We're sorry, you've either entered an invalid address, or followed a broken link. If you find a broken URL on an IMDb page, please report it to us To continue your visit to IMDb, please visit the homepage.Follow/FavThe Lego Batman Movie Poems Corner Rated: Fiction K - English - Poetry - Chapters: 3 - Words: 535 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Updated: - Published: - id: 12374507Chapter 3 Next > The Lego Batman Movie Poems CornerPoem Number One A Poem For BatmanThe bat known as BatmanAlone in Wayne manor with nothing to doAlways the life of the party and lovely woman all around himWhat is he really going to do to lighten upBrunner 1.0’s popular Geek Poetry series on iTunes makes the jump to Youtube! Josiah LeRoy “bats” leadoff with The Lego Batman Movie. Our Official Review of The Lego Batman Movie If you enjoyed this article, be sure to keep up with The Geekiverse across social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram and share with a friend.
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Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times Release Date: December 28, 2016 Metacritic score: 89 out of 100 1 hr 30 min Looking for movie tickets? Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing A Poem Is a Naked Person near you. A Poem is a Naked Person A Poem is a naked person PosterGum CommercialsCommercials BetterNinjago The LegoNinjago StuffHealth XdXd ColeMaster XdBetter ThoIlloyd GaramondForwardJay is mad..because Lloyd stole his position as the pun master. XD Cole, on the other hand, is sincerely worried for Lloyd's...Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Guys Reading Poems near you. Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell, Danny Trejo, Stephen Kramer Glickman Running Time: 87 min Is it wrong for a grown-up critic to get pernickety over the logic of a universe wherein talking birds are major players in global parcel delivery?
Well, if questioning the cartoon fowls is wrong, I don’t want to be right. As Storks opens, the feathered waders have, under the guidance of hawkish chief executive Hunter (Grammer, in fine, bellowing form, quit the baby-delivering game to focus on parcels. A series of misadventures brings the heroic Junior (Andy Samberg) and his bumbling human sidekick Tulip (Katie Crown) accidentally back into the baby distribution business. Will the mismatched pair make it across the tundra without Hunter finding out? And will Nate, the lonely son of busy estate agents (Ty Burrell and Jennifer Aniston), ever receive the ninja sibling he wished for? Fassbender and Gleeson face off as a Traveller family at war How Lucy McKenna’s brainwaves affect her art Will ‘Alien: Covenant’ give fans exactly what they want? Warren Beatty urges Oscars to ‘clarify’ award mix-up Logan review: Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine takes one last slice at the superhero game So far, so convoluted.
But here’s the rub. If storks haven’t been delivering babies for years, then shouldn’t the human world resemble the one in Children of Men? How has all the reproduction occurred in their absence? And if humans don’t need storks to deliver babies, then what is the point of all this? Working alongside former Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, Nicholas Stoller (the writer-director behind Get Him to the Greek and Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising) can’t untangle the film’s messy mythology, but he can add plenty of incident and a few zingers. Samberg and Crown make for an excellent, snappy bickering duo, and a great supporting voice cast includes Danny Trejo as Tulip’s crazed pursuer. Commendably, the animation is not afraid to be just that. The appearance of a 100-strong wolf pack who arrange themselves into increasingly surreal shapes – suspension bridge, submarine – makes a welcome change from the odd, counterintuitive realism that governs most contemporary animated features.
Still, we expected better from the studio that gave us The Lego Movie. Rather worrying, Storks is preceeded by The Master, a disappointing five-minute short based on Lego’s Ninjago line. The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie are due next year. Geraldo Rivera now actively begging for death Snapchat threatened to sell ads to NRA if gun safety group didn’t buy them first Why are there so many TV shows about time travel right now? Adam Pally still talks to his Happy Endings costars every dayThe poem begins with an ironic epigraph, “To JS/07 M 378 / This Marble Monument / Is Erected by the State.”The Bureau of Statistics and all other reports show that he will complied with his duties to “the Greater Community.” He worked in a factory and paid his union dues. He had no odd views. The Social Psychology investigators found him to be normal, as did the Press: he was popular, “liked a drink,” bought the daily paper, and had the “normal” reactions to advertisements.
He was fully insured. The Health-card report shows he was in the hospital only once, and left cured.The Producers Research and High-Grade Living investigators also showed he was normal and “had everything necessary to the Modern Man”—radio, car, etcetera. The Public Opinion researchers found “he held the proper opinions for the time of year,” supporting peace in peacetime but serving when there was war. He was married and had the appropriate number of five children, according to the Eugenicist. He never interfered with the public schools. It is absurd to ask whether he was free or happy, for if anything had been wrong, “we should certainly have heard.”“The Unknown Citizen” (1940) is one of Auden’s most famous poems. Often anthologized and read by students in high school and college, it is renowned for its wit and irony in complaining about the stultifying and anonymous qualities of bureaucratic, semi-socialist Western societies. Its structure is that of a satiric elegy, as though the boring, unknown citizen was so utterly unremarkable that the state honored him with a poetic monument about how little trouble he caused for anyone.
It resembles the “Unknown Soldier” memorials that nations erect to honor the soldiers who fought and died for their countries and whose names have been lost to posterity; Britain’s is located in Westminster Abbey and the United States’ is located in Arlington, Virginia. This one, in an unnamed location, lists the unknown man as simply “JS/07 M 378.”The rhyme scheme changes a few times throughout the poem. Most frequently the reader notices rhyming couplets. These sometimes use the same number of syllables, but they are not heroic couplets—no, they are not in iambic pentameter—they are often 11 or 13 syllables long, or of differing lengths. These patterns increase the dry humor of the poem.Auden’s “Unknown Citizen” is not anonymous like the Unknown Soldier, for the bureaucracy knows a great deal about him. The named agencies give the sense, as early as 1940, that a powerful Big Brother kind of bureaucracy watches over its citizens and collects data on them and keeps it throughout one’s life.
This feeling makes the poem eerie and prescient; one often thinks of the dystopian, totalitarian states found in the writings of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley or the data-driven surveillance state of today. In Auden’s context, one might think of the state-focused governments of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.The Big Brother perspective begins from the very outset of the poem, with its evocation of a Bureau of Statistics. The man has had every aspect of his life catalogued. He served his community, he held a job, he paid union dues, he did not hold radical views, he reacted normally to advertisements, he had insurance, he possessed the right material goods, he had proper opinions about current events, and he married and had the right amount of children. It does not appear on paper that he did anything wrong or out of place. In fact, “he was a saint” from the state’s perspective, having “served the Greater Community.” The words used to describe him—“normal,” “right,” “sensible,” “proper,” “popular”—indicate that he is considered the ideal citizen.
He is praised as “unknown” because there was nothing interesting to know. Consider, in comparison, the completely normalized protagonist Emmet in The Lego Movie.At the end of the poem, the closing couplet asks, “Was he free? The question is absurd: / Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.” With these last lines comes the deeper meaning of the poem, the irony that despite all of the bureaucratic data gathering, some aspect of the individual might not have been captured. It becomes clear that the citizen is also “unknown” because in this statistical gathering of data, the man’s individuality and identity are lost. This bureaucratic society, focused on its official view of the common good, assesses a person using external, easily-catalogued characteristics rather than respect for one’s uniqueness, one’s particular thoughts, feelings, hopes, fears, and goals. Interestingly, and ironically, the speaker himself is also unknown. The professionals in the poem— “his employers,” “our Social Psychology workers,” “our researchers into Public Opinion,” “our Eugenicist”— are just as anonymous and devoid of personality.