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Re: The Simpsons movie sucked. by Bananadine 09/15/2007, 2:50pm PDT
Zseni wrote:

I dunno, I can't really say anything cute or funny about it. It was just awful. Actually it was depressing and awful.


Yes. I thought of this just now because I have been watching the first season of Wonder Showzen, and I'm having trouble comprehending how a show as hilarious and awesome as that could be sort of a sleeper cult whatever (I haven't heard much about it anyway) while The Simpsons and Family Guy are the hugest things ever. I guess it's partly because Wonder Showzen is too sharp or offensive or something for the mainstream, and yet to my eye it's the other shows that are offensive, because they don't engage with the ugliness they portray. In the Simpsons movie we are supposed to accept that Homer is the stupidest, evilest person in Springfield, which is potentially okay since stupid, evil characters open up lots of opportunities for humor. But then this is used as a motivation to finally break his relationship with Marge, who is supposed to be a good and somewhat sympathetic character though she still loves Homer, which is about the least understandable thing anybody could do in this fictional universe... yet we're supposed to care about it enough to accept it as the central premise of the movie. That is BS and it poisons all the jokes even though some of them are awfully clever still.

I wish they would either accept that Homer is no longer human, and let their world slide into full unrealism and absurdity, or fricking give him back the heart he had like ten years ago and find a more respectable source of humorous hijincks. Or just end the series already.
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The Simpsons movie sucked. by Zseni 08/18/2007, 5:13pm PDT NEW
    tl;dr NT by The Internet 08/18/2007, 5:38pm PDT NEW
    I still want a live-action Simpsons movie starring Gary Oldman as Homer. NT by Jerry Whorebach 08/18/2007, 5:51pm PDT NEW
    Stop watching movies that look terrible and go watch Ratatouille instead. by Fullofkittens 08/20/2007, 6:58am PDT NEW
        Re: Stop watching movies that look terrible and go watch Ratatouille instead. by Zseni 08/20/2007, 6:02pm PDT NEW
    Re: The Simpsons movie sucked. by Bananadine 09/15/2007, 2:50pm PDT NEW
 
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