The Emoji Movie

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Maybe this thread belongs in the Pit. :stuck_out_tongue: Has anyone else here seen it?

I hadn’t heard about this until yesterday, when a relative by marriage posted that he and his 14-year-old daughter, who is autistic and mildly mentally retarded, went to see it. He described it, in so many words, as two hours of his life that he won’t be getting back; his daughter, OTOH, loved it, although he wondered (and I did too) if she liked the visuals and couldn’t understand the plot.

Some of the reviews are hilarious. It’s also the lowest rating I’ve seen for ANYTHING on IMDB.

Even the “Best Worst Movie” of all time, “Troll 2”, is rated higher. :o

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Apparently, it’s not in the 0% Rotten Tomatoes club, so apparently there are worse. Second highest grossing film of the week, though. I don’t know much about it beyond this and a couple billboards I’ve seen on the highway.

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I saw the trailer before Cars 3. That was enough.

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I saw the trailer a few months ago. I remember thinking that it looked like the stupidest idea for a movie evar.

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oh my gaaaaaaaaaaawd

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Second review: “This movie makes me want to kill myself.”

:smiley:

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This movie is not even wrong.

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On the TV commercial I saw that that the stupid *poo *emoji has a speaking part. Poo shouldn’t even be an emoji and it sure as hell shouldn’t be celebrated/endorsed with a part in a movie. Ugh. :frowning:

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I take it you haven’t seen the poo emojii hats, which well pre-date the movie, have you? The poo emoji has been being celebrated/endorsed in pop culture for a little bit now. Here’s a whole line of poo emoji products, from pillows to cups to flasks to batteries.

Enjoy!

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I will not click. I am running from your post. :smiley:

But thanks for the, uh, education :slight_smile:

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So how was Cars 3?

The only apparent redeeming feature of the Emoji film is Patrick Stewart’s passing involvement in it as Poo, and frankly that’s not enough to justify spending any money at all on it.

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*Sir *Patrick Stewart? … it just keeps getting worse. :smack:

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I assume Stewart took the job to make a quick buck so he can continue to drink beers and pal around with Ian McKellen.

I thought there might be a chance that the movie was good. I didn’t have high hopes, but the first review that I read of it took care of those hopes but good.

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Although the idea of Steven Wright voicing a “meh” emoji would seem to be a case of near-perfect voice casting - almost as good as Lewis Black as Anger in Inside Out.

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Not quite as good as the first but certainly better than the second.

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Oh, so that’s the movie that spawned those billboards which picture a giant turd wearing a bow tie. What in God’s name would make me want to watch a movie about feces?

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It’s really about Meh and High Five, which see themselves as not being used to their full potential. The feces is only there for bathroom/odor jokes.

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Can somebody who’s subjected themselves to this thing please give me a quick overview of the Hotel Transylvania short that plays in front of it? I’d almost had myself convinced to go see the Emoji Movie because I love Hotel Transylvania, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I’ll just have to hope the short shows up on YouTube one of these days…

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One review called it “the poochie of movies”.

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The Weekend Box Office (for 7/31/2017) has it earning $24.5 million dollars, coming in second for the weekend.

The tiny font in the next column is “Studio”. I read “Sony” as “Sorry” which seems appropriate…