What about a Seinfeld feature film?

Jan 30, 19973 posts by 3 posters
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Alric Knebel

A few nights ago, I rented "Brain Candy", with the Kids in the Hall, and it was a hoot. I loved it. As I watched, it dawned on me that "Seinfeld" would make a great movie,too. The writers could really take the time to develop a plot of classic Seinfeld proportions, with enough time to make it really intricate in that ridiculous way the subplots are so well interwoven into the main plot. Not only that, there are enough episodes from which to draw obscure references that fans can enjoy and can revel in that special feeling that fans have of being in on the inside joke. For instance, the episode a couple of weeks ago, when Jerry went to Florida to buy back his parents' car. The whole thing with the pen was lost to me because I hadn't seen the other episode in which the weird relationship between that man and his pen was established. My brother had to explain it to me. On the other hand, there are many references I do catch, and I get bigger laughs from the callbacks because it makes them more real to me, and I'm sharing in the recollection of some comical incident. "I won a contest." They are like some really wacked out friends I know very well; quirky friends, whose pasts I'm very familiar with.

So I think this show can make (and prosper) from a feature film adaption. What do you think? A good idea or what?

I feel like Cramer now. "People will pay to make their own pizzas." Alric Knebel [email]

A show about nothing is one thing, but a whole movie about nothing? I don't know if even the biggest Seinfeld fan can stand it! I'd still watch it though.

[email] (DWuerrfell) writes:

I would too. But it seems to me that once it went to the big screen, there would be some desire to create a plot, and that would be kind of opposite to what the program's about. Oh, heck, I'd go see it too and if it sucked, we could just pretend we never saw it.

Curt Bolding [email] "A Quentin Tarantino character in a Walt Disney World"