Emojimovie: Express Yourself Discussion
 

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/new...ji-movie-title
Ever since the catastrophic hack in 2014, Sony Pictures has pretty much become the butt of the joke of the entire film industry. And if the topic of this thread is anything to go by, they're about to become an even bigger one.
The film is set to be a "surprising and comic take on the secret world of our phones and the beloved characters that have become daily necessities in global interpersonal communication". Normally, I tend not to judge films by their premise alone, but honestly, this seems to be nothing more than a cheap cash grab. I mean, Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye movie wasn't good enough, but this was? WTF?
But on the bright side...at least it's not Sausage Party.

I don't see what's so wrong with this. Using emojis as characters makes sense. Probably a comedy based around the internet. Look at Wreck It Ralph 2.

That's true, but with WIR 2 they're basing it around the internet because they have a legitimately good idea for it. With Emoji, there's not much you can do with them, especially since the closest thing that defines them as characters is their appearance.

I'd much rather watch Sausage Party than a movie about emojis.

Sony executives are seriously tripping bad, yo.

Tell me about it. I honestly don't see SP lasting into the end of the next decade at this point.
At the very least, Emoji won't be another painfully unfunny Seth Rogen vehicle.

Have they even released the official plot for Wreck It Ralph 2? I thought the latest news was it was an internet adventure. That was pretty much it so far.

There's probably a lot of things you could do with emojis. There's literally one for every emotion. That's a ton of characters . Not that they should use them all. Just saying.

The plot for this says Emojis want to leave their apps and travel to different places, in cyberspace I assume. Sounds pretty much as expected. Still don't see what so bad about it.

If it's an internet adventure I hope they visit /tv/

There's no shark emoji.

It's funny, we spent years bitching about how Hollywood mostly pumped out reboots & kinda lulled on original content. Now they're back to doing new stuff & it's just absolutely abysmal. Bring on the reboots. :tlol:

They need to surprise us as much as "The Social Network" did.

These are the people Nintendo's thinking about giving the rights to make a Mario movie to? Dear god.

I mean, I've used emojis. Mostly because I have this weird thing where if I use a period at the end of a sentence and nothing else it'll come off as rude, but I've never looked at a f*cking emoji and said, "hey, this could be a great movie." And it won't be. It just won't.

I love their quote at the beginning. "[Sony Pictures Animation is] meaningfully stepping up our level of production, while creating an environment that fosters the best talent." If your way of doing that is by making a movie about Emojis just to appeal to the hip kids of today, then clearly, you're talent-ing wrong.

Sony is most likely no longer involved with that potential Mario movie. They weren't mentioned whatsoever when Nintendo announced their intentions to start making films again.

They've announced who's going to be playing the lead character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFv5bgIOlg4

http://www.vulture.com/2016/10/get-a...mojimovie.html
There's actually going to be a Poop emoji character.
Never change, Sony Pictures (although you seriously need to).

The rainbow/mood bandannaed Turtles should go be in this. They can express themselves.

Where's TigerClaw? Shouldn't he be the only human being on earth excited for this sorry excuse for a film?

Get to shilling, TC. Pay the rent.

How does one fail at life so much to come up with the idea of making a movie about emoticons?

The film business can be spectacular, but it's got a dark, coporate side to it as well. I can't say that I'm surprised at the fact that they thought this was good enough to spark a freaking bidding war, but at the same time...I kind of am.

I would have loved to have participated in the bidding war for this film, but only to make the other movie companies force themselves to bid more and more for it.

Ugh. Is it wrong I want this movie to bomb so tremendously it kills Sony?

We gotta give this the benefit of the doubt, cause nobody thought idea of a Lego movie was gonna be good, and that turned out really well, So we'll have to wait and see how this one is like by 2nd trailer eventually.

The teaser managed to sneak in a poop joke.

The Lego Movie's trailer was good. :lol:

This movie looks like

Considering that is one of the characters shown in the trailer.

Do people really find TJ Miller funny? I can't stand the guy, going all the way back to his incessant chattering in Cloverfield!

... wut.

I was going to joke that they must have been envious that someone turned an app game (Angry Birds) into a movie, but never mind... it's from a sister studio within Sony. Should have guessed.

Sony must be running low on ideas. Or trying too hard to be different and set themselves apart.


Using the "meh" character to announce it doesn't exactly share any enthusiasm for their own film... who came up with that.

Ain't terrible in Deadpool.

By Jove, the amount of dislikes on the bar...

Yes, it is.

Dunno about "people" but I can't stand the guy.

Aaaand the big joke of the teaser is a crap reference. What an excellent start!

I wish I was making this up but Patrick Stewart ( Picard + professor X) is voicing the Poop Emoji In this movie

Wow... that must have been a big paycheck.

Seriously...and I thought American Dad! was the low point for him.

Edit: I know it's not the most reliable source, but IMDB lists Tom Kane, the replacement for Frank Oz as Yoda.

Sony Pictures Verified account
‏@SonyPictures

He ain’t no 🎉💩! So excited to announce the distinguished @SirPatStew as Poop in the #EmojiMovie – in theaters August 4th! #SonyAnimationDay

Great...now Picard is Number Two. *sigh*

Trust...but verify...then facepalm.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...1165302539.png

Reviews for the The Emoji Movie are coming in, and its not looking good, it currently has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, with only 17 Rotten reviews.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_emoji_movie

I have no problem with this movie existing unlike the internet does and while I doubt I'll like it, I don't think it'll be much worse than say Despicable me 3 which I just saw.

Amazing. I hope it flops hard.