[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

Watched The Muppets (2011) Saturday night. I was very impressed. Good story, good music and great movie.

Only slight "drawback" that I have with the movie is that Frank Oz decided not to participate with it and did not do the voices of his characters, Fozzy and Miss Piggy. I could tell a little with Piggy, but Fozzy was very obvious to me.
 
Honestly with what Oz did made me glad he didn't join in. What a douchenozzle.
Well, it sounded like he was pissed they passed over his screenplay revival of the Muppets for Seagals, so I get being annoyed about it. I mean, imagine if you were a integral part of something huge and then when the time came to revive it your ideas got thrown out. I'm not saying he was fair to this movie, he clearly wasn't, but I can see that making a person a little bitter. Hopefully he sees it and changes his mind.
 
The Muppets is better than any of the Oz directed Muppet movies while still making me feel like the 4 year old boy with a broken leg watching Muppet Show reruns on CBC. It was amazing and it was the best first date movie ever. Fuck this weekend ruled.

Jason Segal is pretty fucking talented.
 
ALL HAIL THE HOBO KING!

The soundtrack for the muppets movie is $5 in mp3 format at amazon right now. I don't know if it's a sale or if that's what it'll cost forever, but on itunes it's $10 so I assume it might be referred to as "a good deal":

http://www.amazon.com/The-Muppets/dp/B0065KT0LE

Keep in mind that the itunes version has one additional song, which appears to be the original rainbow connection, but you can buy that one separately and still come out cheaper than the itunes album.

There are 13 songs on the album, the other 17 tracks are sound bites from the movie.
 
ALL HAIL THE HOBO KING!

The soundtrack for the muppets movie is $5 in mp3 format at amazon right now. I don't know if it's a sale or if that's what it'll cost forever, but on itunes it's $10 so I assume it might be referred to as "a good deal":

http://www.amazon.com/The-Muppets/dp/B0065KT0LE

Keep in mind that the itunes version has one additional song, which appears to be the original rainbow connection, but you can buy that one separately and still come out cheaper than the itunes album.

There are 13 songs on the album, the other 17 tracks are sound bites from the movie.
Nobody remembers hobo Joe...
 
*sob* I bought the Muppets soundtrack. I warn you. Do not buy it! I haven't been able to stop listening to it since buying it! YOU WILL BECOME OBSESSED!
 
<--- Confession: I've never been a fan of the Muppets. Never could get through a single one of their movies. They hold zero appeal to me.

Only one who I ever found slightly amusing was Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. Otherwise? Nope.

*This isn't a troll, it's a straight up confession.

inb4youhavenosoulandoryoudlikethemiftherewasamurderingpuppet
 
inb4youhavenosoulandoryoudlikethemiftherewasamurderingpuppet
There was a murdering muppet, The Swedish Chef! You should see what he does to food. ;)

Everyone is allowed their own opinions and likes. Yours is just wrong on this.

***Runs for his life now***


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Everyone is allowed their own opinions and likes. Yours is just wrong on this.
I don't think even that joke works because she didn't pull a Charlie "what you like sucks and what I like is best in life". She didn't voice an opinion on them; she just said she never saw the appeal.
 
It's more a musical that happens to have the muppets than it is a muppet movie, in fact.
While I get the concept you're going for, given the references and in-jokes from previous muppet media and how they hit the tone and style of the muppets so well, saying it's a "musical that happens to have the muppets" is an insult to all the work they did. It's definitely a muppet movie, just one written to be able to be someone's first exposure to the muppets.
 
While I get the concept you're going for, given the references and in-jokes from previous muppet media and how they hit the tone and style of the muppets so well, saying it's a "musical that happens to have the muppets" is an insult to all the work they did. It's definitely a muppet movie, just one written to be able to be someone's first exposure to the muppets.
As someone who'd just watched The Muppet Movie before going to see The Muppets, I agree. They honed in on a lot of the atmosphere, timing, and similar sense of humor to the older films. It felt like it belonged right alongside Muppet Movie, Muppet Caper, and Manhattan.
 
As someone who'd just watched The Muppet Movie before going to see The Muppets, I agree. They honed in on a lot of the atmosphere, timing, and similar sense of humor to the older films. It felt like it belonged right alongside Muppet Movie, Muppet Caper, and Manhattan.
Which are the only good muppets films as far as I'm concerned.
 
Or Muppet Treasure Island?

Really, the only muppet movie that I found to be bad was the one where Gonzo thinks he's an alien.

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Though, I do exclude any Seseme Street Movies. I don't really include those movies under the Muppet umbrella.
 
All I've really seen is the Muppet movies, or at least A Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Family Christmas, and my favourite, Muppet Treasure Island.
 
He's missing The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppets from Space, It's a Very Muppet Christmas Movie and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz.
 
I've seen most of them The Muppet Movie, Caper and Manhattan are the best of the bunch by far. The rest lack a lot of the magic those movies had and are really more kids movies than movies that kids and adults can enjoy equally IMO.
 
There's actually ANOTHER Muppet Christmas movie that no one has mentioned yet as well. But I'm pretty sure that, like "It's a Very Muppet Christmas" and "Muppets' Wizard of Oz", it was both made for television, and terrible.
 
I liked that movie too, but I wouldn't put it in the Muppets category. Basically, if it doesn't feature the main characters, Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, Mrs Piggy, then I don't really consider it a muppet movie, rather a Jim Henson Production.

For example, My favorite movie Labyrith. Man, that company can work magic with puppets.
 
Give me a Henson studios going fullbore with the puppets any day over the current crop of mostly drek CG family fare.

Loves me some Dark Crystal.

Also, Farscape is the best sci-fi tv show ever, above all.
 
Well, to be fair, there were really bad puppet companies too.

Jim Henson Productions is to puppetry as Pixar is to CG. IMO
 
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