Just because I haven't seen a movie doesn't mean I can't tell it's a bad idea. I'll refer you back to Ass. And I can't believe I'm actually being talked down to for knowing stupid ideas when I see them. Like holy *squee!*. That's probably my queue to leave this thread.
But at least with "Ass" you know that it's just a ass for 2 hours, while we don't really know anything about this movie. So can we at least wait until we see a trailer before acting like we have seen it?
I mean, I'm sure it'll be another ridiculous movie based off a dumb trend, the sad part will be that everyone will probably be easily entertained by it, because it's "Relatable" or well...trendy, or some other reason (that makes little to no sense). Maybe I'm wrong though and this movie *might* (somehow) turn out to be a decent movie; though I feel that I'm the only one to notice the massive drop of quality of a majority of movies. Edit: the title of this is a bit dramatic.
Okay then. Think of it like this: Have you ever eaten a turd? Of course you haven't, but why not? The likely answer is because you realize that doing so would be a disgusting and unpleasant experience. You don't have to have eaten crap in the past to understand that you don't want to ever eat it in the future. This movie follows the same principle. Here we have a studio pushing a nice big steaming bowl of crap at us, and expecting us to chow down because it's something new that we've never had before.
I actually really like this analogy. This is one of those things that isn't much of a "Can't knock it till you try it" type deals.
Because I know that eating turds isn't healthy or in anyway beneficial to me. However I don't really know anything abut this movie so it would be stupid to assume it's crap. But how do we know that it's not actually a bowl of chocolate that we mistaken for crap because we know extremely little of the content of the bowl? Also please explain to me how a movie crap simply because it's about emojis.
Let me rephrase what I said. How do we know what's inside of a bowl that we haven't seen and that's on the other side of the earth?
At this point you're just changing your theoretical situation to be more theoretical. We might as well be saying that Birdemic is a perfect movie with perfect acting and great special effects
No. Because there's proof that it's awful, while there's no proof that the emoji movie will be awful.
Well, if we're wrong and the movie is great then good for them. Hell, the concept for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was asinine but look how many childhoods it impacted... mine included. So basically, we're all in a position to be surprised for better or worse. TBH, I HOPE they prove skeptics like me wrong. Hollywood has a bad habit of reaching for our wallets while not trying hard enough to impress us. Still, I don't see how that's gonna happen. Time will tell I guess.
Please, please, please, please, please tell me you're aware that this just might be a dumb idea, Heim.
I think the point that all emojis are is a digital way to communicate is being missed. TMNT which are fictional characters makes a big gap between the two.
Yeah, the idea is pretty stupid. But the same can be said for pretty much anything I enjoy these days. Well, I'm not saying that it's going to be good. I'm saying that we shouldn't judge before we see it.
Look. If I'm wrong, and it's good, I will come to this thread, admit that it's good, apologize for disrespecting it, print my posts, chew the paper, and literally eat my words on camera, for everyone to see. But I don't see a way for this to not flop at the box office. Even basic high school kids can tell when something is dumb enough. Nobody wants this.
Apples to oranges, I know, but my point is that it's not silly to assume that the movie will likely be a flop. I still doubt Hollywood has it in their head that this could really resonate with an audience and be memorable. Cash grab movies based on trends lack staying power... at least for me.
That's what I was saying earlier. Even my sister, who's a kid and actually uses emoji, thinks it's a bad idea.
