If they ever made a movie...

Yeah I can't believe it's been 3 years either! Wow, time really is flying by. I remeraber how excited I was for the movie. I remeraber going to a 7-11 that was turned into a Kwik-E-Mart and screaming like a little girl hahahaa Honestly, the movie reminded me of the old simpsons, where the show was actually very good and hilarious. I'm glad the movie was actually great.
 
It took me a while to see the movie...I remeraber when I used to co-mod the board...Cyn and I still hadn't seen it until way later :lol:

Can't believe it's been 3 years already :eek:
 
Ned had a lot of funny lines in the movie. Usually he's not one of my favorite characters, but I loved him in the movie, especially when he made the hot cocoa for Bart. :)

I remeraber going to see the movie when it came out, can't believe it's been almost 3 years now! Where has all that time gone?
 
This is pretty interesting reading back what posters thought about if they made a movie :) Especially after now that they did make a movie and the plot of it and all.
 
I found this thread on the last page (34), when there was no The Simpsons Movie. I thought it would be interesting to see what we said back then.
 
I wouldn't mind seeing a Simpsons movie. The "22 short films about springfield"-esque idea sounRAB good, but there'd have to be some big event in it at the end, cos otherwise it'd be like watching a drawn out movie.

I think I'd like to see a SImpsons Road Trip type thing or a Indiana Jone/The Goonies adventure thing like they do with Rugrats.
 
Personally i`m taking a taking a wait and see attitude about the movie. However i do have to say that the movie will have to be something mindblowing and take the Simpsons place it hasn`t been before. Plus it wouldn`t be too much to see them do a Matrix parody, which they haven`t done, except for when Bart was putting up doorknob flyers for that Thai food place.
 
The bigger, longer, uncut deal doesn't appeal to me much. As we discussed earlier, can the simpsons stretch themselves into a full length feature film? Maybe if they brought back some of the old writers, from way back, season 4 kinda thing.

I'm nervous about it all.. but I'll say this much, I'll be first in line when that day finally comes.

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Claire
 
After I read this, the news about the movie started popping up everywhere. TV Guide confirmed it with a mini blurb on pre-pre-pre-production of the film.
 
From E!Online

"The Simpsons" Movie...Finally?
By Joal Ryan

In 1993, Matt Groening, in a caveman-era Internet chat, was asked if there'd ever be a Simpsons movie. He didn't say yes, he didn't say no. He said a film "is way down the line."

He wasn't kidding.

More than 10 years since that Net moment and more than 15 years since Groening's animated clan made their TV debut, The Simpsons is finally getting ready for its close-up.

Maybe.

Fox's feature-film animation division is "in the very early stages of developing an idea for the movie," exec Chris Meledandri said in Wednesday's Daily Variety.

Per the trade paper, "at least seven" veteran Simpsons writers, including Groening and executive producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean, are at work on a script.

Buzz about the long talked about Simpsons movie buzzed anew Tuesday when DVDFanatic.com posted an interview with producer Mike Reiss, another scribe apparently on the 'toon's big-screen development team.

Reiss told the Website he could see Homer, et al., debuting in theaters in summer or Christmas 2006.

"It's a reality after being just sort of this phantom idea," Reiss said on DVDFantatic.com. "I think it is really gonna happen."

Reiss essentially has been saying the same thing at college campuses the nation over for at least a year. The Simpsons fan site the Simpsons Archive has a comprehensive rundown of all the times cast and crew, Reiss included, have blabbed about a big-screener.

Something about Reiss' latest statement must have hit home. Fox, on behalf of Brooks, was prompted to release a statement to Variety, confirming the very poorly kept secret yet cautioning against reserving your tickets today.

"This is our idea of how to whip up enthusiasm for an idea that hasn't been formed yet," Brooks said in the statement.

To be sure, Reiss didn't have any specifics to offer, promising only that The Simpsons movie would bigger, longer and uncut. Any reserablance to 1999's South Park movie is purely intentional.

Last year, Groening told the Hollywood Reporter that South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut was the only movie based on a TV show that wasn't "horrible."

Picking up on the theme, Reiss, in a talk last year at Drexel University, said that "there was a Scooby-Doo movie so there will be a Simpsons movie," per the campus paper The Triangle.

And like Scooby-Doo, Reiss joked, The Simpsons movie is "gonna suck pretty hard."

According to Reiss, Fox has wanted to do a Simpsons movie since President Bush's father was President Bush.

"Finally Fox said, 'Let's just do it!' " Reiss told DVDFanatic.com. "We never had the greatest idea that was compelling, but Fox said, 'Maybe if we start paying you, you'll get inspired.' And sure enough it worked!"

Now 15 TV seasons old, The Simpsons hasn't been dulled by the weekly grind, averaging 12.9 million viewers so far this season, the Fox network's most-watched scripted series.

While it may be best not to consider the movie a sure thing until it's in theaters, the prime-time 'toon is, already renewed through at least 2004-05.
 
I think I short films would work instead of one 2 hr. movie, maybe tack it onto the beginning or end of a feature length film. IMO, The Simpsons is a short attention span show, yet part of the appeal is catching the details -- chalkboard gag, couch gag, parody references, etc.
 
There's been rumors, of course. But I think I remeraber hearing somewhere that they said they wouldn't make a movie until after the series was over. The issue was trying to create a full length feature with characters whose antics are only funny in small doses.

So here's a question, if they ever made a movie, what would it be like? What kind of story would it have? Which characters would be shown? Would there be any guest appearances? How could they honour 15 years (or however many it would be at that point) of hilarity in 1 and a half to 2 hours?

I think a "22 short films about springfield"-esque story would work well. All the characters get their own little moment, but it would all tie in somehow. Except... ya know, a different story. One that's not so pulp fiction-y
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. Actually, there's another intersting point... should they include parodies? How would you pick a parody for a movie like this? Would you have to include many? Would that make it too cluttered?

Oh, the possibilities....

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Claire

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