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Herc Finds Hilarious The New RINGS-Spoofing FUTURAMA MOVIE III: BENDER’S GAME!!

Woohoo! by raw_bean	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:14:15 PM
I liked Bender's Big Score quite a bit, but Beast with a Billion Backs was fairly poor by Futurama standards. Really hoping Bender's Game is a return to greatness though!
Awesome! by TheAFLACDuck	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:14:28 PM
Glad to hear it rocks! ... who's Neela?
This site has been so wrong on the other movies by V'Shael	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:14:30 PM
giving good reviews for lamentable pieces of shit.
A rings spoof, how timely by beetlegeuse	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:14:34 PM
Glad to hear its funny
As long as the Rust Monster at the vet is mentioned... by Squashua	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:15:15 PM
...I'm golden.
Saw it over the weekend... by Lenny Nero	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:16:22 PM
...it threatens some lameness during the final 30 minutes, but it's still extremely funny. Still, "Bender's Big Score" was incredible, and none of the other movies have come close.
Also, FRIST (sic), and with a meaningful post. by raw_bean	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:17:42 PM
All the dopes who go to such great trouble to get first posts without even reading the article and then blurt their nonsense on the top of talkbacks, I laugh at you. I read and enjoyed the whole thing, and actually offered my opinion, and still got a coveted 'first'. If it had any kind of physical manifestation I'd throw it away just to reinforce my contempt for such nonsense.
seen it by Mr. Flibble	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:19:21 PM
all over BT, thought it a bit dull actually. Starts off interesting and relevant enuf with the fuel issues but then it deteorates into a parody that may have been worth a watch a few years ago, and I mean may. Think it (like the previous "movies" suffers plotwise like the Office last season from being drawn out over several episodes. Futurama, like the Simpsons, often has a very random or obscure plot or plot change which in a shorter format can work well and keep things interesting but in the lo9nger format it just goes on a bit too long. There are funny moments (Morbos weight gain on the forehead) and i'd recommend it to any Futurama fan but I hope they get picked up for a full season and can get back to producing short and sweet episodes rather than these drawn out affairs...
By which I meant... by raw_bean	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:22:59 PM
...if I had any kind of physical manifestation of the first post, not if I personally possessed a physical form. Obviously.
Increasingly popular? by Don Lockwood	Nov 3rd, 2008 05:27:07 PM
Yeah, not if you listen to the pundits who say Blu-Ray is already dead. http://tinyurl.com/69bf5l
It's pretty great by infallible	Nov 3rd, 2008 06:15:16 PM
I got to see this last week as part of an early sneak preview screening at the amazing Alamo Drafthouse here in beautiful Austin, Texas. Herc's right, as usual, in that this is really funny, and well worth your valuable time. Takei's part is very small, but funny (though not really needing to be on the press sheet). I'll probably rent it just for the DVD extras.
The first of the three films I've been a little dissapointed wit by Subtlety	Nov 3rd, 2008 06:24:41 PM
It's pretty funny, but plays it ridiculously safe. It has none of the pathos or creativity of BBS or BwaBB. Basically, if BBS is tonally similar to episodes like "Roswell that Ends Well" (epic, emotional, plotty) and BwaBB is similar to episodes like "Godfellas" (dense, experimental, philosophical, but slightly off target) then Bender's Game is best compared to something like "A Leela of her own". That is to say, its pretty amusing, but has a pretty simple, trivial plot and leans a little heavily on broad parody (especially the LOTR bit at the end). It's not a disaster, actually its pretty fun and I'll definitely be buying it, but it just felt kind of slight to me considering the last two. Sort of like, "they get brought back for one more season and THIS is the story they felt deserved a full-length movie treatment?" Ah well. Hopefully they'll make a bundle on these and get to keep making more movies after the four are complete.
What is "Futurama"? by Drunken Rage	Nov 3rd, 2008 06:27:14 PM
Wasn't that the name of some remarkably unfunny cartoon show that got canceled from a couple of networks? Yeah, that's what I thought.
Drunken Rage? by shellfishh	Nov 3rd, 2008 06:36:04 PM
More like drunken fool. You are pitiful and pitied. I've been less than impressed with the previous movies. Glad to have them around, but I don't like how they are handling the characters. Fry and Leela going backwards, Amy cheating on Kif (even if he was 'dead') LaBarbara, the way she acted toward Hermes in the first one. It just doesn't ring true to the characters.
Yeah (hic), whatever raw_bean is talking about... by morGoth	Nov 3rd, 2008 06:46:47 PM
...ha-ha...LAST! Oh, erm, yes...looking forward to this and especially Frydo. One question: What's the use of animation done for Blu-ray? WOn't it be the same line art with spiffy shading? Just curious and I don't care since I'll be watching this on my trusty DVD upconvert player. Namarie...
Middling to great reviews - who to believe?? by loserguy3000	Nov 3rd, 2008 07:09:54 PM
I keep hearing mixed things. Fans seem to love it, but others seem...meh. I dunno, but I'll certainly be renting it after I go and votes tomorrow! Here's another look I found: http://tinyurl.com/6flnu4
The best one yet by GeorgieBoy	Nov 3rd, 2008 07:31:37 PM
Finally, a Futurama movie that actually feels like one of the episodes!! Although, I still didn't get the alternate universe thing...
dire and unfunny by floatybrownthing	Nov 3rd, 2008 07:35:38 PM
The jokes weren't relevant anymore, in fact I think I laughed at more jokes in meet the spartans than I did with this effort. Yeah. That makes me genuinely sad to say that,but if this is the calibre of futurama in the future, then I think it's high time to put it to bed. either that, or take it out into the field one last time with your shotgun and put it to sleep permanently, because it was shockingly bad. Seriously. Don't listen to herc, he's just giving yet another positive review so he can pick up some comission from his amazon sales.
Not perfect, but pretty damned good by toshiro-solo	Nov 3rd, 2008 08:14:34 PM
And it has my favorite Futurama joke in any of the movies thus far - the bunny bit. You'll know it when you see it.
its crap by vadakinX	Nov 3rd, 2008 08:40:23 PM
its been out here for a week already...I've seen it...its better than the last one but not by much...Futurama just isn't as funny as it was and not as clever either. It's also lost a lot of the heart from the series. Frankly I haven't been impressed by any of these "movies" and after being oh so excited to see Futurama come back I'm beginning to wonder if it would have been better off dead and remembered as a great show instead of being remembered as a show that was great but then got worse as it went on.
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eh i liked BwaBB better by Holodigm	Nov 3rd, 2008 11:32:44 PM
it's nice and funny and all, but spending over a half hour on the LotR spoof really threw me off. it was funny, but felt like 30 minutes of bad family guy filler.
I'm curious of the cover is a reference to by Dingbatty	Nov 4th, 2008 12:34:05 AM
Frazetta's painting for The Moon Maid? : http://tinyurl.com/5lc2wr
Saw it... by tomdolan04	Nov 4th, 2008 01:51:42 AM
and sadly agree about it losing the heart of the series. After the series ended I was insanely excited to hear about these four DVD's - now I could give or take the last one. It still had moments but they were few and far between. Also - did anyone else think the sex references were waaaay beyond the usual Futurama? It was weird - the shower scene was something straight out of fanfic, in quite an uncomfortable way.
Blu-ray is DEAD... by Bill Clay	Nov 4th, 2008 02:17:15 AM
ZD Net and Steve Jobs can't be wrong- http://tinyurl.com/5qthrl
goddamnit, it works so much better with 20 minutes by David Cloverfield	Nov 4th, 2008 03:00:41 AM
Silly plots and jokes don't stay out their welcome. It forces the writers to be tighter (no place for dialogue they don't believe in a 100%) More variety between settings... I really wish someone gave them a shot to make simple episodes. (It's not an accident they didn't even have two-parters when the show was on.) The crew is still good, they're just crippled by the "movie format"
The movies are a different beast than the shows. by rbatty024	Nov 4th, 2008 06:46:19 AM
As people have mentioned, the stories aren't as tight and there is a little more filler, but I still think the movies are pretty damn good. Bender's Big Score was up there with some of the finer episodes, and while Beast with a Billion Backs wasn't quite as good, the whole thing with Yivo was so batshits crazy that it really took me two viewings in order to really appreciate it. I watched both of these movies a second time when they hit TV and, like most Futurama, they're even better the second time.
shellfishh by Drunken Rage	Nov 4th, 2008 09:11:41 AM
If you don't agree with my opinion, that's fine. But... name calling? What are you, 12?
Not even close to the other 2! by Timelord2112	Nov 4th, 2008 11:04:46 AM
Bender's Game was decent, all Futurama is good on some level but the first two movies were way better than this one. I like the DnD stuff, and Mom and her bumbling sons are always fun but the fantasy world stuff was not spectacula (and this comes fom someone who loves Lord of the Rings and Futurama). I don't know what he means by being way better than Beast with a Billion Backs...I have watched that one several times and it is drop dead awesome. Futurama is like sex, even when it isn't that good, its still great! But I disagree this was better than the previous movie. This is my third favorite Futurama new movie.
This story.... by Subtlety	Nov 4th, 2008 12:23:42 PM
would have been much better served as separate episodes. Unlike the first two films, which use the expanded format to tell huge, complicated, and epic stories, this is a pretty small story with a long parody shoehorned in. The fantasy parody works about as well as the parody of Wizard of Oz in Tales of Interest II, but goes on longer and amounts to less. If they were going to go fantasy on us, they should have set the whole movie in the fantasy world to give it time to develope a life of its own, rather than just a generic spoof. As it is, it's sort of a bland parody which still takes up a third of the film's overall runtime, which makes it just wasted time as far as the plot goes (since the whole fantasy bit has no relation whatsoever to anything about the dark matter). Actually, the 'real world' parts are pretty solid, its just that this doesn't really deserve a movie treatment. Futurama is way too good to be wasting its time on LotR parodies. It's still probably worth a buy, though, especially if you want to see the series continue. I think if it does get to live, they ought to go back to episodes but allow themselves longer story arcs and two-or-three-parters when they make sense in order to tell a bigger story.
I enjoyed Bender's Game more than the other 2 by ls420	Nov 4th, 2008 01:48:31 PM
great flick, didnt seem like a bunch of episodes stuck together.
So not interested, I'm not even gonna DL it. by V'Shael	Nov 4th, 2008 07:10:04 PM
But glad to see that many other Futurama fans like myself know a rotting corpse when we see one. Herc ol buddy, I'd call you a sell out if I didn't think your rave review could be explained by your poor taste.
V-Shael by Subtlety	Nov 5th, 2008 12:15:00 PM
really? I am consistently amazed that self-professed "Futurama Fans" get so angry at the new ones, which as far as I'm concerned stand (at times, anyway) with the best of the series. Why is it a rotten corpse? Seems to me like the writers, animators, and actors are more lively, imaginative, and focused than ever before (in fact, I think that is why this new film was something of a letdown to me, it doesn't feel nearly as risky or ambitious as the first two). I don't mean to attack you at all - after all, your opinion is your opinion. But I would be interested in a list of your top favorite episodes of the series. I have a feeling that Futurama is a show that was liked for very different reasons by different people. For me, my favorite episodes are things like "The Sting" "Godfellas" "Roswell that Ends Well" and "The Luck of the Fryrish". They're episodes which to me very much embrace the pantheon of sci-fi literature and film which inspired the series (other episodes, like "That's Lobstertainment" are funny enough but feel like they could just as easily be good episodes of "The Simpsons" with a few tweaks). To me, it feels like the films fit right into the vein of episodes I like, in fact, they seem directly in line of where the series was going when it was canceled the first time. Again, I'm not trying to hate on you, I'm genuinely curious about your reply.
Subtlety: by V'Shael	Nov 5th, 2008 02:48:55 PM
I'm not angry at these movies. I just don't care. I was really excited for the first one, and while I lost my excitement I still watched the second one. But when I found myself reading a book before the end of the movie, instead of watching the damn movie, I knew it was a failure. This time around, I can't even summon up the effort to bother downloading the thing to watch it for free. Give me my season 1-4 DVD's. I can watch them over and over again. I'll just pretend these movies didn't happen. Favourite episodes in NO particular order : in addition to the 4 you mention (easily among my faves) I have to say that I HATED the Lobstertainment episode. I've seen it once. I'll never watch it again. It was just THAT bad. I'd also include "Where No Fan has Gone Before", the What-If episodes, any episode with the floating brains but particularly the one where we find out Nibbler was in the lab in 1999. Sorry, some titles escape me right now. I've had a lot to drink with Obama being declared the victor. I kind of liked the one where Fry's girlfriend came back for an episode, and the show's finale with the Devil's Idle Hands is also a fave. The movies, to me, seem very unlike the episodes. In humour, they are more Lobstertainment than anything else. I can honestly say I didn't laugh once at the movies, and was actually offended by the way they retroactively fucked with the ending of Jurassic Bark.
If it wasn't clear, those were episodes I liked. by V'Shael	Nov 5th, 2008 02:50:33 PM
Lobstertainment was the one I hated.
huh by Subtlety	Nov 5th, 2008 03:40:51 PM
well I'll be damned, sounds like we pretty much agree on the series. Those ones you mention I agree 100% on. To me, the first two movies are equally clever, funny, and seeped in sci-fi tradition. I agree there are some weak notes in the movies, but I think overall their scope and imagination wins me over. Not to sound patronizing, but if you've only seen them once I strongly reccomend watching them again; I found myself liking them more with each repeated viewing, after at first being kind of underwhelmed. Now, they stand among my favorites. But then again, I'm a prequel apologist too. Yes we can!
btw by Subtlety	Nov 5th, 2008 03:49:44 PM
You might try watchin 'em as separate episodes. I think they work slightly better that way; they're a bit easier to digest and, I think, less tonally jarring during between acts.
V'Shael... by wyvern	Nov 6th, 2008 07:30:25 PM
I didn't care that much for the first two movies but this third one was great.I downloaded each one too but this is the first one I can say for sure I will buy its just that good.
I'm with you Subtlety. by Gilkuliehe	Nov 13th, 2008 09:43:34 AM
All you said, I agree. That is all.

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