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Topic: The Lego Movie (2014)
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Stu Jamieson
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Posts: 524
From: Buccan, Qld, Australia
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 04-12-2014 07:31 PM
So this is the film everybody is going ga-ga about? A whopping 96% on Rotten Tomatoes (as I write this)? Has the world succumbed voluntarily to some nefarious form of kiddie mass hysteria?
Apparently so!
Well I'm calling it: The LEGO™ Movie is a sugary sweet vacuous pop hit; it's a cinematic Macarena and that irritating "Everything Is Awesome" tune is it's Ketchup Song; it's a Wannabe Toy Story, but a Toy Story it ain't!
The film relies on over-stimulation and rapid fire cheap jokes to keep the instant gratification generation from slitting their wrists out of boredom - a process which usually takes all of about 5 minutes. I will concede that there is at least one "LOL" joke in it - that being the double-decker couch - but the bulk of the jokes are too cheap, too shallow and too disposable to be truly funny. LEGO™ is laughing, however - all the way to the bank!
There's enough LEGO™ geekisms to keep the fanbois masturbating throughout with floating virtual part numbers and legacy playsets and figurines littering the proceedings. And the producers have gone to some trouble to legitimise the solidity of the LEGO™ parts by adopting a "stop motion" animation style; which is to say that it's par for the course CG animation with 2 out of every 3 frames removed to make it jerky.
When it comes down to it, The LEGO™ Movie is not a bad movie but neither is everything awesome, it's just ordinary. In the cold, hard light of day, after the sugar rush has subsided (a detox process which may number many months admittedly), people will surely wonder why they thought this tasted so good.
5 out of 10
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 04-18-2014 12:39 AM
quote: Mike Blakesley
I wish somebody could invent a rogue app called "Theater Smackdown." The app, which would have a nearly all-black screen, would enable you to point your phone at the offending phone, zero in on its signal, and automatically send that phone a message via whatever method available saying "You are bugging people around you with your phone, you idiot. Turn it off."
Mike, they have it -- it's a bit less sophistocate than your app, but equally as effective. It's a pocket size cell signal jammer. I've got one. It's battery powered and you just reach in your pocket and switch it on and watch as their connection goes down and in a frenze they try to get back on line again. Either they will turn it off in frustration or, if you are lucky, they will go out of the theatre to find a signal and you and everyone else will be rid of them. Not sure how expensive it was, but I think it was about $60 -- WELL worth the money.
As for telling an offender to shut his phone off...yah, but you can get shot for that....already happened. No, I think using technology is the way to go. BTW, I have taken this little gadget to the dinner table many a time just to watch the kids' heads explode when they can't text!
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