The story of Gene, an emoji that lives inside a texting app on a teenager's smartphone. In Gene's world, each emoji has only one expression, but gene is different -- he's bursting with multiple expressions. Gene is worried that if he can't find a way to be "normal," he'll disappoint his family, or worse, be deleted. Determined to change his unusually expressive personality, gene needs a "code" that will fix his programming and make him like everyone else. With the help of his emoji friends, Gene's search takes him on a fun-filled adventure across the teenager's smartphone, from his hope in a texting app through a succession of apps (including a gaming app, a music streaming app, a photo-sharing app, a video streaming app, a dance app, and a file-sharing app).
The story of Gene, an emoji that lives inside a texting app on a teenager's smartphone. In Gene's world...
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>tfw the entire plot is rendered moot because the teenager will throw away their phone in less than five years due to planned obsolescence.
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Peace was a mistake
Great, first it was an emoticon slasher movie, now an emoticon CGI kids movie.
What next? An emoticon drama movie?
Emoji porn
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Couldn't you probably find that shit on paheal?
someone posted in the previous emoji thread that the emoji will generate new waifu's
It's like if you took the concept of Wreck-It Ralph and then applied the most formulaic animated movie plot possible while making sure to keep it as trendy as possible.
Sony is practically a parody of an entertainment company at this point.
lets be honest, Wreck-It Ralph wasn't that good to start with
The majority of people who will see this movie, probably wear one of these.
Why do modern animation movies always rely on pop culture to make money?
Too risky to do anything else?
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Not to mention at least Videogames are genuinely major things in the industry and not stupid reaction images for cellphone with stupid shit in it.
REKT
Every time Miller and Lord make a film that's successful they ruin something else.
Guardians is going to ruin Star Trek 3.
Jump Street indirectly ruined Ghostbusters 3.
LEGO Movie caused Emoji Movie.
Screencap this: It ends in a dance-off.
Y'know what: Don't screencap this. It's not even a prediction worth making. We all know it's gonna happen.
What did Clone High ruin? Teen dramas in general?
I can only imagine a CG Animated facebook movie for teens, and the majority of the film is just liking peoples status.
that moment in the movie when "like for jesus"
So an even more stupid version of this?
What the hell is wrong with Sony?
>It's actually real
Three words; North Korea Hack.
when i look it, it seems to me, that the want there crowd to be people who go on facebook, love pop culture and 90s kids shit including swagfags and people who love creepypastas
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>it got quiet
I don't get it.
and this was posted today on youtube
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And all because they have a unique style and talent that means they can make good stuff out of ideas that NO ONE else would have been able to do successfully...
Clone High wasn't successful
sadly
Yeah I demand a live action emoji movie
It's been that way for almost 25 years, though there used to be more exceptions to the rule then there are now. My guess is that it prints money
How to Train Your Dragon movies did a good job of mostly avoiding any kind of pop culture reference, Dreamworks surprised me with that
>Guardians is going to ruin Star Trek 3.
They didn't do Guardians of the Galaxy.
>Jump Street indirectly ruined Ghostbusters 3.
How?
Sony got hacked around 2014 by North Korea because that Interview movie was about killing Kim Jon or some shit.
Underated post
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Oh wait I'm thinking of Gunn on that one, I was just remembering a tweet Gunn made after the first Star Trek 3 trailer criticizing the film for shallowly trying to pander to the Guardians audience.
Jump Street proved that reboots of old franchises done by other accomplished writers could be successful, so Sony went crazy trying to find the right thing to revive.
That might sound crack-pot theory, but I do remember from the leaked emails that they were trying to start a Ghostbusters cinematic universe with a second male-led film written by the duo with Tatum in the lead role, plus the idea for Men In Black getting crossed over with 21 Jump Street.
Though if they were planning on doing a Ghostbusters film written by those two, why the hell didn't they put out that one first rather than the shitfest that we're going to get?
>mfw Gene finds the dick pics in the teenager's photo app
>Movies are been made about symbols on phones.
Does anyone else think the selfie generation is going to far? It's like "if I use this thing, it's the most important relevant thing to have ever occurred!"
Or let it fall on the floor and get destroyed due to teen stupidity and probably drunkenness.
There is a Christy Mack emoji apparently.
>the selfie generation
The social media generation
I know old people say this all the time, but I'm not old, I'm the exact right age to be in the middle of it. People today are more vapid and self absorbed than ever before.
Social media was a mistake. Social media is evil
>Christy Mack emoji
i almost didn't believe you.
do they also have a war machine emoji too?
Isn’t it a bit ironic when every movie is telling you to be yourself?
porn when?
Gonna say probably not.
Yeah I'm 28 and still remember when the Internet stayed on the Internet. It's cell phones with Internet access that destroyed everything, letting all the normies on the Internet that had no reason to be there other than self-aggrandizement.
Yeah.
>"Express yourself -- not with actual typed out words that explain and present your inner feelings and thoughts, but with pictures like you're a toddler and incapable of forming sentences!"
it's just going to look like pacman r34 anyway
It's literally the plot to the fucking LEGO movie
What dated pop song are they gonna play at the end of the film?
I'm guessing Uptown Funk.
The Genie from Aladdin and Shrek were both very influential.
It's only going to get worse. This isn't even an 'old man yells at cloud' thing. It is literally fucking up humanity. Peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. We are literally losing the ability to interact with one another in person. We can't retain information we are given (as well as sort what is important and what is not). We don't think for ourselves anymore. Our emotions and thoughts are handed to us in the form of childish, bright-colored, and simplistic pictograms.
The internet is the best and worst thing to happen to humanity.
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let's not forget that if this movie becomes a hit. fans will create OC do not steal emoji's, and R34 that will end up on paheal.
Emoji waifu's coming soon
Jesus christ, this guy was pretty accurate.
Does he learn the lesson that being expressive is good and he should be himself?
>North Korea
>Being able to hack anything
>With a webpage that looks like it's stuck in 1998
>Men In Black getting crossed over with 21 Jump Street.
That's still happening. It's called MIB 23
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i've never before wanted to really really stop a movie from happening
i want to throw this movie into the trash and lock the lid.
This isn't really the new generation's fault though, it's the out-of-touch old execs trying to capitalize on anything and everything that's popular. I don't think most people wanted a movie about this shit
A select few North Koreans get sent to China to learn how to do computer stuff.
Have you guys considered that maybe you're just delusional "born in the wrong generation" faggots?
Every single person involved who thought this was a good idea needs to be banned from ever making movies again.
> they're gonna have a shitty pop song in the movie.
> they're gonna have shitty jokes
> they're gonna force big name celebrities in it for mere WOW factor
> it's gonna have hammy emotional dialogue in the "sad" parts
Armageddon is coming.
Oh I just can't wait for the trailer
they really really want a cinematic universe don't they? even things that only really work on their own are not safe
To be fair, the "I want to be like everybody else!" "Fuck that, it's better to be me!" story has been around waylonger.
I'll go along with this idea.
They made 21 Jump Street work, they made 22 Jump Street work, and MIB is actually a premise with potential.
It's not like they just genderswapped the main characters and brought in Paul Feig to make it a generic chick flick that's gonna be hip with all those female audiences.
Isn't there a teenager girl?
Fuck it. I bet this movie is going to be amazing, it's such a stupid concept and the plot sounds so incredibly generic, but I bet it's going to be amazing. They're starting at the bottom, only way to go is up.
I can't wait to see the YouTube comments
I laughed so fucking hard at the comments for Norm of the North and COD: Infinite Warfare
Unfriended was actually pretty good for what it was.
No it wasn't.
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>reviewer
>winky-faced emoji is forced to endure being sent dozens of times through a horrible bout of sexting between the teen and what he believes to be a young girl his age, but is actually a forty year old man
I don't know what you guys are talking about, this movie has real potential
they probably will deal with bullying, not sure about sexual predators
>every icon gets a theme
>the main expressions get a song
>the sad expression is used or has a moment on screen everytime something sad happens
> 6/6//6
Clearly we have entered the end times
I stopped visiting Sup Forums because of this movie
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>war machine emoji too?
yes
Agreed. Like I know every single generation thinks the next generation is worse off, but there's no fucking way the instant gratification of the internet can be a good thing when you've had it since birth. We've never had anything close to the internet before and now anyone can have whatever they want in a moment's notice. They can look at something funny, find information, or contact another person in mere seconds. Kids don't understand how to handle just doing nothing because they rarely have to anymore. They always have something to occupy their attention span.
Why? Oh why Sup Forums?
Why can't we have good animated movies? Why can't we make stories from devoted artists and storytellers and have their work on the big screen instead?
We do. We just also get this.
the Abrams Star Trek movies have been doing "60s/70s/80s music in a futuristic setting" since the first one.
>YMS
Exactly. See below.
Nope. Not once. I'm 28, I was relatively okay with my generation, but this one behind me is fucking everyone up. And it's not just against the kids, it's the adults. The Internet gives them shared idea space now so we are blurring the lines with more and more adults acting exactly like kids. Like they've lost the ability to filter out what's mature, adult information and what's a kiddy fad to follow too.
I think "my" generation is stuck in the middle somehow. We're the generation that first adopted the Internet and wanted to keep it separate from real life. The younger generation and older generation somehow fucked that up.
Yeah which backs up my points above.
Should he really be saying that while he's still at Sony?
kids today google, not giggle. they play angry birds instead of getting angry AT birds. they all have an ipad but no iq. not even one.they playstation but they never play station. i.e. one pretending to be a train and the others pretending to be different trains orlow paid maintenance workers. they’re obsessed with one direction, rather than enjoying all eight directions equally. facebook… but unable to face… a book. or a hoop with a stick. a lost generation. the tv show.
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wot
Seriously. The hack was the final nail in the coffin for the ASM series.
I want to see what Sup Forums will say when this turns out to be a hit.
>be 19
>grew up in third world shithole where you had to do some mad max shit with computers to even get internet access or get to play vidya, have had to endure living in shitty places and have friends die due to crime and corrupt militants cops
>finally manage to move to America
>every person my age is a literal blithering moron that is so out of touch with the world around them, it's like talking with aliens, nobody has a job, everyone is going for shitty liberal art degrees and they get entrenched in Internet drama and bitch about capitalism and are basically spoiled as fuck
>meanwhile I'm just happy supermarkets without long lines and jobs I can work at and make a comfortable living with exist
You know, I think maybe it's not a generational thing. I think maybe americans and first world er by proxy just really don't know how good they have it.
They really really don't know how worse things could be. When you're this well off I can understand filling your time with vapid shit if you've never known how precious your time and health really is, when you've never walked around a puddle of blood where your friend died or when you've never had to be afraid if you'd make it home when it gets dark or when you've never had to go many days without food because there just isn't any food around, or never been worried you just won't be able to live where you're at because rent gets worse and every other place is a literal brick house ghetto.
I think the saying "hard times make strong peoppe, strong people make good times, good times make weak people, weak people make hard times" is true.
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So on a scale of Angry Birds to Pixels, how shit is this going to be?