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I promised my kids I'd take them to see the Smurfs movie. Oy. Will anyone else share in my suffering?
The Smurfs (God help me)
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Thank God my kids are too old for this movie. I'm taking them to Cowboys and Aliens next week. Hell yeah!
You're a better mother than I, DJ. I didn't even allow those things into the house when they were kids.
This movie is just the ultimate example that Hollywood has gotten really lazy, IMO.
This movie is just the ultimate example that Hollywood has gotten really lazy, IMO.
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Love the thread title.
Back in the 80s, one of my friends used to wear pinned to his lapel a smurf, upside-down, stuck with pins, blood dripping from all the pinholes.
I had to sit through the Jimmy Neutron Movie and the Barney movie when my offspring were little.
I've paid my dues.
Back in the 80s, one of my friends used to wear pinned to his lapel a smurf, upside-down, stuck with pins, blood dripping from all the pinholes.
I had to sit through the Jimmy Neutron Movie and the Barney movie when my offspring were little.
I've paid my dues.
I had a friend who used to make a tidy sum at SF/F cons selling "Smurf pelts". They looked like flattened smurfs, made out of white and blue felt, with a hoop through their noses. One lady made a costume out of them instead of the normal rabbit fur. It was great fun.
I'm very glad my kids were little when the worst of it was Care Bears and TMNT.
I'm very glad my kids were little when the worst of it was Care Bears and TMNT.
OMG, we're so going! Call me a dork, but...I used to have a Smurf's lunchbox. I also had Smurf figurines that I played with in the bathtub.
Okay, we won't pay to go to the theater, but when it comes out, we may end up renting it at some point.
Okay, we won't pay to go to the theater, but when it comes out, we may end up renting it at some point.
As a kid, I used to wonder how smurfs had babies. There was only one female, and there was this episode where she was created by the evil wizard as bait for the all-male population. I used to imagine mitosis.
One smurf --> *pop* --> Two smurfs...
One smurf --> *pop* --> Two smurfs...
I loved smurfs, whe I was 7. Now my kids watch the old cartoon and I cringe. Plus, I hate these kinds of movies. Cartoon characters mixed with real people. HATE these movies with a passion. But Neil Patrick Harris almost, almost makes me reconsider.
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Are the smurfs aryan puppets or harmless cartoons?
Is Papa Smurf Really a small blue racist sexist nazi?
Writer says Smurfs are racist nazis
Maybe you should watch it by yourself first, before you deliberately subject your children to nazi propaganda...
Is Papa Smurf Really a small blue racist sexist nazi?
Writer says Smurfs are racist nazis
Maybe you should watch it by yourself first, before you deliberately subject your children to nazi propaganda...
Oh, i don't hate the smurfs. I just hate the idea of paying 40$ to sit in a theatre and watch some dumb kids movie while eating overpriced popcorn.
Fortunately my kid is now old enough for most superhero and action movies.
Fortunately my kid is now old enough for most superhero and action movies.
Lazy?
The process took over 8 years ! There's a hell of a lot of work and effort going into these kinds of projects because there is a lot more limitations .. doing an 'original' project is a lot less work!
Here's a blogpost from one of the lawyers who worked on the Smurf project: http://www.thewrap.com/movies/blog-post/smurfs-make-us-return-big-screen-29466
You can say what you like about the motivation for these projects .. but the motivation certainly isn't laziness!
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It's doing (relatively) good box office... And I heard a rumor it is going to tie for first this week.
How was it DJ?
This.
"The Smurfs Movie" is averaging a rating of about 30% on Metacritic, so if you must see it, expect the worst movie ever and then it might not be so bad.
I can't get enough of Dr. Horrible. But my little ones do want to see the Smurfs. If I have to suffer through it, at least I have NPH.
I grew up watching the Smurfs. I absolutely refuse to watch this movie. Isn't it live action,too?
Hell,no. The kids won't drag me to this one. Sometimes,parents have to draw a line in the sand to protect their sanity.
Hell,no. The kids won't drag me to this one. Sometimes,parents have to draw a line in the sand to protect their sanity.
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One webcomic's take on it. Start here. (Language warning.)
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And here. (Yeah, she likes to play she's a giant rubber-suit monster destroying Tokyo.)
Last one.
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Here next.
And here. (Yeah, she likes to play she's a giant rubber-suit monster destroying Tokyo.)
Last one.
(The links at the bottom of the pages don't work correctly if you hit "next", so I'm putting the series here.)