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Friends: The Movie

BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
edited July 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I just heard about this today. Friends was my all time favorite TV show but I never expected a reunion. I guess after all the success of the Sex and the City movie, Friends wanted to get on board. Not sure how I feel about it. Thoughts?
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  • dawngdawng Posts: 644
    Oh, I love Friends! I don't know about a movie though...they'd all have kids & stuff and I don't think it would be as funny. And it ended sooo well. Also, the show with Joey right after Friends ended bombed, wonder if they would try to incorporate any of that?
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    *dawn* wrote:
    Oh, I love Friends! I don't know about a movie though...they'd all have kids & stuff and I don't think it would be as funny. And it ended sooo well. Also, the show with Joey right after Friends ended bombed, wonder if they would try to incorporate any of that?

    They wouldn't have to incorporate Joey stuff - no one watched it. :p
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  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    I loved the show but I am not sure how I would feel about a movie :confused: but I guess if it were just a really long episode it would ok? :)
  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    oh yay, another piece of shit churned out by hollywood that i don't have to bother watching.

    seriously, what's the deal with all these shitty movies lately?
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  • BlackCorduroyBlackCorduroy Posts: 1,374
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    They wouldn't have to incorporate Joey stuff - no one watched it. :p

    haha yeah i was a huge Friends fan and made it through 1 episode of Joey. He was always my least favorite Friend.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    small town beck wrote:
    I loved the show but I am not sure how I would feel about a movie :confused: but I guess if it were just a really long episode it would ok? :)

    If anything, they need to avoid making it a really long episode. Cos then it'd just feel like a really, really long episode - like everyone got back on board except the editing room.

    But maybe I'm just bitter after the Simpsons movie sucked so much monkey nipple.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    for christsakes there have to be 100 really good scripts sitting in producers office that would be great movies....friends movie?!?!? i like the show more or less but c'mon!


    also this would mean giving david schimmer an acting job and i can't have that....nor should anyone else
  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    They wouldn't have to incorporate Joey stuff - no one watched it. :p
    I watched it, it wasn't so terrible. I watched it more so b/c Drea DeMatteo was in it

    I read in the Post that she said her career was ruined after that show-no one will hire her! Yipes. That has to hurt, leaving the Sopranos for...Joey!
    but anyway yeah I think that is best left to being a reunion show on TV if anything

    I can't imagine them doing anything so spectacular that it needs to be a 2hr movie
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Allie wrote:
    I watched it, it wasn't so terrible. I watched it more so b/c Drea DeMatteo was in it

    I read in the Post that she said her career was ruined after that show-no one will hire her! Yipes. That has to hurt, leaving the Sopranos for...Joey!
    but anyway yeah I think that is best left to being a reunion show on TV if anything

    I can't imagine them doing anything so spectacular that it needs to be a 2hr movie

    My brother watched it too, and I could never understand how... anytime I tried, I wanted to stab myself in the thorax. It took everything that was wrong with the latter seasons of Friends, and removed all lingering good stuffs. :p

    But that wasn't even the point I was making - I was just saying that, because so few people actually watched the show, including stuff from it would just confuse the issue.

    I'd agree that a TV special is the way to go if they have to do anything, but I just can't see a Friends reunion being a good thing for anything except their wallets.
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  • i_am_minei_am_mine Posts: 53
    i wonder if it will have the "we were on a break" joke. id go see it but im more excited hoping for the arrested development movie!
  • alexersalexers Posts: 492
    Meh. I'm iffy about it. I liked the show, though!
  • corduroy85corduroy85 Posts: 139
    Where did this info come from? Anybody care to post a link?
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  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    oh yay, another piece of shit churned out by hollywood that i don't have to bother watching.

    seriously, what's the deal with all these shitty movies lately?

    there have been some great movies out lately by hollywood standards:

    WALL - E
    Iron Man
    Wanted

    are all quality entertaining movies ... it's better than it has been ...
  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    Loved the show back in the day, i still enjoying watching certain seasons now. But, a movie would probably be awful. I liked season 9 but season 10 was pretty bad, so trying to continue on in any way won't work.

    But, i'll still check it out :)

    Edit: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2236700/Friends-The-Movie-on-the-cards.html
    It's not confirmation but its pretty good.
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  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,173
    sounds like a bad idea to me, but other than the South Park movie, I haven't been fond of movies based off of a TV show
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Yeah, I remember they talked about making a movie even right after season 9 ended. Jennifer Aniston said she didn't want to be involved nor think it was a good idea...because the show had been so successful she didn't want to risk it by dragging it on. I guess after SATC was a blockbuster...well, money talks.
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I'm not too sure about a movie. I was a fan of the show in the beginning but I think it was on too long.
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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    I'm a big fan of the show (saw the 10 seasosn at least 4 or 5 times)...
    Personally, I would be happy to see a movie. Even if it's not as good as the TV show, it will certainly be as good as many shitty comedies...
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  • All5horizons1991All5horizons1991 Posts: 138
    cutback wrote:
    for christsakes there have to be 100 really good scripts sitting in producers office that would be great movies....friends movie?!?!? i like the show more or less but c'mon!


    also this would mean giving david schimmer an acting job and i can't have that....nor should anyone else

    Amen!
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  • ladygooddivaladygooddiva Posts: 4,169
    for what ..for the money?
    come on aniston for example the only stuff that i read is if she have a new man or not ...nothing else
  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    polaris wrote:
    there have been some great movies out lately by hollywood standards:

    WALL - E
    Iron Man
    Wanted

    are all quality entertaining movies ... it's better than it has been ...

    haven't seen any of those yet. i don't really get out to the theater much anymore. i usually rent new releases every tuesday. and lately, everything's been liquid shit. well, not everything. but a good percentage. it just seems like everything i've rented in the past couple months has turned my stomach. i think the last decent movie i rented was probably........hmmm......either it was charlie wilson's war or no country for old men, whichever came out most recently.

    **edit**
    i do want to see ironman, and i'm really looking forward to wall-e. i saw a trailer for that a while back and told my wife we should take the kids to see it (one of the many good reasons for having kids....a cartoon movie that looks good that i want to see, but am to much of a pigheaded man to admit it? "hey, let's take the kids to that one")
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  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    BetterThanYou wrote:
    haven't seen any of those yet. i don't really get out to the theater much anymore. i usually rent new releases every tuesday. and lately, everything's been liquid shit. well, not everything. but a good percentage. it just seems like everything i've rented in the past couple months has turned my stomach. i think the last decent movie i rented was probably........hmmm......either it was charlie wilson's war or no country for old men, whichever came out most recently.

    **edit**
    i do want to see ironman, and i'm really looking forward to wall-e. i saw a trailer for that a while back and told my wife we should take the kids to see it (one of the many good reasons for having kids....a cartoon movie that looks good that i want to see, but am to much of a pigheaded man to admit it? "hey, let's take the kids to that one")

    haha ... yeah - i work in movies and they have been shit for sure ...

    so, the spade of good movies which will include the dark knight is a welcome relief ...
  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,298
    Dumb.


    I would pay a large sum of money to see a Seinfeld movie though. :)
  • mattcozeamattcozea Posts: 377
    Will Yellow Ledbetter be on the soundtrack?
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  • BetterThanYouBetterThanYou Posts: 853
    polaris wrote:
    haha ... yeah - i work in movies and they have been shit for sure ...

    so, the spade of good movies which will include the dark knight is a welcome relief ...

    dark knight i'm definitely looking forward to seeing. hopefully they'll have it at the drive-in this summer. that's where we see most of our movies when we don't rent.
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  • jammergirljammergirl Posts: 599
    i'm not sure if this would work. the main reason being that it was a show that benefitted greatly from having a laugh track. think about it, in movie form it would just seem like something was "off", whereas SATC didn't have the laugh track format to begin with. i'm assuming they wouldn't keep the laugh track for a movie, right? because that would just be weird.
  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,298
    jammergirl wrote:
    i'm not sure if this would work. the main reason being that it was a show that benefitted greatly from having a laugh track. think about it, in movie form it would just seem like something was "off", whereas SATC didn't have the laugh track format to begin with. i'm assuming they wouldn't keep the laugh track for a movie, right? because that would just be weird.

    I thought they did it in front of an audience...


    But yeah, it would be weird to NOT include some sort of laugh track.
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    I have reservations about this. I thought they wrung the last laughs out of this at least 4 seasons before they gave up making it, it became pretty crappy by the latter stages.
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  • SnakeSnake Posts: 2,605
    I love the shows, but this would just be a stupid attempt to milk every last dollar out of something that has already ended. And ended well at that.

    Star Wars I, II and III anyone?

    Indiana Jones?

    Not that they didnt have their charm, I enjoyed them both to a degree, but they should not have ever been made IMO.

    I hope they dont make a Scrubs movie..... :eek:
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  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,616
    Please please please do a "friends" movie!
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