walnut-bunny:

bannableoffense:

rifleweeb:

fatdragonquest:

samael:

half-a-universe:

anotherfuckingbluewolf:

reisartjunk:

If anyone likes this but hates the Emoji Movie then they’re fucking hypocrites. It’s the same thing.

This looks like a convoluted regurgitation of pop culture with no focus or direction. It’s like the scene from Raggedy Ann and Andy with The Greedy, only instead of chocolate and sweets, it’s just pop media.

Oh good this is happening

Gonna drink myself into a stupor

what if… the iron giant… WAS a gun?? also this is like the natural conclusion of the collected universe thing. why does it feel so poisonous here though in contrast to a film that literally just did this? I mean, we saw Lego Batman and that was fun, right? But this feels insufferable. Is it the different context?

It’s the fact that there’s no flair to them besides “IT’S THAT ONE CHARACTER FROM THE THING”

I know it predates this, but Ready Player One seems like someone saw this video and said “this gives me an idea for a movie”

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfJRm0WssOE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=540&h=304]

i’m sorry i can’t hear you over the awesome sound of TRACER AND CHUN-LI FIGHTING SIDE BY SIDE HOLY SHIT

i’m sorry but how the fuck is this anything like the emoji movie i mean did you even see that garbage

it’s just one giant advertisement

it’s just one giant advertisement

And… and Ready Player One isn’t? Look at it–there are dozens of advertisements in the trailer alone!

Also: the reason Lego Batman worked and this didn’t is because at its core, Lego Batman is a movie about how the cool unaffected care-about-nothing stance is really a coping mechanism, and not a very good one at that, since it actively gets in the way of genuinely healthy behaviors like friendship and family. It’s a critique of the heroic ideal on which the very things it’s advertising are built, which undermines the advertisements and thereby makes them more palatable.

Ready Player One, on the other hand, is about a dude whose retreat into pop culture ephemera makes him an epic hero (in very nearly the literal sense), and so in the end the film’s narrative is trying to sell us on the same things the ads are, making them more pronounced.

tl;dr: Because Lego Batman has a soul to sell for its corporate tie-ins. Ready Player One doesn’t.