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Post by PoolMan on Dec 17, 2003 12:40:21 GMT -5
Good God, you've got to be kidding.I don't know what inspired someone to come up with a CGI/live action Garfield movie, but man oh man, check out the list of names involved on this thing! I couldn't watch the trailer (endless HTML errors every time I moused over the button to launch the movie), but even still, this scares me. A lot. |
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Post by Hucklebubba on Dec 17, 2003 13:13:18 GMT -5
It's stuff like this that makes me wonder if the Second Law of Thermodynamics also applies to the quantity of good original material. (Hope I got the right law.)
This, from the same guy who normally decries all original material as being of the devil, and calls for the perpetual rehashing of all things 80s.
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Post by druidGirl on Dec 17, 2003 14:15:42 GMT -5
Well, I don't know, it was written by the same people who wrote Toy Story. I liked Toy Story and used to watch Garfield and Friends all the time on Saturday mornings. Does anyone remember Garfield and Friends?
I mean, not that I'm excited about the whole thing, it's just I'm not going to bash it just yet.
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Post by Baalek on Dec 17, 2003 15:15:16 GMT -5
Garfield and Friends ruled. I don't know about this... Bill Murray is awesomeness personified, I mean he's Venkman for goodness sake... but I still don't know. If Lorenzo Music (the original voice of Garfield from the cartoon) was still alive to do the voice, I would be there in two seconds... as it is, I'll see it anyway, but I'm not sure if it's gonna be good or not (then again, that's what I say about almost everything).
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Post by Al on Dec 17, 2003 16:12:50 GMT -5
Garfield and Friends was definitely a childhood staple, and, hey, you can't go wrong with the guy who directed Thunderpants, right? Right? Guys?
Al
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Post by Genetic Mishap on Dec 17, 2003 16:42:29 GMT -5
Well, I don't know, it was written by the same people who wrote Toy Story. Justin may not like to hear that one of the guys who wrote Toy Story was also one of the guys who did Titan A.E. |
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Post by puggyd on Dec 17, 2003 17:01:23 GMT -5
This movie carries the Breckin Meyer seal of approval. So it MUST be good.
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Post by Der Germ on Dec 17, 2003 17:05:44 GMT -5
Okay, I might have thought this movie were awesome during the aforementioned childhood in which the cartoon was still playing. But now that it's not on TV, most kids won't really understand the cartoon as much as we not-quite-children-anymore. I think the movie could be lost on people. It's been a long while since the cartoon was last on, and unless you read the weekly newspaper comics you won't really care about a fat orange cat.
That, and what little the trailer shows me, I don't know WHAT the heck is going on with that movie.
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Post by Uber on Dec 17, 2003 17:22:27 GMT -5
And now today's math lesson:
CGI Garfield + real dog Odie + hottie Jennifer Love Hewitt all frumpled up = very confused Uber
Come on, Hollywood! Stop using that same scene from Risky Business. Yes, it's got the awesomeness of Murray in it. However, let us not forget that this is the same awesomeness that was in "The Man Who Knew Too Little". Not everything the man touches is gold. No matter how much perfume you put on a dung heap, it's still a pile of crap.
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Post by gregslagel on Dec 17, 2003 19:39:16 GMT -5
I just saw the poster for the Garfield last night.
Manomanomanomanoman.
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why?
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Post by Head Mutant on Dec 17, 2003 20:59:47 GMT -5
Saw the trailer, hated it. Never really disliked Garfield before now, but seeing him as a really fat animated cat... well, I hate cats. And obnoxious fat ones who aren't funny in two minutes of editing don't have a chance in my heart.
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Post by PoolMan on Dec 17, 2003 22:02:29 GMT -5
Finally got to see the trailer when I got home. Yep, I'm pretty sure I don't get the point of this.
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Post by gregslagel on Dec 18, 2003 5:31:34 GMT -5
I checked out the trailer right after I saw the link on here. I like Murray on the voice. It seems very fitting, reminiscent of the old cartoon I grew up with (side note: that show is not Nearly as good as I remembered it being.) However, I do not like, at all, the idea of a live-action Garfield movie. Ugh. I mean... ugh.
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Post by Lissa on Dec 18, 2003 8:46:22 GMT -5
Okay, I might have thought this movie were awesome during the aforementioned childhood in which the cartoon was still playing. But now that it's not on TV, most kids won't really understand the cartoon as much as we not-quite-children-anymore. I think the movie could be lost on people. What's to understand? My problem with turning Garfield into a movie is that there was never much to the strip anyway. (Okay, let's start with the fact I don't think ANY comic strip would work too well as a full-fledged movie). I mean, Garfield loves lasagna (can't blame him on that) and is lazy. John is clueless. Odie is even more so. Garfield is contemptuous of them. There's not exactly a plot here to work with. I do admit that I enjoyed Garfield's Christmas special- the one where they went out to the farm. But a half hour (or 22 minutes when you took out commercials) was about the perfect length for it. It's a four-joke strip. How are they going to make a movie from it? Liss |
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Post by Head Mutant on Dec 18, 2003 10:44:19 GMT -5
Hey, hollywood execs are convinced they can make a movie out of ANYthing at this point, even if the source material -- be it a 100-word childrens book, a light and fluffy haunted house in Disneyworld, or a gum wrapper -- is light enough to be blown away. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that I'd rather prefer Hollywood taking a large source material and be faced with the task of paring it down to a film (Harry Potter, LOTR) than taking a very small source material and having to create details and plots to cover up 120 minutes of silence.
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