Maybe he couldn't get a permit, or the local laws outright don't allow for tall fences. I know some places, such as the town I live in, limit the height of fences in your front yard to like 4 feet or less.
Maybe he couldn't get a permit, or the local laws outright don't allow for tall fences. I know some places, such as the town I live in, limit the height of fences in your front yard to like 4 feet or less.
I can't recall, did any of the other houses in the neighborhood have fences?
Funny you mention him because he apparently wasn't a fan of the final product. His version of the final act didn't make it, a friend wrote to him about the movie and he wrote back detailing that. Wish I had the link on hand but an anon posted a link to the article in a monster house thread like a month ago.
Not too many specifics unfortunately. It's just some lady writing Dan about how he needs to explain the film to her daughter because she keeps having nightmares. Dan writes that he never got to finish the film, and so he can't really explain that much since it wasn't the final product he'd set out to make.
>Why, after they escaped the house, did that old man tell them another scary story about a mean fat lady that didn’t make very much sense either? I’ll tell you why. Because [the “Monster House” director] Gil Kenan is a hack and [its executive producer] Steven Spielberg is a moron. But hey, I shouldn’t be dumping this stuff on you.
The spirit possessing the house. She was a circus exhibition because she was so fat, but the Nevercracker guy was secretly Pierce Brosnan so he stole her away and married her.
Then he was building a house for them to live in and some kids were throwing shit at her, so she grabbed an axe to murder them and Pierce tried to stop her and she ended up falling into the open basement and getting entombed in cement.
Gotta love how this is the only other well known role Jon Heder is known for besides Napoleon Dynamite. Nice to know he’s a part of cult classic Halloween history now.
Yes that was the plot, they made you initially think he was dead and HIS spirit was haunting the house leading up to the reveal of Constance
Neat little detail I didn't even realize until recently. When he comes back, he gets out of the DRIVER'S seat of the ambulance while still in a patient's gown
homie broke out of the hospital and stole a fricking ambulance like a day after suffering a heart attack or whatever
>be Pierce Brosnan demolitions expert >have heart attack >the day after you steal an ambulance, blow up a house, then give away candy and toys on Halloween >homeless and destitute for the rest of his life >MC's parents don't even react to the missing house
What a Chad
The tie in video games, there were a few for each console. Gamecube, gba, the ds had its own too I think.
I remember reading The City of Ember shorty after watching this movie so I imagined the characters in the book looked like the characters from Monster House.
And then they made a City of Ember movie and I was annoyed it didn't look like Monster House.
Something about your post captures those brief silly moments in childhood, I did the same with other media. Loved city of Ember too, though I barely remember those books.
There was a time when every major movie got a handful of licensed video games. Monster House got games for the PS2, Gamecube, DS, and GBA.
The PS2/Gamecube version is a 3rd person shooter. It's pretty linear and more like a virtual haunted house. It has the best version of Thou Art Dead though.
The DS version is a top-down shooter like Smash TV. I didn't play much of it, I wanted to explore the house and this game doesn't let you do that.
The GBA version is a top-down adventure game like Zelda. It's a lot more open-ended than the console version with more puzzles. It has a watered down version of Thou Art Dead, but at least you get a reward for getting the high score.
There's also a java game for old flip phones but it looked like unremarkable garbage.
I remember reading The City of Ember shorty after watching this movie so I imagined the characters in the book looked like the characters from Monster House.
And then they made a City of Ember movie and I was annoyed it didn't look like Monster House.
Sharp jokes, good tone and a genuinely sad and horrible backstory for Nebbercracker and Constance
Why didn't he just build a big fence?
Maybe he couldn't get a permit, or the local laws outright don't allow for tall fences. I know some places, such as the town I live in, limit the height of fences in your front yard to like 4 feet or less.
I can't recall, did any of the other houses in the neighborhood have fences?
>Why didn't he just build a big fence?
How is he supposed to enjoy himself if he can't yell at kids?
Maybe his wife didn't like fences.
still a good movie
It would've been better in live-action honestly, I think the mo-cap style turned a lot of people off plus how badly the animation aged.
Dan Harmon wasn't a jaded cynical butthole with a god complex yet and still allowed himself to be sincere with his writing.
Funny you mention him because he apparently wasn't a fan of the final product. His version of the final act didn't make it, a friend wrote to him about the movie and he wrote back detailing that. Wish I had the link on hand but an anon posted a link to the article in a monster house thread like a month ago.
Found it: https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/community-creator-writes-to-child-disses-spielberg-and-wins-our-hearts/
Wow he can only create kino by accident
Sad!
tldr?
Not too many specifics unfortunately. It's just some lady writing Dan about how he needs to explain the film to her daughter because she keeps having nightmares. Dan writes that he never got to finish the film, and so he can't really explain that much since it wasn't the final product he'd set out to make.
Great job anon
What was his original third act like?
>Dan Harmon wasn't a jaded cynical butthole
Lol
>Why, after they escaped the house, did that old man tell them another scary story about a mean fat lady that didn’t make very much sense either? I’ll tell you why. Because [the “Monster House” director] Gil Kenan is a hack and [its executive producer] Steven Spielberg is a moron. But hey, I shouldn’t be dumping this stuff on you.
>ohhh, so it's a girl house.
I still remember this line years later.
The spirit possessing the house. She was a circus exhibition because she was so fat, but the Nevercracker guy was secretly Pierce Brosnan so he stole her away and married her.
Then he was building a house for them to live in and some kids were throwing shit at her, so she grabbed an axe to murder them and Pierce tried to stop her and she ended up falling into the open basement and getting entombed in cement.
OM NOM NOM NOM
Monster House's defining legacy
Gotta love how this is the only other well known role Jon Heder is known for besides Napoleon Dynamite. Nice to know he’s a part of cult classic Halloween history now.
Don't leave out his most iconic role
"Why don't you clean YOUR room, dad"
I also know him as that stoner chicken in Surf's Up
Why is there a stoner character in a children's movie? Is he at least the villain?
There was one in A Goofy Movie that was one of the three main characters
Why are you on your mom's computer without her permission
How old are you?
70
>drugs are bad mmkay
Frick off
better than I remember
conchowder no voy a pedir sexo este año
>mc gets no fanart
Damn, video games have looked better than this for like the past 10 years.
Anon this movie is more than 10 years old, that's not the burn you think it is
It a a great for gameboy advance
There's no way you could grow those thick-ass trees packed so close together.
the spirit controlled the trees and grass to an extent
Out in nature they might not grow that close. But if you watered and fertilized them, I bet you could get them pretty big.
Well it seems like nobody else had front-facing fences either so I can accept it
I like to fantasise about Jenny going full femdom on the boys; forcing them to suck each other's wieners for one of her divine hand-jobs.
...it would be so easy...
I don't even care for NonCon but I would because she desperately needs correction
I never forgot it! The joke about the uvula and "Ohhh, it's a GIRL house..." has never left my mind. I recall seeing it in the old theater in town.
It was a solid movie that wound a tight story.
needed a better art style
It took me several years to realize that Constance died when she fell down into the cellar. I thought she was fine until the concrete suffocated her.
>pictures you can hear
That transition was fricking great
Can someone explain why Spielberg had this hardon for this weird animation style? Aren't these movies the reason he gave up doing animation?
Good God..
Okay, fine, I guess I'll watch this movie.
>checks the wiki
>she's 13
Excellent. Ideal.
It's very stylized, making the graphics age better
Hey OP ya got any beer?
>Babysitter found the pissbottles
>Stacy neighbor comments on your pissbottles
>Stacy neighbor refuses to go in a bottle and demands to go in your mouth.
God that line killed me, I remember having to rewind the DVD to hear it again on the first watch.
So, what happened to Nebercracker? It looked like he died in the beginning, even doing an uncomfortable close-up shots.
Yes that was the plot, they made you initially think he was dead and HIS spirit was haunting the house leading up to the reveal of Constance
Neat little detail I didn't even realize until recently. When he comes back, he gets out of the DRIVER'S seat of the ambulance while still in a patient's gown
homie broke out of the hospital and stole a fricking ambulance like a day after suffering a heart attack or whatever
>be Pierce Brosnan demolitions expert
>have heart attack
>the day after you steal an ambulance, blow up a house, then give away candy and toys on Halloween
>homeless and destitute for the rest of his life
>MC's parents don't even react to the missing house
What a Chad
He was probably able to blame whatever "freak accident" destroyed that development site for destroying his house and sue for big bucks
A few years ago I decided to check out the videogames. Turns out the GBA version was the best. It's kind of a Zelda clone.
games?
The tie in video games, there were a few for each console. Gamecube, gba, the ds had its own too I think.
Something about your post captures those brief silly moments in childhood, I did the same with other media. Loved city of Ember too, though I barely remember those books.
There was a time when every major movie got a handful of licensed video games. Monster House got games for the PS2, Gamecube, DS, and GBA.
The PS2/Gamecube version is a 3rd person shooter. It's pretty linear and more like a virtual haunted house. It has the best version of Thou Art Dead though.
The DS version is a top-down shooter like Smash TV. I didn't play much of it, I wanted to explore the house and this game doesn't let you do that.
The GBA version is a top-down adventure game like Zelda. It's a lot more open-ended than the console version with more puzzles. It has a watered down version of Thou Art Dead, but at least you get a reward for getting the high score.
There's also a java game for old flip phones but it looked like unremarkable garbage.
gun in a kids movie
oh my god
I remember reading The City of Ember shorty after watching this movie so I imagined the characters in the book looked like the characters from Monster House.
And then they made a City of Ember movie and I was annoyed it didn't look like Monster House.
I don't think blinds would stretch out like that.