WTF? An ACTUAL in-the-theatres, big-budget LEGO movie is coming. o.o

[UniversalRonin]

I'm disappointed to see the trailer uses the word "literally" WRONG.
What the fuck is this Newspeak bullshit of using the damn word as a jack-of-all-trades for emphasis? Has the human race finally caved in and accepted people aren't going to learn it properly?

People have literally destroyed this word in the most literal way possible. We literally need to take it away from them. Just literally beat them with brooms until they start using it right. People who misuse that word are literally bastards.

Did my Zing-o-metre literally just go off? I actually chuckled more about this than I did the trailer. And the trailer made me chuckle.

 

[josemlopes]

It does look pretty cool. I love how they're using stop motion for this. For a movie about legos it just feels... right.

I actually looked this up after seeing the trailer awhile ago. It's not proper stop motion, it's normal animation made to look like stop motion. Which I think is fine as long as it looks like real LEGO figures. It's probably a lot cheaper and faster.

Yeah, its 3D animation but they really are trying to make it look like stop motion, just look at the detail in each piece, they all look somewhat used like real life Legos (and then you got the obvious frame skip that gives that stop motion feel).

If they can make it look and feel like stop motion its probably a lot easier for them to do it in 3D since it lets them do a lot more things easier (water is a pain in the ass in stop motion for example)

It really shows that the guys behind it do care for this movie and isnt just some quick buck cash in (they could have just settled with typical 3D instead of going the extra lenght to make it look like stop motion).

 

[Full]

Will Arnett is playing Batman and it is Legos with stop motion and that is yes okay. I've been stoked about this since I heard about it earlier this year, it's obviously aware of itself and looks like a blast.

 

[putowtin]

OH MY LEGO BRICKS!

That is the most epically amazingly daft thing I've ever seen.... tickets please!

 

[MrFalconfly]

Some had Transformers or G.I.JOE (or Action Man was they're called here in Europe). Some had Commodore 64's or Spectrum Sinclairs and were gamers even before it became a thing to do.

I had LEGO and I've been waiting for this my whole life.

 

[StormShaun]

That movie keeps getting better and better, and it has a damn tone of major (voice) actors in it.
So ... I believe I am going to watch it, because why not, my kid self has been waiting for this kind of thing fooooooreveeeer~!!!

So yeah, totally going to watch this and probably buy the DvD already.

Now I should get serious, this just honestly speaks nostalgia all over the place to me.
I would expect this to sell. (At least to our generation and possible kids who still play with lego today)

I would not be surprised if many kinds of age ranges will see this movie.

 

[thatonedude11]

The use of literally as a non-literal intensifier is about as old as the criticism invariably attached to it. Bierce claimed that it's "bad enough to exaggerate, but to affirm the truth of the exaggeration is intolerable"; Fowler said "we do not hesitate to insert the very word that we ought to be at pains to repudiate; such false coin makes honest traffic in words impossible". It's never been recognized by any canon in any dictionary in any language except as slang and even today its validity is disputed as such.

I also find your "get over it" pretentious and agressively imperative considering your response offered no insight to the discussion and no substance to your claim.

/OP the trailer is cute though, forgot to mention it.

I apologize if I came off as an asshole. I was being unnecessarily harsh. This whole literally thing frustrates me though. The dictionary's job is not to dictate how language is used, they simply tell you how people use it. If people use literally in a non-literal way, then the dictionary should recognize that.

I actually looked this up after seeing the trailer awhile ago. It's not proper stop motion, it's normal animation made to look like stop motion. Which I think is fine as long as it looks like real LEGO figures. It's probably a lot cheaper and faster.

Actually, the film uses a mix of stop-motion and CGI [http://io9.com/is-the-lego-movie-really-the-best-film-ever-signs-poin-852631767]. It's not quite as cool as if they went full blown stop motion, but it is still pretty awesome.

 

[RJ 17]

I'm disappointed to see the trailer uses the word "literally" WRONG.
What the fuck is this Newspeak bullshit of using the damn word as a jack-of-all-trades for emphasis? Has the human race finally caved in and accepted people aren't going to learn it properly?

Oh then I bet you'll just love this bit of news: apparently the Hallmark card company is going to be making a Christmas ornament shaped like a gaudy Christmas sweater with some lyrics from the Christmas carol: "Deck The Halls"

However, rather than "Don We Now Our Gay Apparel" they're going to have it say "Don We Now Our Fun Apparel".

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

I never thought I'd live to see this day. No, really, I never could have imagined this happening.

Delightful how they seem to really use Legos for nearly everything and not doing some CGI bullshit.

I'm not sure how I feel about this as a whole though.

 

[Queen Michael]

Meh, Batman seems to be pretty funny, but my hopes for it to be good dropped significantly when I saw "director of cloudy with a chance of meatballs" which absolutely sucked. And the overall trailer just looks like a typical terrible American comedy, except in lego form. The annoying pauses when someone is supposed to do something funny, the reliance on the internet humor of "these characters are awesome, and it's funny because they are, uh..." with Abraham Lincoln and the sort. That they seem to stick to the same.fucking.stupid-cliché.villain.+.love interest.in.every.single.fucking.one with an underdog guy who everyone thinks is special, then it turns out he sin't in the middle and everyoen loses faith, and then near the end he turns out to be amazing and falls in love with stereotypical love interest again.

I can't seriously believe they keep aming the same damn stupid stories over and over again, even when Matt Stone and Trey Parker made a spoof of the entire thign with Team America. It's shocking to see how every single fucking one of these movies follow the exact same fucking structure every single fucking time! Fuck!

This is basically like every other modern kids movie and every modern American comedy except in lego form. I'll pass.

But... But... It's got LEGO in it! LEGO is a thing that is in this movie!

 

[Fijiman]

I remember seeing a trailer for it a few months ago, but had forgotten about it. When I saw this trailer yesterday this was my reaction.(or close enough)

Spoiler

 

[purplemonkey555]

I'm disappointed to see the trailer uses the word "literally" WRONG.
What the fuck is this Newspeak bullshit of using the damn word as a jack-of-all-trades for emphasis? Has the human race finally caved in and accepted people aren't going to learn it properly?

Damn, you beat me to it. I can't stand this, my brother does it all the time.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

Not only is it an original story, it is stop motion.

Actually, it is not stop Motion, but CGI that is animated to look like Stop Motion. It's like the Hotel dwellers in "Wreck-It Ralph", the ones that were limited in their movements and animations to look stiff like 8-bit characters (Even though they were in 3D). Instead of Tweening the motions to make it smooth, they leave it intentionally jerky to give it that feel.

 

[EHKOS]

Sooo, can we mostly agree we know how this is all going to unfold? Dude seems normal, people tell him he's special, he doesn't believe it, something draws out the hidden power all people have, realizes he IS special in his own special way, saves the day at the last moment, and that's the whole big message to the kids. There's a few references they'll never get like that Terminator one, and the comedy will be for children, which means they barely have to try. As if Tinsel Town tries anymore....

THIS IS WHY I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO WATCH MORE THAN HALF A MOVIE IN THE PAST HALF DECADE. I've predicted all of them because they have the same stupid formula for each genre. Romance/romantic comedy? The guy does something retarded in the middle to fuck everything up, and at the end he pulls a huge speech or amazingly romantic gesture out and saves the relationship at the last second.

Argh, I'm just...so fucking tired of being cynical

EDIT:

Meh, Batman seems to be pretty funny, but my hopes for it to be good dropped significantly when I saw "director of cloudy with a chance of meatballs" which absolutely sucked. And the overall trailer just looks like a typical terrible American comedy, except in lego form. The annoying pauses when someone is supposed to do something funny, the reliance on the internet humor of "these characters are awesome, and it's funny because they are, uh..." with Abraham Lincoln and the sort. That they seem to stick to the same.fucking.stupid-cliché.villain.+.love interest.in.every.single.fucking.one with an underdog guy who everyone thinks is special, then it turns out he sin't in the middle and everyoen loses faith, and then near the end he turns out to be amazing and falls in love with stereotypical love interest again.

I can't seriously believe they keep aming the same damn stupid stories over and over again, even when Matt Stone and Trey Parker made a spoof of the entire thign with Team America. It's shocking to see how every single fucking one of these movies follow the exact same fucking structure every single fucking time! Fuck!

This is basically like every other modern kids movie and every modern American comedy except in lego form. I'll pass.

Oh good, I'm not the only one.

 

[MrBaskerville]

It looks pretty random and stupid, but the BatMailing joke was cool, it might be one of those cases where the movie is fun while the trailer makes you cringe. It used a lot of annoying trailer clichees so there might be a chance that the actual movie is better.

 

[josemlopes]

I never thought I'd live to see this day. No, really, I never could have imagined this happening.

Delightful how they seem to really use Legos for nearly everything and not doing some CGI bullshit.

I'm not sure how I feel about this as a whole though.

You should feel that CGI doesnt mean that its bullshit as this movie is actually in CGI.

It impressive that you can make CGI look like stop motion (and the attention to the detail in the models here is really impressive), it really shows how CGI can be well used (unfortenly its mostly terribly used though)

 

[scorptatious]

It does look pretty cool. I love how they're using stop motion for this. For a movie about legos it just feels... right.

I actually looked this up after seeing the trailer awhile ago. It's not proper stop motion, it's normal animation made to look like stop motion. Which I think is fine as long as it looks like real LEGO figures. It's probably a lot cheaper and faster.

Huh. Well they did a pretty convincing job making it look like stop motion.

Still probably going to see this movie though.

 

[Risingblade]

I'm also pretty confused why people are looking forward to this. It's a pretty generic film with the Lego skin stamped over it.

Besides, this is another Battleship. How can you make a story over a franchise that never had a story per se? Buy some Lego bricks and make the story yourself.

Have you seen how much legos cost? I'd rather just pay the 10 bucks and watch lego batman shenanigans