When your friends and family don’t know about the films of the 2017 Oscars, you just have to take advantage of their ignorance and laugh. The title of a movie (usually) makes obvious sense when you know what that movie is about. But titles can be so vague, and when you have no prior knowledge of the movie, the plot isn’t typically easy to decipher. How fun would it be then, to ask our friends and family to guess the plots of the nominees for the 2017 Oscars? The task was simple for us. We gave our friends and family a movie title from the 2017 Oscars, and asked them to guess what the movie is about. It’s not, however, such a simple task for them. They weren’t allowed to look it up. As you can imagine, we got some interesting responses. When your friends and family don’t know about the films of the 2017 Oscars, you just have to take advantage of their ignorance and laugh. Be sure to check out the ridiculous responses we got for the 2016 Oscars too! Time to let her rip tater chip.
Our participants start out on a high note. Well, they at least know who’s in the movie. Success continues with Arrival, as they have the vague idea it’s about space aliens (although it’s possible one of them is confused with Passengers). There was a common general premise our friends and family had of Fences. They did well with Moonlight…until they didn’t. Maybe La La Land will be better! Everyone knows La La Land! Oh no, we’re starting to lose them! No lie though, I’d watch that. We’ve officially lost them. ‘Hell or High Water’ Could these plots be any more varied? It might have been a good idea for Nocturnal Animals to change its name. They’re really losing it now. ‘Manchester by the Sea’ Someone needs to turn these ideas into full screenplays, they are gold. What did they expect people would think when they named it The Lobster? Thanks to Ariella, Brandi, Donya, Karen, Kendra, Kyle, Matthew, Pamela, Selina, and the friends and family they may or may not have annoyed all week.
Which 2017 Oscars movie do you think has the most misleading title? Tags: , , , , Help save Gotham from The Joker’s antics as he cruises around the city in his notorious lowrider car, with this set from LEGO Batman Movie. The Joker and Harley Quinn take his armed vehicle out for a spin, bouncing around town with suped-up suspension. Help Batgirl stop them from causing chaos when they spring their shooters! This set includes the lowrider car and three mini-figures with accessories. Packaged: 28 x 24.5 x 40cm Model name / number Not suitable for children under 3 years Standard delivery within 5 working days Collect+ from a local shop from International delivery not available How we may still help you Returns are free - Help Batman deflate The Joker's plans with the LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Balloon Escape. This 124-piece construction set, model number 70900, lets kids build a face-off between Batman and The Joker at the Gotham City Energy Facility, based on the scene from The LEGO Batman Movie.
The set comes with two minifigures of Batman and The Joker, and both figures have two faces. Just turn their heads around to switch up their facial expressions. The Joker wears a detachable balloon backpack with five balloons and two flame elements. Batman wears a molded belt (something new for the Batman minifigure) and comes with a grappling gun accessory with attached string. There is also a buildable power plant with a silo that has an explode function. Just press down on the yellow tab to make the silo break apart. The power plant also has pipes, a computer, a pressure meter, and bomb elements. Fans of the new LEGO Batman Movie will enjoy building a scene straight from the movie and recreating the scene or playing with Batman and The Joker in a whole new way. Kids will like the easy feature of the silo breaking open, which gives the set a little bit of action, while older LEGO Batman fans will like the new look of the Batman minifigure with its molded belt. While the set is fun on its own, it is small and would make a nice addition to other LEGO Batman Movie sets, sold separately.
Much like the construction sets for The LEGO Movie, all of the LEGO Batman Movie construction sets do a good job of helping fans recreate favorite parts of the movie. The LEGO Batman Movie The Joker Balloon Escape construction set is for ages 6–12. This small set will be fun for fans of the new LEGO Batman Movie who will enjoy building out a scene from the movie and then recreating that scene or making up an all-new storyline between Batman and The Joker. It took TTPM's Master Builder 15 minutes to assemble this set, and the instructions were easy to follow.Additional LEGO Batman Movie sets are also available and sold separately. None or Very EasyThe unexpected side effect of the cold war between Marvel Studios and DC Comics-affiliated Warner Brothers is that big-budget superhero movies can finally afford to be weirder. After a certain point, what kind of new Batman story can you tell that a hungry audience wants to see? Chris McKay's "The Lego Batman Movie" is simultaneously a spin-off of a hit animated movie from two years ago, a masterful melding of valuable corporate intellectual property, and the most amazingly strange film you'll watch all year.
Batman's enduring flexibility and adaptability as the American pop culture icon over 70-plus years is front and center in "The Lego Batman Movie" and even remarked upon by other characters in the film. In the Lego World's Gotham City, Batman's been around forever and every on-screen incarnation from the racist '40s-era serials to "Batman v. Superman" is considered canon. Whereas Christopher Nolan's trilogy stoically turned a critical eye toward Batman's masked vigilantism in a modern society, "Lego Batman" immediately parodies the self-seriousness of recent Batman movie opening credits. Will Arnett's gravel-voiced frat boy take on Batman may invite us all to laugh at and with him from minute one, but the movie we get is markedly unlike any kind of Batman movie we've seen before. As "The Lego Batman Movie's" hyper-melodramatic opening minutes give way to pure comic madness, Arnett's Batman sings a growly metal song about how awesome he is while delivering effortless beatdowns on an army of villains including The Joker (Zach Galifianakis), Harley Quinn (Jenny Slate), and Two-Face (a cute role reprisal/bit of cosmic justice for unfortunately sidelined '89 "Batman" actor Billy Dee Williams).
It's a deliberately and delightfully overstuffed action sequence that really capitalizes on the world's-biggest-toy-collection chaos that made "The Lego Movie" such a visually mesmerizing film. But it's all a feint: The conflict Batman faces isn't really with the combined might of his famous rogues or even with—spoilers, y'all—a collection of imprisoned movie super-baddies including The Eye of Sauron, Voldemort, The Wicked Witch of the West, and the goddamn Gremlins from "Gremlins." No, this dickish loner and emotional recluse has to look at the man in the mirror and ask him to change his ways. And yeah, you better believe Warner Brothers shelled out for three different covers of that Michael Jackson hit to drive this point home in its $180 million dollar movie."Batman's an asshole" has become such a pronounced part of the caped crusader's DNA that it feels almost revolutionary that a Batman movie would call attention to it as a problem to overcome. The Lego Batman we met in "The Lego Movie" was the kind of obnoxious alpha-jerk role Arnett has built a career on, but this solo outing suggests an unbeatable rock star Batman who is terrified of forming new emotional connections because of the death of his parents.
Arnett's toy Bruce Wayne skulks around his impossibly gigantic mansion and Batcave, pathetically laughing at old movies in solitude and reheating cold lobster thermidor in a microwave. Arnett elevates what could've just been extended schtick into a surprisingly nuanced performance easily on par with Bale, Keaton, or Affleck's live-action takes on the character. A Batman whose pathological inability to love again is getting in the way of his happiness is a pretty ambitious theme for what's presumably a movie to sell toys to kids, and McKay—and a half dozen screenwriters—do a pretty deft job of balancing this for jokes and actual earned pathos. If there's one area where "The Lego Batman Movie" falls short it's that the film's momentum grinds to a halt in more than a few of these scenes.As ever, Batman is only as good as his supporting cast, and "The Lego Batman Movie" is held up by some excellent performances. Galafianakis' aforementioned clown prince of crime leaves Jared Leto's try-hard Joker performance from "Suicide Squad" in the dust, managing genuine menace with his pointy shark tooth smile in between bouts of childish pouting.
The Lego version of The Joker is less a maniacal psychopath and more a deeply insecure ex lashing out. In case you missed the obvious subtext that's casually tossed around, Batman and The Joker's Lego counterparts re-enact the climax of a certain '90s Tom Cruise/Cameron Crowe joint.The film also re-teams Arnett with his "Arrested Development" co-star Michael Cera, here playing a deliberately off-putting nerd version of Robin. Cera so often gets pigeon-holed, so it's especially fun to watch his Dick Grayson insist on calling Batman and Bruce Wayne his two dads or ask about the vigilante policy on cookies. Rosario Dawson's Barbara Gordon—first as the new Gotham City police commissioner and later Batman's ally Batgirl—is the kind of reliably affable performance you'd expect. She gets a few jokes, she moves the plot forward, and she gets to kick Lego brick butt here and there. That the film's versions of Batgirl and Commissioner Gordon (a cameoing Hector Elizondo) are people of color is a welcome tweak in a movie that's a love note to the decades of Batman stories that came before it."