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Post by Doo on May 11, 2013 20:06:15 GMT -5
Hey anyone found out about the digital download According to ToonZone, there will be a UV download available with this movie!
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Post by Doo on May 11, 2013 20:07:39 GMT -5
According to Jason Wyatt, we are still supposed to get the Mecha Mutt movie this year. With Mask of the Blue Falcon, Stage Fright, the puppet movie and now Mecha Mutt, it sounds like this year will be packed with Scooby!
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Post by dangerpronek on May 20, 2013 14:04:28 GMT -5
I've read on a couple sites that "Scooby-Doo Stage Fright" is coming out on video demand tomorrow, May 21 2013. Anyone know if it's legit? Hope so.
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Post by Doo on May 20, 2013 17:30:01 GMT -5
I don't know for sure, but it sounds like it could be true, seeing as some of the recent movies have been released On Demand a few months early.
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Post by SpiderScooby on May 20, 2013 18:14:29 GMT -5
I did a search for stage fright on demand. And according to Cox Communications, SF will be avaliable on demand{at least on their service} from Jun 06, 2013 - Aug 05, 2013.
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Post by ahkyahnan on May 21, 2013 13:16:54 GMT -5
Funny how several of the recent Scooby DTV’s have taken place in some sort of “stage” environment for much of the movie, and involved performing artists of some sort. Music Of The Vampire in a theater of some sort wasn’t it? Big Top Scooby in a circus. Mask Of The Blue Falcon at a convention with big screens, actors and later a stadium. Stage Fright at an opera house for a singer/songwriting contest, and coming later another set in a Wrestling ring. Seems to be an entertainment industry theme running here.
Haven’t had a chance to post a Mask of the Blue Falcon review yet…though I really did like the movie…but one thing I’m getting a little tired of are all the Hollywood insider jokes, parodies of real-life news stories and characters not-so-subtly based on real people, clever ironies, and so forth. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy that and I completely ‘get’ all of it and appreciate fully where it comes from, but at the same time I really don’t want Scooby movies to become a “commentary on the state of the modern entertainment industry” at the expense of a good spooky mystery and humor related more to the gang and show itself.
Lately I’ve wondered if these newer movies are being written more to tell a new Scooby story for its own sake, or to serve as platforms for the writers to cleverly poke fun at various elements of American culture? I don’t mind a little of that, but not to the point where it starts becoming the focal point of the movie almost, reducing the mystery solving segments to simply being the “B Story”. Now I realize that the whole plot premise of Blue Falcon lent itself to this perfectly, and I loved what they did with it, but my point is I don’t want them to start devising plots based primarily around scenarios that lend themselves to clever in-jokes. I want them to write good mystery stories and throw in some clever humor where it fits. I guess I feel that in recent years they’ve started crossing a line of sorts. I understand the need to keep Scooby fresh, but not to the extent that it feels like The Office or something.
And with Stage Fright apparently having some sort of American Idol theme behind it, I can’t help but wonder if the story is going to revolve more around talent-show in-jokes, contestant idiosyncrasies’ and parodies of Steven Tyler & Simon Whatshisname, with a phantom thrown in as a sub-plot to give the gang something to do. And there’s no way the wrestling movie isn’t going to lack for all this.
I’ll get off my stump now, but it’s just something I’ve been thinking about lately. What do you all think?
Mark
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Post by russm on May 21, 2013 15:27:50 GMT -5
True to a point but they are done much better than the New Scooby 'insert random star(s) here' Movies.
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Post by CaptainBuck on May 22, 2013 0:40:15 GMT -5
So Far not on Comcast VOD nor Amazon
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Post by Doo on May 22, 2013 18:28:47 GMT -5
I've read on a couple sites that "Scooby-Doo Stage Fright" is coming out on video demand tomorrow, May 21 2013. Anyone know if it's legit? Hope so. Checked my On Demand last night, and no, it's not out. Supposedly now, Stage Fright will be on Demand May 31, 2013 according to Internet rumors. I still believe that it will come out on On Demand June 6, 2013.
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Post by ahkyahnan on May 23, 2013 9:21:36 GMT -5
True to a point but they are done much better than the New Scooby 'insert random star(s) here' Movies. Oh without a doubt! No the quality of the in-jokes and industry parodies I mentioned have been wonderfully written, and I enjoy them. Much better than most of the goofy humor on Cartoon Network for instance. It’s all been done very well. The point I was trying to make though I guess is that the ratio of those jokes to the more ‘traditional’ Scooby elements/format seems to be increasing. To the point that, as in some SD:MI episodes, it sometimes seems like the mystery has been reduced to a secondary role. I mean if you look at the various series’ and earlier movies, there’s very little reference to the real world as it existed at the time they were filmed. Things stayed within their own universe so to speak, with no topical humor. And that’s also part of what has made the franchise so timeless. Except for the clothing, technology and a few period phrases now and then, there’s not much that dates Scooby. Well the animation style too I guess. But the content itself generally bears no relationship to real life events of the time, and therefore plays well even 40+ years later. The parodies and all that we’re starting to see in the more recent work are very clever, witty and funny at the moment, but how well will some of this play 40 years from now to audiences not born yet, or even to us? Going back to the New Scooby Movies for example, the random stars were thrown in to spice up (or sometimes not) the existing format, but not to change the format or take the show in a new direction. And even the real-life guest starts didn’t do much to date the episodes, since their out of universe lives didn’t enter into the episode much. For all practical purposes they could’ve been fictional characters for all the episode’s reveal of their real-life existence. Anyway, that’s more what I meant. Maybe I’m just ‘old-school’ Scooby to a large degree. Mark
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Post by groovyscooby on May 23, 2013 13:53:34 GMT -5
True to a point but they are done much better than the New Scooby 'insert random star(s) here' Movies. Oh without a doubt! No the quality of the in-jokes and industry parodies I mentioned have been wonderfully written, and I enjoy them. Much better than most of the goofy humor on Cartoon Network for instance. It’s all been done very well. The point I was trying to make though I guess is that the ratio of those jokes to the more ‘traditional’ Scooby elements/format seems to be increasing. To the point that, as in some SD:MI episodes, it sometimes seems like the mystery has been reduced to a secondary role. I mean if you look at the various series’ and earlier movies, there’s very little reference to the real world as it existed at the time they were filmed. Things stayed within their own universe so to speak, with no topical humor. And that’s also part of what has made the franchise so timeless. Except for the clothing, technology and a few period phrases now and then, there’s not much that dates Scooby. Well the animation style too I guess. But the content itself generally bears no relationship to real life events of the time, and therefore plays well even 40+ years later. The parodies and all that we’re starting to see in the more recent work are very clever, witty and funny at the moment, but how well will some of this play 40 years from now to audiences not born yet, or even to us? Going back to the New Scooby Movies for example, the random stars were thrown in to spice up (or sometimes not) the existing format, but not to change the format or take the show in a new direction. And even the real-life guest starts didn’t do much to date the episodes, since their out of universe lives didn’t enter into the episode much. For all practical purposes they could’ve been fictional characters for all the episode’s reveal of their real-life existence. Anyway, that’s more what I meant. Maybe I’m just ‘old-school’ Scooby to a large degree. Mark I know what you mean...............
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Post by russm on May 23, 2013 15:13:15 GMT -5
Well this would be true of ANY bit of work that is set in the time when it was written. From SDWAY there will be modes of speech, everyday things, jokes, the shape of cars even will seem hopelessly outdated now. You can use these things a bit like tree-rings when dating a show.
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Post by CaptainBuck on May 26, 2013 15:53:51 GMT -5
Yeah, but the Your Mom jokes about the Werewolf in the beginning of Big Top were completely out of line.
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Post by SpiderScooby on May 30, 2013 15:06:07 GMT -5
According to Vudu.com, Stage Fright will be avaliable on demand starting June 6th!
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Post by Doo on May 31, 2013 16:53:39 GMT -5
Awesome!!!!! Thanks for posting SS!
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