The endless explaining of every character and their back story was kinda annoying. Like, we already knew this.
Plus, the actually plot they could've easily done as an episode. It just seemed like one long episode.
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as never having seen the stupid TV show, I have to say, this film was awesome, and I want more!! Would love to see the TV show fro sho!
But I had never seen South Park before the movie either, and that drew me to be a fan of 'that' TV show as well.
So don't be so hard on the film makers. They did the only thing that you can do to 'ring-in' an audience of a TV series made for film. Character developement, and practical plot line to the characters developed so that the NEW audience can grasp where these characters heads are at.
Any TV made for movie show will follow that format. And as a result, usually doesn't make it a fan favorite.
But you can relax, because it always creates new fans. And that is usually the hopes for anyone that wants thier favorite show to stay around awhile!
of course it was, they were trying to expand their audience
"we got reports of people getting stoned and playing spaceman in the streets" "yeah, us"
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the lesbian thing was, ricky talks about how he and lucy hooked up because he and luucy were "banging" a lot of the same girls in high school, and lucy and sarah had a sexual relationship
"we got reports of people getting stoned and playing spaceman in the streets" "yeah, us"
*You* may have already known that, but I'm from the States and I'd never heard of Trailer Park Boys. (I've seen all the episodes now, though.) A certain amount of explanation is necessary for first-timers. Not only that, I think that if you'll compare the amount of exposition in the movie to that in the series, you'll see that the movie does it with a lighter touch. I do wish they'd included some of the gun humor, but I guess they were too afraid of humor derived from things like Ricky being so sloppy with his weapon around Trinity. The NRA wouldn't like that.
I loved every minute of the movie and still like it better than the series. (No Conky, for one thing.) I think the series started to get tired around season 5 or 6, and 7 was total crap. What amazes me is that they were putting out crap on TV (or were at least about to) at the same time they were making the movie. To me that says they could still make good episodes, but just don't feel like it or something.
So why *are* they ending the series? Do people agree with me about the quality drop, or is there some other reason?
1) this movie was also very annoying to me for the same reasons... Any big fan of the show would agree that this movie was certainly made for the audience who is less familiar it. Anyone who'd seen a couple seasons of the show would find most the movie to be incredibly redundant. I think they did a poor job of making this movie for both the fans and the new viewers.
2) There has been a HUGE drop in the quality of the show. In the first couple of seasons ALL the stuff they do is amazing. The acting is terrible but because of the script and great mockumentary style production, they were able put the actors' inexperience to good use. The first few seasons were truly amazing and in retrospect this is when the show should have ended.
This show has done what many other shows have (The simpsons, king of the hill) and completely lost their original 'feel' and the charactors became a gimick. The 'realism' which made these shows so amazing went out the window when the jokes became arbitrary, unrealistic and repetitive. It's a damn shame that creators of good television no longer have the ability to end a show while it still follows the same good concept. I'm not sure what posseses some people to keep these shows going (greed?inability to let go?) because it just ruins it in the long run. The simpsons should have ended in 1998, king of the hill should have ended in the early 2000's and TPB should have ended after season 3.
If you want to read a bit about TPB from the point of view of 'trevor'(Michael jackson), who had quit the show at the end of season 6 for some very good reasons... check this --> http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=8220747&page=2
Agree with some of this but not about The Simpsons. The Simpsons is pretty much based on pop culture references and as things are always changing, a show like this can usually manage to stay relevant. Now TPB - the whole trailer trash thing got old within a few short years, hence the reason why Jerry Springer gave up the ghost. It isn't a novelty anymore - I don't know how TPB managed to squeeze out 2 seasons, let alone 8. I haven't even attempted to watch any of their live specials.
shareWell, I live in America and saw some episodes of TPB back when I had a better cable TV package. However, that was about 5 years ago; This movie brought it all back and I added all the seasons to my Netflix queue. So, I guess the film did a good job, if that's what they were trying to do...
sharethey certainly did a good job at making the movie enoyable for the person who hasn't seen it... but ofcours the old fans won't enjoy it as much. Ofcours, the show wasn't yet popular in the states (not sure where it sits now) so they were trying to make it more enjoyable for them... but i think they could have described the characters and a more subtle and less repetative way.
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