The old school Popeye's were the best cartoons ever. When the DVD collections came out, I watched those shorts for hours.

Ooooooooooooh who's the most remarkable extraordinary fellow?

Remember when Robin Williams was Popeye?

Weird, I was just thinking about Popeye a few hours ago. No really. I was thinking he'd probably make no sense to today's kids, but then I realized he made no sense to me as a kid either. But I do like spinach.

If they're going with the old Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons then that should be pretty cool.

Confabulat: Weird, I was just thinking about Popeye a few hours ago. No really. I was thinking he'd probably make no sense to today's kids, but then I realized he made no sense to me as a kid either. But I do like spinach.

They should make a CGI Betty Boop movie. Now that would capture today's kids!

Ghastly: If they're going with the old Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons then that should be pretty cool.

They had an interesting 3-D effect that was ahead of its time.

For the curious, this excerpt (new window) from a 1936 magazine article explains how Fleischer filmed the Popeye cartoons.

//oblig

Lorelle: For the curious, this excerpt (new window) from a 1936 magazine article explains how Fleischer filmed the Popeye cartoons.

That's awesome, thanks.

bighasbeen: Confabulat: Weird, I was just thinking about Popeye a few hours ago. No really. I was thinking he'd probably make no sense to today's kids, but then I realized he made no sense to me as a kid either. But I do like spinach.

They should make a CGI Betty Boop movie. Now that would capture today's kids!

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I loved the Popeye movie when I was a kid. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how utterly insane the whole thing was.

Confabulat: I loved the Popeye movie when I was a kid. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how utterly insane crappy the whole thing was.

FTFY

The Robert Altman POPEYE is practically a textbook on how not to do a comic movie.

Popeye was the MAN! Took no crap from Brutus, great command of the english language and had a skinny girlfriend.

texdent: Remember when Robin Williams was Popeye?

That was a bad, bad movie and Robin Williams should feel bad for being in it.

Replica: All I know is Robin Williams is good in everything.

Except Popeye.

Replica: All I know is Robin Williams is good in everything.

Sheesh, never seen Patch Adams, I guess.

And the Altman movie gets a bad rap. Sure it's nuts and not exactly a good movie, but it's NUTS, which makes it an entertaining movie, anyway.

The Altman "Popeye" was another in a seemingly endless litany of deeply compromised cinematic masterworks. The studio execs second-guessed him and micro-managed him and rushed his completion window and seemingly did everything possible in their power to trip Altman up during the film's production cycle. Even after working under those conditions (from everything I've ever heard or read on the subject) his final cut was apparently absolute genius on the level of "Nashville" and "M.A.S.H." Then the film was, without his input, edited down to the piece of loo pudding we know and loathe today and released. I'm holding out (notalotta) hope that one day Altman's original print (or something resembling it) is released for we peons to view.

Mentat: The old school Popeye's were the best cartoons ever. When the DVD collections came out, I watched those shorts for hours.

His Superman cartoons were even better. I remember one with people dancing around a fire & their shadows were almost life-like as they were cast against the far walls. Really amazing animation.

Ghastly: If they're going with the old Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons then that should be pretty cool.

QFT. The sotto voce adlibs were the best. And if they want an obilgatory masturbatory 3D, this is made for it.

The Altman-"Popeye" isn't THAT bad.... and at the time, Robin Williams was the optimal choice. Love for Shelly Duvall as Olive as well.

Dwight_Yeast: texdent: Remember when Robin Williams was Popeye?

COCAINE!

/seriously, everyone involved in that movie was on coke. The producer (Robert Evans) almost got arrested flying into Malta with a suitcase full of it to supply the cast and crew.

He shouold have had free supplies to the critics and moviegoers as well.

/ba da tish
//Puss Puss FTW!

OLD cartoon? The Smurfs is from the 1980s. Popeye is from the 1930s. Let's keep it relative. And get off my lawn you crazy kids with your fast cars and your rock and roll.

Pandora's Litterbox: I'm holding out (notalotta) hope that one day Altman's original print (or something resembling it) is released for we peons to view.

All the ingredients are there, Robert Altman, Jules Feiffer, Harry Nilsson, and a nearly perfect cast all the way down the line. I've always loved this movie, but never liked it much. I would love to see it the way Altman intended.

Unless they plan to call it Thimble Theatre (which was Elzie Segar's original name for the comic strip where Popeye originated), I don't give a rat's ass.

/trivia: Olive Oyl originally had a brother named Castor

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Has it really been 32 years since this came out?

Holy shiat. I remember when that came out, I was 8. It's only been 31 years (like that makes a difference). I loved that movie. No one else did, it seems.

ChaoticLimbs: terrible movies

I adore bad movies. I got that from my mom. She used to watch bad movies and laugh her ass off. Now I do the same. The last movie I saw with my mom was Armageddon. We were howling in the theatre when no one else was. I especially love Nicolas Cage movies because they're he's so gawdawful.

/really miss mom when a bad movie is on