Popeye

luke795 · **on:** January 09, 2011, 03:26:34 AM

Are there any Popeye fans out there?

OldFred · **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2011, 06:11:00 AM

I Yam what I Yam and that's all what I Yam!

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Dunrobin · **Reply #2 on:** January 09, 2011, 09:13:07 AM

I loved the early Fleischer Studios Popeye cartoons (pre-World War II) as a kid. I never cared for the later "Famous Studios" cartoons, when Paramount took over.

xraffle · **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2011, 10:36:02 AM

I'm a casual fan

Curly4444 · **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2011, 11:21:07 AM

I'm also a casual fan. I just couldn't get into them like looney tunes. It was kinda hard to root for an idiot that liked some anorexic,whinny, fickle, ugly woman.

shemps#1 · **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2011, 02:45:13 PM

I was never a huge Popeye fan. I did watch him as a kid, not to mention the awful live action movie starring Robin Williams, but quickly grew out of him.

Here's a piece of WWII propaganda that rivals "The Yoke's On Me" called "You're A Sap, Mr. Jap".

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Boid Brain · **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2011, 12:27:04 PM

As a kid I was a BIG fan, especially the old King Features ones. I have to believe that Popeye was the original inspiration for Shuster and Seigals "Superman". Popeye was indeed a superman after ingesting the vile weed.

I remember reading that in the original comic books there was no spinach, and he was just a brawling, gashouse sailor that had all of his teeth knocked out and one eye gouged out in bar fights!

I just saw the 1st Popeye cartoon again after many years where he cavorts with Betty Boop and a bunch of animal charactors that wore clothes and talked like people. I don't think they made any more cartoons like that....I wish I knew more, but much lore is lost to history.

Got any additional facts, Luke?

SlyVenom · **Reply #7 on:** January 11, 2011, 06:08:30 PM

Casual fan here as well. I also enjoyed the live action Robin Williams movie, which most people seem to dislike.

Boid Brain · **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2011, 02:01:48 AM

I think it was Ray Walstons last movie part....Robin was OK in the part, as was Shelly Duvall. But they could have made a better picture.

OldFred · **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:00:08 AM

Quote from: Boid Brain on January 13, 2011, 02:01:48 AM

I think it was Ray Walstons last movie part....Robin was OK in the part, as was Shelly Duvall. But they could have made a better picture.

The problem with the Popeye movie was not the cast but the director Robert Altman. Altman has made some really excellent films in the past like 'MASH', 'The Long Goodbye' among others, but he was the wrong director for this movie. The cast gave more than 100% for their efforts in the movie and it shows in their performances.

Boid Brain · **Reply #10 on:** January 13, 2011, 03:34:12 PM

Quote from: OldFred on January 13, 2011, 08:00:08 AM

The problem with the Popeye movie was not the cast but the director Robert Altman. Altman has made some really excellent films in the past like 'MASH', 'The Long Goodbye' among others, but he was the wrong director for this movie. The cast gave more than 100% for their efforts in the movie and it shows in their performances.

Mash was good, but Altman lost me forever with that turd of a movie "Nashville"...I know it was highly regarded and even won the Oscar (I think) but I just didn't get it! Fucking Henry Gibson from "Laugh In" as a C/W icon??!

Giff me dat fill-em! · **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:21:37 PM

A couple of songs (from my Pilsner Downloads collection) which feature Popeye.

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shemps#1 · **Reply #12 on:** January 14, 2011, 12:08:25 AM

Quote from: Boid Brain on January 13, 2011, 03:34:12 PM

Mash was good, but Altman lost me forever with that turd of a movie "Nashville"...I know it was highly regarded and even won the Oscar (I think) but I just didn't get it! Fucking Henry Gibson from "Laugh In" as a C/W icon??!

Nashville was nominated but did not win Best Picture. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest won that year (1975) but Nashville did win for Best Original Song.

ProfessorStooge · **Reply #13 on:** January 14, 2011, 06:49:47 PM

I thought the Popeye film was average. Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall did good jobs as Popeye and Olive Oyl. I once read some trivia that their roles were originally offered to Dustin Hoffman and Gilda Radner.

metaldams · **Reply #14 on:** January 14, 2011, 07:02:21 PM

I haven't seen the Popeye films since I was probably about 10 years old. My memory of it so faded all I can say is that I've seen it and it was on some old rusty VHS tape my Mom made. I guess it didn't make too much of an impression.

Curly4444 · **Reply #15 on:** January 14, 2011, 07:54:55 PM

Quote from: metaldams on January 14, 2011, 07:02:21 PM

I haven't seen the Popeye films since I was probably about 10 years old. My memory of it so faded all I can say is that I've seen it and it was on some old rusty VHS tape my Mom made. I guess it didn't make too much of an impression.

Youtube

shemps#1 · **Reply #16 on:** January 15, 2011, 12:44:57 AM

I've inherited it from my mother's vast DVD collection and all of this talk is making me want to watch it. Like Doug I haven't seen it since I was a kid but I remember not liking it.

Smaug · **Reply #17 on:** January 15, 2011, 06:37:04 AM

Just watch a copy of "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor" (the restored version), and you"ll want to see more. Guaranteed.

QuinceHead · **Reply #18 on:** January 16, 2011, 10:02:02 AM

Quote from: Boid Brain on January 13, 2011, 02:01:48 AM

I think it was Ray Walstons last movie part....Robin was OK in the part, as was Shelly Duvall. But they could have made a better picture.

Actually, Ray Walston's last film role was in the movie version of My Favorite Martian (1999). And he worked steadily on television (especially on Picket Fences) right up until his death on January 1st, 2001.

And count me in as a Popeye fan too -- at least of the original cartoons and EC Segar's comic strip!

For duty and humanity,
JohnH aka QuinceHead

Moron4392 · **Reply #19 on:** January 16, 2011, 11:24:21 AM

Count me as a fan also, please. Recently purchased all of the Popeye Cartoons; {remakes} from Amazon Marketplace for 2-5 per season. Regularly watch them. Remember some of the later ones coming out when I was young. Thanks.

Hoekstra
Moron4392

Boid Brain · **Reply #20 on:** January 20, 2011, 10:16:49 AM

Quote from: Smaug on January 15, 2011, 06:37:04 AM

Just watch a copy of "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor" (the restored version), and you"ll want to see more. Guaranteed.

Yep, they went all out on that one...the animation was superb, and it ran 14 minutes, twice the norm....I guess Disney lit a fire under King?

xraffle · **Reply #21 on:** January 21, 2011, 10:59:30 AM

Quote from: Smaug on January 15, 2011, 06:37:04 AM

Just watch a copy of "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor" (the restored version), and you"ll want to see more. Guaranteed.

I like "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" better.

BeAStooge · **Reply #22 on:** January 21, 2011, 11:30:51 AM

Quote from: Boid Brain on January 20, 2011, 10:16:49 AM

Yep, they went all out on that one...the animation was superb, and it ran 14 minutes, twice the norm....I guess Disney lit a fire under King?

King Features owns the trademark/character "Popeye." They did not produce the theatrical cartoons. *

Fleischer Studios produced the "Popeye" cartoons of 1933 - 1942, distributed thru Paramount. Paramount bought out Fleischer in 1942, and produced the toons under its Famous Studios brand until 1957.

Fleischer is highly regarded for making technical advances in animated films, and lit as many fires under Disney, as Disney did to Fleischer.

* King produced the 1960-1961 made-for-TV limited animation cartoons, but the actual films were created by sub-contracting out to several independent production houses, including Gene Deitch in Europe and Larry Harmon in L.A.

shemps#1 · **Reply #23 on:** January 21, 2011, 04:13:01 PM

A bit of a coincidence in regards to the "You're A Sap, Mr. Jap" that I posted earlier in this thread: that is actually the first Famous Studios Popeye cartoon.

xraffle · **Reply #24 on:** June 27, 2011, 02:16:33 PM

Quote from: SlyVenom on January 11, 2011, 06:08:30 PM

Casual fan here as well. I also enjoyed the live action Robin Williams movie, which most people seem to dislike.

I’m probably going to regret this, but I just bought the Robin Williams movie during my lunch hour today. The DVD was on sale at J&R for only $4.79, so I figured what the heck! I only watched it once when I was a kid and I thought it was ok. I’m not sure what I’ll think of it now. I’ll just have to find out and see.

middlenamewayne · **Reply #25 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:56:41 AM

Quote from: xraffle on June 27, 2011, 02:16:33 PM

I’m probably going to regret this, but I just bought the Robin Williams movie during my lunch hour today. The DVD was on sale at J&R for only $4.79, so I figured what the heck!

Four geniuses (Jules Feiffer, Robert Altman, Robin Williams, Harry Nilsson) got together and the best they could manage was "close but no Segar"...

I most definitely did NOT regret picking up the first box set of the complete Fleisher Popeye cartoons at Big Lots for $3! (I wish I'd bought 20 copies!) John K. of Ren & Stimpy fame was heavily involved in these box sets and they are utterly gorgeous and lovingly packed to the poop-deck with fantastic bonus featurettes -- if a Stooges box set was made with even 50% of the quality of the Popeye boxes it would be cause for celebration!

- mnw

shemps#1 · **Reply #26 on:** July 15, 2011, 11:42:31 PM

My cable and Internet went down last night so I popped in my mother's DVD of the Popeye movie and it is worse than I remember. Granted the only thing about the film that I had remembered since I saw it as a child was not liking it, but this was one of the worst movies I have ever had the displeasure of watching. Williams gets the accent down decently but mumbles through 95% of his lines which, along with grinding his teeth makes it damn near impossible to understand almost everything he says. The music sucks (and this is coming from a Nilsson fan) and the acting is wooden at best, but the most off-putting part about this movie is the pathetic attempt to bring cartoon physics into a live action setting. Watching Williams, Duvall, Walston et. al. try to move around like cartoons (especially during fight scenes) is nauseating.

The only really interesting tid bit about this movie is that it is a Disney film despite Popeye not being a Disney cartoon.

xraffle · **Reply #27 on:** July 21, 2011, 08:34:12 AM

Yeah, after I watched the movie, I thought it was pretty bad. Even though I only paid $5 for the DVD, I can’t help but feel ripped off. Williams and Duvall were ok and I couldn’t imagine anyone else playing the parts of Popeye and Olive any better. But I thought Smith’s portrayal of Bluto was awful. They portrayed him as some grumpy and mean old bully. While Bluto is like that in cartoons, at least in the cartoons, the character had a sense of humor. The character of Bluto in this movie is not like that. Hard to describe, but I’m sure Popeye fans know what I mean.

And I find it odd that in the movie, Popeye didn’t like Spinach and had to be force fed it. Maybe there’s a cartoon that I never saw or something, but as far as I remember, Popeye always voluntarily ate Spinach in the cartoons.