Nice try

[FuSoYa]

If you guys haven't seen the trailer for the live action/cgi Garfield movie, let me note that what's going to make the movie even MORE stupid is that the guy who everyone KNOWS is Garfield's voice (i.e. from the Saturday morning cartoon), Lorenzo Music, has died and is not lending his voice talents to this movie.

So, to try and fool us, what the makers of the Garfield movie have done is cast Bill Murray in the voice role of Garfield. Now, wtg, that sounds a little suspicious to me. Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield and Peter Venkman in the Real Ghosbusters cartoon, Bill Murray played Venkman in the Ghostbusters movie, so Bill Murray is going to do Garfield in the cgi/live action thing?? I don't know about you but to me, that certainly doesn't make it OK.

 

[xfer]

this movie just strikes me as one of the larger grotesqueries to emerge from Hollywood in recent years.

 

[TheNewChupe]

*awaiting greg's favorite garfield quote*

 

[lizard]

I'm envisioning a debacle of Cat in the Hat-esque proportions

 

[The Dope]

Yeah, I was at the movies recently and saw an ad for the Garfield movie (in the form of a picture of Garfield hanging on an outside window a la "hanging on the curtains" or something to that effect so that it looks like he's hanging on a pane of glass, facing the people outside). Even the picture used in the ad was some stupid CGI-cheesy looking thing, which just tells me that the movie's going to suck.

 

[xfer]

it's gruesome how they realistic-ized the film but kept garfield's bulging, swollen eyeballs.

i saw an ad where i think he was pressing sunglasses against them and they even, like, depressed a little, like they're squishy. ughhh.

 

[xfer]

like, why doesn't JON have his bulging, swollen eyeballs still?!!

 

[FuSoYa]

i would see the movie if they bulged out everyone's eyeballs

 

[The Dope]

Bulging eyes on a real-life Jon would be really funny.

 

[TheNewChupe]

why does hollywood keep raping everything from our generation's collective childhood?

it's like all these 20-something and 30-something people have hollywood jobs and no creativity to think up something new so they're just like "what hasn't been done yet? I know! Josie and the Pussycats!" "Nope, that's been done." "Aw. How about Grape Ape?"

 

[xfer]

i'm also going to bet that they didn't preserve the "jon is a miserable loser" part of the comic (like his continual rejection by Liz) and make him seem like a likable guy instead of a social misfit.

 

[xfer]

why is Odie not computer-generated and bulgy-eyed and rubber-necked? as drawn, he's seriously pretty alien/grotesque-looking, also, and that might be interesting to see.

also jennifer love hewitt with bulgy eyes.

 

[The Dope]

Fuck, if Jon and Liz "get the hook up" by the end of the movie, like I anticipate, I think I'll stab out my eyes.

This doesn't mean I'm going to see the movie, by the way, but you never know.

 

[xfer]

like six years later someone will mention in passing that Jon and Liz hooked up and the Dope will be forced to stab out his eyes from triple hearsay.

 

[mindspell]

I was relieved to see the screenwriter's name, Joel Cohen, then I noticed that it wasn't Coen.

 

[The Dope]

I'll probably hear about it sooner than that, unfortunately. My sighted days are numbered.

 

[goatschool]

this film crew must have been OOZING creative lust juice when they got their hands on the scooby doo demographic collateral

 

[goatschool]

someone report on how they craft the vet into a bikini or lingerie by the 30 min mark.

eventually they will perfect the contemporary "for kids... but adults too!" techniques and then finally, FINALLY we can do away with that puberty-line division bullshit.

 

[minxnim]

i'm seriously so glad i haven't seen/heard anything about this up until now.

 

[Baliset]

*awaiting greg's favorite garfield quote*

honestly can't think of one right now. but garfield and friends was an amazing show that i wish would be put on dvd right now.