On the plus side, this can't possibly be worse than the comic strip.

Ain't it the truth

This ain't your Daddy's Final Fantasy Spirits Within son

They got shit on my Peanuts. They got Peantus on my shit. Individually, they both taste the same!

Peanuts was always shit.

But then how will they sell soundtracks and advertise the thing?

Well, baba o'riley's not exactly "modern"; it fits in with the time that Charles Shultz was writing Peanuts. Not sure what that other song was. Like everybody I was a fan of the Linus and Lucy song, the holiday special reminds me of my grandparents, etc. but I never really liked Peanuts the way I liked other comics like the one about the penguin and the cat.. fuck if I can remember the name, "penguin comics" google search does no good.

Also it contextually fits in. I think I read an article with Roger Daltrey about how the song could relate to Peanuts characters, but fuck if I can find that either. Logically it makes sense this way. South Park already did the Peanuts thing in a movie, so you've got two options: either do regular 2D animation, or this if you don't want to seem like a crude version of Peanuts that parents wouldn't want to take their kids to because of the association.

Or option #3, go back in time and prevent this movie from happening, that's always an option.

You're thinking of Bloom County.

I really liked peanuts. I don't think I'm going to see this, though.

Yay thank you! It was Outland I was thinking of though, but wouldn't have been able to figure it out. That was more my generation.. I think Peanuts was pretty much in reruns by the time I reached any sort of ontological maturity that was beyond "haha he fell when Lucy moved the football" and didn't pick up on how relatable it would've been for a kid. Plus we only had the Sunday funnies and I don't think Peanuts was in there. So even though my lineup existed of Dunesbury and Outworld, it's interesting to think that none of this may have existed without Mr. Shulz.

Outland was OK but it paled in comparison to Bloom County in the mid to late 80s when it had really found its voice. You should check that stuff out, IZ.

I'd say the stuff collected in 'Toons For Our Times up through Billy and the Boingers Bootleg are the prime material.

As far as this goes, I'm surprised by how unoffensive it is visually, but concerned by the hints of a bunch of 21st century aspirational horseshit being shoved in there because everybody seems to think Malcolm Gladwell's* scrawlings are anything other than a complete sham.

But it might be fine, it could really go either way from this trailer, and those educational specials they did in the 80s that look like SNES Kirby games already shat on the Peanuts legacy enough that I won't be particularly disappointed if this sucks.




*Malcolm Gladwell is a genre at this point, not just the man himself

Bloom County was the best, second only to The Far Side. Berkeley Breathed was the velvet hammer of 80s satirical comics, and he is still funny today. Well, funny to those who remember Ed Meese and the 'Meese Piece'.

shut up fuck you

no

fite

I know a lesbian who is exactly Peppermint Patty. Her name is Katie. I have a huge crush on her.

Schulz was kind of amused by all the "Peppermint Patty and Marcie are lesbians!" conspiracies out there, saying something to the effect of "they're 8 years old, they don't even know what gay is." He also said that PP and Marcie both had huge crushes on Charlie Brown, and will likely stop being friends over him when they got older.

I guess now would be a bad time to tell you it was his children who had the rights and they totally gave all of this the stamp of approval to swim in a pool full of money.

Nah, getting old is when you can no longer keep up with the new and complicated ways the world solves problems that it didn't know existed before, spearheaded by intellects with an extra layer of abstraction wired into their neurons that seem to be biologically impossible for your generation.

This is what it's like watching the opposite of that happen. So you may, in fact, be the only one who's young.

What exactly is terrible about it? It's not like the original Peanuts comic strips or animated specials were any form of high concept art to be held sacred.

It's like when those people were crying about their childhoods being raped when the first live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks movie was revealed. I mean really? Yeah the movie sucks, but what exactly is there in the source material for them to ruin?

I don't think there's anything about this that really offended me, but then I used to show kids animated movie clips to get them excited about learning English, so I'm kind of biased. I saw this trailer and thought "Wow, this would make for great English camp lessons because kids would really like this."

This time the football is money and Patty is the Jews.

Just kidding, who gives a shit?

It won't have the ending that it OUGHT to have:

Panning over a football field, as Lucy Van Pelt's head flies, in slow motion, in a perfect spiral fashion, over the adults, who are finally seen as surreal trombone faced aberrations, past the Agent Orange depository that creates an entire society of self-sufficient, hydrocephalic toddlers, and through the school football goal. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" rolls up with the credits.

Cut to a teaser where the Kite Eating Tree is gleefully eating all the children, and Linus Van Pelt recites an ancient Egyptian curse against demons, in reverse. Bill Murray in a Garfield suit descends from the heavens, and vomits a torrent of Woodstocks and blood.

And the Red Baron held illimitable dominion over all.

Are you guys referencing that choose your own adventure from hell that showed up here a few years ago? Because I still have scars from that.

This is going to make the Garfield movie look downright Oscar worthy and you all secretly know it.

You all know it.

dude I worked on those Garfield movies and no it won't. Ever.

OH for fuck's sake, forget the previous post, I misread the title.

I think you'll like this guy, and I don't meat that ironically or sarcastically: http://joshreads.com/

Agreed. He's great, especially when he rips on Mallard Filmore, Funky Winkerbean, and Mary Worth.

no, it's with a t. that's how z is pronounced in german. why do you think they have �?

schlulz

A lot of the merchandising was the decision of the comics syndicate, and after a while, Schulz found it easier to just write off on things than to fight them, since he basically had to sign over his soul to them to even get Peanuts (a name he hated) in newspapers to begin with. Can't find anything on this San Francisco ice park, but he *did* open an ice arena near his home in Santa Rosa with his own money and declared it open to the public when he could of just hogged it all to himself.

Also Knotts Berry Farm was a huge cash cow, but again its nothing that doesn't bring up fond memories for me.

i love the early 50s strips for the most part, but this could have had barenaked ladies or smashmouth playing and still not been the nadir of the property given that flash beagle exists.