@Targetmaster Joe To quote Chris when Zach told him how garbage attracts spiders: "You're fucking with me, baby. You're fucking with me."
I wouldn't mind it being a tv movie deal since this show has plenty of those lying around with their multi part specials (seriously how the fuck a show like that is able to generate that). But a theatrical release is just pushing it; and I don't mean in select theaters deals like the other DC animated films and Equestria Girls, I mean full fledge movie like Batman Madk of Phantasm, the upcoming My Little Pony movie or (god forbid) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters (actually that would be the best case as I actually enjoy that movie . . . when it aired on Adult Swim).
But yeah the Teen Titans Go movie will most likely end up like the ATHF:MFFT (shit abbreviation is shit) in plot line. It would be just another episode stetched out for the 90 minute run time with the false promise of revealing the team's secret origin when in reality its just nonsense. And the pay off will most likely be anti climatic. But hey hopefully we get some Phil Collins to serve as background music for the flashbacks.
edited 25th Sep '17 9:15:49 PM by BigK1337
Actually, reading one article (don't know where) got me to realize neither WB or CN have said this show's getting another season as of yet.
So...it's entirely possible that this movie may be some sort of Grand Finale?
(Then again, that could just be a pipe dream. Because having a movie serve as a series finale was supposed to be the case for the first SpongeBob movie, but look how that worked out...)
Nah, I get how unlikely it sounds that this movie will serve as a Grand Finale for TTG.
What perplexes me is what they'll do for a full-scale movie, and probably more importantly, how will the people who aren't us going to take this?
Whether we like it or not, this show is a hit with the kids. Will that be enough to justify a got-dang movie? Will this be another Minions case where, even though critics dissed it with a passion, it somehow acquired more than a billion dollars during its theatrical run because audiences (especially little kids) couldn't get enough of the nonsense-speaking corn pop critters?
Can TTG's alleged popularity match the Minions'?
EDIT:
Okay, I was kind of joking when I typed that, but...yeah.
edited 26th Sep '17 1:40:35 PM by TargetmasterJoe
Despite the online backlash, Greg Weisman likes
this show
. And I think he means it since he didn't comment on Spider-Man 3 when working on TSSM
.
It's not important information, but it's an interesting piece of trivia about the show to me.
I've mostly been avoiding this thread because I find the constant complaining annoying, but I figured I'd put my rational 2 cents in.
Let's look at this in perspective for a minute. Teen Titans Go has been airing, by now, for five years. In 2018 it will have been airing for six years. That is already incredible longevity for a Cartoon Network series, by any standard. So if the show were to end—and the fact that it has been airing so long makes this more likely with every passing year—then the movie would be a logical way to do so since the network seems to make everything for the series as spectacular as possible.
And while the show may be a hit with kids, that doesn't guarantee that the movie will be exceptionally successful in theaters. The Rugrats Movie was, but The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Doug's First Movie, Duck Tales: The Movie, and many, many, others were not. The issue is that kids can just as easily see this sort of thing on TV, and parents don't want to bring their kids to a glorified TV cartoon. For instance, The Powerpuff Girls Movie was released at the height of the show's popularity and heavily marketed, yet still only pulled in $16 million on a $11 million budget. But Teen Titans Go is not at the height of its interest. Its episode ratings have been on a steady decline since the third season, which goes back to my original point that the show may be on its way out.
One final thing to note. Cartoon Network has no fewer than six new shows premiering in 2018, four of which—DC Superhero Girls, Craig of the Creek, Apple and Onion and Summer Camp Island— look as though they have the potential to be the network's new flagship series. The other two, Uni Kitty and Mega Man, are not in-house shows and as such probably won't get the same sort of promotion. This is probably a record of some kind, and I'm not sure why they would debut so many series in one year—unless, of course, they had a lot of new space to fill up. More specifically, space that could be created when an existing show is removed from the schedule. . .
I am not one to wish failure on any movie, not even the crappy ones. But for all the reasons I mention above (declining popularity, limited audience, poor track record of similar movies, the potential existence of replacement series) my informed prognosis for the Teen Titans Go movie, and the series as a whole later on, is grim.
edited 26th Sep '17 11:24:07 PM by ElSquibbonator
Got around to watching Pan-Pizza's mini rant video on the movie last night and...he's made some good points:
- Kids love TTG the same way we loved stuff like Cow & Chicken and Ren & Stimpy when we were their age.
- Upon our disowning of and cries of "nobody should watch this because I think it's dumb" towards TTG, we essentially became the parents who said those same things when we were watching cartoons our parents didn't like watching.
- A lot of us seem to not realize that despite TTG running on CN, CN didn't actually produce it, WB Animation did. So when CN airs a show produced by WB Animation, whatever profit that show gets, CN would have to split it 50/50 with WB. Meaning: TTG has apparently become so profitable that CN is willing to accept half of the profit from it.
- One reason they're prioritizing a TTG movie rather than an Adventure Time movie is because the people who claim to give a hoot about AT haven't watched it in ages.
- And let's be honest, do we actually watch CN on TV nowadays? Or do we just watch stuff like AT, Steven Universe, and other plot-driven shows via streaming methods?
Geez, Pan really sounds like he knows how the animation industry works, huh? I guess that's what happens when you talk to people who make cartoons for a living as Pan has been doing.
Having said all that, do I think this will work out for CN and WB? It depends. Critically? No. Financially? Maybe.
Am I going to pay good money to watch this in a theater? Doubt it. I stopped watching it ages ago and I still have no reason to watch it now.
Are we overreacting? Yes. There have been plenty of movies that made us go ballistic when they were announced, but have any of them kick-started anything like World War III? No. So why should this be any different?
All in all, if violence begets violence, then hatred begets hatred and ultimately, there's no justification for either. So let's just suck it up and move on.
Sure, that might mean something good to some people, but I don't want to come off as a hypocrite, so I won't comment about this any further.
Is this going to be a theatrical release? It could just be a direct to TV Grand Finale.
Well, as I said before, that depends. Theatrical movies based on kids' TV cartoons have a rather spotty record at the box office, and it's coming out in competition with Hotel Transylvania 3 and Mission Impossible 6.
But what Pan Pizza said about fans of Cartoon Network's other shows preferring to watch them on streaming services raises a point I made earlier, in the "Cartoon Network in general" thread. See, my hypothesis is that internet streaming services are becoming the preferred viewing platform for fans of series with ongoing storylines and intricate plots. For example, most fans of Adventure Time and Steven Universe watch those shows on the internet now, but that still benefits Cartoon Network because they have a service that allows you to do that. Similarly, Nickelodeon cut out the middle man and made Legend of Korra an exclusively streaming series.
What does this have to do with Teen Titans Go? Well, streaming services are in many ways a better platform for story-driven shows (since you can binge-watch many episodes at once to catch up), and Cartoon Network knows it. Heck, they even premiered OK K.O on streaming before it came on TV. So with all the "serious" shows becoming available for streaming, what the network is left with are comedies—shows that you can just sit down and watch for 11 minutes without worrying about continuity. Shows like Teen Titans Go, in other words.
And you know what? I'm fine with that. If the future of shows like Adventure Time and Steven Universe is to be watched on streaming services rather than on TV, while TV cartoons become more comedy-based, that's OK. I, for one, welcome our new streaming media overlords.
Yes, let's welcome our streaming media overlords.
...As long as they're on Netflix and Amazon. (My family isn't convinced if Hulu's worth whatever price they're asking for.)
...Oh shoot. I never took that into account. I mean, I'm still skeptical about even Hotel Transylvania 2, but Rogue Nation kicked ass!
Wow, it's looking even bleaker for the Titans all of a sudden. O__O'!
edited 27th Sep '17 10:25:23 AM by TargetmasterJoe
I'm not sure what you guys are doing, most probably not watch the film, but I sure as hell will be watching it.
Look, I love the original, I have been watching almost every episode, although I do admit I might have skipped several episodes of the last season, and I haven't watched the tv movie in full (though I did watch a certain ZONE parody of that movie several times). It just felt like it began to drag on for a bit too long.
I enjoy Teen Titans GO!, and when the movie comes out I will unironically watch it and hopefully enjoy it. I might try to convince my six year old brother to come watch the film with me. I know my brother loves that series, and that's what actually matters. I mean, who am I to say what he should or shouldn't watch? Like, I can't bitchslap him for wanting to expand his fidget spinner collection, or every time he dabs (and trust me, the urge to slap him is great). I can't force him to not like the series.
I first want to see this film before I can pass judgement. You can say I'll be taking one for the team, I just see it as looking forward to a film that has the potential to be really bad, but can also be really good.
Signatures are for lamers.Whatever route they take with this, if they're going to make a movie that people are going to pay money to go and see, they should at least make it watchable. The show is capable of providing good laughs (from my experience at least) so it'd be nice if they'd take all the legitimately good things about TTG! and put it into a feature-length movie, or at least hire some good co-writers who can help make a TTG! movie a (perhaps surprisingly) enjoyable and genuinely fun experience.
Who knows? For all the crap people give the show, maybe the movie will wind up being a pleasant surprise. I may just be being overly optimistic, but what the heck.
edited 27th Sep '17 1:11:59 PM by kablammin45
"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."Just heard the news.
While I understand people's frustration, I'm glad that cartoons are making a come back in theaters. The Powerpuff Girls movie killed CN's interest in movie adaptations, and Hey Arnold's movie did the same for Nick. Now we've got several movie adaptations in the works.
Now, how well any of them will do remains to be seen. But I'm happy that at least networks are willing to take a chance on them.

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