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Post by Ash Kingston on Jul 28, 2017 6:40:38 GMT -5
Wait, you mean the movie that everybody and their dog's fleas knew was going to be terrible... is terrible?
I need a moment, and a couch to faint onto.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jul 28, 2017 6:52:10 GMT -5
Given recent history it would not shock me if this is successful. The other recent film to get torn apart critically like this movie was Valerian (released last week) and that seems dead on arrival. Well I don't think Luc Besson aim with Valerian with a side of Black Bean Sauce was to get stupid idiots into the cinema. Unlike the Emoji movie whose target audience are "huh, it's just like those things in my text messages."
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 28, 2017 7:03:39 GMT -5
Movie starring Shit is shitty. More news as this develops.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 28, 2017 8:10:33 GMT -5
Just to remind people what we lost. And this was an animation test. As in, not close to what the real thing would have looked like. That... that was funny. And we're not getting this? If it's any consolation it freed up Genndy to make the last Season of Samurai Jack.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Jul 28, 2017 10:58:10 GMT -5
I just keep getting angrier and angrier that this flaming turd robbed us of Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye. Just to remind people what we lost. And this was an animation test. As in, not close to what the real thing would have looked like. Real shame this got turned down. The movement is fluid, it's funny, and the art direction- it's downright adorable. Popeye's redesign is perfect, he's younger and has no pipe but he still has that 1930's feel. I know the execs were thinking "go with the app movie, that's hipper and more relevant", but this would have made money.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 28, 2017 10:59:43 GMT -5
Just to remind people what we lost. And this was an animation test. As in, not close to what the real thing would have looked like. Real shame this got turned down. The movement is fluid, it's funny, and the art direction- it's downright adorable. Popeye's redesign is perfect, he's younger and has no pipe but he still has that 1930's feel. I know the execs were thinking "go with the app movie, that's hipper and more relevant", but this would have made money. I would have liked to see some stuff from Lauren Faust's Medusa movie that was also reportedly turned down for the Emoji movie.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 28, 2017 11:07:39 GMT -5
The execs that allowed this to happen aren't worth the shoes they wear.
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Post by Demented on Jul 28, 2017 13:17:46 GMT -5
Wait, you mean the movie that everybody and their dog's fleas knew was going to be terrible... is terrible? I need a moment, and a couch to faint onto.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Jul 28, 2017 13:21:00 GMT -5
I'm sure it's terrible. It's also going to make a billion dollars, and get three sequels and an animated series. Like....that's where we're at right now.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 16:42:56 GMT -5
I'm sure it's terrible. It's also going to make a billion dollars, and get three sequels and an animated series. Like....that's where we're at right now. Eh not really. I think the last critically panned film that became a major box office success was Suicide Squad and that was because it's a comic book film. Wonder Woman is the most successful DCCU film because it's the only certified fresh DCCU film on RT. We're getting to the point studios are blaming RT for bombing at the box office. Just look at this summer and films like Transformers and The New Pirates are bombing or underperforming because of fatigue and negative reception. This movie will probably bomb or be way below studio expectations
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 17:21:55 GMT -5
So a ripoff of Wreck It Ralph, Inside Out and The Lego Movie will be what kills Sony. Ghostbusters put a bullet in their chest, this one's a bullet to the skull. Don't worry Sony still got their ace in their pocket. A live action/cgi Sonic the Hedgehog movie
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 28, 2017 17:27:35 GMT -5
I'm sure it's terrible. It's also going to make a billion dollars, and get three sequels and an animated series. Like....that's where we're at right now. Eh not really. I think the last critically panned film that became a major box office success was Suicide Squad and that was because it's a comic book film. Wonder Woman is the most successful DCCU film because it's the only certified fresh DCCU film on RT. We're getting to the point studios are blaming RT for bombing at the box office. Just look at this summer and films like Transformers and The New Pirates are bombing or underperforming because of fatigue and negative reception. This movie will probably bomb or be way below studio expectations Yeah, the amount of movies that should have been successes and weren't and the amount of movies that shouldn't be successes but were is really shocking considering past summers. Like, who'd have thought that Girl Trip would be one of the top movies of the Summer compared to others?
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Post by Chainsaw on Jul 28, 2017 22:14:05 GMT -5
Well,the upside is that the movie will probably bomb, I mean, it's not like there's a kickass looking R-rated action movie with a hot lead that teenagers will probably buy a ticket to the Emoji Movie and sneak in, thus making it a OH F***!!!
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Post by Psy on Jul 28, 2017 22:17:04 GMT -5
Read a spoiler and I don't think it sounds as bad as some people are saying. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't sound good, but far from the worst thing that's been churned out by Hollywood.
Remember Orion Pictures? They went bankrupt after putting so much faith in Weird Al's UHF movie (it tested very well, then performed poorly - still one of my favorite movies though) and I remember hearing that this studio was in a similar position with this movie.
I don't see the Emoji movie becoming a cult classic like UHF, though.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Jul 28, 2017 22:19:35 GMT -5
Well,the upside is that the movie will probably bomb, I mean, it's not like there's a kickass looking R-rated action movie with a hot lead that teenagers will probably buy a ticket to the Emoji Movie and sneak in, thus making it a OH F***!!! Damn, same thing happened with Rambo and Epic Movie.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jul 28, 2017 22:30:58 GMT -5
Remember Orion Pictures? They went bankrupt after putting so much faith in Weird Al's UHF movie (it tested very well, then performed poorly - still one of my favorite movies though) and I remember hearing that this studio was in a similar position with this movie. I don't see the Emoji movie becoming a cult classic like UHF, though. UHF had horrendous timing. From Wikipedia: Summer blockbusters had been around since Jaws made it a thing in the mid-70s, but the summer of 1989 is when it truly became what it is today, one superhugegiantmegamovie after another, week after week, all summer. And in that day and age, when it was still at least half a year before movies came out to rent after a theatrical run, most of those titles were still bringing in huge audiences when UHF hit. Hell, Batman alone wouldn't leave theaters for six months after its debut, and it and Ghostbusters 2 were setting major "all-time" money marks.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 28, 2017 22:52:27 GMT -5
Remember Orion Pictures? They went bankrupt after putting so much faith in Weird Al's UHF movie (it tested very well, then performed poorly - still one of my favorite movies though) and I remember hearing that this studio was in a similar position with this movie. I don't see the Emoji movie becoming a cult classic like UHF, though. UHF had horrendous timing. From Wikipedia: Summer blockbusters had been around since Jaws made it a thing in the mid-70s, but the summer of 1989 is when it truly became what it is today, one superhugegiantmegamovie after another, week after week, all summer. And in that day and age, when it was still at least half a year before movies came out to rent after a theatrical run, most of those titles were still bringing in huge audiences when UHF hit. Hell, Batman alone wouldn't leave theaters for six months after its debut, and it and Ghostbusters 2 were setting major "all-time" money marks. Yeah UHF failed because it was released in the middle of GIGANTIC blockbusters... and it got swallowed up by them.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jul 28, 2017 23:53:04 GMT -5
Read a spoiler and I don't think it sounds as bad as some people are saying. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't sound good, but far from the worst thing that's been churned out by Hollywood. Remember Orion Pictures? They went bankrupt after putting so much faith in Weird Al's UHF movie (it tested very well, then performed poorly - still one of my favorite movies though) and I remember hearing that this studio was in a similar position with this movie. I don't see the Emoji movie becoming a cult classic like UHF, though. UHF had Weird Al. Emoji Movie has a literal piece of shit.
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Post by lionheart21 on Jul 29, 2017 0:24:04 GMT -5
UHF had horrendous timing. From Wikipedia: Summer blockbusters had been around since Jaws made it a thing in the mid-70s, but the summer of 1989 is when it truly became what it is today, one superhugegiantmegamovie after another, week after week, all summer. And in that day and age, when it was still at least half a year before movies came out to rent after a theatrical run, most of those titles were still bringing in huge audiences when UHF hit. Hell, Batman alone wouldn't leave theaters for six months after its debut, and it and Ghostbusters 2 were setting major "all-time" money marks. Yeah UHF failed because it was released in the middle of GIGANTIC blockbusters... and it got swallowed up by them. To whoever decided it was a good idea to release UHF during that time:
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 29, 2017 0:24:11 GMT -5
the emoji movie commercials say "It's the perfect family movie" usually that would be correspond with a quote from a critic... this commercial did not...
which just tells me they couldn't find ANYONE saying ANYTHING even halfway positive about this...
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