Escape to the Movies: The Lego Movie

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shogunblade said:
I will get to see this in Two weeks when I move to a new town, so until then, I loved the review. I will have to see it before I declare it "Best of 2014" in February, but I'm really, really, really looking forward to this.

My only question: Is Wonder Woman just a joke in this movie, or does she get some screen-time? And what of most of the Justice League (It's my understanding that Green Lantern is in this as well)?

I really want to see this. I'm looking forward to it. Great review.
Sadly GL and Wonder Woman are just kind of walk on cameo's with a joke or two like Superman. Batman is the only one that sticks around. In that I'm not sure how I feel about Wonder Woman being in this movie. I'm not sure if I should be mad that her first silver screen appearance was in anything other than a legit Wonder Woman/DC comics movie or that I should be happy because at least she was in a good movie.
 

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Dragonlayer said:
Huh. I'm tempted to see this simply because of the stop-motion animation that looks far, far better then the bland CGI I expected them to use.
CGI isn't bland when done correctly. Perfect example. This movie.
 

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Several times while watching this I catch myself saying: "Fuck, I must see this."

But then I find out the local cinema only has the damned dubbed version. :C
 

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KazeAizen said:
Dragonlayer said:
Huh. I'm tempted to see this simply because of the stop-motion animation that looks far, far better then the bland CGI I expected them to use.
CGI isn't bland when done correctly. Perfect example. This movie.
....

(Explodes)

Maybe it's just too late for me to be wrapping my head around that, but I thought this was stop motion? When I mentioned "bland CGI", I meant something along the lines of however they make that LEGO ninja cartoon.
 

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Dragonlayer said:
KazeAizen said:
Dragonlayer said:
Huh. I'm tempted to see this simply because of the stop-motion animation that looks far, far better then the bland CGI I expected them to use.
CGI isn't bland when done correctly. Perfect example. This movie.
....

(Explodes)

Maybe it's just too late for me to be wrapping my head around that, but I thought this was stop motion? When I mentioned "bland CGI", I meant something along the lines of however they make that LEGO ninja cartoon.
You didn't know? Then they did an even better job than I'd imagined. Yeah its millions in CGI made to look like stop motion animation. Cool huh? Also good point. I see what you mean. I'm certain there may be bits and pieces of this movie that are actually stop motion but for the most part it is 100% CGI. So do yourself a favor. Pick your scattered brains up off the floor. Put em back in your head and go see this awesome movie. :)
 

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So, just for the fun of it, I wanna try and guess the "twist", I watched this video for about 2 minutes so I haven't heard everything yet, anyhow, someone can let me know if I'm right.

Is the entire movie a souped up version of kids playing with legos and what goes on in their imagination?
 

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Dreiko said:
So, just for the fun of it, I wanna try and guess the "twist", I watched this video for about 2 minutes so I haven't heard everything yet, anyhow, someone can let me know if I'm right.

Is the entire movie a souped up version of kids playing with legos and what goes on in their imagination?
Close... But, not quite...
Honestly, guessing the "twist" is the easy part of it all, especially when you're watching the movie... What the movie does with said "twist" is another story altogether...
Plus, there is another "smaller" twist that happens afterwards... which, to me, reminds me of the ending of Toy Story 1 a little bit (before the credits pop up), if I want to make that loose of a connection...
 

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RedDeadFred said:
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RedDeadFred said:
This is true as well but it's pretty clear that Bob is pretty biased towards Marvel. I mean out of all the shows he chose to do weekly reviews of he picked the incredibly mediocre AoS (no I'm not jumping on the hate bandwagon, I legitimately wanted to like it so I did put up with it for 5 episodes)? Not only that, if I remember correctly, Iron Man 3 was apparently amazing to him. Who knows, maybe he just likes his super hero movies to be lighter in tone but I'm a bit skeptical.
He fully admits AoS isn't a good show, and talks about it a lot on twitter.

The reason anyone brings up Marvel when talking about Superhero films is that marvel does them correctly, they know when to change things, when to adapt it straight from the comics and when to play it for laughs. Right now nobody is doing it right.

Also, Iron Man 3 was probably the best blockbuster last year, and is definitely one of the best Iron Man films.
I know he doesn't think it's a good show, which is why I don't understand why he's doing a weekly article on it. Why not pick something entertaining that people actually want to watch. I like Bob's content so I wish he'd do weekly reviews on higher quality TV shows. The only reason Bob is reviewing it is because Marvel is attached to it.

As for Iron Man 3. Well, it's a matter of opinion I guess so you're right, no sense arguing there. Some people liked it but for me, it's the only movie Marvel has been attached to since Hulk 2003 that I actually disliked (and not it's not because of the Mandarin twist -I thought that was one of the few bright spots).
He has said that he finds AoS to be pretty entertaining (occasionally) and good TV in its own right, just not the big hit in quality and universe expansion that it promised to be. Either way, whether he likes it or not has very little to do with why he reviews it, and so does his supposed "bias" for Marvel. He reviews it every week because it is something of a groundbreaker in terms of TV, not in quality but just in what it wants to be. A TV/show that works as a tie-in to an ongoing Movie-franchise? A franchise that in itself did something pretty groundbreaking by putting a WW2-movie, an alien-fantasy Movie, a Sci-Fi action-Comedy Movie and a monter-brawl Movie in the same shared universe rather than a traditional series of Movies? Like it or not the fact remains that no other TV-show does that at the moment, and finding out whether or not this experiment works or not IS THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT of reviewing it every week. So please, can we drop the "Marvel-fanboy" accusations? They aren't relevant or poinient in any way, shape or form.
 

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KazeAizen said:
Dragonlayer said:
KazeAizen said:
Dragonlayer said:
Huh. I'm tempted to see this simply because of the stop-motion animation that looks far, far better then the bland CGI I expected them to use.
CGI isn't bland when done correctly. Perfect example. This movie.
....

(Explodes)

Maybe it's just too late for me to be wrapping my head around that, but I thought this was stop motion? When I mentioned "bland CGI", I meant something along the lines of however they make that LEGO ninja cartoon.
You didn't know? Then they did an even better job than I'd imagined. Yeah its millions in CGI made to look like stop motion animation. Cool huh? Also good point. I see what you mean. I'm certain there may be bits and pieces of this movie that are actually stop motion but for the most part it is 100% CGI. So do yourself a favor. Pick your scattered brains up off the floor. Put em back in your head and go see this awesome movie. :)
Ah, I get you, in which case I think I shall!
 

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Silverspetz said:
RedDeadFred said:
daibakuha said:
RedDeadFred said:
This is true as well but it's pretty clear that Bob is pretty biased towards Marvel. I mean out of all the shows he chose to do weekly reviews of he picked the incredibly mediocre AoS (no I'm not jumping on the hate bandwagon, I legitimately wanted to like it so I did put up with it for 5 episodes)? Not only that, if I remember correctly, Iron Man 3 was apparently amazing to him. Who knows, maybe he just likes his super hero movies to be lighter in tone but I'm a bit skeptical.
He fully admits AoS isn't a good show, and talks about it a lot on twitter.

The reason anyone brings up Marvel when talking about Superhero films is that marvel does them correctly, they know when to change things, when to adapt it straight from the comics and when to play it for laughs. Right now nobody is doing it right.

Also, Iron Man 3 was probably the best blockbuster last year, and is definitely one of the best Iron Man films.
I know he doesn't think it's a good show, which is why I don't understand why he's doing a weekly article on it. Why not pick something entertaining that people actually want to watch. I like Bob's content so I wish he'd do weekly reviews on higher quality TV shows. The only reason Bob is reviewing it is because Marvel is attached to it.

As for Iron Man 3. Well, it's a matter of opinion I guess so you're right, no sense arguing there. Some people liked it but for me, it's the only movie Marvel has been attached to since Hulk 2003 that I actually disliked (and not it's not because of the Mandarin twist -I thought that was one of the few bright spots).
He reviews it every week because it is something of a groundbreaker in terms of TV, not in quality but just in what it wants to be. A TV/show that works as a tie-in to an ongoing Movie-franchise?
A simple Google search will tell you that no, this is not ground breaking. There have been many TV series that have tied into movies before. Not quite to this scale but it's certainly nothing new. So yes, I'm skeptical of what you said to be the reason for him to be reviewing the show every week. Again, I'm not knocking Bob for this, everyone has their biases (me included), I just wish that his first foray into television reviewing was of a show of higher quality. Bob often has really insightful analysis so if he ditched reviewing AoS for something like True Detective (I know, the shows are completely unrelated -this is just an example) that was actually worth having an depth review on, I could see him having some really interesting things to say.
 

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RedDeadFred said:
Silverspetz said:
RedDeadFred said:
daibakuha said:
RedDeadFred said:
This is true as well but it's pretty clear that Bob is pretty biased towards Marvel. I mean out of all the shows he chose to do weekly reviews of he picked the incredibly mediocre AoS (no I'm not jumping on the hate bandwagon, I legitimately wanted to like it so I did put up with it for 5 episodes)? Not only that, if I remember correctly, Iron Man 3 was apparently amazing to him. Who knows, maybe he just likes his super hero movies to be lighter in tone but I'm a bit skeptical.
He fully admits AoS isn't a good show, and talks about it a lot on twitter.

The reason anyone brings up Marvel when talking about Superhero films is that marvel does them correctly, they know when to change things, when to adapt it straight from the comics and when to play it for laughs. Right now nobody is doing it right.

Also, Iron Man 3 was probably the best blockbuster last year, and is definitely one of the best Iron Man films.
I know he doesn't think it's a good show, which is why I don't understand why he's doing a weekly article on it. Why not pick something entertaining that people actually want to watch. I like Bob's content so I wish he'd do weekly reviews on higher quality TV shows. The only reason Bob is reviewing it is because Marvel is attached to it.

As for Iron Man 3. Well, it's a matter of opinion I guess so you're right, no sense arguing there. Some people liked it but for me, it's the only movie Marvel has been attached to since Hulk 2003 that I actually disliked (and not it's not because of the Mandarin twist -I thought that was one of the few bright spots).
He reviews it every week because it is something of a groundbreaker in terms of TV, not in quality but just in what it wants to be. A TV/show that works as a tie-in to an ongoing Movie-franchise?
A simple Google search will tell you that no, this is not ground breaking. There have been many TV series that have tied into movies before. Not quite to this scale but it's certainly nothing new. So yes, I'm skeptical of what you said to be the reason for him to be reviewing the show every week. Again, I'm not knocking Bob for this, everyone has their biases (me included), I just wish that his first foray into television reviewing was of a show of higher quality. Bob often has really insightful analysis so if he ditched reviewing AoS for something like True Detective (I know, the shows are completely unrelated -this is just an example) that was actually worth having an depth review on, I could see him having some really interesting things to say.
It is the "not quite to this scale"-part that MAKES it stand out from other spin off-shows. Stargate SG-1 was a spinnoff from a Movie, so I'm quite aware that it has been done Before in that particular respect. But I also made it clear that the Marvel franchise in itself stands out in this regard by mixing various Movies from different genre's together. The show also works as a tie-in to an ONGOING Movie franchise and not just as a spinnoff set in the same universe after the main story is over. So yes, AoS IS pretty groundbreking in this regard, for better or for worse.
 

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Trishbot said:
I now seek to slightly change the topic.

What was your favorite Lego set as a kid/adult?
Mine was, by far...



What can I say I'm a bionicle nut, and the Bohrok run was the one that showed me just how internally complex these guys could get.
 

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Finally got around to watching this review in full after having seen the movie, bob's pre-review "it's good, don't get spoiled" start having warded me off the first time...

I would have seen it sooner, but for some reason it arrived in Australia a month and change after release everywhere else.
 

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Am I the only one who thought the must-be-seen-to-be-believed reveal of Will Ferrell as the bad guy was hilarious? He can sure be stern, but who can be afraid of him when his characters are often victims of pranks or relatively harmless misfortunes in general?
daxterx2005 said:
I personally love the new design for Knuckles.
And I love the dubstep and one-liners in Sonic Boom's reveal trailer. It's too bad that the gameplay is bare-bones. Otherwise, it would be appropriately ironic, like some cutscenes from Sonic Colors (though awkward) or Generations (though brief).