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Old 06-13-14 | 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Timber
I can't read your post after you shit on Team America
He was just LARPing the movie's sex scene.
Old 06-13-14 | 03:06 PM
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Team America is a classic.
Old 06-13-14 | 03:37 PM
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I happened to have re-watched Team America recently. I didn't think it was all that hilarious, but it was definitely entertaining and I came away even more impressed with the technical achievement of just making the film. There was no CGI used at all, all the effects and action were practical. Well executed.

I haven't seen Cannibal or Book of Mormon, but I thought Baseketball, Orgazmo, and That's My Bush were all pretty disappointing.
Old 06-13-14 | 03:41 PM
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I love BASEketball.

Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude.
Old 06-13-14 | 03:44 PM
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I haven't seen Cannibal or Book of Mormon, but I thought Baseketball, Orgazmo, and That's My Bush were all pretty disappointing.
It should be noted that Baseketball really isn't their film; It's a David Zucker film that they happened to be cast in.

That's My Bush is pretty weak as satire, but it's a great parody of the standard 3-camera sitcom.
Old 06-13-14 | 03:44 PM
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I still think South Park: The Movie vastly exceeded expectations and is one of the funniest films of this century.

I've found their non-South Park content a little more patchy and uneven in quality.
Old 06-13-14 | 03:49 PM
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I disliked Baseketball so much when it came out that I haven't been able to bring myself to see it again. I remember thinking that people I had been telling "You have got to check out South Park" were going to see this and then assume South Park must be garbage as well. So not only did I not enjoy it, it actually sort of irritated me. Maybe I should give it another shot.
Old 06-14-14 | 10:19 AM
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Old 06-14-14 | 10:41 AM
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They have been wildly successful but there is a lot of hypocrisy in the fact that they are still doing South Park. When they first hit it big they often talked about how they would only do South Park for a few years and how they had no respect for those that milk one thing of years.

I guess money changes all things.
Old 06-14-14 | 10:54 AM
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But South Park is still very good.
Old 06-14-14 | 11:21 AM
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That's not the point.
Old 06-14-14 | 12:02 PM
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I think BASEketball is the weakest thing they've done by far. I've liked pretty much all their other works though I haven't seen The Book of Mormon (only have listened to the soundtrack). I know that some people will bitch that South Park isn't what it once was, but I still find it pretty funny even though some episodes miss the mark a bit. I actually wouldn't mind seeing them do some more work outside of South Park, maybe another feature film or something.
Old 06-14-14 | 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by resinrats
Book of Mormon seems to be popular
and with tix price THAT expensive - Trey and Matt are basking off the tix sales.

look at Boublil and Schönberg have they ever written another musical together - why should they? ' Les Misérables' has been their cash cow.

but back on topic. I hope we do see something from Trey and Matt in TV, film form in the near future.
Old 06-14-14 | 12:45 PM
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BASEketball is great as an amateur, just-trying-our-best-to-make-a-movie movie.

It really is funny. If you have the ability to understand that it's all self-mocking and self-aware, it's really good.
Old 06-14-14 | 01:06 PM
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I have several friends who's entire frame of reference for all life seems to come from South Park or Family Guy. I never to watch an episode, because they know them all by heart, and by the time we get the half-hour mark of being together, one of them has always referenced it.
Old 06-14-14 | 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Original Desmond
But what a hit it is !

It's only because i am watching Baseketball, hadn't seen it since 1998. I know they did Team America, all i remember from that trainwreck was 'american fuck yeah"
Team America was some funny stuff... IMO.
Old 06-14-14 | 04:02 PM
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Matt damon!
Old 06-15-14 | 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Troy Stiffler
BASEketball is great as an amateur, just-trying-our-best-to-make-a-movie movie.

It really is funny. If you have the ability to understand that it's all self-mocking and self-aware, it's really good.
Old 06-15-14 | 02:21 PM
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I don't know if you all ever saw Your Studio and You, but it's of their early works, an in-house video for Universal, pretty funny:

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Old 06-15-14 | 02:33 PM
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i'm seeing Book of Mormon next weekend on Broadway. so excited!!
Old 06-15-14 | 03:12 PM
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I always giggle at the James Cameron cameo. By "always", I mean "the once or twice I watched it".
Old 06-15-14 | 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Giles
but back on topic. I hope we do see something from Trey and Matt in TV, film form in the near future.
With the changing of South Park's production schedule moving to the fall and their creation of Important Studios, I am assuming we will see something sooner or later.

$20 says it'll probably be a film production of The Book of Mormon (which I have tickets to see in two weeks!!!).
Old 06-16-14 | 09:00 PM
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Did Original desmond died?
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Book of Mormon apparently makes $19m a month across all presentations, that's crazy (about $6m a month from Broadway tickets alone)

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