Muppets from Space wasn't entirely terrible. I have no use for "Muppets star in a remake of another franchise" movies tho
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://mubi.com/topics/frank-oz-not-happy-with-the-muppets-from-deadline
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Man or Muppet" was def one of the highest points of the film.
― Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I can see myself quoting years down the line, "If I'm muppet, I'm a very manly muppet. If I'm a man, I'm a muppet of a man."
They’re also worried that Kermit is now a fat cat who lives in a mansion and that the other Muppets now resent his wealth, leading to the “band” breaking up.
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I totally missed this
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
like, I don't remember that being identified as the rationale for their breakup at all
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Was probably in an earlier shooting script, that item is from the summer.
This was better than expected, and I can't imagine quoting anything from it ever. Tho I did leave the theater clucking "Fuck You."
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
saying goodbye is always sad / makes us remember the good times we had
― Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
how long did it take to get that one line out of Mickey Rooney?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Man or Muppet was great
Walter is def the most Mary Sue character to come along since Bella Swan though
― Chris S, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
it's almost like they decided to put Kermit's nephew Robin at the center
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
i think they really underused / poorly used their cameos in this film.
― Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
the great choices (NPH, Silverman) barely had any lines, and the cameos that had many lines (like Jack Black) were basically worthless
Yeah, during the postfilm meal, my wife said "they left out Robin" and I said "nah, they renamed him Walter."
― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
nothing quite as sublime as joan rivers in Manhattan or steve martin
― Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
god its the fuckking muppets they could have gotten anybody so why god why jack black.
eric h. is otm throughout this thread
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
wtf was Selena Gomez and the little kid from Modern Family even doing in this movie?
― Mordy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
the mambo?
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
cuz they're on ABC, part of Disney? xp
Liked Alan Arkin's unenthusiastic scattering of pixie dust, also Amy Adams' 5 seconds of the Chaplin rolls dance. (She was criminally neglected though.)
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
they could have gotten anybody
dunno if this is true really
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Arkin was good
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
i wanted somebody with gravitas. funny muppet cameos are people like vanessa redgrave or maybe jessica lange or hell even steven tyler
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Fozzie doesn't say words like that.
Don't know why people are getting so up in arms about this one.
Also, you do know the chickens were clucking "Forget You," right?
― Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Amy Adams' 5 seconds of the Chaplin rolls dance. (She was criminally neglected though.)
Neglecting Adams is like a "keys to the city"-worthy act.
― Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
I kinda hate her for her part in that terrible Julia and Julia movie. which is (I think?) the only other thing I've seen her in
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
no idea why Morbz likes her
Enchanted?
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
She was good in The Fighter -- washed the cloying taste of the Julie character right out of my brain.
― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
The Fighter is the one and only time I've been anything other than actively annoyed by her.
― Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
See the diff? The adults supply the dirtiness.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
i thought all of the fighter was annoying; she wasn't the worst thing in it so....
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
i mean you do know where mah ná mah ná comes from
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
a papa ná and a mah mah ná
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
THATS DIFFERENT FROM FOZZIE SAYING "FART" WTF IS DA MATTAH WIT U SCREWS
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Adams is the most Muppety actor to appear w/ them since J Denver
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
I want to make a joke about Massive Attack's "Man Next Door" here but it seems labored
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck it, I'm glad Fozzie said "fart shoes" now.
― Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.wikia.com/puppet/images/b/bf/Marionette.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
If they'd made it "whoopee shoes" we'd have to come up with all new reasons to talk about Amy Adams.
― William (C), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
also probably would've meant that Whoopi Goldberg got more lines
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
bullet dodged
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Monday, 28 November 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Were my friends and I the only people to lose their shit during the 'me party' song?
― milo z, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
why didja? Needed to have Piggy and AA together.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
'cause it sounded like a song about masturbation
― milo z, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
cretinous
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
Moar muppet jokes for ye olde spank bank plz
― Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
I purposefully trekked to the Muppet studio in Hollywood in July bcz it's Chaplin's old one. So, better movie with me, eh?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I once saw Chaplin eat a fart shoe with a fork and knife.
― Eric H., Monday, 28 November 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
It's like a kind of tortureTo have to read the posts!
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
true story: i once saw fred durst driving into the muppet studio w/ a six foot drag queen in the passenger seat.
― remy bean in exile, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
Da corn is popping in your face inna 3-D!
― Mordy, Friday, 16 December 2011 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
I realized I didn't really love this* because I was never a Muppet Show fan. I've never seen an episode of it all the way through. So my nostalgia-spot never got touched.
*I didn't hate it either! It was cute and charming enough.
― William (C), Friday, 16 December 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
Who on earth said The Muppets Take Manhattan is the best Muppet movie?! Clearly it was someone who loves antiseptic, shoulder-padded representations of the '80s more than they love fun.
― In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Friday, 16 December 2011 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
i went to see this on tuesday night with someone who, i learned after the movie was over!, had never really watched the muppet show, like, had seen a movie maybe and knew of them 'culturally' or whatevs - i was like, what?? it was his suggestion to see it! no judgment tho... he also thought it was cute and charming. meanwhile i'm totally laughing through the whole thing and tearing up big time when they do the theme song opening number and etc etc etc.this movie made me realize what a huge part of my formative years the muppets were and that without them my sense of humour would not be what it is.i liked this movie.
― rrrobyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
seriously the muppets make me so emotional that i can't even deal, esp at christmastime -- seeing this movie would make me weep in public, which would be muy embarrassing
the muppets/john denver christmas record was one of my favorites as a kid, and i can't even listen to this song but i invite you to try to listen without crying and then tell me how you did it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTkIhq-OGGc&feature=related
― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
i can't even THINK about that song without tearing up a little
― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
I can't even THINK about sriracha sauce without sweating a little. honest.
― Aimless, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
i would eat multiple spoonfuls of sriracha before i listened to "it's in every one of us" in publictoo embarrassing
― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
I rank Manhattan with Caper as the best one. And if you rank any of the first three below any of the ones that followed it, you're criminally insane.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Friday, 16 December 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
Yeah, don't even get me started (I wrote a Facebook post about the awesomeness of A Muppets Family Christmas earlier this week). If I were to enter any particular science, it would be Muppetology.
― In Your Velour Slacks (Hairplug Receipts), Friday, 16 December 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
oh youtube, full of such teary-eyed nostalgia!i think if i'd seen this with my brother or a childhood friend we would have run out into the streets afterwards and been extremely silly
― rrrobyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
basically i haven't seen the new muppets movie because i am not looking forward to crying in public there, i said it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQwLMkaJsyM&feature=related
― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
aggggggghhhhhhhhhhh
― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I saw the movie too, and I think it would be pretty hard to actively dislike
― Hurting, Friday, 16 December 2011 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
But I'm sure someone ITT will try!
i invite you to try to listen without crying and then tell me how you did it
well, not a big fan of Robin the Frog
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 16 December 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
i guess that's not surprising
― league of women voters, Friday, 16 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
thought the new one is fine and all, nothing much to complain about. but i have to say: walter is an ugly muppet! just unattractive. not cute. really doesn't look like much effort went into the little guy's getup.
― andrew m., Friday, 16 December 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
i felt like he was supposed to look like a half-assed nu-80s muppets. and nerdy!
― rrrobyn, Friday, 16 December 2011 16:32 (twelve years ago) link