Come anticipate EMOJI: THE MOVIE with me

The best way to be yourself is to communicate exclusively via the limited palette of emojis imo.

bearing that in mind the attempt by this movie to sell children smartphones

lol no, this is wrong, like i said upthread. the movie assumes everyone has a smartphone. there is no smartphone product placement. a shocking amount of young kids do. i graduated HS in 2011 and i think i'm part of the last generation to go thru primary school w/o a smartphone. i can't imagine what it's like now.

emojis are public domain. each OS has its own set of them. Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Instagram, Dropbox, and YouTube are the only "products" that appear in the film, and like I said, these apps are so pervasive and in so many movies and advertisements already, it's not fair to say this is a movie hawking smartphones or social media. they're just part of life

I think that was a typo. The movie is trying to sell children TO smartphones. Soon all smartphones will have a child slave.

IIRC it was sometime around the dawn of man when emojis became just a regular ol' part of life, completely independent of any electronic platform one would have to buy in order to use them. It's really unfair to bind them inextricably from any kind of consumer product when really they are products of our imagination.

and i think i'm part of the last generation to go thru primary school w/o a smartphone. i can't imagine what it's like now.

kids are generally getting phones around the ages that they're expected to be responsible enough to, under various circumstances, be left alone - ie 10 or so. In my experience in my highly techified bubble.

flappy, I don't know how you can deny that these are product placements specifically designed to advertise these apps to kids. Not every kid is on all of these apps, and anyway, ads are not just for attracting new consumers. They're about reinforcing and normalizing consumption habits as well.

Don't know what you're talking about, Facebook and Instagram were part of a rich cultural tradition through centuries of human history before they became the crass brands of today.

flappy, you're like the platonic ideal of the audience Sony was trying to reach with their new film, The Emoji Movie. The 'what's the big deal about governmentally-mandated subdermal microchips, they're like friendship bracelets' demographic, if you will.

Old Lunch Yells at Cloud

Damn you guys really are taking quite a principled stand against the emoji movie in this Ilx thread, bravo

flappy, I don't know how you can deny that these are product placements specifically designed to advertise these apps to kids. Not every kid is on all of these apps, and anyway, ads are not just for attracting new consumers. They're about reinforcing and normalizing consumption habits as well.

It's hard to go to a movie theater, watch TV, or even read a newspaper without seeing icons for all of those apps. They are omnipresent. Every kid already knows what they are. Reinforcing and normalizing consumption habits? Perhaps... but again, this movie isn't advertising Ello, or some obscure app. A lot of these apps come pre-installed on phones. They're as much a part of everyday life as cable TV and screens and the Internet. the kid sitting behind me in the theater recognized every single app, already had familiarity with them, etc.

i can at least understand how a movie like Toy Story offers escapism to the audience, but Emoji? If there's as much part of everyday life, this just seems like a waste of time

no, that's my point! people hate The Emoji Movie because it's the complete opposite of escapism. it's an 86 minute look in the mirror of the world we live in, and it's often overwhelming and horrifying! and again, people loathe it based on the merits of the concept, not the movie itself, which like i said upthread, is not well executed.

Every kid already knows what they are.

wrong

as you are about such a great many things

most kids

i love that flappy bird's defence of the movie also acknowledges completely that it is terrible

terrible in what way? i already wrote about how it's not well executed, but the concept is great, there are moments of greatness, but it's squandered. i think the vast majority of critics and people are criticizing it for the wrong reasons: that it's bad for society, a signal of downfall, extremely cynical.

wrong

thank you, Mr. President

Coming soon to the Criterion Collection:

The Emoji Movie
Tony Leondis

Disc Features:
- Gag reel
- Deleted scenes compiled by Eric Siegel
- Storyboards and production design drawings
- Analyses of the special effects by editor William J. Caparella
- Suicide note by T. J. Miller
- Trailer, teaser, and television spots
- The Aerosmith music video “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by internet user flappy bird, a piece by King Digital Entertainment plc on the restoration and ROI, and a printout of the now famous emoji movie ilx thread

i think the vast majority of critics and people are criticizing it for the wrong reasons: that it's bad for society, a signal of downfall, extremely cynical.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, August 1, 2017 2:02 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sad!

In which Sir PAtrick Stewart, knight of the british empire, plays the role of a pile of shit

lol at tj miller suicide note

It's just the idea that anyone could argue with a straight face that this thing isn't pure undiluted commodification from top to bottom is a little (eyes bugging out emoji). Any 'just be yourself and respect others!' plot finery is just window dressing.

And I'll shout at a damn cloud all damn day if the thing is branded with a damn Twitter logo. Damn it.

Old Lunch Tweets at Cloud

i cannot believe you guys are either (a) letting flappy bird troll you like this for dozens of posts or (b) engaging with a sincere flappy bird on this obviously terrible movie which he loves for whatever reason.

I'm eating sweet and sour chicken

well that i approve of

I just had a sandwich. Maybe I should photograph it and see if it goes 'viral'. Hey, I know, maybe I should make a movie about the photographs people take of their food and what if they had personalities and interacted and expressed their feelings like, I wish I was real food so someone could eat me, and the main character is voiced by Avril Levigne and she sings a song about self-acceptance or bullying or bulimia or something, I dunno. There definitely needs to be breakdancing and fidget spinners (the latter so as to set up the animated fidget spinner movie offshoot franchise).

Dr. C, I'd be ranting about this like a sad old fart even if no one was around to witness it.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/emoji_movie_reviews.png

The ever-insightful Randall Munroe

I assume Wreck-It Ralph 2 will make some kind of allusion to this movie in dialogue or perhaps as a sight gag

wtf was the point of that xkcd comic

Yeah dunno, not exactly one of his best

pretty good microcosm of xkcd as a whole though, "I can't figure out which of these labored and shitty jokes is the best so I'll just shoehorn all of them in"

wtf was the point of that xkcd comic

got to admit i kinda want to see this movie. the amount of hate it is getting is too interesting to ignore. also the voice acting cast list is decent and there is no Seth Rogen James Franco Apatow thing so it has that going for it.

lol at the responses this movie got, that's it just product, as if every other movie coming out isn't Spiderman 18.

:) i hope you like it

The Emoji Movie. pic.twitter.com/JcNkr2fUMz

— Amazon Movie Reviews (@AmznMovieRevws) October 18, 2017

nbd just seeing a movie with your ex and their fiance and kids, probably gonna be a great time

where is "I wish you had committed suicide" emoji

why does she take that out on the movie itself

why were you reading the emoji movie thread

:/

^^^ a typical senior citizen in Textopolis

Don't think I ever shared this piece I wrote about the movie:
http://baltimore-art.com/2018/09/09/no-words-all-smiles-the-emoji-movie-is-a-mirror-on-our-own-world/

I watched half of this movie with a young family member -- their choice. I was surprised at how bad it was. I have sat through unpromising fare like Trolls and The Boss Baby and they've turned out to have their merits. There is wiggle room for creativity and humor in animated movies that live-action blockbusters aren't getting today. How Sony managed to make such an unpleasant one is beyond me.

i enjoyed that piece flappy

i was in odd circumstances when i watched the movie but i didn't hate it and tbh i don't think it's any worse than most of the ocean of semi-lazy cartoon movies this century

I refuse to believe that the boss baby had its merits.

well he became boss SOMEhow