THE LEGO MOVIE

well i lasted about 25 mins with Back in Action.

kinda wish the new Wes Anderson wasn't coming out next month, I would vow not to see an American studio film all year. Just to save time.

omg another daring takedown of american studio films

if Uhlich thinks this is artificially anticorporate, good nuff

As far as I can see - on wikipedia - Grand Budapest Hotel is presented as a German-British co-production, distributed by Fox Searchlight. Is that too studio-y? Otherwise, vow away!

movie takes Lego to task for its licensing kits etc but then says the solution is to buy Lego so Mark Fisher Capitalist Realism etc etc

but it's funny and pretty smart

well well well, lookee who wrote this

http://cityarts.info/2014/02/07/a-piece-of-resistance/

...but just because reviewers confuse this with Pixar doesn’t mean that you should. The look of The Lego Movie is a conundrum but when a Lego William Shakespeare figure threw off his hat and protested “Rubbish!” I chuckled.

Well then it's practically unanimous, then.

Morbius doing good work in here

"No, you should really watch this 100-minute advertisement where different Lego versions of billion-dollar franchises interact. Also, can you validate my career choice where I convince office workers and college kids that they are cinéastes because they watched a movie for children, but like really watched it."

Every movie is an advertisement for itself. Think about it.

"Come watch this hodgepodge of crass nostalgia and overheated Family Guy references and Animaniacs-style self-parody to mask the bloodthirsty commercial ambitions of a billion-dollar toy company, a billion-dollar movie studio, and a bunch of their liscensee buddies."

ah shut up you Disney park enthusiast

Some people think Disneyland is the happiest place on earth. Others think it is soulless, manipulative and powered by pure greed behind a façade of pretty colors and perky, dancing peons. So, Ned's and Whiney's respective reviews of this movie are very helpful for making up my mind whether I'd like it or not. Thx, fellas.

Ned and Whiney both love Disney parks!

Ironic, no?

I don't feel strongly about Lego Movie one way or another as I've said above but this thread is proof that music writers should never talk about film and vice-versa, keep those lanes separate

Wait has Whiney actually seen this?

whiney doesn't see a movie unless there's a subway tie-in. last one he saw was the lone ranger.

whiney playing nerd-police never gets old

Yeah, it's a kid at heart.

whiney playing nerd-police never gets old

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:05 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

disagree

chaser for armond

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/11/lego-film-subversive-countercultural

I'm not proposing it as a work of leftist agitprop – it remains, after all, a giant billboard for a multinational company – or suggesting it offers a viable blueprint for post-neoliberal civics. But it asserts that it's OK – exciting, even – to consider how society could be structured differently. It invites us to imagine other worlds.

Since "The Lego Movie" does not use actual Legos but in fact uses computer generated simulations of Legos, perhaps it is subverting the product placement system by offering instead a synthetic representation of product placement that in fact subverts product placement toward a new end. It's meta product placement, because there is no actual "product" or "place," just the virtual 3D animated field.

I still haven't seen this, but I think my coffee kicked in.

at least half of what lego sells these days are digitally animated cartoons and video games which take place in a universe made of virtual lego, so...

Bitch gotta eat.

That Lego Marvel video game looks so fun it makes me want to buy a video game system just to play that.

There were some actual Legos used in shots.

Also, yeah, the Lego Marvel game is the best they've put out in a very long time.

Also, all the sour reactions to this movie are hilarious considering what Morgan Freeman does with his role, and how they film his character half-way thru

still loling appreciatively at whiney going the extra mile to hunt up the diacritic for "cinéastes"

lol

If he's using a Mac, all he had to do was hold down the "e". Like this: é.

Hold down the e and you get some diacritic options. Same with any other character, I think.

on my PC, when I hold down the e I get eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

typical mac coddling; i google an ascii table and then meticulously copy-and-paste the characters i want like a real man

which is what i will say when The Lego Movie finishes 8th in Film Comment's best of 2014 poll.

xp

(a real man who doesn't know his ascii codes)

Getting flashbacks to when I used to have a PC and memorized ASCII codes so I could have ~kewl~ display names for my ICQ profile.

"uh-oh!"

Oh man, I knew way too many ASCII codes. So cool to write in a .sig file for yourself on a bbs when you're 14.

"uh-oh!"

― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:30 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still remember my ICQ number.

*checks their website to see if my profile is still up*

Yep, Spinal Tap is still quoted in the "About me" section.

i got a new icq account after a year or two of using it, i forget why, i dunno if i was too dumb to recover a password or what, and after this my icq number had one more digit than my best friend's, and this tore me up

Mine is eight digits. Is that cool enough?

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/ice-t-original-gangster-300x300.jpg

(google refused to find me a picture of lenin's party card)

you can never tell where the derails are comin' from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5W14DZ_bCM

the very first brickfilm, made in the late 80s in Perth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jde4qHbCtSg

"Come watch this hodgepodge of crass nostalgia and overheated Family Guy references and Animaniacs-style self-parody to mask the bloodthirsty commercial ambitions of a billion-dollar toy company, a billion-dollar movie studio, and a bunch of their liscensee buddies."

― COMME des ÇIGARBOX (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, February 12, 2014 7:48 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope you're sitting down, because i have some news for you:

Every Hollywood film is designed to make a lot of money.

I know, right?

i'm going to see this today. maybe i'll hate it, maybe i'll love it, but i suspect i'll have more credibility for having seen it than nearly all of the knee-jerk naysayers on this thread.

lol at 'bloodthirsty commercial ambitions.'

when will the lego group call off its reign of terror?

I'd rather you all not bait Whiney to come back into this thread but it's probably too late now anyway.

It's pretty wild that a) the first movie came out five years ago and b) five years ago President Business was if anything a slightly elderly Mitt Romney reference.