#67 - The Emoji Movie

This little black mark in the history of pop culture was a long time coming. I promised myself I’d never pay money for this movie, so I’m going to be streaming it on Sky Cinema instead. That’s why this review has taken so long.

But here we are, here we are. The Emoji Movie was released in 2017, and still haunts the nightmares of everyone who watched it, earning an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which puts it at Fant4stic levels… yeah, this is gonna be a tough one.

It did make money, $250m on a $50m budget but when you find out that Incredibles 2 broke $1bn worldwide this summer, this is relatively pathetic by comparison. Still, it’s sad this movie made money, we’re to blame people. But let’s just dive in and see how bad this is…

Mini Review - Debug

Aside the odd episode of Doctor who, I rarely delve into the Horror Genre. Whilst many spent October celebrating Halloween with scary movies, I didn’t even do a movie review. Yeah… I don’t like horror movies; I don’t really get them… I don’t watch a movie to be scared, I watch to be entertained and I don’t associate the two like some people do. If you do like scary movies, that’s fine, all power to you

But like Doctor Who, our movie here has science fiction elements incorporated with the horror aspects. Debug is the brainchild of David Hewlett who would write and direct this movie. He was apparently inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, I wish I could go into that but I haven’t seen it (feel free to deduct nerd points for that) and his initial pitch was to do a story from the perspective of Hal 9000, the villain of the story. His argument was that Hal 9000 wasn’t so much a villain but someone defending his right to exist. His pitch was deemed too artsy and it got rewritten into this film

I was originally intending to do this as either a rage issues or guilty pleasure review, but there really isn’t enough material for me to cover in the 82-minute runtime for that. In fact, whilst I am giving this movie a re-watch for the review, I’m reviewing this off my initial watch, using the second to solidify the points I’m making. With that said let’s take a look