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First reviews for the Emoji Movie (take a wild guess!!!!!!)
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How is this guy still sane.
Thanks. Point remains, it made good money.
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I know that this is the first Scotland's CGI animated feature film and all that, but still, how can you design/model such unappealing characters and be like "that will do it!"? There are '90 video games with much simpler CGI that look more appealing than this.
Saw it last night.
The Emoji Movie is absolutely horrendous. The animation is lazy, the voice-acting for the most part is dull, and it all reeks of a sinister corporation deciding what is best for humanity's next generation. Easy morals executed in the worst ways possible and the most obnoxious side character ever to disgrace an animated film. The plot is an annoying combination of Wreck-It Ralph and The LEGO Movie, literally taking songs from both films' soundtracks. These songs score Spotify and Just Dance! respectively, a part of the mediocre advertising that permeates the film. The only thing that marginally entertains is the subplot with Gene's parents, which is also wholly predictable but at least amusingly voice-acted. Going hard on The Emoji Movie seems unfair; it's been clear since its announcement nobody wanted this movie and it would always be the target of derision. However, after seeing the Internet's least favorite film of the past year, I have to sadly agree with them. The Emoji Movie is a derivative bore that feels like active torture to watch. It could've strived to at least reach a ”meh" quality, but alas, it only reaches the quality of the Emoji portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart.
The Emoji Movie is absolutely horrendous. The animation is lazy, the voice-acting for the most part is dull, and it all reeks of a sinister corporation deciding what is best for humanity's next generation. Easy morals executed in the worst ways possible and the most obnoxious side character ever to disgrace an animated film. The plot is an annoying combination of Wreck-It Ralph and The LEGO Movie, literally taking songs from both films' soundtracks. These songs score Spotify and Just Dance! respectively, a part of the mediocre advertising that permeates the film. The only thing that marginally entertains is the subplot with Gene's parents, which is also wholly predictable but at least amusingly voice-acted. Going hard on The Emoji Movie seems unfair; it's been clear since its announcement nobody wanted this movie and it would always be the target of derision. However, after seeing the Internet's least favorite film of the past year, I have to sadly agree with them. The Emoji Movie is a derivative bore that feels like active torture to watch. It could've strived to at least reach a ”meh" quality, but alas, it only reaches the quality of the Emoji portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart.
Messofanego
Banned
Sofia Boutella doesn't make it better than Emoji Movie?
The way they waste her is a crime against humanity.
How does one underutilize Boutella? 🤔 Especially after Kingsmen?
Look no further then The Mummy.
Messofanego
Banned
Yeah she's hot but instead it just makes me wonder if I'm a necrophilliac for thinking so and that's not what I wanted in a Mummy movie.She's not even hot in it?
Well, at least there's Atomic Blonde
Stupid, sexy, mummy (and that's not, like, Oedipal, either).
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Yep, I knew it would make it!
friskykillface
Banned
🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐😳😏😜😨🤣
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smh
Heh. Same.
Parents don't give a shit about reviews, they're just going to feed their kids this garbage and call it a week.
biggersmaller
Banned
My sons are HYPED for this due to 💩. If anyone is wondering how this ends-up making money, it's me buying 6 tickets when we go. Meanwhile I saw Dunkirk with just my wife.
Does that scene live up to the hype? It felt kinda cheap in the trailer like "this will bring in the dudes" type shit.She's not even hot in it?
Well, at least there's Atomic Blonde
But as a straight male it caught my attention cause I'm shameless.
It's truly following in Transformers 1' footsteps.
somecrazymember
Banned
I honestly think this movie is probably not so bad and appeals to young children. A lot of reviews sounds like 'old man yelling at cloud' . I will probably not enjoy it neither but if kids enjoy it, shouldn't that be taken into consideration?
somecrazymember
Banned
She's not even hot in it?
Well, at least there's Atomic Blonde
Damn, i will masturbate on that scene for sure
Whompa02
Member
tmi my dude...
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
Lol at one of the few positive reviews:
Right. "Balance."
Right. "Balance."
Not even TO that scene.
Youre going the next step and printing it out to masturbate ON it.
It was predictable when fanboys would bash critics for giving Suicide Squad and BvS bad reviews, but why the fuck would you do it for the emoji movie?
wound up seeing it last night and something that stood out to me was the editing was really bad. there were a few scenes that were placed oddly like they were shuffled around and some that felt like they were cut off before they were actually over (usually punctuated with a fade to black). its really weird especially since the animation process usually prevents these types of things from happening
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
I hear a lot of people hating Tom Rothman as well, known for being a huge micro manager with creative insights like sentinels shouldn't be in xmen, and deadpool's mouth should be stitched shut, before he was kicked out of Fox.
But that is also someone Kaz backs, while it seems like most other people in the company do not.
I don't know what hype it is, but they are both nude by the end. It goes on for a while.
Their relationship is a lot more than just the scene, fortunately. It fit in with the story and style of the film, while also probably being there to get male asses in seats.
somecrazymember
Banned
I just don't like people judging a book by its cover. Again i haven't sern the movie neither and it IS probably bad, but it just looks like everyone was bashing it since the first poster, and that i find stupid.
First poster of Spiderman comes out, everybody is hyped. First emoji poster comes out, everybody says it will be trash.. .. why?
No shame, and yes, it lives up to the hype.
PerfectFlaw
Member
Based Kaz. Homecoming was a great movie. I couldn't even finish Amazing Spider-Man because of how awful the fake awkward acting was with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.
Also, I really love that the Emoji Movie seems to be doing well. Even if it is a shit movie from an adult perspective, if kids like it that's all that matters. I'll reserve judgment until Monday, but if it ends up meeting its projections it makes a lot of people look foolish.
somecrazymember
Banned
Lol, no i dont print it, i watch it on ipad and masturbate ON it.
Frozenprince
Banned
I would give my review of the movie.
But this isn't a movie.
It's a 90 minute advertisement for whatever app payed the most to get whatever setpiece they were on at a particular moment. It's seriously the most gross and gratuitously soulless piece of media I have ever had the misfortune of seeing. It's NOTHING but product placement, it's honestly staggering just how little anybody involved in this on any level gave a shit, I can't even praise the animation because it's just so stilted and bland. Bright colors everywhere is not animation.
Ugh, I wish I was wrong and this didn't make a shitload of money, but of course it did, and will probably have legs, and Sony will shit out more of these abominations because there is no god damn way this thing didn't make money before it was even released based on how much god damn product placement was in it.
But this isn't a movie.
It's a 90 minute advertisement for whatever app payed the most to get whatever setpiece they were on at a particular moment. It's seriously the most gross and gratuitously soulless piece of media I have ever had the misfortune of seeing. It's NOTHING but product placement, it's honestly staggering just how little anybody involved in this on any level gave a shit, I can't even praise the animation because it's just so stilted and bland. Bright colors everywhere is not animation.
Ugh, I wish I was wrong and this didn't make a shitload of money, but of course it did, and will probably have legs, and Sony will shit out more of these abominations because there is no god damn way this thing didn't make money before it was even released based on how much god damn product placement was in it.
That's certainly a valid point, like I'm sure a number of people assumed the Lego Movie would be trash when that was first announced and look how that turned out. What I can't agree with is the idea that critics are just being snobbish and not giving it a fair shot.
This can't be a serious thought process.
Frozenprince
Banned
Because these projects get greenlit constantly and it's easy to tell the kinds of things that denote quality and craftsmanship alongside a vision from a creative department and what can only ever be qualified as a shameless cash grab from studios that know they hit enough focus groups to get a good enough ROI to justify the expense.
The signs of a bad film are usually immediately evident to film nerds.
Because it looked dumb since Day 1, so people responded accordingly. Pretty much the whole point of posters and trailers, to give us that first or second impression. Now the reviews have confirmed this. As for whether kids enjoy it, I mean, if they do... cool? But they deserve better, it's a pretty weak excuse to dismiss bad reviews as "old men yelling at clouds"
I honestly dunno why people are caping for this movie, acting as if people are bullying it as if it's a real person or something. It's just a terrible movie that people accurately predicted would be terrible.
Every single time lol
When I hear a movie is basically offensively bad, my first instinct is to stay far away, not watch it with hopes that it's a movie that is so bad that it's good or what have you.
Frozenprince
Banned
I mean, the entire reason film studios have released trailers and posters for the last 100 years is because they WANT you to judge a book by its cover.
It's advertising, the entire point of advertising is to use it to make a value judgement on a product or service.
It's advertising, the entire point of advertising is to use it to make a value judgement on a product or service.
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
I thought US audiences were finally waking up from funding trash after seeing how Transformers 5 tanked hard in the US.
Best-case scenario is that the film experiences a BvS-tier drop next week and doesn't recover from it. Otherwise...American audiences only have themselves to blame when we see The Emoji Movie 2 in two years time, or news breaks about a studio gaining the rights to a Fidget Spinners Movie. :v
It went up against a low-profile action movie and the second weekend of a movie that didn't exactly have a massive opening weekend. It would've been very hard for it not to open to first place.
Dr. Carroll
Banned
Critics liked Transformers 1, though.
The Wheel of Fortune
Member
I'll flip my 💩 if this thing ends up making more than Dunkirk. At least do it for our mate Harry.
Messofanego
Banned
Dice//
Banned
To be fair, in the aim of keeping kids occupied, Dunkirk and Atomic Blond might not be good choices for family-fun.
Frozenprince
Banned
I mean it's getting bad word of mouth and, at least at the theater I was at, not one of the kids sans one that just went "MOMMY LOOK INSTAGRAM" every time a reference came up got more than light chuckling out of it.
My son hated it.
My son hated it.
Messofanego
Banned
On point. Add two other groups: people who don't like critics and can't believe it's that bad. Parents who just don't care about the quality of movie their kids see, as long as it shuts the kid up for 2 hours.
Very Berry Sunday
Member
Showing for 2:15pm tomorrow is almost sold out.
Why are these people watching Emoji movie?
Why are these people watching Emoji movie?