The ending of The Lego Movie was probably the best part of any movie I saw last year
It would have worked for me if
A: It was in a different movie (the tonal shift was just way too severe and the entire group I saw it with all felt it was just really poorly done)
and
B: It hadn't been Will Ferrel. We just expected him to go full douchbag humour like he normally does and were tensed up and dreading it and in the end he really didn't do anything.
The end of The Lego Movie was the first time a movie has made me tear up is a long time. Probably didn't help that it was the first (and so far only) movie I've ever taken my son to see in a theater. The ending was easily the best part of that movie and without it, it would have just been a mediocre movie.
So let me get this straight. You didn't like Ferrell in the movie because you were anticipating him doing something awful even through that awful thing never happened? And that's Ferrell's fault? That's like saying you didn't like Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society because you were worried he'd break into Mork.
Dude isn't always an obnoxious jerk. Look at Stranger than Fiction.
You assuming Will Ferrell was gonna be Ricky Bobby or something ain't the movie's fault or a flaw at all
Everything I've seen him in he was an obnoxious jerk. That is very much on him for defining himself as that. I am not wrong to assume that he was probably going to do that again.
However, it's not a fault or flaw and I didn't say it was. I said I just didn't like it.
Also the Lego Movie was shifting tone quite a lot through the whole thing
Like, it is a fun goofy movie but it got real more than once. Bad Cop "killing" his parents, Emmett learning that everyone he thought was his friend don't even remember his name, the massive individualist message through the whole movie.
No, it really didn't. It was goofy funny all the way through and then they tried to get serious. I've never seen a severe tonal shift like that work ever, anywhere.
Also the Lego Movie was shifting tone quite a lot through the whole thing
Like, it is a fun goofy movie but it got real more than once. Bad Cop "killing" his parents, Emmett learning that everyone he thought was his friend don't even remember his name, the massive individualist message through the whole movie.
No, it really didn't. It was goofy funny all the way through and then they tried to get serious. I've never seen a severe tonal shift like that work ever, anywhere.
It has worked in a lot of places! Like almost every Pixar movie!
Dude isn't always an obnoxious jerk. Look at Stranger than Fiction.
You assuming Will Ferrell was gonna be Ricky Bobby or something ain't the movie's fault or a flaw at all
Everything I've seen him in he was an obnoxious jerk. That is very much on him for defining himself as that. I am not wrong to assume that he was probably going to do that again.
However, it's not a fault or flaw and I didn't say it was. I said I just didn't like it.
Also the Lego Movie was shifting tone quite a lot through the whole thing
Like, it is a fun goofy movie but it got real more than once. Bad Cop "killing" his parents, Emmett learning that everyone he thought was his friend don't even remember his name, the massive individualist message through the whole movie.
No, it really didn't. It was goofy funny all the way through and then they tried to get serious. I've never seen a severe tonal shift like that work ever, anywhere.
every pixar film
The cornetto trilogy
horror comedies
The ending of The Lego Movie was probably the best part of any movie I saw last year
It would have worked for me if
A: It was in a different movie (the tonal shift was just way too severe and the entire group I saw it with all felt it was just really poorly done)
and
B: It hadn't been Will Ferrel. We just expected him to go full douchbag humour like he normally does and were tensed up and dreading it and in the end he really didn't do anything.
This is on you and not will ferrel.
So it's "on me" to assume that an actor that has always played an obnoxious jerk will be an obnoxious jerk?
How many Adam Sandler movies do you go to expecting deep drama? How many Michael Bay films do you go to expecting touching romance?
Also the Lego Movie was shifting tone quite a lot through the whole thing
Like, it is a fun goofy movie but it got real more than once. Bad Cop "killing" his parents, Emmett learning that everyone he thought was his friend don't even remember his name, the massive individualist message through the whole movie.
No, it really didn't. It was goofy funny all the way through and then they tried to get serious. I've never seen a severe tonal shift like that work ever, anywhere.
every pixar film
The cornetto trilogy
horror comedies
Also the Lego Movie was shifting tone quite a lot through the whole thing
Like, it is a fun goofy movie but it got real more than once. Bad Cop "killing" his parents, Emmett learning that everyone he thought was his friend don't even remember his name, the massive individualist message through the whole movie.
No, it really didn't. It was goofy funny all the way through and then they tried to get serious. I've never seen a severe tonal shift like that work ever, anywhere.
I think you missed a lot of nuance in the early parts of the movie, then. Including the song and literally everything after that about working on a team versus being an individual and balancing the two.
The ending of The Lego Movie was probably the best part of any movie I saw last year
It would have worked for me if
A: It was in a different movie (the tonal shift was just way too severe and the entire group I saw it with all felt it was just really poorly done)
and
B: It hadn't been Will Ferrel. We just expected him to go full douchbag humour like he normally does and were tensed up and dreading it and in the end he really didn't do anything.
This is on you and not will ferrel.
So it's "on me" to assume that an actor that has always played an obnoxious jerk will be an obnoxious jerk?
How many Adam Sandler movies do you go to expecting deep drama? How many Michael Bay films do you go to expecting touching romance?
it is absolutely on you to expect tonal incongruity within a piece of work simply because of an actor or director's previous bodies of work, yes
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No.
ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT THE TONAL SHIFTS IN UP AND WRECK IT RALPH DON'T WORK
BECAUSE well i vehemently disagree with your viewpoint and invite you to reexamine you have so thoroughly missed their effective use as storytellinh devicrs GOOD DAY SIR
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Everything else those guys do is worse than poop from a butt.
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even if it doesn't have a stick?
like, you just eat it from the cup?
ideally it's one of those flimsy disposable plastic cups
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But Veldrin said in a cup
A cup of frozen anything is no good until it melts into, say, a slushie
A juice pop, yes
A cup, no
Ok yeah I don't know what this is
italian ice is the closest I can think of
Gaytimes are, incidentally, really delicious.
How do you eat it from the cup if it's frozen solid
The end of The Lego Movie was the first time a movie has made me tear up is a long time. Probably didn't help that it was the first (and so far only) movie I've ever taken my son to see in a theater. The ending was easily the best part of that movie and without it, it would have just been a mediocre movie.
So let me get this straight. You didn't like Ferrell in the movie because you were anticipating him doing something awful even through that awful thing never happened? And that's Ferrell's fault? That's like saying you didn't like Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society because you were worried he'd break into Mork.
Challenge accepted
its a delicious summertime snack!
Everything I've seen him in he was an obnoxious jerk. That is very much on him for defining himself as that. I am not wrong to assume that he was probably going to do that again.
However, it's not a fault or flaw and I didn't say it was. I said I just didn't like it.
We call them
ready for this?
"ice cups"
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No, it really didn't. It was goofy funny all the way through and then they tried to get serious. I've never seen a severe tonal shift like that work ever, anywhere.
They're frozen in those crappy little plastic kegger cups, so you just let it melt the littlest bit and then you can push it up and suck/chomp away
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I don't think he is often an obnoxious jerk
His stock character is an oblivious idiot
Anchorman I guess?
But like, talladega nights, elf, step brothers
he's usually just kinda dumb
You totally do have ones that come kn tubes though!
Kinda like this:
every pixar film
The cornetto trilogy
horror comedies
How many Adam Sandler movies do you go to expecting deep drama? How many Michael Bay films do you go to expecting touching romance?
ice pops
Based on your other efforts, it could have been worse!
Zoolander and lego are good examples.
every full house episode ever made
Ice lolly.
I think you missed a lot of nuance in the early parts of the movie, then. Including the song and literally everything after that about working on a team versus being an individual and balancing the two.
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it is absolutely on you to expect tonal incongruity within a piece of work simply because of an actor or director's previous bodies of work, yes
Still pretty good
yes we totally do that but in tubes
like this
That one has regional names depending on where you are in the US
BECAUSE well i vehemently disagree with your viewpoint and invite you to reexamine you have so thoroughly missed their effective use as storytellinh devicrs GOOD DAY SIR
Ice pop.
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