Seth MacFarlane's Ted

Am I the only one unaware that the horror of Seth MacFarlane was encroaching onto the big screen?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGW5gpMU9yo

I laughed at a couple of spots in that trailer, but won't be suckered into actually going to see this.

i really, really want this to bomb and feel kinda bad about it

Liiiike...I don't think that Seth MacFarlane is inherently untalented or unfunny. I just think he's found a cynical and pandering and unfunny niche that he's apparently unwilling to swerve away from no matter how many separate projects the universe has seen fit to gift him with simultaneously.

I lol'ed at the name bit. He did a similar gag on Family Guy, but that kind of joke always gets me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPsx8zdnX4

AM I the only one who still gets this guy mixed up with Todd McFarlane? The Ted/Todd axis is another blow to my head to further blur my vision.

Liiiike...I don't think that Seth MacFarlane is inherently untalented or unfunny. I just think he's found a cynical and pandering and unfunny niche that he's apparently unwilling to swerve away from no matter how many separate projects the universe has seen fit to gift him with simultaneously.

― Marty McBrundlefly (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, April 2, 2012 5:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm

0 laughs in that trailer

This is going to be so so awful. Kept seeing them shooting around Boston for this last year and a lot of it was done right where we used to live. Am tempted to see it just because of that but, yeah, I'm not going to. Mark W - WHY?!

The Happening whetted Wahlberg's appetite to become the next Nic Cage

Greg the Bunny / Wilfred / Unhappily Ever After

IT NEVER GETS TIRED

Unhappily Ever After was the most fucked show. and they made 100 episodes of it.

Liiiike...I don't think that Seth MacFarlane is inherently untalented or unfunny. I just think he's found a cynical and pandering and unfunny niche that he's apparently unwilling to swerve away from no matter how many separate projects the universe has seen fit to gift him with simultaneously.

― Marty McBrundlefly (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, April 2, 2012 5:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly! I think Seth can be funny if he really tries. But I feel like way too many people have told him how funny he is for the last 10 years and he's starting to believe that just being there will make something hilarious. Case in point, the ridiculous number of scenes he does which are literally just him repeating some movie scene/internet meme word for word

I could seriously go a lifetime without hearing "How You Like Me Now" in another movie too, ffs

that fucking band has more money than Radiohead at this point

couldn't get through the trailer, but it occurred to me that a version minus the cgi and macfarlane's v/o would be some kind of bizarre masterpiece

kinda like this you mean?
http://www.flix66.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Beaver-1.jpg

ha no i mean with just blank space and silence

oh, like this then
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1clcgsPAR1qz8z2ro1_500.png

how on earth is this not co-produced by kevin smith??

cos no one cares about Kevin Smith anymore and McFarlane is richer than god?

Yeah, I'm more surprised that it's being released by an actual studio. MacFarlane could probably Dino De Laurentiis the shit out of some movies if he wanted to (god help us all).

Thankfully I think he is too lazy a writer to want to do that.

that was kind of a rhetorical question

I am a big fan of Family Guy and American Dad and I have occasionally laughed at The Cleveland Show

this looks fucking terrible

American Dad is definitely alright, but I kinda suspect that's because MacFarlane doesn't do any of the actual writing (plus it rips off a show that actually is really, really funny, so at least they've got good source material)

The TED (talk) people must be pissed.

i wonder who wants to see this movie

mark wahlberg fans? idk, that's p much the only draw for me

the trailer made me think a lot about the apt he has, what job does he do? something sorta cool and creative probably, idk all these slacker movie characters with $150 t-shirts, what world do you live in?

i feel like this is like a remake of annie hall. i think it might be as good (or as bad) as annie hall!
wahlberg should really play the jerky bear though. he doesn't have enough range to pull off a zach braff type.

fuck Seth MacFarlane. I made an evil Teddy bear movie before he did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CQSTykRxE

Sue the bastard

American Dad is definitely alright, but I kinda suspect that's because MacFarlane doesn't do any of the actual writing (plus it rips off a show that actually is really, really funny, so at least they've got good source material)

― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 10:59 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

alf?

I'm referring to Sledge Hammer - most of the American Dad epsiodes i've seen have stolen a joke or two from the show

latebloomer, that was quite an enjoyable way to spend 7 minutes. Thanks!

wager there's more star trek refs than sledge hammer refs in any given mcfarlane spinoff.

hm... what if he did rewrites on the next abrams star trek movie...

yeah probably but in that case, people actually recognize what's a reference to Star Trek. nobody's heard of Sledge Hammer so it's pretty easy to just clip jokes from it.

but... it's pretty easy for them to clip jokes anyway... though I think they actually re-recorded daichee bell for that throwaway revenge of nerds joke. are you suggesting that they're trying to pass off sledge hammer jokes as wholly original material on a show that is 99% references?

i'm saying those parts aren't really framed as being references so i wouldn't expect an audience to recognize them. also I'm a sledge hammer stan so it probably bothers me more than it should.

are you gonna give examples?

there was that whole thing in Sledge Hammer where he lived with a fish that had been implanted with the brain and personality of a German man, that was pretty blatant

i saw whiney posting on this thread, which is the only reason why i clicked. y? bc i was excited to see what his contrarian take was going to be on a film that ilx would uniformly detest. it turns out he's just picking a fight with frogbs. disappointing.

there was that whole thing in Sledge Hammer where he lived with a fish that had been implanted with the brain and personality of a German man, that was pretty blatant

yes, by "clipping jokes" what I meant was "literally stole every element from, and in fact they are the same show"

well, since you haven't yet said which jokes were clipped from Sledge Hammer, some of us are helpfully trying to help you fill in blanks

is this movie going to have those seth mcfarlane jokes where nothing funny happens and keeps not happening for a very long time and i guess the joke is that eventually the awkward silence is supposed to be funny?

really the main character of the show is basically a carbon copy of Sledge, right down to the fact that he's an extreme misogynist, talks to his gun, showers with it, etc. maybe this is kind of disengenuous because Sledge Hammer was meant as a parody of Dirty Harry, so it's not really an original character itself, but I'd think anyone who's seen both shows would notice. it's basically a Homer Simpson/Peter Griffin thing, there are lines here and there that seem lifted from the other show, I can't remember many specific jokes on the show at all, but that's the thought I had on like a good half of his lines

The TED (talk) people must be pissed.

nah, they're probably still thrilled with their plum use in the new Alien flick viral marketing

what's interesting now is that the threshold for acceptable animation has gotten so low that i think you could probably make a network quality cartoon by paying someone $100-$1000 on deviantart or something.

i think the main difference is that animation has become popular beyond the "cheap bullshit to distract kids" niche. there's animated fare aimed at a number of different audiences. some is terrible, some is pretty great. i'm so fucking jealous that kids today get stuff like spongebob and adventure time. i got speed racer and captain caveman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUlfno9QTM

haven't seen this show, but i can't say my reaction to the trailer was "omg he-man was so much better made"

no part of you wished captain ca-ha-ha-ha-ha-haveman would come in and bonk everyone on the head?

el kabong maybe

one of the big differences between stuff like allen gregory and he-man is that allen gregory doesn't seem to have been drawn by anyone - at least not in the frame-by-frame sense that traditional cel animation depended on. instead, it seems to have been engineered or programmed. this leads a lot of people to denigrate modern digital animation as "lazy" or "cheap", but on the whole, i'm not sure it's any less creative, any less dependent on art, skill and effort. in fact, by freeing commercial animation from its reliance on armies of skilled draftsmen, it's arguably allowed it to become more experimental and varied.

i mean it definitely feels cold and distant to me in a way that like the Snorks doesn't. The appx two minutes of every Simpsons ep that looks real computer-y always makes my stomach turn.

my favorite american animated show of the 21st century is by far avatar (rufus and cyrus and i were all in awe of that show and it kinda changed our lives), but i don't know if you could call it beautiful or anything in comparison to japanese stuff. it was fine.

US animated shows are in the model of sitcoms/sketch shows. those aren't exactly beautiful, either. it's all about setups and jokes ... don't need much for that.

we still have to watch the new avatar series.

like one of the best things to happen to children's animation in the digital era, imo, is the rise of good design. whether or not shows like the amazing world of gumball, my little pony and, i dunno, the cat in the hat knows a lot about that! are particularly well animated in the traditional sense, they look great. they at least know how to make a virtue of their limitations.

^ not that everything out there follows these examples

As computer-animated stuff goes, Star Wars: Clone Wars has a lot of good animation.

yeah kids shows are definitely looking better than adult shows right now.

I can't imagine how anyone can watch Archer's colorforms shouting "I'M GONNA DROP A DEUCE" [awkward pause... no punchline ever materializes]

the last season of Archer was them basically realizing they could say 'shit' as much as they want and doing so in every single scene

Archer is hilarious, fuiud

i loved watching oswald with my kids. could look at that show forever.

http://www.joannemackellar.com/designjournal/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/background_oswald.jpg

george shrinks too. for the retro appeal.

http://pbskids.org/georgeshrinks/fun/downloads/wallpapers/downloads_wallpaper08_800.jpg

yeah, it's sad how cruddy and stodgily "realistic" a lot of animation for adults is in comparison with kid's stuff, which is often beautiful.

http://images.wikia.com/youtubepoop/images/3/3f/Dr._Rabbit.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMo4k7iG7s
the part at 1:01 just kills me.

i loved watching oswald with my kids. could look at that show forever.

otm, oswald is totally beautiful and hypnotic

Anime is, for the most part, where it's at.

anime seems to be equally ravaged by the crappening, though, but yeah i don't think there's ever been an anime as visually lazy as 12 oz mouse.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/comic-con-mad-mens-jon-hamm-on-american-dad-next-season-seth-macfarlane-says-flintstones-reboot-still-delayed/

Well the anticipation begins here, I guess.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/giuliani-didnt-appreciate-teds-911-joke.html

well it gone one laugh out of me i guess

lookin' kinda red these days

ok well i just skimmed this thread and didn't see anyone who actually saw the movie talk about it. I don't think family guy or american dad are very funny and so I never ever watch them. However, this movie was pretty funny and surprisingly touching. Also very good cgi special effects, more believable than anything else I've seen lately.

you mean you really believed the bear was fucking a lady?

lotta problems here but I laughed

watched last night. kinda liked it actually.

I mean, it's stupid and flawed and some of the jokes are rubbish, but sometimes you just don't care.

http://grantland.com/features/dumber-than-your-average-bear/

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/fuck-this-bear-ted-2-reviewed-1713853142

So, not only terrible and unfunny, but actively harmful to boot. Sounds about right.

https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/614443420027912192

The Dissolve review gets a star for used "forebear" in its review. The movie also gets a star. Like, one star.

I admittedly kinda chuckle @ some of the jokes in the tv ad for this

Most of the reviews say it has its moments, despite its innate horribleness.

https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/614443420027912192

I genuinely hate Seth MacFarlane's work as much as I hate Shawshank.

It's always fun to find out someone has you blocked on ILX.

how do you block people? I've never found a way to do that.

btw I was sure this film would get savaged by the critics, but oddly it's gotten some pretty kind reviews by folks i actually respect. i imagine it's benefited from the soft bigotry of low expectations or whatever.

https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/614443420027912192

well the first Ted got decent reviews, but since then he's gone from pre-Dogma Kevin Smith to post-Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back Kevin Smith, I didn't see a single positive review of that dumb Western where he casted himself as the lead

I watched the first one, mostly cuz it was on TV and I thought maybe there was a chance that it would be alright, the premises was funny and I figured it was possible MacFarlane had a ton of ideas for an R-rated comedy and was just getting bored making cartoons. But despite some funny moments it's really a poorly constructed movie in just about every way. After establishing for 70 minutes that the characters are all horrible and irredeemable it stages a really long scene where you're supposed to actually care about them, with no jokes whatsoever, and apparently the sequel is even worse in this respect, it's exactly the sort of movie that he loves to mock on every platform he's given

I guess what I'm trying to say is he should sit down and watch Super Troopers half a dozen times before attempting another movie

Wow I don't like the dude either but wanting him to commit suicide is pretty harsh.

it always seems so calculated when comics whose metier is gross-out humor decide to try for pathos. it's like they instantly run out of ideas and resort to the most banal and sentimental appeals. see also judd apatow.

also tangentially see all the insistence by dan harmon that "community" is really about emotions, man.

yeah and it's especially bad because most of these movies are about how a certain character needs to "grow up" or be a family man or whatever, yet they make their party-hard lifestyles look like the most fun thing ever, full of booze and drugs and gorgeous women and good jokes about things

and MacFarlane's even more inept with this than Apatow is, somehow

watched about 5 minutes of this new show and all I can say is it's a less funny TNG