THE LEGO MOVIE

Anthony Lane's review distills the movie's gist down to Marxism.

That was Fox News iirc.

xp mostly it was arnett's tendency to say "babe" a lot

Mark Mothersbaugh?!

what about him

obv this is no Rugrats wrt subversion of capitalist imperialism but

Mothersbaugh is not exactly choosy when it comes to his soundtrack work

Hah I was drunk last night so I can't remember exactly why I posted that, but I'd forgotten he did Rugrats and most of his 90s stuff tbh. Been in a bit of a Wes Anderson bubble wrt that stuff - though ILX prob prefers Crash Bandicoot to WA anyway.

Anyway I was just surprised because I'd been finding "Everything is Awesome" singularly annoying through the course of the movie. Which is the point of it, I concede. And it is kinda Devo to write a pumping anthem for the brainwashed corporate dystopia, to be reprised with varying levels of sarcasm throughout.

Its a beautiful world

Mothersbaugh only produced the song. Lonely Island + 3 others (I think?) wrote it.

I like Tegan & Sara's processed vocals. Yeah, Mothersbaugh didn't write the song, and according to the wiki:

Also included is the song "Everything Is Awesome!!!" written by Shawn Patterson (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera and Robot Chicken), Joshua Bartholomew and Lisa Harriton (Jo Li)[59] and performed by Tegan and Sara featuring The Lonely Island, which has also been used in the film's marketing campaign

this was pretty cute i guess. really exhausting though. kids really sat all the way through this? wreck-it ralph felt a million hours long too.

definitely the best morgan freeman performance in years.

I loved this movie but didn't like the "male lead proves that he, not the self-assured manic pixie dream girl, is the real hero" aspect of the plot.

Dragging a bit, but Lego finally put out Benny's spaceship:

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Benny-s-Spaceship-Spaceship-SPACESHIP-70816

http://www.bricksandbloks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/LEGO-70816-Bennys-Space-Ship-LEGO-Movie-Summer-2014-Sets-e1396661618955-640x371.jpg

A hunnerd bucks American at 940 pieces, I believe its the biggest Classic Space-style ship they've ever produced.

Also, it never occurred to me that he's called "Benny" because he acts like he just downed a handful of them.

One of my new favorites to watch high as shit

Can't believe they turned the Matrix Reloaded into a watchable movie

This was great

The Lego set I always wanted as a kid but never got but knew someone who did was the Pirate Ship

I remember that it cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (or maybe fifty) and that was an unbroachable price point

I'll probably never watch this movie again though

I ordered the deluxo set off of Amazon today. Hell, I have enough Amazon cards from staying in hotels so much, so I figured why not

i loved the explosion effects in this, i'd watch hours and hours of just lego flames.

The water & bubbles were great. Very funny, I was pleasantly surprised.

And there's the bit where falling pigs explode into sausages

GET THAT DAMN SONG OUT OF MY HEAD AAAAAAAAARRRGHHH #weekendwithchildren

So you're saying everything isn't awesome?

watching this again for the third time (first time at home) still funny

Thought the plot was pleasingly weird, the switch to reality towards the end almost reminded me of something out of a Grant Morrison comic.

Switch to reality was where is went from awesome to shitty imo. Would have much preferred it to have carried on implicitly being childs play without suddenly the film being about a bad father.

The shift from from general anti-hegemony theme to overly-specific Lego Sets are Bad and Stifling Child's Growth just seemed like needless lurch.

when do we get a playmobil movie

The shift from from general anti-hegemony theme to overly-specific Lego Sets are Bad and Stifling Child's Growth just seemed like needless lurch.

Overly-specific Lego sets ARE bad.

I saw it for the first time tonight & loved it

I flipped out about Benny the spaceman! When they close-upped on his face & his helmet was broken I was like HOLY SHIT I HAD A BENNY THE SPACEMAN TOO! He was red & his helmet was broken in the same spot! I also had a suburban house with a mom & dad so my benny spaceman slept in the spare room & parked his spaceship on their front lawn :D

anyway loved all of it. real world stuff was corny but nice. little sister aliums made me lol

"we are here to destroy you"

If nothing else, I can always explain why I got an aerospace engineering degree by talking about how I was first given a Classic Space set when I was 6.

Watching the blu-ray, I'm noticing jokes like one of the robot skeleton guards goose-stepping in the background of the control room.

Also, they do a shitload more with cameras and lenses than the vast majority of animated movies

Or the construction worker trying to ward off the evil by holding his sausages in a cross shape near the end

mr veg said watching it made him nostalgic for his own super-8 stop motion movies he made as a kid.
just the fact that the cgi made you forget that it was even cgi, it was so convincinglly lego, it was awesome.

And they incorporated stopmotion movies into some of the background monitors!

And a shot of the collected Justice League in the end celebration(sans Manhunter)

yeah apparently a bunch of the monitors playing the Villagers Fighting Back in the background were actually youtube fan films made during production

Overly-specific Lego sets ARE bad.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91lXZp%2BlsML._SL1500_.jpg

I get the irony, but I am totally getting that for my 6-yr-old for Christmas...

I really don't get the level of hatred this movie appears to inspire from people who otherwise happily consume the worst summer blockbuster garbage imaginable, simply on the basis of it being explicitly product-driven.

I really don't get the level of hatred this movie appears to inspire from people (period)

well that too

it inspires hatred?

"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), Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:48 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Among those who object when overtly consumer product is actually done well, mainly.

Right, there are no objections to Michael Bay because everyone with 2 brain cells can see he's craven.

I think that if I objected to the film on principle then I would find the mawkishness in the last act especially revolting.