Posted on 12/11/2014 3:07:27 PM PST by lee martell
So there I was, resting in the hospital after my flat foot corrective surgery, when I turned the tablet sized TV on. There it was starting, on HBO, The Lego Movie, which came out early this year around February. I had heard so many things about it, meant to see it, but never made time before it left the theaters. Now I would be able to watch it for free. The movie begins, and I make an effort to suspend all disbelief for a while. I try to become a part of this little world made up of colored plastic blocks. Only thing is I saw very little to get me hooked into the plot or sub plots. I saw a featured character being pursued by various clusters of vaguely threatening creatures.
Before I could decide if I even gave a damn about this one featured character, now a victim of prey, he became involved in one looney battle after the other. It felt to me as though I was watching an old school Mario game being filmed with no real script. After ten or 12 minutes, I had had enough of waiting for something to care about. I bailed, and turned to an Animal World Special; something was on like "When The Tortoise Attacks!" By then, my pain medication was setting in, so I went to sleep. Re; The Lego Movie; I noticed no existential themes, no pro-family vignettes, no overarching moralizing or even any obvious attempts to satirize as with Team America which had Kim Jung Il singing 'I'm So Wonely'. I admit I didn't stay with the film for very long. Did someone else find The Lego Movie enjoyable? Maybe I missed something.
Left you flat, did it?
CC
What part of the 100 min. commercial did you not get? Buy Legos................because.
Part of the problem might be that the movie is intended for children. I found “Star Wars” boring for that reason.
it was a disjointed script. None of the pieces came together.
There’s a great libertarian message that gets completely lost in stupid over the top animation sequences. The main message is “buy Legos.”
/johnny
Me too. All the build up and no pay off.
Same with How to train your Dragon 2.
Hmmm... I thought everything was awesome...
You aren’t three. My gd loved it
A seven year old sitting next to you.
I certainly didn’t think it was brilliant, but I did enjoy it when I was forced to see it (had to take kids). I think there are two ‘messages’ it has (and I think it’s a positive one).
The first is that an ‘ordinary person’ can achieve great things if they make the decision to stand up for what they believe is right.
The second - what you wouldn’t have got from only the first few minutes (and this is a spoiler) is that what is going on can all be seen as happening inside the head of a boy who is playing with his father’s Lego in a basement. The father is obsessed with work above his own family. “President Business” - the bad guy in the film - is the boy’s image of his father. And when his father does have free time, he spend it with his Lego, while neglecting his kids emotionally. Some of the last part of the movie makes this clear with live action scenes in the basement where the boy and his father reconnect.
Uh, you are not under eight years old???
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Were you on pain meds?
Get well soon!
My 7 year old cousin loved it. I loved watching him love it.
You may not be in the target demographic. If you are a hyperarticulate 5-12 year old boy, my apologies.
You got to hear “Everything is Awesome” in your head for two days straight after watching it.
LOL.
I took the kids to the see it at the theater, and couldn’t get that song out of my head for days. Perhaps because they kept singing and humming it...
Yes, and I now its stuck in my head again...
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