• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The best Muppet movies are modern retellings of old stories, like Treasure Island or A Christmas Carol. So I say we make Muppet Fall of the House of Usher.

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      Fozzie holds up a hand. “We don’t do that here!”

      He runs to the opposite end of the landing pad, away from the camera

      “We do that over HERE!”

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        Brilliant. Now we just have to convince Disney to use two properties it already owns to make something truly outrageous.

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      1 year ago

      [not Muppet related]

      The second Knives Out movie was inspired by the far superior ‘The Last Of Shelia.’ Watch it and enjoy.

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    Oppenheimer with the Muppets, but it’s just a lead up to Bunsen and the Swedish Chef using an exploding cake to launch Beaker into orbit.

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    The thing about Live Action Adaptations of an Animated Work is an Obscure Hollywood loophole where you don’t have to pay anybody involved in the originals any royalties.

    I forget the exact Court Case but a couple decades ago the courts decided that the live action remake and the animated film it was based on were too different to warrant royalties, even in the case of 1 to 1 scene recreations.

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      I don’t want them to get royalties, I want an end to this madness.

      Good to know I don’t have to feel bad for refusing to watch live action adaptations of cartoons or comics I like though! Draw it or GTFO!

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      Yeah they are very clearly, barely disguised cash grabs for the studio and execs only to show a higher profit on a film that won’t actually make record highs anymore.

      You could tell it from basically just the CGI quality getting worse and worse.

      There are super expensive actors and execs that need to get paid and consistent low effort movies with huge budgets can hide that and cheaper production costs leave more to go back as profit for shareholders which is funny enough the same people.

      Nothing new for investors to grab hold of and not enough money back, it’s like capitalism hit a ceiling and is squeezing itself to death.

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    I’ll never understand why movie companies don’t listen to fans. We NEED a muppets cinematic universe. 12 angry men, yes. The wire remade with muppets, green light. Train spotting, promotion.

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    I want a muppet remake of Boondock Saints.

    edit: but no muppet for Willem Dafoe, he’s back to reprise his role like nothing is unusual here

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      Real talk: is Gonzo the Funnyman and the GF’s “cat” is a chicken?

      edit: I genuinely hope that AI advances to this degree that “fan art” of this is possible ASAP! I want to make this happen with a series of prompts and consecutive sleepless nights tinkering with it…

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        So I watched it last night for the first time in a while, cracking up every time Funnyman was on screen, imaging Gonzo delivering that long line of “fucks” among other things. And I think Fozzie Bear needs to do Ron Jeremy’s role.

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          Frankly, instead of Fozzie, I was picturing that one with the ruff collar and the fish? You know he’d be swappin’ out for XXL dildos in a coke whore heartbeat.

          Secondly, we’re talkin’ a Rizzo & Pepe duo for the Saints, right? I think Fozzie needs to be Il Duce, honestly. 😱

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            I’ll keep pushing for a Fozzie version, but I gotta say, MJ seems to have a thing for Joaquin Phoenix & Clive Owen, NGL.

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            lol tbh I was thinking about how expressive Fozzie’s face is for Ron rubbing one out at the porn club, but again, I think yours is the better idea.

            yes, yes, and yes