Geeks of the world rejoice: Futurama is back. After a long wait, today is the official release date of “Bender’s Big Score!“, a 90 minute direct-to-DVD film, that will later be chopped up into the first four episodes of the new season. Filled with geek and nerd references, Futurama is a popular American cartoon series, by Simpsons’ creater Matt Groening, that sadly got cancelled way before its time by the Fox Network. Now, it’s back, and the opening sequence, a big slap in the face of the Fox Network executives, is already a classic. I have already seen the new film, and as a big, big Futurama fan, I can tell you it will not let you down. Three more direct-to-DVD movies are already planned, so go out, buy the DVD, and just like Family Guy, let’s get it back on a regular schedule! My personal favourites: Zapp (s03e02): “That young man fills me with hope and some other emotions that are weird and deeply confusing to me.” And of course the classic sign over Amy Wong’s parents’ house (s04e06): “You came to the Wong place.”
God bless us, every one.
*sniff* (It’s so beautiful…)
It is the greatest movie EVER, iThink iWill se it soon again!
“Good news everyone”
Bender’s back, baby!
Edited 2007-11-27 22:42
Futurmama is great!
The special features are cool too. Especially the Math lecture. I had no idea there were so many math references in the show.
That’s so great news I modded up everybody (even Almafeta
)
Finally. Finally! Come to papa!
Fantastic news! And I’m glad it’s being picked up by a channel I actually get, Comedy Central.
Fine! I’ll go create my own OS…Only this time, with blackjack and hookers!
Forget the OS…and the blackjack!
Many people are hyped about that thing, but after having seen it I have to say it suffers from the same deficits that made the Simpsons movie bad: Lack of good writing, lack of momentum, lack of story structure. It’s a long Futurama episode with the same flat characters acting just as they did in the series with a “story” that feels like a bad episode (Time Travel? Come on, why that amateur move?).
Fans might have fun, but people not religiously attached to Futurama will probably as bored as I was.
Bite my shiny metal ass!
Why would you expect them to act differently?
I disagree. I just finished watching it and I thought it was great! The time travel aspect was well done – just because time travel is often the first refuge of the bad sci-fi writer doesn’t mean you still can’t write a funny story about it.
Oh, and “flat characters?” Give me a break.
Well, too bad for you. No go away, no one here wants to talk to someone who likens appreciating a TV show to being part of a religion. Here’s an idea: go back to writing that funny, well-written, well-structured screenplay filled with three-dimensional characters.
Yes, I can’t imagine why a Futurama story would feature time travel. Why, it’s almost as if mocking the cliches of science fiction is a central premise of the series or something.
Since I stopped watching TV in the late 90’s. However, I was at a friend’s house once and caught part of an episode. I guess the internet was like a 3D world, and they were flying around in it, trying not to get nailed by the flying ads. Guess adblock doesn’t exist in the future
Pretty funny though.
Well, you see, in the future advertisements evolved sentience. Not real sentience, just cookie-cutter spoiled vapid socialite sentience… but that meant they couldn’t turn ’em off.
Not that they didn’t try. Oh, those poor veterans of World Wide Web War III…
futurama was cancelled because half of the writers from the simpsons were pulled to write for it. if you can remember the simpsons episodes while futurama was out, they. were. awful.
that’s why.
Well, the Simpsons didn’t really get any better while Futurama was cancelled…
Fox was expecting something familiar, The Simpsons in space. Executives certainly were not prepared for the bizarre contours of Groening and Cohen’s brave new world. “The network’s attitude quickly went from tremendous excitement to great fear,” Groening says. “They were very troubled by the suicide booth. They didn’t like the ‘All-Tentacle Massage’ parlor.”
Futurama premiered to strong ratings, but as the show was shuffled around the schedule, viewership slipped. Every season, the renewal notice came late — so late that there wasn’t always time to deliver a full slate of episodes. After the fourth season, the people working on the show waited and waited for a renewal notice until they eventually assumed — correctly — that it wasn’t going to come. (c) Wired
That’s why.
Oh! A suicide booth! Tchao the organics!
>futurama was cancelled because half of the writers from the simpsons were pulled to write for it
Actually most of the original Simpsons team was moved to Family’s Guy (a show I don’t like).
Most of Futurama team was formed by people who left Simpsons after it started to decay (after 4th season) and returned.
That’s why Futurama’s writing was everythign the simpson’s weren’t at that point. The show’s writing was just as good if not better than the Simpon’s at its best.
those days geeks got a lots of free time
your toilet seems to be set to ‘stun’, not ‘kill’.
Frye: Where’s the bathroom?
Bender: The what?-room?
Frye: The bathroom.
Bender: The bath-what?
Frye: The bathroom.
Bender: The what?-what?
Frye: Ah, nevermind.
Bender: Not enough room? My place is two cubic meters, and we only take up 1.5 cubic meters. We’ve got room for a whole other two thirds of a person!
Edited 2007-11-28 11:27
This is so cool! Wooooohoooooooo!
Supposedly the funniest parts of the movie involve Al Gore (who played himself). I did enjoy him in the series
The front of the DVD box says “Carbon Neutral” as well…Thought that was a riot.
Maybe I should watch it?
“Our kitten-class attack ships were no match for their chairs!”
…I took the liberty of fertilizing the caviar..
I’m not as big a fan of velour as you, sir.
Yep. We call them “land sea lions”. I tame them.
Leela: “What’s the secret of time travel doing tatooed on Fry’s ass?”
Fry: “It was bound to be *somewhere*.”
I discovered it this year, (airing on NRJ12 french DVB-T channel), and got hook to it… But then they put the 3rd (I think) season, that didn’t get the same dub voices for Leela and others, and hmm… I really want to switch to the english version :^)
series? I thought they were just doing the four DVD movies and showing each one on TV as four episodes (next movie is due in 6 months *ish* apparently).
I’d be over-joyed if there’s a series to go with each one though. There have been hints in interviews I’ve read that there is a series too, but I haven’t seen any concrete confirmation..?
That’s sixteen episodes; a season is usually defined as 13 episodes.
A season / series can be any number of episodes. Lost averages at more than 20 where as some british cult comedies often have as little as 6 episodes a series (Faulty Towers for example)
Yes but they’re not being released together, they’re being released around six months apart. A series or season is usually shown in one or two parts over a period of less than a year.
It seems (according to Wikipedia) that these films are all that’s planned for now at least, but they’ll have extra material when showed on TV.
Heyyy pretty mama… want to kill all humans?
But I really really cheered for Fry. Yes yes, I’m sad but that guy resonates with me on so many levels
Farnsworth: These are the dark matter engine I invented. They allow my starship to travel between galaxies in mere hours.
Cubert: That’s impossible. You can’t go faster than the speed of light.
Farnsworth: Of course not. That’s why scientists increased the speed of light in 2208.
Edited 2007-11-28 11:22
“you’re obviously confused and aroused”
Zap
—-
“Everybody get into bed with me”
Farnsworth
“It’s beautiful!” “Can I touch it?”
“They’re called the Brain Balls. Word is, they’ve got a lot of brains – and they’ve got a lot of… chutzpah.”
‘Those who fired those who were fired have been fired”
Very close relationship between firing the incompetent licensor-board and firing the firing firing-staff firing subtitlers…
or some such thing.
Now if only this could happen with Firefly. Too bad Whedon killed it off (for me) with Serenity.
Fox does have a knack for cancelling good shows. Or maybe good shows have a knack for being more expensive to produce than crap. Either way, it’s a loss.
I watched Firefly after serenity and I must say that Serenity does the show very little justice. The Show was incredible and I only regret missing it when it first came out. This could have been an emmy winning show if it were on the right network and if it were still around. I loved the show but I feel cheated because I never got to see where it was going and the movie gave me very little to no closure after watching the show. Screw fox, they can put crap like Kithcen nightmare;s on but can’t keep a decent show on if it smacked them in their faces and family guy had to literally bitch smack them before they put it back on.
I wish someone had a good reason why Futurama got canned, but King of the Hill still airs…
Now that’s very puzzling indeed.
Box network executives work in mysterious ways.
i enjoyed my colonoscopy slightly more than watching this over hyped garbage, and i love the futurama series. to bad they decided not to go out in style. it was almost as flat as the simpsons movie.
i call them as i sees them, whale biologist.
Edited 2007-11-29 06:37
Maybe you just prefer outpatient anal medical procedures over what really is just a movie. I wouldn’t exactly call it over hyped, as we haven’t been inundated with Futurama ads/reviews/whatever.
I watched it last night, and thought it was pretty good. I can see that is it really meant to be spread over several episodes, as the story seems to be written that way, but over all, I thought it was a pretty good flick.
Edited 2007-11-29 13:41