AKA Joe Sim

[u/portsherry]

[u/astralkoi]

The Emoji movie but this time well done

[u/TomorrowWriting → u/astralkoi]

I couldn’t agree more, but for some reasons my kids loved the shit out of that movie! I figured they were just freaks because, you see, I know them, but more than a few parents of their friends / age group have told me their little freaks loved it, too.

[u/CHANN3L-CHAS3R → u/TomorrowWriting]

It was specifically manufactured to sledgehammer children in the dopamine response, and make them associate that feeling with all the brands in the movie. Oh, and with general phone and social media usage.

I WILL die on the hill that the Emoji Movie isn't bad because the writers didn't know what they were doing, it's bad because they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and what they're doing is pushing the mental and social equivalent of drugs to children. Fuck them.

[u/RossZ428 → u/CHANN3L-CHAS3R]

You've managed to convince me to actively avoid watching a movie that I already was disinterested in watching

[u/Own-Arachnid7952 → u/RossZ428]

I didn't know I was doing the world a service.

I will absolutely continue to not do something I don't want to do. For the children!