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thehefner

this LJ post is also cursed.

Jun 07, 2010 14:40

GOOD WILL HUNTING simulator. Best movie-to-game ever?

This is probably the best chance as any to finally use this gif:

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simpsons, geekgasm

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surrealname June 7 2010, 19:08:18 UTC

And all of that sweet humanity has been dropped in favor of the unfunniest writing in cartoon history. 10 years that show has been tarnishing it's own good reputation. I sometimes think I hate the simpsons now.

thehefner June 7 2010, 19:14:46 UTC

It actively hurts to hear younger folks say "I hate THE SIMPSONS," half because of how great the show was, and half because I can understand where they're coming from, since the crappy seasons now outnumber the great ones (which, upon revisiting, are STILL brilliant).

I get the feeling that Rabin's essays are going to help make up for the damage that subsequent seasons have wrought.

pokeyburro June 7 2010, 23:09:37 UTC

It actively hurts to hear younger folks say "I hate THE SIMPSONS,"

It stings a little to think you were barely sentient when the series STARTED.

Younger folks. Heh.

Well, say what you will, this show marks generations...

thehefner June 7 2010, 23:16:12 UTC

Barely sentient my ass! I watched it on the TRACY ULLMAN show and used to see it played at Spike and Mike's Animation Festival back when the Biograph Theatre still existed in Georgetown! Of course, I was never able to see the real STAR WARS films in the theatre, but still! I've been with that show from the very beginning!

Well, I didn't want to say, "Damn dirty teenage plebeians." But I was certainly thinking it loudly!

surrealname June 7 2010, 19:52:59 UTC

John, have you actually watched the Show lately?

Its... John, it's the worst thing on television. Seriously.

thehefner June 7 2010, 19:59:21 UTC

I've seen a couple episodes that ain't that bad. Actually, one or two were pretty darn good. And really, is it all worse than THE CLEVELAND SHOW? Or, say, THE JERSEY SHORE? Non-cable TV is extremely shitty, man. I'm sure there's worse out there.

Shit, I can't imagine that SNL isn't worse.

surrealname June 7 2010, 20:53:07 UTC

It's the worst for me, because I can remember when it was the best. The Cleaveland show and Jersey shore do not have reputations to tarnish and SNL, should have a reputation to tarnish, but we all know that SNL goes cast to cast on good or bad, and has technically only had 2 5-7 year periods of being GREAT.

box_in_the_box June 7 2010, 20:22:31 UTC

What's funny is, the quality I find most jarring about those early episodes is how clearly the show had yet to outgrow being an animated Married ... With Children. It actually took it a little while before I stopped expecting Homer to hit Al Bundy's beats.

thehefner June 7 2010, 20:38:00 UTC

Thinking about that Rabin essay, he really does miss out that MARRIED... WITH CHILDREN beat THE SIMPSONS for the subversion of the sitcom family. The only difference is that the latter did so with a bit more genuine emotional depth. Man, I'll always have a soft spot for that old Sunday evening line-up... even if it did include HERMAN'S HEAD (I kid, I kid.)

box_in_the_box June 7 2010, 20:46:51 UTC

I wonder occasionally if anyone, even Leavitt and Moye, really *got* Married ... With Children the whole way through. The entire cast became an exercise in Flanderization, and Marcy managed the neat trick of being both a Straw Feminist AND a Straw Conservative, back before Sarah Palin made such a combination possible, and as much as I enjoyed the London episodes, revealing that Al Bundy really was the subject of an ancient family curse marked the moment when the show disappeared completely up its own ass, beyond any ability to return. And yet ... goddamn, the social commentary was some of the sharpest you could hope to see in sitcoms back then, culminating in Al's legal victory against Randall "Tex" Cobb as the burglar who breaks into his house (the burglar successfully sued Al, but in the end, All pissed him off so much that the burglar punched him in the courthouse, thereby winning all of Al's money back in a countersuit).

thehefner June 7 2010, 23:19:18 UTC

At its best, it was one of the best kinds of social commentary: the kind disguised as disposable trash and sleaze.

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superfan1 June 8 2010, 05:08:32 UTC

Lol, that awesome and you have great Simpson's gifts. :)

night_train_fm June 8 2010, 10:13:08 UTC

But do I get my choice of toppings?

BTW, both links go to the GWH simulator.

thehefner June 8 2010, 17:37:11 UTC

The AV Club link should have worked, but the fact that no one mentioned the mixed-up other link means that no one checked out the comic. Sadness.

night_train_fm June 8 2010, 18:21:55 UTC

*Checks out fixed link*
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Damn. I can't even think of a quote.

surrealname June 8 2010, 18:23:01 UTC

I checked and figured you knew.