THE LEGO MOVIE

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!

'80s spaceman guy was the only time my nostalgia bells rang (in a good way). I totally had '80s lego spaceman, complete with cracked helmet. When he finally starts jetting around yelling "spaceship!!!!" my daughter totally lost her shit.

Speaking of which, internet tshirt companies ahve been quick on the draw, and this popped up:

http://www.bustedtees.com/spaceship

$20 + shipping, but give 'em your email and they'll knock 40% off your first order.

http://1.media.bustedtees.cvcdn.com/5/-/bustedtees.f64d3115-9cff-4317-8aa6-e3c9a2f3.jpg

I'm still looking for a proper blue lego space shirt

I just bought the hell out of that shirt for my wife.

cracked helmet : perfect.
my heart just went all gooeey everytime 80s spaceman was on the screen.
i sooo want that t-shirt.

Oops, we hit a snag while processing your order.

The shipping phone number entered is invalid.
Shipping method does not exist.

fuck

dear god.

i am uk'r wanting a sodding t-shirt.

its not build a rocket science.

eBay.uk has some good looking blue classic space logo shirts, too

As I understand it, only the Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship! t-shirt will get you laid.

salt. open. wound.

trying all manner of variations.

fuckers aint wanting my ca$h.

thank the lord that i have rediscovered mickey newbury tonight to keep me on the path of righteousness.

uk based groove !

http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.15905279.5835/fig,black,mens,ffffff.u1.jpg

this may do me ..

Jesus, they've been busy lately:

http://www.redbubble.com/shop/recent+lego+t-shirts?ref=sort_order_change_recent

Oh and as far as enabling links go, the fact that you can bid on cheap lots of Lego from Goodwill might cause issues for some people.

this is cool

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html

Yeah, if you dig around on youtube, or...other sources, you can find that ep. Stephen Fry shows up.

They made a neat little book about it I got for Christmas last year.

saw this late but I really enjoyed it! it helped that the main voice cast was like 90% people from NBC comedies. also lol'd at will arnett's batman being essentially the same character he played in hot rod .

Or anywhere? He's pretty much got the arrogant buffoon down.

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