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<p>SomeoneIsLying: added transcript</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1870<br /> | date = July 31, 2017<br /> | title = Emoji Movie Reviews<br /> | image = emoji_movie_reviews.png<br /> | titletext = There's this idea that emoji are bad for communication because they replace ambiguity and nuance with a limited set of preselected emotions, but it doesn't really survive a collision with real-world usage of the thinking face or upside-down smiley.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Here, have a thing.}}<br /> <br /> Many critics of The Emoji Movie point to superficial problems like the subject matter and the product placement. Here, it's argued that the real reason the film is bad is because the creators cashed in on a trend without doing any research into it.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete|Could someone check if the emojis are all correct? Thanks in advance.}}<br /> [Cueball and Megan are walking. Megan is checking her phone, presumably to check reviews about the Emoji Movie.]<br /> :Megan: Reviews for the Emoji movie are... not good.<br /> :Cueball: People are just snobs about emoji. I like them! Language is cool and weird.<br /> [Megan stops; Cueball is now outside the frame.]<br /> :Megan: It's apparently 80% product placement.<br /> :Cueball (off-screen): Whatever. So was the Lego Movie, and I liked that.<br /> [Cueball looks at Megan's phone.]<br /> :Megan: It features an emoji we all know and love - with a &quot;Meh&quot; emoji in the starring role!<br /> :Cueball: Wait... a &quot;Meh&quot; emoji?<br /> :Megan: I wondered about that, too; the others are all familiar. Do they mean 😒? Or 😐 or ☹️?<br /> :Cueball: That's a little confusing...<br /> [Zooms in; Megan is now looking at her phone by herself.]<br /> :Megan: There's a joke in the movie about the &quot;emoji that no one uses that includes the eggplant emoji.<br /> :Cueball: ...was that on purpose? Or did they not run the script by enough people?<br /> [Megan and Cueball continue walking.]<br /> :Megan: Here's a line from the Wikipedia plot summary:<br /> :Megan: Gene and Hi-5 come to a piracy app where they meet the hacker emoji Jailbreak, who wants to reach Dropbox so that she can live in the cloud.<br /> :Cueball: Okay.<br /> :Cueball: It's possible this movie is bad.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br /> [[Category:Comics with color]]<br /> [[Category:Emoji]]</div>

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