right?
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"Kick the Can"Twilight Zone: The Movie
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Jul 13, 2009 12:31:46 AM CDT
Can't wait for the shitty remake of the theme tune.
by scriptgirl_nipples
Fucking Bastards!
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Blackstar.
Wheeled Warriors.
Bravestar.
Mask.
Thundar.
Just a thought.. -
Jul 13, 2009 12:36:52 AM CDT
btw.. Morgan Freeman marrying his step-granddaughter.
by scriptgirl_nipples
72 years old, and banging a 27 year old. Way to go!
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...and I liked it. But, if this movie actually happens, it will have to be a candidate for one of the worst movies of all time.
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Jul 13, 2009 12:51:06 AM CDT
Thundarr the Barbarian would be way more interesting....
by theycallmemrtibbs
Than Hong Kong Phooey, I can already see the CGi Dog with Chris Rock's voice fighting Ninjas. Somebody deserves to have they're " SHIT PUSHED IN" for this one.
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should be next
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Hong Kong could be a huge action adventure hit.
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What's next, the Wonder Twins live-action film? Jason of Star Command? Space Nuts? Wait, didn't they make a cartoon about the Rubik's Cube? Yeah, make a live action film about that! Stupid fuckers.
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instead of the shitty ones?
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If you do, why? Are you scared that the movie won't make a talking dog grim and gritty enough? Or that it won't "respect the beloved source material"?
Anyway, AFAICR - vaguely - at least "Inspector Gadget II" had much more in common with the toon than that piece of shit with Matthew "Killer of Two Women" Broderick. -
Needs to be a movie. There was a lot of sexual chemistry between Chip and Gadget. It was later said in the E true Hollywood story that Monterey Jack molested Zipper on several occasions. Dale spent the rest of his adult life in and out of rehab for cocaine and porn addiction.
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PENRIFFIC!
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writing for Family Guy, escape the Manatee tank and write the worst movie ever made?
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http://tinyurl.com/czremh
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It's called Breaking Bad.
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What was our excuse? That's what's funny about you guys complaining. Why did we accept this premise to begin with? A dog that talks and walks upright? OK. He's a janitor at the Police Station? Why Not? He's also a Martial Artist who leaps into the top drawer of a filing cabinet and comes out of the bottom drawer in his disguise? Great! Phone Booths are so... Retro!And he has a Striped Cat... But he calls him SPOT? Now you're going too far!They should have given this to Tarantino. Samuel L Jackson as Penry aka Hong Kong Phooey,Uma Thurman as Rosemary, Harvey Keitel as Sarge. RZA /Wu-Tang Soundtrack. Hard R Rating.
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another bunch of euros saved from being wasted at a movie theater...
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Screw HKP! JQ is movie material untapped! Or is Hollywood too p.c. nowadays to have an Indian character named Hadji running around?
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i smell a franchise.
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Seriously,fuck off!
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Am I the only one that wants a live action Dyno Mutt and Blue Falcon movie? Now that's prime pickin'!!
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starring Robin Williams. No need for make-up or costumes. That bastard is hairier than a Himalayan Bison!
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loved how it was making FUN of the exact demographic that it was wanting to buy tickets. saw it opening day with my friends..laughed our asses off.
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they should make it with Scooby Doo and then have a super cross over.
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Movies.
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Jul 13, 2009 7:50:50 AM CDT
Pussy is always good - even zombie pussy
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
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You want to see why you're unconsciously glad there's no JOHNNY QUEST movie? Watch or read about THE REAL ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY QUEST - where they PCed the villains (they went from evil Chinese masterminds with names like Dr. Sin to white Anglo priests called Jebediah Rage (I am not making this up)). They added a girl because they were worried that four guys travelling together seemed homosexual in some way. They cut down on the use of guns (to zero). That's what you'd get if they made a live-acrion JQ.
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It was inevitable.
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After "Kung Fu Panda", I KNEW this would be next.
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Cover version of the theme song.
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Are just made up by Seth MacFarlane, like Cherry Chevapravatdumrong. Is that his Richard Bachmen?
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BY YOUR POWERS COMBINED, HE IS... CAPTAIN PLANET! GOOOO PLANET!!!
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I think that's how the theme song went. I was only 7 at the time it aired on abc even then I thought that was a bit risque for saturday morning cartoons. 200 million opening weekend. That's pesos not dollars or euros. I've said it before and I'll say it again. There is no one at the helm in Hollywood. Live action Hong Kong Phooey (sigh)I've got nothing more to say.
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The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. The new series from 1996. That is one bad ass song. Followed by X-Men cartoon theme song. Damn I guess they are making a live action Johnny Quest movie starring Zachary Efron?
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With Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith started shooting in China. Where's our Talkback?
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Jul 13, 2009 10:26:06 AM CDT
Hopefully this means we are one step closer to a live action
by series7
Rubik, the Amazing Cube movie! With a rebooted theme song by the new Menudo!
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was awesome. Theme song and all. ridiculous CGI virtual reality sequences, cool villains - Jeremiah Surd, Ezekiel Rage, hot Jesse Bannon. I would barely speak any english if it wasn't for that show
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I sure hope my "You Raped My Childhood" doll comes before this movie.
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FUCK YEAHHHH!!!! Dammit, when does that show come back for its next season?
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Jan was hot. You know it's true.
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That creepy old guy from Shining who would cry when mentioned Kubrick's name on the making-of featurette?
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PHANTOM 2020-make that film hollywood.go...make it...don't come abck till you "have it the can"...go!
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cumming to theatersnear you 2011!
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Jul 13, 2009 1:52:13 PM CDT
Snagglepuss -starring Kirstin Dunst
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Oh, that's snaggletooth! My bad.
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http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=gRqfoXi5d2I
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whose Film Department (back in the early 80s, anyway) was geared to the experimental avant garde. Stan Brakage, Michael Snow, Kenneth Anger. That kind of thing. Ken Jacobs was a Professor there. "Narrative" was a dirty word. Alex Zamm (try saying that 3 times real fast) comes to Hong Kong Phooey from a long way away.
How about trying croutons.
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... an Arabians Knights live action movie that ties into a Shazzan live action movie with, of course, Samuel L. Jackson as Shazzan, Hayden Panettiere as Nancy and the voice of Jack Black as Kaboobie the flying camel, followed by a $200 million+ live action Herculoids film directed by Ridley Scott! Hell yeah!
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Chairman of the Board (the worst movie) and Family Guy (the worst tv show)
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A movie comes out with a racist joke that wasn't even his idea, and now everyone gives him shit for it.
Well, the movie looks bad, but it was only a matter of time after rocky+bowinkle, Dudley dooright, scooby doo, underdog. :/ -
Zombie Shari Lewis, however, is a well known sell-out.
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