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I thought the same thing when I first heard of the Lego movie. I'm not nearly as much of an angry birds fan as I am a lego fan, but from that experience I lear

I thought the same thing when I first heard of the Lego movie. I'm not nearly as much of an angry birds fan as I am a lego fan, but from that experience I learned to reserve judgement before I see it.

lentil_soup 12y ago
Yeah, you are right. Maybe LEGO was better at letting their brand grow and becoming something more "nostalgic" for all of us? Or is it just that they made a decent movie out of it?.
qq66 12y ago
The difference is that the Lego movie was dreamed up by someone outside Lego (Dan Lin) who then got the Lego company on board, not an exec at Lego deciding that they "need to capture the film adjacency in 2014."
moe 12y ago
Comparing Angry Birds to LEGO seems a bit far fetched. Many people have been growing up with LEGO for over 50 years and have emotional ties to it. Angry Birds was a successful money-grab but it's hardly even in the same league as truly popular video games (PacMan, Tetris, Super Mario...).
jerf 12y ago
Lego's "problem" with a movie, if anything, is that the field was wide open; Legos can be absolutely anything. So there's space to write a decent movie and the difficult comes from "blank page" syndrome more than lack of possibility. Angry Birds have the exact opposite problem; like many games, the narrative is paper thin, and that's fine for a game but makes it difficult to adapt into any narrative-focused medium. You'll probably just end up with a bad-Dreamworks-style movie that substitutes snark, sarcasm, and licensed pop music for plot and well-worn stereotypes for character. And it may sell or may make a profit, because they often do, but it'll also sink without a trace after its run is done. And I'll have no interest in it, but some may get some brief enjoyment out of it... though the 2016 timing is awfully suspect if Angry Birds is already fading, the movie needed to be out about six months to a year ago...
DonHopkins 12y ago
While I was working on the original version of The Sims 1, there was some crazy talk about a movie. I dearly hoped that nothing would ever come of it, since it couldn't possibly be anything but terrible. Fortunately it seems to have been canceled! http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_%28film%29 http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_%28film%29 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482462/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482462/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims#Other_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims#Other_media >Producer John Davis revealed on an interview that he is taking inspiration from John Hughes's 1985 film Weird Science for the movie adaptation. >"What they realize is that they can scan their world in, because this is the most lifelike, real Sims game ever. As they are playing this, they are all of a sudden realising [that] what they are playing on the game is having an effect on the real world. So in effect, through the game, they are able to control their world. It's wish fulfillment, and obviously it turns against them." How could that possibly not bomb in the worst possible way? I imagine they would have had to bury the DVDs in the same hole as the ET cartridges.

lentil_soup 12y ago

Yeah, you are right. Maybe LEGO was better at letting their brand grow and becoming something more "nostalgic" for all of us? Or is it just that they made a decent movie out of it?.

qq66 12y ago

The difference is that the Lego movie was dreamed up by someone outside Lego (Dan Lin) who then got the Lego company on board, not an exec at Lego deciding that they "need to capture the film adjacency in 2014."

moe 12y ago

Comparing Angry Birds to LEGO seems a bit far fetched. Many people have been growing up with LEGO for over 50 years and have emotional ties to it. Angry Birds was a successful money-grab but it's hardly even in the same league as truly popular video games (PacMan, Tetris, Super Mario...).

jerf 12y ago

Lego's "problem" with a movie, if anything, is that the field was wide open; Legos can be absolutely anything. So there's space to write a decent movie and the difficult comes from "blank page" syndrome more than lack of possibility. Angry Birds have the exact opposite problem; like many games, the narrative is paper thin, and that's fine for a game but makes it difficult to adapt into any narrative-focused medium. You'll probably just end up with a bad-Dreamworks-style movie that substitutes snark, sarcasm, and licensed pop music for plot and well-worn stereotypes for character. And it may sell or may make a profit, because they often do, but it'll also sink without a trace after its run is done. And I'll have no interest in it, but some may get some brief enjoyment out of it... though the 2016 timing is awfully suspect if Angry Birds is already fading, the movie needed to be out about six months to a year ago...

DonHopkins 12y ago

While I was working on the original version of The Sims 1, there was some crazy talk about a movie. I dearly hoped that nothing would ever come of it, since it couldn't possibly be anything but terrible. Fortunately it seems to have been canceled! http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_%28film%29 http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_%28film%29 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482462/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1482462/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims#Other_media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims#Other_media >Producer John Davis revealed on an interview that he is taking inspiration from John Hughes's 1985 film Weird Science for the movie adaptation. >"What they realize is that they can scan their world in, because this is the most lifelike, real Sims game ever. As they are playing this, they are all of a sudden realising [that] what they are playing on the game is having an effect on the real world. So in effect, through the game, they are able to control their world. It's wish fulfillment, and obviously it turns against them." How could that possibly not bomb in the worst possible way? I imagine they would have had to bury the DVDs in the same hole as the ET cartridges.