Home › Forums › Ganymede & Titan Forum › Into the Wild Green Yonder Search for: This topic has 36 replies, 17 voices, and was last updated 17 years, 2 months ago by Stabbim the Skutter. Scroll to bottom Creator Topic February 25, 2009 at 4:34 pm #2937 RadParticipant 1/5. Don’t waste your money on this piece of shit. There’s nothing impossible about making a good film in the 85 minute film that has to be divided into four segments format – the writers just don’t have the drive. Bender’s Big Score – great fun. Beast with a Billion Backs – good with annoying contrived ending. Bender’s Game – pathetic environmental story (They want to drill in Alaska Matt! ALASKA!!! This is sci-fi! At least make it an ice planet Matt! WE WOULD GET THE REAL-WORLD PARALLEL! YOU MUST THINK WE’RE FUCKING IDIOTS!) with a pointless dull hour long fantasy sequence in the middle for no logical reason. Into the Wild Green Yonder – total gibberish filled with idiotic contrivances, plot threads that end suddenly, barely charecterised characters that die for no good reason, unbelievably badly written battle of the sexes with incredibly awful gender psychology… you thought playing Dungeons and Dragons in 3009 was anachronistic well have a look at this! WAGE GAPS! When did this all happen! Listen guys I’m glad you’re all rich and jubilant and I’m SOOOO PLEASED you have time to come up with tedious observations that MEN are so into really huge big screen TVs – JUST DON’T TELL ME ABOUT IT! IT’S PATHETIC! Funnily enough, for the first twenty minutes its pretty good. Actually episode one is really funny and exciting. It works really well and there’s a moment when you really think a character is in trouble. For a couple of seconds it looks like we might have the beginnings of a plot thread suitable for a movie. SO, LET’S STOP THAT ENTIRE THREAD OF STORY SO AS TO RENDER IT UTTERLY POINTLESS AND IRRELEVANT. Every character is betrayed either by lack of plot or shitloads of fucking terrible plot. Don’t buy this. Don’t buy this. Don’t buy this. Oh by the way, if you’re a fan – you may have to buy this. CLIFFHANGER ENDING THAT SETS UP NEXT DVD. It’s not very good but you’d probably want to see it. Or better, just look up Wikipedia. Creator Topic Viewing 36 replies - 1 through 36 (of 36 total) Author Replies February 25, 2009 at 4:38 pm #92639 JamesTCParticipant Well I liked it. February 25, 2009 at 4:44 pm #92640 Ian SymesKeymaster But it’s really funny. February 25, 2009 at 4:46 pm #92641 siParticipant Watched the first half of this last night and loved it, so, sorry Rad, I think you’re in a minority. February 25, 2009 at 4:51 pm #92643 PhilParticipant >you thought playing Dungeons and Dragons in 3009 was anachronistic I did? I’d better look up “anachronism” as soon as possible then, so that I don’t make the same mistake in the future. February 25, 2009 at 4:51 pm #92644 Jonathan CappsKeymaster Not watched it yet, but I honestly can’t imagine it being this terrible. February 25, 2009 at 4:57 pm #92645 Seb PatrickKeymaster I’m not really a Futurama fan, so my opinions DON’T COUNT, but : – I thought the first episode was fantastic. – I thought the rest of it wanted for great jokes a little bit. – I thought the ending was lovely if a little hurried. It reminded me of the end of Arrested Development. – I finally saw Jurassic Bark recently (it was on Sky one day while I was back oop north) and it made me cry. That is all. February 25, 2009 at 5:02 pm #92647 RadParticipant Really? Oh, okay then. We all liked Bender’s Big Score though right? February 25, 2009 at 5:06 pm #92650 Seb PatrickKeymaster No, it was shit. February 25, 2009 at 5:11 pm #92651 JamesTCParticipant I have enjoyed them all but I did feel the first one was the worst, certainly below average for Futurama. I thought this film hit average for Futurama, if you don’t know the average for Futurama is pretty fantastic. The commentary is also great though Billy West should have been there, shame he wasn’t though I doubt that will be the last Futurama ever. February 25, 2009 at 5:18 pm #92655 Ian SymesKeymaster I have enjoyed them all but I did feel the first one was the worst, certainly below average for Futurama. I have the exact opposite opinion. I thought Big Score was mind-blowingly incredibly amazing, whereas the other three have all been really good, but not quite brilliant. February 25, 2009 at 5:35 pm #92671 JamesParticipant And then Sky 1 split them up and showed them as single episodes! Totally destroyed the point of a Futurefilm. February 25, 2009 at 5:36 pm #92672 JamesTCParticipant They said on the first DVD that they should make an entire episode of All my Circuits but they didn’t, I was sad. February 25, 2009 at 5:52 pm #92676 Ian SymesKeymaster And then Sky 1 split them up and showed them as single episodes! Totally destroyed the point of a Futurefilm. Erm, no. They were designed to be released as a feature-length DVD and then converted into four TV episodes per film. Family Guy did the same thing with The Stewie Griffin Story. February 25, 2009 at 7:47 pm #92689 DaveParticipant >Don?t waste your money on this piece of shit. Thank you for the warning. I did not heed it and my life is richer for it. It doesn’t hang together as a film as well as any of the others (it’s four separate parts are probably more rewarding for it), but more importantly it’s very funny along the way. The Professor’s take off, the opening song, Bender’s “Read it and weep and then…” etc line are all great. February 26, 2009 at 1:29 am #92720 locusceruleusParticipant I enjoyed this one and ‘Beast With a Billion Backs’ the most. I must admit though, I think Futurama definitely works better in an episodic format. February 26, 2009 at 1:37 am #92721 peas_and_cornParticipant I quite liked it. The Wong stuff with the mini golf was just great. “put me down for two!” February 26, 2009 at 11:19 am #92735 AndrewParticipant Finally saw Bender’s Game last night. It was rubbish. February 26, 2009 at 11:28 am #92739 siParticipant Is Bender’s Game the third one? I wasn’t keen on that either. February 26, 2009 at 12:26 pm #92745 Ian SymesKeymaster One thing about these four films is that they’ve split fan opinion like a bugger. Each individual person loves certain films and hates others, and there seems to be no correlation or pattern as to which ones illicit which reactions. I’m yet to see two people with a matching set of opinions. February 26, 2009 at 12:31 pm #92746 Jonathan CappsKeymaster I want to have actual sex with BBS and BG. I might let BwaBB touch me up a bit but NO MORE THAN THAT. February 26, 2009 at 12:41 pm #92747 PhilParticipant Courtesy of Cappsy’s post, you have now seen two people with a matching set of opinions. February 26, 2009 at 12:51 pm #92748 Tarka DalParticipant > I want to have actual sex with BBS and BG Bulletin Board Systems and Battlestar Galactica? February 26, 2009 at 1:06 pm #92752 peas_and_cornParticipant >Finally saw Bender?s Game last night. It was rubbish. Why don’t you like BG? February 26, 2009 at 1:30 pm #92754 AndrewParticipant Mostly the rubbishness of the writing. February 26, 2009 at 9:21 pm #92810 Mr FlibbleParticipant Bender’s Game is my favourite so far. ITWGY isn’t here yet (hint hint Mr Postman!). February 26, 2009 at 10:53 pm #92820 locusceruleusParticipant >Mostly the rubbishness of the writing. This from someone who rates Red Dwarf 8. Sorry, couldn’t resist. My complaint with the movies is that we haven’t had a single story as good as ‘Jurassic Bark’ or ‘Luck of The Fryrish’. To me, those kind of stories (which Futurama has excelled at) would have been even more amazing given room to breathe in the 90 minute format. February 27, 2009 at 1:56 am #92834 Ben PaddonParticipant Bender’s Game is probably the best of the three films I’ve seen so far (ITWGY hasn’t reached my place yet) even if a couple of the jokes are stretched out a little too long. February 27, 2009 at 4:51 pm #92855 Mr-StabbyParticipant I absolutely love Futurama, and have all of the movie DVDs too but I just switch off after about half an hour on each of the movies. That doesn’t mean they’re bad, i did like them, it just means that a show like Futurama (in my opinion) doesn’t work in this kind of format. Why couldn’t they have just made a straight to DVD ‘series’ as opposed to making films like this? March 2, 2009 at 4:20 am #92945 PhilParticipant Bender’s Big Score > Into the Wild Green Yonder > Bender’s Game > The Beast With a Billion Backs Why couldn?t they have just made a straight to DVD ?series? as opposed to making films like this? The way I understand it is that Fox came to the Futurama guys and asked them specifically to make a DVD film. The Futurama crew responded by saying they could make several films instead without it costing too much more, by overlapping production. Fox, obviously, agreed. So I guess they technically COULD have made another season, straight to DVD, but a few possibilities occur: a) They wanted to come back, and trying to get Fox to agree to another season rather than a few films would have jeopardized the deal b) They wanted to try their hands at film-length stuff anyway c) Putting out a full season at the end of production would have meant that Fox saw no profits whatsoever until everything was done, whereas in this case they’d see profits four times along the way. Just thoughts, though. I liked the films (with one exception), but would have been at least as happy with a season instead. March 2, 2009 at 5:42 am #92946 DaveParticipant Bender?s Big Score > The Beast With a Billion Backs > Into the Wild Green Yonder > Bender?s Game > Spaceballs March 2, 2009 at 7:04 am #92948 Mr FlibbleParticipant Didn’t think much of “Into the Wild Green Yonder”. I thought they could just release 4 episodes on DVD every now and then, and then sell a box to put them in. March 2, 2009 at 9:58 pm #93033 Ben PaddonParticipant Jurassic Bark > Bender’s Game > Beast With A Billion Backs > Bender’s Big Score Still haven’t seen ItWGY. March 16, 2009 at 1:50 pm #93931 Stabbim the SkutterParticipant Bender’s Big Score > Bender’s Game & Into the Wild Green Yonder (I’d say I like them both equally) > Beast With A Billion Backs March 16, 2009 at 8:46 pm #93937 PhilParticipant That Stabbim Skutter fellow is now a good friend of mine. March 17, 2009 at 2:25 am #93958 Ben PaddonParticipant Okay, new appraisal. Jurassic Bark > Bender’s Game > Into The Wild Green Yonder > The Beast With A Billion Backs > Bender’s Big Score March 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm #93981 Stabbim the SkutterParticipant > That Stabbim Skutter fellow is now a good friend of mine. Yay! Author Replies Viewing 36 replies - 1 through 36 (of 36 total) Scroll to top • Scroll to Recent Forum Posts You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In
