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The Simpsons Movie
2007 · Film · 87 min
Directed by David Silverman
After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
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The theme song can be "Spiderpig" from The Simpsons Movie, but it's hypersnake.
The entire premise of The Simpsons Movie is an artifact of another time. Sigh.
NSA mass surveillance was literally a gag in the Simpsons movie years before Edward Snowden.
It won't matter if people are too unintelligent to understand it. The message has effectively been lost for a few hundred years.
The Simpsons movie demonstrated it best-- Grandpa has a heart attack or something at church, Marge asks "what do we do?" and Homer desperately flips through a Bible "looking for answers, but I can't find any!"
People take it too literally and subversives overemphasize the Old Testament, especially in pointing out "inconsistencies." It's an extended fairy tale, not a historical record. Nobody walks on water, but anything is possible if you believe [in stagecraft]. Getting cursed by plague and loss of family is easier to handle if you reframe the situation as a test of your willpower ("faith"). We aren't meant to do what Biblical figures did, only to think like they did to solve problems. If someone steals your glove, give them the other not because you're a chump, but because you don't fucking need one if you don't have the other.
The Old Testament is written by Jews, for a Jewish audience. Christianity is about Christ, a whistleblowing Jew, whose entire schism from Judaism existed to save gentiles from exploitation and corruption by said Jews (he had a lot to say about the Synagogue of Satan). He was "one of the Good Ones" and was ultimately killed for disrupting their operations, like every aid worker and journalist working to save Palestinians from Jewish violence in Gaza.
Someone should have told him that hashtags have no leaders to crucify or drone-strike.
As a martyr, the only way he can be killed again is by publishers watering down the message and shills shifting focus onto neurotic Old Testament nonsense (before he even existed) to induce confusion and foment violence against arbitrary groups that is decidedly against the namesake of the Christian religion.
Amalek Lives Matter!
I fell into a sorta wikihole and now I have no one to present my findings to.
North Korea has an animation studio, and there's a good chance you've seen some of it's work.
It's called SEK (or Korean April 26 Animation Studio). The things they were outsourced to work on were The Simpsons Movie, and Futurama: Benders Big Score. There's also an episode of Avatar, and Teenage Mutent Ninja Turtles(2003) in there too.
Which is interesting but what's really crazy is the other stuff they make. There's internal NK animation, mostly propaganda and children's works like Boy General.
MondoTV is an Italian animation company that used to import and dub anime but then decided to do original shows. Most are based on something historical (Ulysses, Genghis Khan, Pocahontas), something out of copyright that Disney did before (The Story of Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Pocahontas).
These two entities would collaborate on something of titanic portions. Of course it'd end up sinking into obscurity. The Legend of the Titanic is a 1999 animated movie about the Titanic in the same way Disney's Robin Hood is about medieval politics. That is to say randomly filled with anthropomorphic animals.
This movie is not to be confused with the other animated Italian movie about the titanic that also is full of talking animals, 2000's Titanic: The Legend Goes On.
And this is a concept with legs. Mondo and SEK worked together again on a sequel In Search of the Titanic where they end up defending Atlantis because they're trying to find the wreck of the ship. Spoiler: They save the ship (no one died on it anyway but they still lost the boat).
And because the Titanic was still red hot six years later in a sequel to a sequel of a very strange Titanic movie, a tv series came out. Fantasy Island not to be confused with the other one. This one has the Titanic at it. And talking mice and 26 episodes of misadventures and new friends.
Finding stuff like this reminds me of how absurd the world is. I know it's probably not like... what was expected here but sometimes you just get really weird into specific things because you feel like you're witnessing history created via madlibs.
I think two things are going on, everyone remembers movies they watched as a kid/teen and thinks they where unusually good. It’s not that there was a golden age of movies, it’s that you personally had seen fewer movies.
That said, the ratio of original movies to sequels/franchises changed. Fast forward 20 years from Star Wars to 1997 and sure yet another Titanic, Jurassic Park 2, and a James Bond film but also, Men in Black, The Fifth Element, Liar Liar, As Good as It Gets etc so still mostly original movies.
But fast forward to 2017 and the top 10 movies included: Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Harry Potter 5, Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3, National Treasure 2, The Simpsons Movie, and Transformers. I Am Legend based on a book and 300 based on a comic. So only Ratatouille was actually new.
NSA surveillance was a joke in the Simpsons Movie in 2007.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVTH3_Bf-I
There's a line from The Simpsons Movie that has stuck with me for a long time. Springfield has become critically polluted, and the US government is going to erase it from the map. To sell this idea to the masses, they enlist Tom Hanks to produce an advertisement. The line goes, "Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine."
I see this as the fundamental problem. Advertising is, at its core, a transaction in which people with people with credibility and influence are paid to lie. It is a pollution of public discourse and intellect, and what we're seeing right now is the analog of runaway global warming.
> I think one thing that's needed to establish a culture of written communication is getting rid of any cultural elements that allow people to use the avoidance of reading and writing as an expression of power. You can frequently determine the balance of power between any two people in an organization by seeing which one has to read and prepare organized documents and presentations, and which one can simply speak and be spoken to.
This is perverse and contemptible in the 21st century. It reminds me of the line from the Simpsons movie: “I was elected to lead, not to read”. But it goes to show that any cultural change needs to come from the top in order to be effective.
> “ Notice that the word speed appears twice. This is not the time for committees, study groups or widespread consensus building. Even with imperfect information, the future of your company depends on your ability to make rapid decisions and start acting.”
Yikes. I guess principled decisions have to go? Executive authority!
It reminds me of the president in The Simpsons Movie... “I was elected to lead, not to read.”
The Simpsons Movie (called just that) actually predates the novel.
Also, The Simpsons Movie. ;-)
Hi, Thanks for making this, it looks useful! Just a note to say I think the search function needs to be a little more comprehensive.
For example, if I search 'star wars' it tells me the 2008 movie is available on Netflix (but ignores the others in the series). It picks 'the Simpsons' up as the Simpsons movie but doesn't talk to series and doesn't recognise 'game of thrones' or 'always sunny in Philadelphia' (although maybe they aren't available?) - either way; perhaps including the itunes store would be useful (I know they have GoT about the same as release date, so you can basically stream legally by buying per episode or season)
Otherwise the site looks very functional and clean, well done!
A friend of mine put it this way: let people run disconnected, offline, and in the UI show a big glass dome over their city cutting them off Simpsons Movie style[1]. Over time, gas, food, and water run out, necessitating a reconnection.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kPUGLt1DWQ
It's pretty bad... this is the list of blocked stuff from Ghostery:
AddThis Commission Junction Digg Widget etracker Facebook Connect Facebook Social Plugins Google +1 Google Adsense Google Analytics LinkedIn Widgets Pinterest Reddit Statcounter StumbleUpon Widgets Twitter Button
also, this sentence broke my brain: Well what if they really couldn’t “breathe” water” but since the urge to breathe is natural, that must take place…
To me, and I really have to think of the the Simpsons movie when I say this, that just goes to show when you dream a dream, it can also become a website with technology in it. At the end of the day, that's something you can take away from all this, and that's nothing short of okay.
"Critical and relevant?" You can say that about pretty much any joke that states the obvious. I could call the I'm a Mac ad that has Hodgman not saying "Vista" critical and relevant, because it's got a grain of truth. But that commercial's a commercial, not a comedy show, and if The Simpsons had made a similar joke it would have been below their standards. (Also in its defense: the ad is far more polished.)
What you call inaccuracies seemed to me just like exaggerations, something every comedian uses.
The difference between good comedy and bad is how the exaggeration's used. The best exaggerations lie with the unexpected: I like using Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition bit as an example. Nobody does expect the Spanish Inquisition, which is what's so funny. Or take Carlin's Seven Words. The words are all so shocking and he goes by them so often that part of the humor's greatness is that by the end he's succeeded in making those words sound mundane, commonplace. But neither sketch stops there. The Spanish Inquisition sketch goes on with the repeated mantra, Seven Words makes a set of brilliant jokes over the the top of the message: "These words are no different. This is all ludicrous."
This was more an instance of lazy humor. It was The Simpsons repeating the same general idea - "Apple is overpriced and people love it anyway" - without a hint of cleverness. They bludgeon people with the idea. Some of the soundbites they give are apt for people to take and mock Apple with, but that's not going to make them any more accurate. (There were a few hints of clever - "myPhonies" was a clever name pun even if the concept was poor - but I can't forgive The Simpsons if in 6 minutes they only had one or two clever moments. Not when the general quality of the humor is so poor.)
The whole thing made me laugh more than the simpsons movie.
That is an incredibly low bar. The Simpsons Movie was an example of The Simpsons at its worst, relying on cliche and repeated memes rather than ever creating genuinely funny humor.
I think this is mainly because they chose a good target. I have mixed feelings about apple which makes excellent products but is also surrounded by a consumerist hype which makes me feel uneasy. The hype is not very much criticised, at least not around me. I see people generally critical of well-marketed brands suddenly buying Ipods and Iphones.
The hype's incredibly criticized. Usually it's by anti-Apple people, and usually it's their only argument, which just makes the rift worse. When I argue why I use a Mac to a group of Linux-using coders, they respond by dismissing my ideas and saying, "You're only using it because of the commercials." Which in turn pisses me off and makes me less willing to listen to their arguments, now or in the future. The Simpsons is doing the same thing: they're not making good arguments. They're just blindly lobbing around parody with neither rhyme nor reason. It's beneath them. And I've already had people start quoting that at me - "myPhonies! See, Apple's for queeros who like shitty things!" - and I hate it. It's such a waste of time and it kills what might be a perfectly good argument.
I can see where you're coming from. I just think that The Simpsons could have skewered Apple much more effectively than they did. And that failure to craft a good series of jokes annoys me. I don't like that Family Guy is better-written than The Simpsons. That feels unnatural to me.