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I have a massive problem with what you just posted. Please do not feel you can talk down to members of this site just because you're older than them.

Yes, Hollywood is false. To an extent I'd say there's no smoke without fire, and there are large multi-national corporations that do conduct business unjustly, but Hollywood does blow things out of proportion. We know this. My 10 year old cousin knows this. My 4 year old godbrother probably knows this. And above all, LEGO knows this.

I'm not going to rant, and I'm not going to come back to this thread to see if you reply, because I don't care. I'm just going to ask you a few questions.

Do you buy Coca-Cola? If yes, have you seen what they do in India?

Do you buy from Nestle? If yes, do you agree with their powder milk sales in third world countries?

Do you buy products from Nike, Adidas, Pepsi, Kraft, Amazon etc etc?

The stereotypes may be out of proportion, but there's no smoke without fire.

Think before you post. Don't talk down to BiM members.

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Really though, this is just making something out of nothing. It's a kids' movie the villains are of course going to be exaggerations of real-life typed of people. We're not making thought-provoking, philosophical films for kids to think over, we're making a good time.

Something which astounds me, especially considering you noted it in your second paragraph was how the company making this film is indeed... a business. It's not like this is some underground force working to take out capitalism, this is a large company being able to make fun of themselves. The villain is a perfect fit for a movie wherein the characters realise that they are indeed little plastic toys.

This is like complaining that the villain in Toy Story 2 is offensive, saying that it portrays all Toy Store owners as money-craving thieves. Really, the question is who cares? People aren't going to be turning kids' movies into the next Spec Ops The Line, with questions about the morality of the protagonists and the true nature of a villain.

But what annoys me most about this post is as Jampot said, is the way you're talking down to people on this site as if you're preaching to us all, saying that a movie is worth boycotting simply because of a silly antagonist and at the same time promoting your own work as the shining example of morality and characterisation in modern filmmaking. I've noticed that you tend to do this a lot, and it just comes off as narcissistic in nature and can be very off-putting.

I guess what I find beautifully ironic about this post is that you bring up how bad it is that films are so preachy in the way that they tell our children the rights and wrongs of life, when you're doing exactly the same, in fact, you do both of those things literally within a sentence of each other. Heck, you don't even have to stay in the realm of films, you have to splice in a little bit of your own views to preach to the audiences of BiM.

If we didn't have the language restrictions on this site, I could say so eloquently what I feel like saying right now, but I guess I'll just have to let it slip.

In conclusion, who cares. It's a kids' film with a silly villain and if you're genuinely offended then you really probably haven't seen much of the world. Saying how films shouldn't preach ethics while you preach ethics isn't very effective.

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The suggestion that a LEGO movie could be anti big-business is eviscerated by the fact that it's a LEGO movie and LEGO is the #2 toymaker in the world.

A movie where a man is the villain is not anti-men, especially when it's made mostly by men.

Some businessmen are good, some businessmen are bad. For every Bill Gates, there's a Bernie Madoff. Telling a story with a villain like the latter doesn't make a story anti-business. Not that The LEGO Movie is doing that. It's clearly not taking itself nearly that seriously. Instead, Will Ferrell is playing "Lord Business," and he looks like this:

Quite frankly,

I think evil is a very strong word. I would say, however, this movie (or at least the trailer) shows some of LEGO's political opinions. I don't want to talk about which political stances are right and which are wrong, but I want to point out the ones LEGO is incorporating into this film.

"Emmet is an average guy". Note that he is a construction worker (low class job) and he is oblivious to the big picture.

In the trailers "Wild style" is portrayed as a rebellious teenager who breaks the law to stop evil. At the end of the first trailer she is even seen sneaking into a restricted area.

"The swat bots"....wait a minute, why are the policemen evil? I thought policemen were supposed to be the good guys...

"President Business" is a rich, tyrannical, pure evil, OWNER OF AN OIL COMPANY. In one trailer he says "Hello my name is President Business, I own the Octan company and the world". I am pretty sure this is implying that rich people who own a business and make more money then lower class people are evil and taking advantage. Also note that in "Cars 2" and "The Muppets Movie" the evil villains are evil owners of evil oil companies. Like I stated above, evil is a strong word.

Here is the description for the "Lord Business' Evil Lair" set:

"Bwahahahaha! Welcome to Lord Business’ Evil Lair! Record his broadcasts in the TV studio and plot how to control the world from the office. Lever open the large door and unleash the Kragle. Trap the Master Builders in the think tank to extract their creativity. "

My guess for the end of the film judging by the sets: Emmet convinces all the all the normal minfigures to find their creativity which "Lord Business" has been robbing them of. They defeat him with it and everyone is lives in a perfect little plastic, brick built, socialist world (Once again, if you are a supporter of socialism then whatever floats your boat, just saying).

I am not trying to start political battles here, I am merely stating that these are political opinions (whether they are right or wrong is up to you and doesn't need to be discussed here)  are showing up in the plot for the LEGO movie.

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Actually that's because I sat on a cheese grater.

EDIT: Also, to avoid getting this post remove for being "Silly" I would like to mention what flyingminifig said. Yes, movies are fake, but they are also used to deliver a message to the viewer. Some movies tell you to never give up, some tell you to do something with you life because you are only here for a short time, and some movies give you political opinions.

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what began as an intelligent discussion slowly dwindles to a hault as soon as sean "squeezle" carroll walks into the room. everyone slowly begins to deteriorate at the sound of his voice. run while you still can, we yell to any onlookers from the outside

flee

"haha, i sense butthurt!! lol!" sean "squeezle" carroll proclaims as he rides in on his skateboard wearing sunglasses and a twisted back baseball cap eating nachos he got from 7-11.

"u mad, bro?!" he happily mumbles out of his cheese and tortilla chip infested mouth