Meet the Feebles on DVD?

[frogboy4]

Hey, it even offended me and I enjoyed it. LOL! I don't think it's something you will enjoy so it wouldn't be best to buy it. If you really are curious, rent it. Be warned - that film can get nasty. And Jim's darker sided didn't include any of what this film does IMHO.

 

[Zack the Dog]

And Jim's darker sided didn't include any of what this film does IMHO

yes this is IMHO too, as thats what i said before,


I know the flim will be nasty, but they are puppets, it would be stupit/funny in my option. well i mean as your saying it is really gross, so i do understand your point

No, i'm not buying anything untill i see it first, think it would be worth buying, and know that the DVD would work with what dvd players i have ( Computer DVD, and playstation 2)

I just gotta find a video store that has it, i called the ones around my house and they have no idea what i am talking about, i think i'll do some in store checking though because we all know what these people on the phones don't know.

 

[Movies205]

Hey, I LOVED GREG THE BUNNY! LOL "The greens ones make me *****" Tardy the retarded turtle lol, As for meet the feebles haven't seen it yet but I will soon.

 

[frogboy4]

Tardy was the only character I liked. Very much like me sometimes.

 

[Luke]

Zack & Jamie

Originally posted by Zack the Dog
About Jim and a darker side, you will never see Kermit or the muppets do something like this being this edgy. it would ruin them,your not going to see mickey mouse, yogi bear or bugs bunny do something like this either.

i think the darker side of Jim that Luke is talking about is like the story teller or the dark crystal, more spooky creatures and devils N'stuff, we would have seen more stuff like this, not fozzie bear with a gun or anything.

Yeah, i didn't mean the Muppets getting involved in this kind of thing - Jim had started to move into different kinds of puppetry, as you say like Storyteller and Labyrinth before. However, i'm pretty sure with interests like the occult and paranormal you might have seen him go further (ok, not to the extent of 'Meet The Feebles) and he might well have done things like puppet horror movies or a loud 'Greg The Bunny' style sitcom. There were so many projects that didn't make it and so much about Jim that people didn't 'get' or know - it would have all been explained in that biography that the family was able to bury (because they'd commisioned it in the first place i think) and then cultivate the myth that we know today. I do agree though that if Jim would ever have done a really dark film, there would have been a reason to it and good script/puppetry unlike this which where the brief was more to do an edgy film that would totally shock people at a time when people didn't expect that from puppets.

 

[GWGumby]

Zack the Dog -

I just sent you an e-mail through the forum about possibly getting a copy of the Feebles. Let me know if you get it.

 

[beaker]

Re: Zack & Jamie

Originally posted by Luke
However, i'm pretty sure with interests like the occult and paranormal you might have seen him go further (ok, not to the extent of 'Meet The Feebles)

Grrreat...first hes a womanizer druggy Christian science fanatic, now hes a goat sacrificer? Im getting really tired of these
slanders against the good name of JH. Not accusing you of perpetuating that, but still. When people say stuff about the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, JH, etc I dont like it.

 

[frogboy4]

That reminds me of a joke I heard. A priest. Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King were in a boat...

Just had to say it.

 

[Luke]

Re: Re: Zack & Jamie

Originally posted by beaker
Grrreat...first hes a womanizer druggy Christian science fanatic, now hes a goat sacrificer?

All of a sudden being into the occult makes you a goat sacrificer ? You must explain that to me sometime.

I don't think if the truth was told about him it'd be all that bad - it's not like he did anything really scandalous. I think you just have to put things in context - quite obviously he was not the squeaky clean person we are led to believe he was but you have to put it into context. He was a sixties and seventies person - things like alternative religion and looking at whats beyond 'this world' were the norm, and i've never heard anything about drugs but it would suprise me eitherway. It was the 60's and he socialised in media circles - this was normal ! (heck - it's not THAT different now) Maybe he gambled occasionally, liked living the high life, and liked to entertain pretty young women - who doesn't ?

All that the 'myth' does is provide a lunch ticket for his family that they've held onto over the years, and lets them help parents feel all warm and squishy about their kids watching the shows and buy the merchandise - it doesn't do Jim much good because the person who he was has been deliberately distorted and kiddified. I would have liked to have seen a book come out so people could read first hand accounts of what life with him was really like. Hardcore Henson fans should at some time in their lives try to talk to people (away from the Henson Company) who knew Jim personally or at least read the books from people like Brillstein, you get a whole different story (though still a nice one) and the whole image of Jim Henson and what made him tick becomes a lot clearer.

 

[beaker]

Re: Re: Re: Zack & Jamie

Originally posted by Luke
All that the 'myth' does is provide a lunch ticket for his family that they've held onto over the years, and lets them help parents feel all warm and squishy about their kids watching the shows and buy the merchandise - it doesn't do Jim much good because the person who he was has been deliberately distorted and kiddified. I would have liked to have seen a book come out so people could read first hand accounts of what life with him was really like. Hardcore Henson fans should at some time in their lives try to talk to people (away from the Henson Company) who knew Jim personally or at least read the books from people like Brillstein, you get a whole different story (though still a nice one) and the whole image of Jim Henson and what made him tick becomes a lot clearer.

Well...I remember at Muppetfest a few of us had a debate about a tell all book about JH...but what would it tell? What would it divulge? I think there is a reason there is no real tell all biography, and maybe it should stay that way. Who knows what kind of ill begotten ideas people have in their head.

I don't understand this notion that things have been kiddified or distorted. Obviously we'd have endless threads from everyone posting feverishly if that was the case.

So what's the real story then eh? Wild druid orgies at casinos?
I do not understand this idea at all that something great has to be 'unveiled' or torn down or 'revealed'.