Minions - Classic Or Dud?

don't be a cruel master, Tom, or your minion will not be a well- behaved one. they will either: completely slack off, take ages to do anything and fuck it up when they do do anything, mutter sarcastic things about you, or they will tell you to stick your job up your arse and do something really mean to you like throw something at you. if you are nice to your minion they will respond favourably.

http://i.imgur.com/WACfLOK.jpg

this is a weird culty thing now isn't it? a friend of my o/h had a hen party last year where they all dressed up as minions and learnt a dance. Thankfully they looked nothing like these thoughwhich are totally off the WTF scale http://www.dailydot.com/geek/sexy-minion-halloween-costumes/

It's like they've become an emblem for a huge population of boring adults that want others to think that they're sassy. I'm not sure why.

The amount of shite inspirational/cutesy/lolzy dreck quotes appearing over picture of minions that has appeared all over Facebook recently is truly depressing. I'm not sure why minions are the optimal vehicle for this crap, but it seems that they are, and people are buying into it. People who really should know better.

I liked the film a fair amount, but have zero desire to adopt a minion-centric lifestyle as a result. Bang-up marketing gig from the minion creators though.

They've replaced bugs bunny and tweety bird as the new mascots for all that is lol-sassy drivel.

...and tattoos.

Keep an eye out for Minions mudflaps on the highway.

http://i.imgur.com/1DiAIaL.jpg

http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/screaming-cornpops-who-are-tearing-apart-society

My 7 year old is obsessed with these things. There are drawings of minions all over the house (along with drawings of Pokemon, which are having some kind of resurgence with 7 year olds), he actually knows the release date of this movie, he keeps singing that banana song (cover of "Barbara Ann" from a trailer for the previous movie I think). My life is a nightmare.

Going to see this nonsense tomorrow.

Minions are well and truly past the shark moment. Or have sharks jumped the shark? Is it all about baconing now?

Saw trailer for first Despicable Me before some other CGI tat: lots of cheap fart gags. Said "oh god please let us never watch this". Did eventually see first film; pretty funny, wondered why they used such a horrible trailer for an OK film (not that it did them any harm, so yeah, marketing dept knows more abt making money from kids than snooty childless 30somethings who went to watch a Pixar shocker*). Saw second film; OK. Will probably eventually see the Minions film and laugh at it a bit.

But all the "people keep posting on my facebook" shite, and people at work randomly going "lol minions lololol BA-NA-NA loooool", and the small child I sawheard in the shop having a protracted meltdown at its mother for not buying the yoghurts with the Minion on the packaging... dud.
This post brought to you in the posting style of ILX ten years ago but I've had a few drinks so there it is.

* another CGI film trailer we said "oh god please let us never watch this" to and then did actually see and we were right the first time: Gnomeo and Juliet. Don't watch that. Oh no, there's a sequel. Don't watch that either. Probably.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonarddelaney/the-minions-in-me#.wwZYV3zeW

i saw this last night. it was an advance screening, i guess? i think it was the first cgi film i've seen since maybe toy story or something. it was really beautiful. it was never funny enough to make me laugh but also didn't trouble me by pressing other emotional buttons. there was no message of acceptance or the importance of friendship. audience was mostly single dads with their kids and young asian couples devotedly handholding from coming attractions to credits. we got the minions mini-combo, which featured a branded popcorn box with space for the minions cup with figurine mounted on top, miniature tube of miniature m&ms.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonarddelaney/the-minions-in-me#.wwZYV3zeW

― lag∞n, Friday, July 10, 2015 1:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i58.tinypic.com/2uemwxj.jpg

I thought this was great. Better than "Inside Out", only because I'm tired of Pixar, kinda.

The minions are a hilarious rip-off of assorted characters from Veggie Tales. I'd even forgotten that they steal from the French Peas, who were henchmen.

And the idea of the series seems to be from that moment in the first Toy Story where the toy aliens ask Buzz Lightyear to be their chosen leader.

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

and throw in the banana who sings Peanut Butter Jelly.

friend I saw it with agreed that if you're 7-9 years old you're obsessed with these things. You'd want to buy every toy, know all their backstories (friend alluded to fan-fiction emerging, finally)

these are the ugliest fucking things

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UJ01WBW

by the same person who did the minion porn btw

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is "Minion-sense" a collective term for facebooks macros featuring these things and sassy aphorisms? I googled it and found this:

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/250x250/61866327.jpg

what is 'dad language'? I feel like nothing makes sense anymore

I bought this USB stick because I needed one but I didn't realize I was brainwashed :(

http://i58.tinypic.com/2jdkya8.jpg

google image search for "Minion-sense" is also bringing up lots of Columbine related stuff from tumblr for some reason

https://36.media.tumblr.com/fad153ea139581bf2d4d8145e7c0ffa2/tumblr_nn49xnh64S1tg82x7o8_500.jpg

Jesus Christ the Minions movie was a piece of shit. Maybe it's unrealistic to hope for something more than a flimsy set of dance pieces, fart jokes, and explosions from a minions movie, but this was awful. Nothing in the movie made sense, and none of the humor had any creativity or ANY sense of surprise. I had just listened to Pete Docter on Fresh Air talk about how much thought they put into Inside Out - the metaphors for different functions and areas of he brain, how they worked on the script for 3 years before scrapping everything and starting over, etc. If he sees Minions, he's gonna be like "oh I guess none of that matters cuz you can just make a dumbass movie for six-year-olds and still rake in the dough." Ugh. This movie made me mad with its shittiness.

All I know from this is I saw some news story about the toys "cursing", and the news story had the sound effect BLEEPED OUT so you couldn't tell for yourself. Then I looked up an uncensored video. It does not sound like cursing. It doesn't sound like anything more than a cheap speaker in a toy.

Kind of wondering how a news story like that hits. Does Pixar have a social media marketing person emailing made up stories like this to entertainment journalists around the country?

This is like when news channels were talking about how people were depressed Avatar wasn't real. rmde try harder corporate media

I hate these creepy yellow bastards so much

I feel like the end of the internet is gonna be a Facebook post of a Marilyn Monroe quote beside a grinning Minion and humanity will have to reap what it has sown

http://lolfunplanet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/minions-quote-intelligent-people.jpg

Charles Bukowski (pictured)

typical facebook dumb, that is obviously a picture of yeats

They were pretty funny diversions during the two Despicable Me films and it was inevitable they were going to be pushed down our collective throats for a couple of years. Until the next blue (Smurfs) or yellow (Lego movies etc) little doll type things come along.

I really, really hate clothes with these things on them too. What kind of grown man wears a t-shirt emblazened with what looks like a Tic Tac with a shit-eating grin?

Yellow things are popular. Pacman. Spongebob. Acid house smileyface. Lego. Minions. It just is.

Just wait for the thinkpieces about what their obsession with bananas and poop says about us all.

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

minions are by far the worst meme in modern history. good god. to think we could go from the majesty of The Dress, The Shoe, and Kermit drinking the tea to this garbage in less than a year. fucking hell.

Yellow things are popular. Pacman. Spongebob. Acid house smileyface. Lego. Minions. It just is.

In fifteen years the minions will be sampled on a zillion acid house tracks by musicians who grew up on them. The earth is circular.

"The new KLF is gonna rock you ('Bellooooooooooooo bananas bananas Belloooooooooo) are you ready new KLF gonna (bueno bueno banana bananas)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkLC6pyRvOs

Illuminati, KLF, Minions ...it's all coming together. New world odor.

New World Hodor.

Haha

https://40.media.tumblr.com/51d55a699a14c11face79a9ca07298aa/tumblr_nrapz5Ym4b1qj4315o3_500.png

Are these a conscious rip of the Moloids, or...?

https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11755229_551675044986104_4305884534278753635_n.jpg?oh=6022767c192ac0dfd6207df90b31ddaa&oe=561ECB57

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/67/00/4a/67004a0d3393555fd1e78a255ba3381b.jpg

http://g01.s.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1qhUzIXXXXXXkXXXXq6xXFXXXq/Despicable-Me-Minion-Kids-Character-mascot-Costume.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLUJwuQXcM8

i liked despicable me well enough but fuck me if I'm going to take my kid to this, I'm so sick of these mutherfucking advil capsules with attitude. bonus shit points for all the FB 'memes' which are really just recycled dross. I always report the lame traffic-bait fb pages that generate these for copyright infringement.

http://i.imgur.com/RGg9JfY.gif

Beeps having a friend over. Kids watching this movie. There's like 100 songs in this from 1967-1971. I keep thinking the DVD's skipping. No, it's supposed to be like this. "Is the movie going too fast?" Sunny asks. No, it's supposed to be like this. Beeps' friend keeps throwing out spoilers.

INEED EVERYONE TO SEE THIS pic.twitter.com/gYO0V4YQW5

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