The Lego Movie 2 - Everything shall be awesome once again
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It looks better than Wreck It Ralph 2, in that it seems to actually want to focus on more than product placement.
Disney went full MOTHERFUCKING MONEY with the amount of Star Wars jammed into the Wreck it Ralph 2 trailer.
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Man, I have to wait until until 2019 for this? That sucks.
I'm gonna be keeping a sharp eye on Kotaku in Action.
New trailer dropped, although for some reason, Warner Bros decided to livestream it, or something.
It's super fucking weird for there to be a sequel to The LEGO Movie of all things, but I think it's nice of them to show that society practically collapsed with the defeat of Lord Business. The world was already a dystopia with him in charge, yet that was the world everyone knew, and being left to "fend/think for themselves" pretty much caused rampant chaos and anarchy. Yeah, this has been done a lot in the past (thanks to Mad Max, everyone's either trying to be the next Mad Max or are a shout-out/parody), but this works for The LEGO Movie because of Emmet not breaking character. Well, everyone hasn't broken character (yet). That's honestly pretty impressive.
2019 is going to be a weird year for movies, but I'll go see this one.
Gonna throw this up here for the hell of it, but Turkish Airlines has been promoting the film--through a safety video.
2019 is going to be a weird year for movies, but I'll go see this one.
Gonna throw this up here for the hell of it, but Turkish Airlines has been promoting the film--through a safety video.
That's the youtube premiere feature, where when a video drops it gets streamed once, complete with chat and everything. People are already sick of it and hate seeing youtubers use the feature for every video they upload.
This looks dumb. Then again the first one also looked dumb and I didn't see it.
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What was the MRA joke? I can't be arsed watching a lego trailer.
Bruh, wait what? That for real?
Yup.
Basically, there's this lady called "Queen ImwhateverIwanttobe" or some weird name like that, and her whole schtict was talking about how not evil she was. Part of her plan involved marrying Batman and she did it by playing into his ego and pretending she'll marry Superman instead. Batman falls for it because, he's Batman. Up to this point, we were led to believe that this was "the bad guy".
Then the plot twist happens, and Rex, the guy who's running gag was how "macho" and "badass" he was who was trying to help Emmet toughen up, was actually Emmet from the future. And apparently, the Queen and her people were just trying to unite the two worlds all along, which is metaphorical for the relationship between the brother and sister who own the toys.
Rex talks about how Emmet is a sap and how he needs to be toughen and get rid of his friends, meanwhile, Batman and the Queen actually do fall for each other and act like nothing was wrong.
They kinda write it off by one of the other characters saying that the sister's toys were just really bad at communicating with people, but that happens before the actual plot twist and actual message of the film.
I couldn't really shake the feeling after the movie was done, so I checked up a random review and sure enough, the reviewer praised the movie for taking shots at toxic masculinity and promoting "real girl power" So I wasn't the only one who saw what was going on.
I really want to believe the whole thing was unintentional. Because that's honestly kind of a fucked up and mixed message for a kids film. Especially for a sequel to a fun and light hearted film. Which is a damn shame, because I really liked the premise of the sequel being that the brother and sister got along over their shared love of Legos. But it gets kinda muddled by everything else.
Then the plot twist happens, and Rex, the guy who's running gag was how "macho" and "badass" he was who was trying to help Emmet toughen up, was actually Emmet from the future. And apparently, the Queen and her people were just trying to unite the two worlds all along, which is metaphorical for the relationship between the brother and sister who own the toys.
Rex talks about how Emmet is a sap and how he needs to be toughen and get rid of his friends, meanwhile, Batman and the Queen actually do fall for each other and act like nothing was wrong.
They kinda write it off by one of the other characters saying that the sister's toys were just really bad at communicating with people, but that happens before the actual plot twist and actual message of the film.
I couldn't really shake the feeling after the movie was done, so I checked up a random review and sure enough, the reviewer praised the movie for taking shots at toxic masculinity and promoting "real girl power" So I wasn't the only one who saw what was going on.
I really want to believe the whole thing was unintentional. Because that's honestly kind of a fucked up and mixed message for a kids film. Especially for a sequel to a fun and light hearted film. Which is a damn shame, because I really liked the premise of the sequel being that the brother and sister got along over their shared love of Legos. But it gets kinda muddled by everything else.
To be honest the "moral" in Lego Batman was pretty muddled too.
Zaryiu
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Really? I thought it was "don't be a douche"? Or at least that's what i remember
You know, given what you described the lesson could also be
”be yourself and don’t let anyone try to force you to be something you’re not”. From the trailers, it seemed like everyone was trying to make Emmet be more serious and not be so happy-go-lucky. You could argue that Rex is the end result of that, so Emmet staying true to himself instead of forcing himself to be what everyone wants him to be is the lesson. “
That’s what I’d like to believe. Just kind of unfortunate that this movie’s come out during this current climate.
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Saw this movie today with family. As someone who loves the first Lego Movie and the Lego Batman Movie (and as someone who was looking forward to this movie) ... I hated it.
99% of the comedy fell flat, and when that 1% of working comedy happened, they'd literally repeat the joke at least six more times. Rammed those jokes to the freakin' ground. If I see another banana Lego again, I'm going to lose my damn mind. The comedy in this was very annoying. And the movie made me hate Lego Batman ... Excuse me while I go cry in a corner now.
And yes, I think that there's definitely a "toxic masculinity" narrative going on with this movie (and I'm kind of relieved that I'm not the only one who noticed). Literally everything manly or masculine in the movie was portrayed as idiotic and/or destructive. There's also this weird message of "Let's all be the same to get along!" that creeped me out, and it totally goes against the first movie, which promoted individuality and creativity.
I'd say the first Lego Movie is "Gen X" with its much more subtle anti-corporate and anti-establishment narrative, and this sequel turned out being very "Millennial with self-importance and attention deficit disorder" with its anti-male, and pro-collective narrative.
Good news is this, though: The movie was projected to break records on its opening weekend. It only made $35 million. Ouch. I'm thinking that the word of mouth hasn't been so kind? With or without the (quite literally-- you know what I mean if you've seen it) hamfisted undertones, the movie just wasn't funny, and it lacks the GOOD, clever, and original writing from the first movie.
99% of the comedy fell flat, and when that 1% of working comedy happened, they'd literally repeat the joke at least six more times. Rammed those jokes to the freakin' ground. If I see another banana Lego again, I'm going to lose my damn mind. The comedy in this was very annoying. And the movie made me hate Lego Batman ... Excuse me while I go cry in a corner now.
And yes, I think that there's definitely a "toxic masculinity" narrative going on with this movie (and I'm kind of relieved that I'm not the only one who noticed). Literally everything manly or masculine in the movie was portrayed as idiotic and/or destructive. There's also this weird message of "Let's all be the same to get along!" that creeped me out, and it totally goes against the first movie, which promoted individuality and creativity.
I'd say the first Lego Movie is "Gen X" with its much more subtle anti-corporate and anti-establishment narrative, and this sequel turned out being very "Millennial with self-importance and attention deficit disorder" with its anti-male, and pro-collective narrative.
Good news is this, though: The movie was projected to break records on its opening weekend. It only made $35 million. Ouch. I'm thinking that the word of mouth hasn't been so kind? With or without the (quite literally-- you know what I mean if you've seen it) hamfisted undertones, the movie just wasn't funny, and it lacks the GOOD, clever, and original writing from the first movie.
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