Topic: Beast with a Billion Backs (Read 3390 times)

Kazz · « **on:** June 07, 2008, 11:40:38 PM »

Much better than the first film. A few plot lines dragged, especially in the third act. Only a few inconsistencies or aimless scenes. The writing never stopped being brilliant, and that's what counts.

Most importantly, no music.

Bal · « **Reply #1 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:13:08 AM »

Wow, that was brutal even by my standards...

Arc · « **Reply #2 on:** June 08, 2008, 10:23:30 AM »

But Kazz, this title won't be released for more than two weeks to come!

A² · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2008, 10:42:05 AM »

Lady Duke · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2008, 12:19:59 PM »

That movie was at least.... 5 times better than the first, and it didn't have giant, gaping plot holes or seriously awful new characters. It was at least on par with the show too. Also, David Cross was in it, so that's just awesome right there.

Brentai · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2008, 01:37:37 PM »

Wait, what happened to the rest of Ka-

Oh my.

Thad · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2008, 07:55:43 PM »

Quote from: Lady Duke on June 08, 2008, 12:19:59 PM

giant, gaping plot holes

What plot holes are you referring to? I thought Bender's Big Score did an absolutely admirable job of keeping its time-travel shenanigans logically consistent. Alternate timelines and causality loops are science fiction tropes. They violate the laws of the universe as we know them, but so does faster-than-light travel.

Niku · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2008, 08:01:29 PM »

Loved it, though like the first whether through them trying to finish the story or simple fatigue, the laughs come less and less toward the end.

Of course, I loved Big Score. But I agree this is stronger, and am continuing to pine for the future installments.

Lady Duke · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2008, 08:19:15 PM »

Eh, I just thought the whole first movie was pretty not-awesome. The time travel was just sorta...meh.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2008, 08:30:17 PM »

No matter what the plot was, that doesn't excuse the fact that Bender's Big Score did not make me laugh.

Fredward · « **Reply #10 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:29:03 PM »

Quote from: Constantine on June 08, 2008, 08:30:17 PM

No matter what the plot was, that doesn't excuse the fact that Bender's Big Score did not make me laugh.

qft

I also thought they included too many relatively minor characters from the series. Prime example: [spoiler]Fry's dog. Way to remove all the tragedy from the saddest episode of the show. Ugh.[/spoiler]

Thad · « **Reply #11 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:40:33 PM »

Wait, are we still talking about Bender's Big Score, or was that a ref to the new one?

Niku · « **Reply #12 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:44:25 PM »

That was from BBS. One of my gripes with BW1,000,000,000B was [spoiler]Kif's death and soon thereafter return. I was honestly surprised when they so casually killed him and seemed to run with it, and was disappointed they undid it later.[/spoiler]

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #13 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:50:17 PM »

Billion Backs was fun. The only part I really didn't care for was [spoiler]pretty much the entire League of Robots subplot, which was pretty pointless for most of the movie, and the only League-related part I really enjoyed was Bender's firstborn.[/spoiler]

David Cross was cool, and I was pleasantly surprised to hear him again when I saw Kung Fu Panda this morning. Oh yeah, [spoiler]I kept expecting the movie to end on a cliffhanger or some other "To Be Continued" note. Everybody seemed to be happy living on Yivo and I noticed that there was only about seven minutes left, including end credits time, so I found myself expecting some new frightening/hilarious plot twist to pop up.[/spoiler]

Lady Duke · « **Reply #14 on:** June 08, 2008, 09:57:38 PM »

That's bender for you.

McDohl · « **Reply #15 on:** June 09, 2008, 02:28:56 PM »

[spoiler]The Pirates parodies were pretty fun, with Bender's Jack Sparrow getup.[/spoiler]

Thad · « **Reply #16 on:** June 09, 2008, 02:43:02 PM »

Quote

That was from BBS.

In that case, I would contend that Fredward is overreacting to a sight gag.

Fredward · « **Reply #17 on:** June 09, 2008, 02:52:10 PM »

then they reduced the saddest part of the series to a sight gag whatever

Beast With 1.00*10^9 Backs totally redeems BBS, though. Still not up to the calibre of the best episodes, but goddamn is it getting there. The magic is back!

Pun definitely intended.

Thad · « **Reply #18 on:** June 11, 2008, 10:52:54 PM »

Ultimately, I really think BBS and BBB were yin and yang -- BBS was character-driven, had a complex plot, and yielded few laughs, while BBB was a bunch of disconnected, random gags that made me laugh a lot harder stretched out on a paper-thin plot where the principal characters barely interact with one another. BBS was smarter; BBB was funnier.

Quote from: Niku on June 08, 2008, 09:44:25 PM

That was from BBS. One of my gripes with BW1,000,000,000B was [spoiler]Kif's death and soon thereafter return. I was honestly surprised when they so casually killed him and seemed to run with it, and was disappointed they undid it later.[/spoiler]

Probably going to sound like a dick here, but as I don't generally let that stop me, here goes: the "I didn't know [spoiler][dead character] was going to come back[/spoiler]" reaction is something that boggles my mind every single time I see it. Really? You didn't know that was coming? I mean, that's Charlie Brown/football level naivete there.

And yet here I am putting a spoiler tag on it. D'oh.

...It's kinda like (FINAL CRISIS #1 SPOILER) [spoiler]J'onn's death[/spoiler]. I am amazed that people give a fuck, or at all expect that [spoiler]he will not be back within the year[/spoiler].

Niku · « **Reply #19 on:** June 12, 2008, 05:52:13 AM »

Quote from: Thad on June 11, 2008, 10:52:54 PM

Probably going to sound like a dick here, but as I don't generally let that stop me, here goes: the "I didn't know [spoiler][dead character] was going to come back[/spoiler]" reaction is something that boggles my mind every single time I see it. Really? You didn't know that was coming? I mean, that's Charlie Brown/football level naivete there.

Considering that the only time the team has pulled anything similar was [spoiler]Fry's "death" in The Sting, something that happened during the course of a television series episode and clearly had something going on there, it was entirely possible that the rules had changed since the series might not go beyond these four movies. I didn't not think they'd bring Kif back, but I did think the way they did it was .. more than a little hackneyed when the simple way the had offed him actually had the chance to be pretty surprisingly neat. If Kif doesn't have some big part (or at least good gags) in either of the next two films my disappointment's only going to be furthered. I'm ALWAYS pissed when they pull the X CHARACTER IS DEAD OH WAIT NO THEY'RE NOT at or near the end of a work of fiction. So, uh. I guess sorry for giving the Futurama writers credit enough to hope they wouldn't pull that kind of shit.[/spoiler]

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