In the 2011 Muppets movie, Gonzo had moved on from the Muppets ensemble and started his own flourishing toilet company: Gonzo’s Royal Flush.
He initially rejects Kermit’s plea to return to the Muppets. His life as a CEO was what he wanted. His fine suit, his fine wife (a Chicken, of course), his sprawling business empire… He was living the dream.
But then, he comes to, and decides to rejoin the Muppets.
But this is the best part, from his suit, he withdraws a detonator.
He activates it, and blows up his whole industrial complex.
Like, why did he have to destroy it? Why did he decide to rig his whole operation with explosives? Was he really coming to work every day with the detonator in his breast pocket??
This is the high drama piece I want. I want to see Gonzo rise to the top while his internal struggles and duality is tearing him apart.
The Muppets: Fight Club
G/11 was an inside job
The Rocky Horror Muppet Show
If you haven’t seen Meet The Feebles, you should.
A movie that opens with a walrus fucking a cat. This is not even the slightest exaggeration.
Relatedly, Jim Henson originally wanted to name the Muppets show “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.” This was to set it apart from his kid friendly Sesame Street productions, an image he was afraid he’d be saddled and typecast with forever.
This probably inspired the tone of the Feebles. Nobody believes it was directed by Peter Jackson. Yes, that Peter Jackson.
Peter Jackson did a lot of schlock before he made it so to speak. One of his earlier movies was about fast food aliens harvesting the human race for Burger meat, in which he played one of the lead characters who had to tie his skull back together to keep his brains from oozing out while he laid waste to alien scum.
So yeah the real question isn’t how is it that the man who did Lord of the Rings made this, it’s how did the man who make this go on to do King Kong and Lord of the Rings
Edit: This movie is called “Bad Taste” and it’s in that “So Bad It’s Good” category. So I do recommend taking a look.
So was this fast food aliens movie the entertaining kind of bad or is it just bad? Because I kinda want to watch that movie.
Better than Killer Clowns From Outer space, at least
I can safely say that it is the former. The movie is called “Bad Taste” and I do recommend a viewing.
Now you’re making me want a muppets LOTR.
Of all the remakes that Hollywood could do, why not this one?!
Best part is, according to the latest Muppet Movie, the Feebles are canon.
Directed by Tim Burton.
I want a remake the Knives Out movies with nothing but Muppets and Daniel Craig.
Whom Miss Piggy consistently suspects is actually 007, refuses to accept any proof to the contrary, and makes increasingly amorous overtures to vow to keep his secret safe? These, naturally, only end up confounding the investigation’s progress rather quickly, all the way up to her faking her own death (to “flush out the real killer”), and Benoit breaks the 4th wall when he realizes he’s now trapped in a series of movies with the lot of them.
[not Muppet related]
The second Knives Out movie was inspired by the far superior ‘The Last Of Shelia.’ Watch it and enjoy.
I still want Muppet Black Panther so that Wakawakanda can become a reality.
Fozzie holds up a hand. “We don’t do that here!”
He runs to the opposite end of the landing pad, away from the camera
“We do that over HERE!”
Brilliant. Now we just have to convince Disney to use two properties it already owns to make something truly outrageous.
The Muppets Saving Private Ryan
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Interesting, because the last 25 years of Muppet productions have generated abysmally little interest.
It’s a shame, because the first Muppets reboot movie with Jason Segel was actually really good. The music was top-notch, and IIRC Bret from Flight Of The Concords won an Oscar for one of the songs.
Man or Muppet?
The part with Jim Parsons is pure gold on it own.
I’ll never understand why movie companies don’t listen to fans. We NEED a muppets cinematic universe. 12 angry men, yes. The wire remade with muppets, green light. Train spotting, promotion.
The thing about Live Action Adaptations of an Animated Work is an Obscure Hollywood loophole where you don’t have to pay anybody involved in the originals any royalties.
I forget the exact Court Case but a couple decades ago the courts decided that the live action remake and the animated film it was based on were too different to warrant royalties, even in the case of 1 to 1 scene recreations.
I don’t want them to get royalties, I want an end to this madness.
Good to know I don’t have to feel bad for refusing to watch live action adaptations of cartoons or comics I like though! Draw it or GTFO!
Yeah they are very clearly, barely disguised cash grabs for the studio and execs only to show a higher profit on a film that won’t actually make record highs anymore.
You could tell it from basically just the CGI quality getting worse and worse.
There are super expensive actors and execs that need to get paid and consistent low effort movies with huge budgets can hide that and cheaper production costs leave more to go back as profit for shareholders which is funny enough the same people.
Nothing new for investors to grab hold of and not enough money back, it’s like capitalism hit a ceiling and is squeezing itself to death.
I’m still hoping for Muppets Princess Bride
Oppenheimer with the Muppets, but it’s just a lead up to Bunsen and the Swedish Chef using an exploding cake to launch Beaker into orbit.
Muppet Zootopia, but also the nudist colony scene is rated NC-17 and shows full, Muppet genitals.
I want a muppet remake of Boondock Saints.
edit: but no muppet for Willem Dafoe, he’s back to reprise his role like nothing is unusual here
Real talk: is Gonzo the Funnyman and the GF’s “cat” is a chicken?
edit: I genuinely hope that AI advances to this degree that “fan art” of this is possible ASAP! I want to make this happen with a series of prompts and consecutive sleepless nights tinkering with it…
I would endorse both of these, yes, absolutely
So I watched it last night for the first time in a while, cracking up every time Funnyman was on screen, imaging Gonzo delivering that long line of “fucks” among other things. And I think Fozzie Bear needs to do Ron Jeremy’s role.
Frankly, instead of Fozzie, I was picturing that one with the ruff collar and the fish? You know he’d be swappin’ out for XXL dildos in a coke whore heartbeat.
Secondly, we’re talkin’ a Rizzo & Pepe duo for the Saints, right? I think Fozzie needs to be Il Duce, honestly. 😱
Seems like the best she’s gonna do tonight, y’all. 🤌🏼
I’ll keep pushing for a Fozzie version, but I gotta say, MJ seems to have a thing for Joaquin Phoenix & Clive Owen, NGL.
lol tbh I was thinking about how expressive Fozzie’s face is for Ron rubbing one out at the porn club, but again, I think yours is the better idea.
yes, yes, and yes
So Disney gets to ruin the Muppets, too.
I’d rather shit myself in a sleeping bag than watch another remake.
I would love to see how Gaston looks in this remake.
