garfield: the movie.

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because of understandable excitement on the wild palms: classic or dud? thread

live action?

bill murray voices the cat?

odie gets kidnapped?

jennifer love hewitt is in?

out at the same time as the new lord of the rings and the new harry potter and the new shrek?

directed by the director of 'bill & ted's bogus journey'?

yes.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/Title?0356634 !

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

daniel day lewis needs to play Lyman

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit! I almost forgot about Lyman... was that a moustache or a really funky top lip he had?

I think it would be more interesting if written by Joel Coen, not Joel Cohen...

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Murray VOICES the cat??!! It's a live action movie!

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Did they wake up one day and carry on without realising Lyman was no longer there or something?

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's one of those live-action movies with cartoons in them. I can't imagine they'd have Bill Murray prancing around in a Garfield suit.
I'm expecting a lot of Smashmouth on the soundtrack, for some reason.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

what about nermil or whatever the grey kitten's name was.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

CGI Garfield?

And I don't know what happened Lyman... I think he joined a Bolivian terrorist group in the mid-80's, and left Odie behind.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

who will play Pooky? ah, Keanu of course

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

IF ONLY it had roger rabbit-style integration. it'll be awfully computer animated.

I think Chromium_5 on the imdb messageboard types for us all when he types 'It's about time they made this movie!'

and, OMG:

meg ryan's bro from the wonderful 'kate & leopold' is jon! and grace from the 'will & grace' is the voice of arlene! and ned ryerson from 'groundhog day' is someone else!!

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Bizmarkie as Irma, the diner waitress

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)

janeane garofalo as the Vet

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

*I think it's one of those live-action movies with cartoons in them.
>>>Then it'll be like Rocky & Bullwinkle which bit hairy boars ass?

*I can't imagine they'd have Bill Murray prancing around in a Garfield suit.
>>>I would pay good money etc. etc.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, Liz the vet... it's like a childhood flashback
Yeah, remember when there was actually other characters besides Jon and Garfield, and Jon wasn't some scary manic-depressive shut-in?

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i remember that. back when jim davis bothered writing anything witty

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

They could not have picked a better Jon.

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/80/85/12m.jpg

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah... now it's like slow death with cartoon faces. I kinda wished he'd retired sooner than Bill Waterson, Gary Larson or Berkley Breathed did.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

what about nermil?

nermil=the cousin Oliver of Garfield.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

jim davis is the status quo of cartoonists

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I was always scared that Nermil was supposed to be a boy...

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he was.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I know... quite an odd boy... then I saw the cartoon and believed that he was a boy even less.

I think my favorite line from the cartoon was "People who dress like that should be dragged out into the street and shot." Is it me, or is that a little bit of a strange line to hear in a children's show? Well, at least a children's show in the 80''s. Actually in retrospect it was probably too fitting of a line for the 80's

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Nermal you fooz!

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it would be more interesting if written by Joel Coen, not Joel Cohen...

I think Cohen writes for The Simpsons.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

old simpsons or new simpsons?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

New.

Also, Lyman: Gay or not?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

gay, obv.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

dude loved dick fo sho

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Who would play him?

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, i think that was a simultaneous outing for lyman!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah... now it's like slow death with cartoon faces. I kinda wished he'd retired sooner than Bill Waterson, Gary Larson or Berkley Breathed did.

Actually, he did - since 1986 or thereabouts Garfield has been written and drawn by a whole bunch of different people, but it still has "by Jim Davis" on it.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a clause in his contract that says that peoplr have to draw Garfield in Jim Davis's house
a) For "quality" control
b) So it was drawn by (as in nearby) to him.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I've sworn off of Garfield, but the week of his birfday where the Garfield from like '78 crossed over was surprisingly ginchy.

― Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

the garfield saturday morning cartoon from the 80s was really great. (or the garfield segments were, anyway: u.s. acres was only watchable when it wasn't trying to cram a highly unconvincing moral lesson down the throats of 10 million severely bored kids like me) i'm told the garfield comic strip is bad - i haven't paid much attention to it since i was like 9 but it couldn't be any stupider than cathy.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, he did - since 1986 or thereabouts Garfield has been written and drawn by a whole bunch of different people, but it still has "by Jim Davis" on it.

-- Chriddof (hullo...), August 26th, 2003.

Life now makes sense... and that makes me think Jim Davis is a whore for handing his creation over to a bunch of unfunny rank amateurs in exchange for a ton of dough. But that's nothing new, I guess.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

maura just posted this on the bill murray thread:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/garfield/

I thought this was supposed to be out, like, last/next week. june?

I watched the trailer.

: (

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"IT'S ALL ABOUT ME...-OW"

:''''(

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Old Time Rock & Roll" ? In a Risky Business take-off?

KILL. KILL. KILL. KILL. KILL.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

are his shades dirty?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

How bad must this movie be.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you mean ... How BADDASS must this movie be.

The BADDEST of ASS.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://irma.s5.com/

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ipdnet.com/garfield/
this is an awesome site.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the MIDI!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 19 December 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't it like going back to 1995?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

So bogus.

― ModJ (ModJ), Saturday, 20 December 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't believe that Irma page only has er 926 hits!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 20 December 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Terrible. Truly terrible.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 20 December 2003 04:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, come on - how can a flick starring Breckin Meyer & Jennifer Love Hewitt as love interests go wrong?

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 20 December 2003 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Daver, let's look at what you just wrote and then back away slowly while making calming gestures with our hands and saying, "There, there..."

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 20 December 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

eek. I wasn't expecting much but man, I don't even like the way he's animated. Needs to be fatter, for one. And I'd say that Odie's all wrong, but come to think of it, I can't think of how they could do a live-action Odie that would be faithful to the comic without being completely bizarre.

noone has mentioned the really weird thing about Bill Murray voicing Garfield: the voice of Garfield in the 80's cartoon specials and series was the late Lorenzo Music, who also voiced Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters: The Animated Series! creepy, huh?

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 20 December 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

that's so horrible. so horrible.

also garfield seems a little "animated" (in the other sense of the word) for a fat lazy cat who obsesses over lasagna and how much he hates mondays all the time.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 20 December 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Garfield=Music=Venkman=Murray=Garfield=Spooky. That's the sound of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon collapsing on itself. Murray=two degrees from himself.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 20 December 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

OH GOD this looks atrocious. why is he jumping around and dancing? I thought he was supposed to just sit still and sulk all the time? Is this movie meant to be "ironic"?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 20 December 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's meant to be a "tax writeoff."

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 20 December 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

the AP just panned it.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Garfield: The Movie hits its low point as Murray caterwauls an awful ditty, New Dog State of Mind, to the tune of Billy Joel’s New York State of Mind."

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized last night that they timed the release of this movie to coincide with GARFIELD'S BIRTHDAY (b: 6/19/78)!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I can draw him really well.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a hold of Davis, maybe he needs new drawing slaves.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My pets' veterinarians have never looked like Jennifer Love Hewitt.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

this reminds me of that horrible early '90s report that john hughes was in talks to make a "peanuts" movie. i'm almost glad the comic-strip gods decided to give us this instead.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

moby as charlie brown

― chaki_burger (chaki), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

larry david as linus

― chaki_burger (chaki), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Nelly McKay as Sally

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(or possibly snoopy, from the cover of her album)

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

currently running at 0% on the Tomatometer

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

how many reviews have been filed?

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I guarantee that this movie will have "funny outtakes" over the end credits.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The animation alone is really bottom of the barrel material.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

this is sad because jon arbuckle is like my hero

― chaki_burger (chaki), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I am afraid they will revive the Garfield-stuck-to the windshield as the promo item at the theatre.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

they have him do it in the movie so I'm sure they will

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

There are already posters with that Garfield-stuck-to-the-windshield on them!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

theres nothing wrong with that. i recently re-read all my garfield books.

― chaki_burger (chaki), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Jocelyn, you were supposed to stick it on the back of your car, to make it look like Garfield was caught in your trunk. Not on your windshield like you'd viciously mowed him down.

― Huk-El (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the garfield saturday morning cartoon from the 80s was really great

otm!

― chaki_burger (chaki), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Breckin Myer is no Jon Arbuckle.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

there are window garfields too Huck, how can you have missed them?

they seem to still be ubiquitous. when were they introduced? will they ever go away? I imagine people will still have them in their hovercrafts 100 years from now.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

if they had gone ahead and made this film R rated I can imagine it being the funniest thing ever

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

There are lots of things in my life I can't remember, but I can still remember the song on the Garfield Christmas special. Why are the gods so cruel to me?

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i just remembered the garfield episode where he wakes up and finds himself in a transformers-style cartoon with lasers and giant robots, that was fucking awesome!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I also remember the song from some Garfield tv special, maybe Halloween? It involved island natives singing about a sports car, and they were chanting "Chroooome...chroooommee...a wop bop a lula, chroooommme."

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

How does the Xmas Special song go?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's have a good ol' fashioned Christmas, down on the Farm
A little overeating never did up any harm
Let's gather round the table have a turkey or two,
A good ol' fashioned Christmas. Yodel odel ay hee hooo!

OMG NA-Chrome, chrome. shiny parts of the car...

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

there needs to be a calvin and hobbes movie

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahh, good old Jon-Boy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe I just typed that out.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

there needs to be a calvin and hobbes movie

NO.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

there needs to be a calvin and hobbes movie

It'll never happen. Watterson is adamant against licensing the strip in any way and seems to be content as a recluse these days.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Jocelyn, we love you for it :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Keyboards should be pressure-sensitive so that the harder you hit the keys, the bigger the letters are.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, it's called a font-size tag.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

But when I typed NO. up there, I was hitting the keyboard really hard to emphasize what a terrible, terrible idea that was, and no one knew but me. It was important!

Why can't people just let perfect things stay perfect?

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Though that doesn't really relate to Garfield.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

there needs to be a Family Circus movie

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

DYSFUNCTONAL FAMILY CIRCUS: THE MOVIE

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a C+H movie would probably be pretty lame anyway - who wants to hear what calvin's voice would sound like? for that matter, they'd have trouble finding a 6-year-old who could pronounce all the words in calvin's vocabulary.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a Red Meat movie.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

there've already been a bunch of family circus TV specials, i was subjected to them all when i was a kid.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Coffee & Cigarettes is like a long, unfunny Red Meat strip.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a movie with a new plot and characters that isn't based on some preexisting franchise.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

your ideas are intriguing to me and i wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a movie with a positive message for today's youth.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a movie with a new plot and characters that isn't based on some preexisting franchise.

its all been done, man.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

There should be a movie with a new plot and characters that isn't based on some preexisting franchise.

It's like the new Dogme.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Coffee & Cigarettes is like a long, unfunny Red Meat strip.
That's so OTM.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.e-z-smith.com/images/dys03.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl4pjEbEydE

― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:18 (fourteen years ago)

dying

― Chris S, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:24 (fourteen years ago)

I love those dudes:

http://www.lasagnacat.com/

― polyphonic, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 20:46 (fourteen years ago)

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