Topic: The Chipmunks (Read 16682 times)

Blue Kitty · « **on:** 03 Jul 2007, 22:34 »

I have heard rumors, and I had hoped that they were only rumors

but one questions, why?

doki · « **Reply #1 on:** 03 Jul 2007, 22:37 »

what the hell? no good can come from this.

i cant wait to see that damn movie

and i already feel REAL durty about it

philosopherqueen · « **Reply #2 on:** 03 Jul 2007, 23:55 »

I just threw up a little.

est · « **Reply #3 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 08:13 »

With the attitude they are going for it surprises me they don't have big ol' nutsacks hanging down

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #4 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 08:14 »

I am frowning so hard right now.

Kaktion · « **Reply #5 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 09:51 »

Heh. Heh-heh. Hahaha.

Why?

CookedHaggis · « **Reply #6 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 11:40 »

But they have shades and hoodies and hats! With habiliments like that, how can this be bad?

Though I've gotta say, I would've laughed if there had been nutsacks in view.

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #7 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 12:58 »

man jason lee almost looks like justin theroux there

my world was shaken for a moment

CookedHaggis · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 15:00 »

Wait, that's Jason Lee? Man, I thought that was Ryan Reynolds. Brodie from Mallrats will now forever be slightly less appealing.

Johnny C · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 16:28 »

i swear to christ if simon utters so much as a word about his adidas

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 16:48 »

Shame on you, Jason Lee! SHAME!

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 Jul 2007, 19:46 »

I knew I recognized him! Maybe it will end up being decent with Jason Lee involved?

Gridgm · « **Reply #12 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 05:26 »

this is going to ruin all those ~~good~~ memeroies i havefrom when i was 5

we still have the christmas album (on cassette tape)

which was them singing christamas carols in their traditional high voices alvin singing variations and the human who i've forgotten his name getting angry at alvin

ForteBass · « **Reply #13 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 06:01 »

Time for me to make myself sad for knowing shit again...

Dude's name is Dave. David Sevillie to be exact. I'm gonna go crawl in a hole and die now.

philosopherqueen · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 10:56 »

I can't believe that's Jason Lee. It doesn't look like him at all so I had to go check IMDB.

I'm very dissapointed in you Earl. I think you have to add one more item to your list.

Orbert · « **Reply #15 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 13:29 »

Oh great. The chipmunks will be "cool" and homey and in da hood and all that. They'll be cynical, make bad pop-culture references, and use mild profanity, because that's always funny, right? Yeah, right.

CookedHaggis · « **Reply #16 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 14:37 »

See, now I've just got this idea of the Chipmunks film as a parody of young middle-class wannabe "gangsta's" where our sympathies lie with the long-suffering father figure as he has to deal with expletive-abusing, designer-wearing, commodity-obsessed charges. But that might go a bit over the head of the intended audience.

Orbert · « **Reply #17 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 15:37 »

That wouldn't be a problem if Alvin and The Chipmunks weren't already established characters who aren't at all like that. I still wouldn't watch the movie, but at least I wouldn't have a problem with it.

I'm not saying that Hollywood can't update the characters for the modern audience, but the original chipmunks were not "cool". They were rodents, for shit's sake. They had an innocent charm about them, and while not always the brightest guys around, they meant well and were fun. Just looking at that picture, I don't get the impression that these guys are going to be happy fun little chipmunks.

Lines · « **Reply #18 on:** 05 Jul 2007, 18:47 »

My initial response was:

Nooooooooooooooooo.

TheBoredOne · « **Reply #19 on:** 06 Jul 2007, 10:33 »

Pro: Jason Lee

Con: Hip-hop Chipmunks.

Maybe... maybe it's just for the poster... maybe they won't be hip-hop in the movie.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #20 on:** 06 Jul 2007, 13:26 »

Hearing the Chipmunks spit out some sick hip-hop venom is actually kind of an appealing thought. I'm imagining "Never Scared" or "Fuck the Police".

Maybe Partying Will Help · « **Reply #21 on:** 06 Jul 2007, 15:19 »

This will be a bigger tragedy than the two Garfield movies. Those who walked out of the theater ALIVE after seeing those were said to be drooling and shouting, "Why, Bill Murray? WHY?!"

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #22 on:** 06 Jul 2007, 20:02 »

Yeeeeeeeeeah... I saw the -large- (like...8 feet by six feet) poster in one of my local theatres today...I wanted to cringe and spout a few profanities, but I let it go.
Ohmigod, as long as they don't sing that damn Christmas song, I think we will all survive. The apocolypse is not on the horizon...yet.

Hat · « **Reply #23 on:** 07 Jul 2007, 18:34 »

Quote from: Orbert on 05 Jul 2007, 15:37

I'm not saying that Hollywood can't update the characters for the modern audience, but the original chipmunks were not "cool". They were rodents, for shit's sake. They had an innocent charm about them, and while not always the brightest guys around, they meant well and were fun. Just looking at that picture, I don't get the impression that these guys are going to be happy fun little chipmunks.

So I mean, what you're saying is that they can update characters, but they can't updatethese characters because they weren't the same as they were changed into?

Jeeeeeeeeeez.

God this movie will stink though. Unless they do Straight Outta Compton, with no censorship. Although one way or another I don't think these new hip chipmunks could be anymore annoying than they were originally anyway.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #24 on:** 07 Jul 2007, 18:51 »

Quote from: ThePQ4 on 06 Jul 2007, 20:02

Yeeeeeeeeeah... I saw the -large- (like...8 feet by six feet) poster in one of my local theatres today...I wanted to cringe and spout a few profanities, but I let it go.
Ohmigod, as long as they don't sing that damn Christmas song, I think we will all survive. The apocolypse is not on the horizon...yet.

But uhh.. the Christmas song is the iconic Chipmunks song. It would be AWESOME if they sang it.

Hunter · « **Reply #25 on:** 07 Jul 2007, 21:49 »

Quote from: ForteBass on 05 Jul 2007, 06:01

Time for me to make myself sad for knowing shit again...

Dude's name is Dave. David Sevillie to be exact. I'm gonna go crawl in a hole and die now.

Leave a space for me.

Orbert · « **Reply #26 on:** 09 Jul 2007, 08:49 »

Quote from: Hat on 07 Jul 2007, 18:34

Quote from: Orbert on 05 Jul 2007, 15:37
I'm not saying that Hollywood can't update the characters for the modern audience, but the original chipmunks were not "cool". They were rodents, for shit's sake. They had an innocent charm about them, and while not always the brightest guys around, they meant well and were fun. Just looking at that picture, I don't get the impression that these guys are going to be happy fun little chipmunks.

So I mean, what you're saying is that they can update characters, but they can't updatethese characters because they weren't the same as they were changed into?

Jeeeeeeeeeez.

No, what I'm saying is that they can update characters, but there's a difference between updating something and changing its basic nature.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #27 on:** 09 Jul 2007, 17:04 »

Quote from: Hat on 07 Jul 2007, 18:34

Although one way or another I don't think these new hip chipmunks could be anymore annoying than they were originally anyway.

Yayniall · « **Reply #28 on:** 10 Jul 2007, 17:07 »

Quote from: Cartilage Head on 06 Jul 2007, 13:26

Hearing the Chipmunks spit out some sick hip-hop venom is actually kind of an appealing thought. I'm imagining "Never Scared" or "Fuck the Police".

More like Deeez Nuuuts.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #29 on:** 11 Jul 2007, 11:40 »

I expect that by the end of this film Alvin would have slept with all three of the Chipettes and punched at least one of them in the eye for disrespectin' him, Simon will have set up a meth lab in his room and Theodore... I dunno. He'll probably end up going goth or something equally inane.

0bsessions · « **Reply #30 on:** 11 Jul 2007, 11:46 »

Theodore will start a prostitution ring (The fat one ALWAYS turns out to be a pimp) get gunned down Biggie Smalls style.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #31 on:** 12 Jul 2007, 15:16 »

They already made a Chipmunks movie, why do they gotta make another one?

Lazer · « **Reply #32 on:** 14 Jul 2007, 18:47 »

My initial thoughts after seeing the giant 10 foot cardboard poster in the theaters for this was fuck yes.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #33 on:** 14 Jul 2007, 21:39 »

I saw the poster at my local theater and then started to rant to my friends about it. On the way to our theater I passed the smaller version and started crying

Caiphana · « **Reply #34 on:** 14 Jul 2007, 22:48 »

So, after enjoying a film at my local moviehouse, I walk out with my man... and my jaw drops at the poster. I was literally frozen in place for a while.

I'll have to see it, of course, but I'll be sitting in the back row with the aforementioned man, just in case.

iliketodraw · « **Reply #35 on:** 15 Jul 2007, 06:09 »

it would be awesome if jay and silent bob were in it...

Dimmukane · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 Jul 2007, 21:58 »

Looky what I found...

http://movies.aol.com/movie/alvin-and-the-chipmunks/28897/video/trailer-no-1/1946920

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #37 on:** 26 Jul 2007, 22:13 »

I have to say that it actually seems better then the poster suggests. Do not take this as a sign that I will see it, I would rather shove a spoon up my ass then watch this movie

SusurrusIgnoramus · « **Reply #38 on:** 27 Jul 2007, 07:44 »

i wanted to try to make a rap version of the xmas song, and after about 15 minutes of not being able to make it funny, i gave up. then i realized, the makers of this movie probably won't even put that much time into it with no better results.

greyhawk80 · « **Reply #39 on:** 29 Aug 2007, 09:03 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 26 Jul 2007, 22:13

I have to say that it actually seems better then the poster suggests. Do not take this as a sign that I will see it, I would rather shove a spoon up my ass then watch this movie

In the words of the illustrious Mr. Black, "If I'm gonna hurt this much, I'm gonna do it to myself!"

Just sitting through the preview made me want to disinfect my eyes, lest the taint spread inward to devour what little brain I have left.

3Z3VH · « **Reply #40 on:** 30 Aug 2007, 00:03 »

Hey, at least they are sticking SOMEWHAT to the original cartoon !

I cried more the day I saw the Underdog (another movie Jason Lee was in) trailer. I mean, come on... a REAL frikking dog with a CG mouth ? That is nothing like the original cartoon, and none of the humour was translatable to a quadruped dog.

Why is Jason Lee suddenly going for such horribly written CG Fests ? His humour works so much better in a more real world (a la My Name is Earl).

Did he just need more of a paycheck between filming Season 2 and 3 of Earl ?

Gemmwah · « **Reply #41 on:** 03 Sep 2007, 17:01 »

I actually want to watch this movie, I think it looks kinda funny and sweet and i like listening to the high-pitched singing...

MysticalChicken · « **Reply #42 on:** 29 Sep 2007, 17:09 »

Just for the f*** of it, I watched the trailer On Demand.

They were in their normal clothes (long shirts, like they were in the cartoons).

And they had the original voices. (I used to be obsessed with the show in the '80s. Hey, I was eight when it was on.)

I don't want to see it (at least not yet--I may secretly watch it when it comes out on cable) but at least they're not gangsta.

BTW, I recently listened to a Chipmunk-ized version of Weezer's "Say It Ain't So" and it was actually pretty cool (it made me grin, anyway). It was really a speeded-up version of the original song, but I was totally imagining Alvin rocking out. ...Maybe Simon? Simon's the Rivers Cuomo of the group, I think.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #43 on:** 29 Sep 2007, 19:10 »

I think I have the Chipmunks "Rock 'n' Roll" album somewhere. It has songs like Faith, Walk Like an Egyptian and La Bumba on it. It isn't bad actually. And they aren't speeded up either, it's the actual songs with the chipmunk voice actors singing the songs.

leave for no raisin · « **Reply #44 on:** 30 Sep 2007, 20:38 »

I've never seen My Name is Earl, but in my opinion, something went terribly, terribly wrong for Jason Lee after Kevin Smith stopped making View Askew movies.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #45 on:** 30 Sep 2007, 22:05 »

Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 29 Sep 2007, 19:10

I think I have the Chipmunks "Rock 'n' Roll" album somewhere. It has songs like Faith, Walk Like an Egyptian and La Bumba on it. It isn't bad actually. And they aren't speeded up either, it's the actual songs with the chipmunk voice actors singing the songs.

You...you do realize that the original Chipmunks actors are just some dudes with their voices sped up too, right?

ALso, RE: the trailer. The best joke from the movie to put in the trailer is about Alvin eating Theodore's poo? Movie of the year!

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #46 on:** 01 Oct 2007, 17:39 »

It has Michael Jackson's "Beat It" I know because I used to love it.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #47 on:** 02 Oct 2007, 16:30 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 30 Sep 2007, 22:05

You...you do realize that the original Chipmunks actors are just some dudes with their voices sped up too, right?

ALso, RE: the trailer. The best joke from the movie to put in the trailer is about Alvin eating Theodore's poo? Movie of the year!

No. But I do realise that the original Chipmunk actors are some dudes with their voices pitch corrected. If they were sped up it wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #48 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 07:55 »

Well I went and saw it last night (my friend's girlfriend wanted to see it and he tricked me into going so he wouldn't have to do it alone). It's not the original voice actors, it's Justin Long, Jesse McCartney, and some other guy. It's not something I'd watch again, but I guess if you have kids or a girlfriend who likes anthropomorphism, it's not terrible. The plot was basically about how the music industry fucks child musicians over. And it had a couple good laughs.

Johnny C · « **Reply #49 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 08:17 »

Quote from: JimmytheSquid on 02 Oct 2007, 16:30

If they were sped up it wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Dude, you think they had advanced pitch correction back in the early sixties?

Their voices were totally sped up. They sang to slowed-down tracks.

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Author Topic: The Chipmunks (Read 16682 times)

doki

philosopherqueen

Kaktion

CookedHaggis

CookedHaggis

thehoopiestfrood

philosopherqueen

CookedHaggis

Maybe Partying Will Help

greyhawk80

leave for no raisin