THE LEGO MOVIE

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.

i seldom notice who posted what, sorry.

and i don't know who whiney is. but sorry if i just baited a troll.

Took kids to this yesterday. It was good, we all liked it. Not sure why it's getting the chinstroking/thinkpiece treatment -- the basic message of "be yourself" is the basic message of 95 percent of all children's movies ever. The only thinkpiecey thing it made me think about was the dissonance between that message and what my kids are actually learning in school.

But on a pure pleasure level, the animation is great -- maybe the most inventive-for-its-own-sake since Madagascar 3 (I know that sounds sort of Armond-ish, but that movie was a blast).

guessing ever intelligent person who heard of a lego movie thought "wow that's a cynical cash-in by a toy company to make more money selling its toys" and then the people who liked it (inc. me) are basically "they really were given a shitty property and they did something pretty good with it good job" so I don't understand what merit any trolling here has considering it's all "lol u guyz this is capitalism lol"

Saw this again while awaiting a phone repair. Somebody pointed this out while playing the game and it's in the movie, too; look how many billboards are President Business saying stuff like "What part of 'No' don't you understand?!" and "Because I said so!"

lol

http://toysnbricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/70810-LEGO-Movie-MetalBeards-Sea-Cow-Toysnbricks.jpg

2700+ bricks at $.10 a Lego means this should run being $250 and $300 American.

http://news.toyark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/02/Toy-Fair-2014-LEGO-Movie-027.jpg

http://news.toyark.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2014/02/Toy-Fair-2014-LEGO-Movie-017.jpg

OK, so this movie really was pretty much a big ad, but given it was an ad that explicitly stressed maximum creativity above all else, I'm fine with that. Relied a bit too much on Batman for its laughs, but it needed those laughs. Lol at the controversial be-yourself/everyone is special message.

me the kid loved this film.

i think i laughed more than the kid.

*me and the kid.

that said, the original wording works as well ...

saw this during the weekend with my son. Definitely one of the better kids movies I've seen. I really liked how they went for a retro stop motion look for this movie. Also when a space ship lifts off and it basically makes the sound of an 8 year old making plane/spaceship sounds.

My son was singing that "Everything is awesome" song all day yesterday.

Just got back from seeing this, the 6 year old is playing with his lego and hasn't stopped singing "everything is awesome".

hah xp.

Also when a space ship lifts off and it basically makes the sound of an 8 year old making plane/spaceship sounds.

they did this a couple of times ..

really nice touch.

and the 'behind the scenes' video, behind the bricks, totally rips into the actors who played the various parts.

Loved the 80s spaceman guy, basically everything I built with lego as a kid was a spaceship.

My son is singing "Everything is awesome" too!