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#126: Jan 19th 2014 at 9:05:12 AM

Based off the trailer I saw, the stop-motion is kind of bad IMO.

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#128: Jan 19th 2014 at 9:18:53 AM

[up]Why, though? It just makes it look tacky to me, and not in a Stylistic Suck kind of way.

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#129: Jan 19th 2014 at 9:30:16 AM

It gives it the feeling of how you'd move your minifigures as if they were walking on their own.

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#130: Jan 19th 2014 at 11:15:13 AM

It's also not stop motion in the sense that it uses physical models.

This is CGI that very closely resembles stop motion, and it has let them do some awesome things.

Though I'm sure at some point in the design phase, actual models were made. I can imagine a whole room of writers playing with bricks and saying "And then he takes apart his car and turns it into a rocket ship, whooosh! And it has a forcefield, so your thing doesn't work."

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#131: Jan 19th 2014 at 11:22:56 AM

They saw how tactile and charming stop-motion LEGO videos were so they decided they wanted to mimic that in CGI. And lo and behold, sucky animation can be FUNNY!

edited 19th Jan '14 11:23:20 AM by Shota

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#132: Jan 19th 2014 at 11:41:16 AM

[up][up]I heard for some of the Lego video games, they have people that go and make sure the models from the game can actually be built in real life (minus the powers), so I find it hard to imagine they didn't make models for the movie.

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#133: Jan 19th 2014 at 12:35:21 PM

As I've been telling people, it's not just a movie where the sets are built out of LEGO bricks and the characters are minifigs—it's a movie about being LEGO.

Which can probably be underscored by Lord President Business' evil plan reportedly being to glue everything together. Which sounds really weird and infeasible if it were concocted by a bad guy in just about any other setting, but for Lego? It's probably a downright horrifying fate to consider.

edited 19th Jan '14 12:35:47 PM by TheSpaceJawa

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#134: Jan 19th 2014 at 1:17:00 PM

And with Will Ferrell always having a knack for playing Cloud Cuckoo Lander s, it should be a great character.

edited 19th Jan '14 1:17:25 PM by Shota

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#135: Jan 19th 2014 at 1:47:14 PM

This has probably been already said, but this movie feels like one of my childhood Lego games incarnated into a movie. But I guess that's what they were shooting for.

edited 19th Jan '14 1:47:27 PM by DiscoDancer

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#136: Jan 19th 2014 at 2:55:37 PM

[up][up] He's got a knack for playing over-the-top villains too, so he's got that in his favor here as well.

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#137: Jan 19th 2014 at 3:10:49 PM

I googled the horned cat from the poster it says she has a powerful secret, do you guys think it's a case of her being stronger than she seems or a more surprising plot twist

edited 19th Jan '14 3:11:41 PM by Yam

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#138: Jan 19th 2014 at 4:14:27 PM

I think she's got a mean streak and can kick ass.

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#140: Jan 20th 2014 at 12:26:18 AM

@SR 3: that's practically a requirement for this kind of film, I would imagine. You have to build the CG models based on something.

Also, who wouldn't want a job that involves playing with huge piles of Lego? All in the name of...wait for it... world building!

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#141: Jan 20th 2014 at 7:06:38 AM

The designers on this HAD to have already been LEGO Group employees. That's the only way I can see anything in this film being legit stuff you can build!

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#142: Jan 20th 2014 at 9:34:01 AM

I heard for some of the Lego video games, they have people that go and make sure the models from the game can actually be built in real life (minus the powers), so I find it hard to imagine they didn't make models for the movie.

Speaking of which, there's a videogame of the movie coming soon, but that was innevitable.

[up]x5:Obviously, her secret is she's an ali-kitty

edited 20th Jan '14 9:35:10 AM by KingKix

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#143: Jan 20th 2014 at 2:48:28 PM

So I just finished reading the Junior Novelization of the film. Here are my random thoughts

   SPOILER AHOY   

Overall, I'd say that if the film is anything like the book, one of the things it does surprisingly well is capturing how believable this world is. Not only do they address aspects about how a city governed by toy building blocks would work, but they also introduce how things like money, economy and public services work in this world (for instance- all of the construction workers have to have the "Instructions" sent to them every day). And the world gets even more interesting once you realize that introducing foreign human objects like golf balls, "KrazyGlue" and nail polish remover can actually become threatening in their sterile plastic environment.

Another thing I really like about the novelization is, where in other novels like Wreck-It Ralph, they had to take strives at not naming the licensed characters (for instance, calling Q-Bert Ralph's "little orange friend"), the publishers actually got the rights to name the cameo characters: Bat Man, Super Man, Wonder Woman, etc. Batman is especially hilarious and over the top, with my favorite scene involving him and Uni-Kitty at a business meeting

That said, this film seems like your basic set up for "Ordinary Guy that saves the world" plot, with a "Cars-esque" framing for how the world came about. Don't go in expecting a lot of big questions to be answered (how do Lego toys come to life? where do all of the human artifacts come from?) Also the ending seemed a bit too nicely wrapped up- the villain is basically a Karma Houdini that gets away by learning about the Power of Friendship.

Anyway, it's a good read and makes me only more interested in seeing how it will play out.

edited 20th Jan '14 2:50:04 PM by Mattonymy

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#144: Jan 20th 2014 at 3:19:02 PM

[up]So this movie is good, but the book was better... Typical Hollywood... I might just have to see it.

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#145: Jan 20th 2014 at 6:47:33 PM

The Wreck It Ralph novelization did that? What a a disappointment. It must have ruined the Villains Meeting...

edited 20th Jan '14 6:48:00 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

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#146: Jan 20th 2014 at 8:52:16 PM

They didn't simply NOT use the copyrighted names. They had to include illustrations, and the cameos are replaced by original, non-descript villain characters.

edited 20th Jan '14 8:56:58 PM by Shota

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#147: Jan 20th 2014 at 10:53:32 PM

Uh, I think you guys might be on the wrong thread.

kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#148: Jan 21st 2014 at 7:42:12 AM

We talk about The Lego Movie on the thread for The Nut Job and no one's complaining about that!

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#149: Jan 21st 2014 at 10:21:23 AM

Well, it figures. I really can't imagine a lot of people wanting to talk about The Nut Job.

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