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I’m not terribly interested in Prince Philip. It’s not like the ancient kept man of the Queen is going to be held responsible for his actions.
I would, however, like to know if anything will be done about the royal gamekeeper who allegedly struck a motorist with a stick and called him a “bloody peasant” because the gamekeeper couldn’t control his damn dogs.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The idea sounds even more artistically inert than the emoji movie. It's a toy line with no story, no lore, nothing except a big head cute style of doll that is applied to the creations of other companies.
I'm not trying to diss anyone who likes the dolls. You like what you like and God speed you. But come on. A movie?
The idea sounds even more artistically inert than the emoji movie. It's a toy line with no story, no lore, nothing except a big head cute style of doll that is applied to the creations of other companies.
I'm not trying to diss anyone who likes the dolls. You like what you like and God speed you. But come on. A movie?
The only way this could work is if they did like a Lego Movie / Kingdom Hearts? cinematic universe kind of thing where there's a rote-ass adventure story buoyed by popular characters and excellent, excellent jokes/writing
(I think the Emoji Movie is actually the most cynical and soulless possible franchise because it was straight-up postmodern in its complete lack of underlying signifiers to all its cultural signs -- its signs were literally just signs, in a very real linguistic sense (happy! sad! poo!) with no bedrock references. Actually the more I think about it the more it does seem like some nihilistic embrace of 20th century French philosophy where the text has no meaning outside of itself, etc etc, we live in a world of pure empty simulation, signs referencing other signs all the way down, blah blah)
also Gears of War is the chosen Funko; it will bring symmetry and balance to the figure as it was destined to
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Underpinning the Lego movie is the physical reality of the toy itself and the imagination it enables and encourages. A toy that thrives on the invention of the person playing with it, and not only that they made imagination vs strict rules the literal plot of the movie. And then they went even further and managed to make it about a dad and his son and their bonding over their mutual love of the toy. You can excavate themes, joy and wonder from Lego. I dunno what you can get out of Funko Pops beyond, I dunno, collecting things? The joy of a wall of unopened Funko boxes.
I'm actually trying to think of another toy with the same absence of anything deeper than a style, and I can't. The blandest girly doll will have different outfits and accessories, their own names. The most derivative action man doll will have points of articulation, poses, etc.
A Funko Pop takes all of its narrative power from the identity of the doll, which has been created by someone else. They cannot be 'played with' easily in the traditional sense. No points of articulation, no outfits, no poses, no additional ephemera to use like a house, a vehicle, accessories, no narrative theme that is not also from the original character idea. They feel more like ornaments than toys, I think, and generally I believe that's their fate. Kids aren't smashing Funko Pops together in play. They're things to have, to collect, or maybe swapped, like Garbage Pail Kid stickers, except they're absent the invention of those stickers, and merely replicate something already created in a new and uniform style.
Funko Pops seem like a simplification and purification of the collectable artifact. Like stamps or trading cards, but less inventive. Appealing to as wide a base as possible by bringing in fans of any remotely fantastical story available. Invention within the form is strictly limited by the style, and the recognisability of the original creation must be maintained. And that uniformity of style and absence of invention is a selling point. See how they fit on the shelf, filling in space like perfectly aligned tetronimos.
I don't feel like there's a movie there, but I'm sure there are some good academic papers and interesting pop culture essays you could wring out of them.
perhaps a funko pops movie could be a meta satire about joyless, dead-eyed consumerism
The movie brings together as many IPs as possible in a post-apocalyptic land where any group is potentially subject to the Frightening Undoing of Neurological and Kinetic Operations virus, and collected for study by a faceless corporation
The obvious twist is that the faceless corporation is sacrificing any FUNKOed society to a race of cosmic superbeings who keep the world of Popp Kulturr alive, and are harvesting the original creations of their predecessor race by processing them into a uniform structure to fuel their own planet of Quonn Sumerizm
I saw one of what I assume is the half dozen or so good Will Ferrell movies yesterday for the first time: Stranger Than Fiction. Not great, but good.
It was beautifully aligned with its own plot, in that the sharper ending, where Ferrell would die, was rejected in favour of a fluffier one in which he lived, making the whole enterprise less satisfying.
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But I would love to know how this got made.
Who put up the money. Who pitched this successfully. Who convinced Anne Hathaway.
I would, however, like to know if anything will be done about the royal gamekeeper who allegedly struck a motorist with a stick and called him a “bloody peasant” because the gamekeeper couldn’t control his damn dogs.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Somebody really wanted to see their vision on the silver screen
And you know what they say
He who hath a will, hath a way
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
If I start driving right now I can be in Seattle in roughly 5 hours
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It'd be 3 if you didn't drive like a native Washingtonian
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Geth, recycle the thread on page 100 and move my digestive system on by an hour.
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Of course there is.
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*goes and grabs the flamethrower*
This has gone on long enough! We must burn it all down for their own good!
I'm not trying to diss anyone who likes the dolls. You like what you like and God speed you. But come on. A movie?
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But the whole point of Gears of War is that they have tiny heads on massive bodies. Literally the opposite of Funko's style. Sacrilege.
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The only way this could work is if they did like a Lego Movie / Kingdom Hearts? cinematic universe kind of thing where there's a rote-ass adventure story buoyed by popular characters and excellent, excellent jokes/writing
(I think the Emoji Movie is actually the most cynical and soulless possible franchise because it was straight-up postmodern in its complete lack of underlying signifiers to all its cultural signs -- its signs were literally just signs, in a very real linguistic sense (happy! sad! poo!) with no bedrock references. Actually the more I think about it the more it does seem like some nihilistic embrace of 20th century French philosophy where the text has no meaning outside of itself, etc etc, we live in a world of pure empty simulation, signs referencing other signs all the way down, blah blah)
also Gears of War is the chosen Funko; it will bring symmetry and balance to the figure as it was destined to
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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that has to be cold enough for schools to close its inhumane to make a kid walk in that.
*end of the shining shot*
I hurt everywhere. And I’m so full from Texas foodstuffs.
Hows the kiddo?
A Funko Pop takes all of its narrative power from the identity of the doll, which has been created by someone else. They cannot be 'played with' easily in the traditional sense. No points of articulation, no outfits, no poses, no additional ephemera to use like a house, a vehicle, accessories, no narrative theme that is not also from the original character idea. They feel more like ornaments than toys, I think, and generally I believe that's their fate. Kids aren't smashing Funko Pops together in play. They're things to have, to collect, or maybe swapped, like Garbage Pail Kid stickers, except they're absent the invention of those stickers, and merely replicate something already created in a new and uniform style.
Funko Pops seem like a simplification and purification of the collectable artifact. Like stamps or trading cards, but less inventive. Appealing to as wide a base as possible by bringing in fans of any remotely fantastical story available. Invention within the form is strictly limited by the style, and the recognisability of the original creation must be maintained. And that uniformity of style and absence of invention is a selling point. See how they fit on the shelf, filling in space like perfectly aligned tetronimos.
I don't feel like there's a movie there, but I'm sure there are some good academic papers and interesting pop culture essays you could wring out of them.
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Our windchill forecast for Wednesday is -49c (-57f).
Thankfully this usually only happens once a year and it doesn't look like it's going to last a week like it usually does.
Hell, if we hit the forecasted high of 11f on Friday it's going to feel like spring :P
I mean, it would work pretty well, but I doubt that's the angle they're going with.
Maybe they could make it about how the brisk business they do helps keep lots of comics and boardgame shops afloat.
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A nice button-up shirt and chinos, or acid-washed jeans and a t-shirt with a partisan political slogan on it
shirt with a Punisher logo on it.
More like
Boringo pop
Like, thousands of them, in a steady stream flying out from the city
Weird!
Zombie outbreak
This sort of thing is how disaster movies start.
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funko poop
they’re no dumber than those hummel figurines my mom used to collect
The movie brings together as many IPs as possible in a post-apocalyptic land where any group is potentially subject to the Frightening Undoing of Neurological and Kinetic Operations virus, and collected for study by a faceless corporation
The obvious twist is that the faceless corporation is sacrificing any FUNKOed society to a race of cosmic superbeings who keep the world of Popp Kulturr alive, and are harvesting the original creations of their predecessor race by processing them into a uniform structure to fuel their own planet of Quonn Sumerizm
*rap airhorn*
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