Quote from: PhantomCatClock on March 29, 2025, 07:43:49 PMwait no he was a normal dude. hadn't heard a bell yet. that was the plot.
good post
Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on March 28, 2025, 03:43:42 PMI forgot the official release censors when shikamaru starts smoking, among other things.
hey so you all remember how pharrell was like "let's do a biopic about me, but as a lego movie?" if you're like me, maybe at the time you thought "that's ridiculous" and thought maybe you'd go see it ironically but then never got around to it
anyway I borrowed it on DVD because I don't play around, and the censorship is kinda wild. most of the dialogue is taken directly from interviews done for the movie, so it'll be somebody1 saying that somebody2 said something, and then on screen, somebody2's character's mouth is moving in sync with somebody1's soundbite
since there's no video of the interviews to contend with, they can just edit the audio to swap out words when necessary, as if for radio. but they were obviously fine with doing that instead of re-recording bits. so like there's this bit where someone's talking about how a high school-aged pharrell is working at mcdonald's and maybe selling nuggets out the back door. man those were some good nuggets too. or later in the (as-seen-in-trailer) bit where he's talking about doing the "drop it like it's hot" beat for snoop dogg, he's like "so I made that beat [silence] out of my mind." then there's this other interview where someone uses the word 'shit' and they kind of bleep it out and put a poop emoji over his mouth, but then later someone absolutely says 'shit' a couple of times with no bleep. was that not in the theatrical cut?
anyway it's a real odd movie because you're like "ok it's cleaned up for the kids. kind of? but that stuff isn't really for kids and neither is the movie? what would a kid even get out of this? are we making a lego movie for adults?" there's basically no message or moral or takeaway (other than to rub elbows with a major producer when you're in high school and trust God). the career points where our hero is in peril are like "due entirely to the influence of demonic corporate suits WE WILL NOT NAME, pharrell fell the fuck off for a few years. but then he randomly collabed with daft punk, so he recovered. but could he keep it up??? o shit he made the minion song."
fun watch. bring your girl