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I didn't like the movie much either.
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I liked it when it came out when I was in high school, but looking back it's super preachy. Half of it was melodrama, and the other half was moralizing about pollution.
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Same here. Would've been better if it was made in the '90s.
Speaking of, did anyone go to any of those 7-Elevens that were made up as Kwik-E-Marts back when they were promoting the movie?
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I didn't, but the grocery store's bakery section in my area would give their donuts pink icing and sprinkles when the movie came out as part of an unofficial tie-in. A friend of mine who worked in the bakery at the time when they were in high school said that those donuts sold really well because of it.
As much as I think Freddy vs. Jason was weak when it came out and as much as I think it would have turned out a lot better if it came out in the mid-90's like originally planned, I also think it is a movie that gets better with time unlike The Simpsons Movie.
Both The Simpsons Movie and Freddy vs. Jason had a lot of pre-release hype and had been in a state of development hell since the 90's but while one was good when it came out but since has aged poorly, I felt the other was weak when it came out but when you rewatch it years later, it is a lot more tolerable.
Freddy vs. Jason is one of those movies that works very well as an "unintentional period piece" for the early 2000's.
Aside from the nu-metal/butt rock soundtrack and the eerie blue color wash that damn near every early 2000's horror movie seemed to have, there's also the fact that the pre-release hype built itself on 1980's nostalgia back when that was still a very novel thing and was sort of seen as an innovative barely tapped element as opposed to a tired exhausted gimmick that only goes over with the bearded wide mouths on Reddit and Twitter.
You kind of had a similar thing with The Simpsons Movie being an unintentional period piece for the late 2000's and probably one of the earliest examples of banking on 90's nostalgia in pop culture, much like Freddy vs. Jason was with 80's nostalgia.
They both were very much set in the era they were made in but the marketing and the hype was all tied into a newly emerging sense of nostalgia for the era of their franchises's heydays.
It's kind of weird when you look back on it
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Same. I honestly thought the movie was terrible. Only scene I consider memorable was the one where everyone's having a good time at the lake for the Green Day concert and the fuckers sink Titanic style into the toxic lake ooze. The scene felt very classic-y. I think most of the hype the movie got was from people desperate to finally get a Simpsons movie and this being something that had been talked about since the early 90s, as well as those who hadn't watched the Simpsons since 1996 looking to get a fix of some sort again. Personally, a movie about one of the Sideshow Bob episodes would've been the best choice but only if released during the early 90s when Sideshow Bob mania could be considered a thing.
I honestly never saw the Kwik-E-Mart thing. Supposedly only 10 or so stores were given the conversion treatment.
I have to wonder just how many Sneedits there are.
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On the plus side, at least the Simpsons Movie wasn't made in "Current Year". Imagine how bad it could've been then...
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Maybe, but like @Jack Awful said
The movie for me felt almost as preachy and smug as any current year shit at times, but with none of the rainbows or politisperging, aside from some strange hateboner for EPA. Also I wonder how that Tom Hanks gag will age... But if released in the current year, Lisa's obnoxious one time love interest would've probably been some gender ambiguous pink hair and the big boob injun would've been a definite no-no (regardless of how bad I thought her scene was and how forced the HomerxMarge break-up was).
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Why are they even bothering? Even the hardcore bugmen aren't watching the show anymore, who could their audience possibly be?
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What about one for Chucks (soon to be Sneeds)?
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Yes, the Simpsons movie was one of the first times mainstream culture was like "hey, remember the 90s?" and while I never saw the Kwik E Mart thing I did see photos online of it.
There's a weird phenomena today when it comes to 1980s nostalgia that you could describe as "nostalgia for nostalgia" ie nostalgia for the 2000's nostalgia for the 1980s.
Sounds crazy but back then it was fresher and more novel, it was also simply a big part of 2000s culture, especially online, so if you're nostalgic for 2000s culture, nostalgia for the 80s is simply part of 2000s culture.
Some examples of what I'm talking about are the Fensler films GI Joe PSA parodies, AVGN's early videos, VH1's I Love The 80s and the website I-Mockery, especially in I-Mockery's case due to the terrible personal tragedy that happened to the site's founder, Roger Barr, that caused the site to stop putting out new content.
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Agreed, although I'd say the 2010's wave of 80's nostalgia is less "nostalgia for 2000's nostalgia of the 80's" and more of nostalgia for the 80's as filtered through the lens of 2000's pop culture.
VH1's I Love The 80's is a good example of that early phenomenon, and you also had the two sequels to I Love the 80's and I Love The 70's.
I Love The 90's was also a thing, but it was a bit later and I think the two "I Love The 90's" VH1 series were among the earliest examples of 90's nostalgia alongside The Simpsons Movie, even if I think those two got greenlit because I Love The 80's did so well, as did I Love The 70's and I Love The 80's Strikes Back.
I still don't know why they did the "I Love The New Millennium" in 2009 before the 2000's were even over. They could've waited until 2010 so they could include 2008 and 2009.
IIRC, I think VH1 had originally planned to do either a third installment of I Love The 90's or a new I Love The 60's that mainly featured older celebrities like Lewis Black, Joan Rivers, and George Carlin.
Maybe Carlin's death in 2008 put the kaibash on I Love The 60's and they felt that a third 90's nostalgia series was too soon or something?
They did do a more "proper" I Love The 2000's in 2014 though
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Not gonna Lie, I loved "I love the 80s" and the like, it was interesting to see them go through all the insane pop culture shit year by year.
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For sure. I would've loved to have seen the never-made "I Love The 60's" and "I Love The 90's Part 3", especially the former. The late 2000's would've probably been the last time you could've done that as a series and made it work, especially since a lot of the people that were probably lined up to have as hosts are dead now.
If it weren't for VH1's network decay, I'm wondering if they would make an I Love The 2010's for 2021 or 2022. I mean, most of the modern format of VH1 already was in place by 2014 and they still did a proper I Love The 2000's after the failed "I Love The New Millennium"
Hell, if VH1 wouldn't air it, they could even make it a direct-to-streaming thing for Netflix or CBS All Access if they wanted.
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As I mentioned a few times before, I pretty much still live in the '90s and '00s, since I don't really keep up with "Current Year". So I'd likely see "nostalgia for the '00s for the '80s" as just "nostalgia for the '80s" - like the early AVGN stuff.
So to me, the '00s Simpsons episodes can seem like new ones, while the Current Year ones can seem like freakish future ones.
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I loved those shows too and re-watched most of them a few years ago, they're even funnier today considering how un-PC many of the quips are.
I pretty much still live in the 90s and 00s too, specifically 2007.
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Anybody remember that time Homer became an astronaut?
Somehow this episode is still less absurd than the one where Homer builds a sex dungeon in the garage.
Somehow this episode is still less absurd than the one where Homer builds a sex dungeon in the garage.
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The sad thing is that even though I had no prior knowledge of there being a fucking sex dungeon episode, I immidiately knew you were not joking with this post. The simpsons is such goddamn trash that you could say they did absolutely fucking anything in an episode and I would immidiately and unquestioningly believe you. You could tell me flanders molested maggie while wearing a MAGA hat and I would believe it.