The Emoji Movie is on my blacklist of movies...

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First of all what's a "blacklist, of movies" I hear a small number of you asking. It's a list of movies that I will not see, and The Emoji Movie is one of them. Why...? Well according to I Hate Everything's Review of the film, near the tail end of the movie when the boy ends a "super emoji" to the girl he has a crush on,(the super emoji is an emoji with multiple expressions) she text him back saying:"I like a guy who can express how he feels." Do I even NEED to explain what's wrong with this? To many of who are a decade or more older than me, I don't think I need to. This gave me the impression that the executives think that ALL kids just communicate through texting and emojis these days, and if what I've seen in my own neighborhood is anything to go by, that's a load of crap. Plus this assumption in my opinion clashes with the whole "express yourself" message because how do you do that through the limit method as everyone else around you? If the kid wanted to do that, he'd put down his phone, work up the nads to talk the girl, g up to her and say with his own flipping lips:"I like you, wanna go out?" Look, I get that as a black man approaching middle age who uses social media loosely and doesn't own a smartphone, I am waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay outside of the target for this film. But from what I've seen from reviews, this film apparently was lousy. But oh well... At least the film's making money...That's all that matters, if though I won't see it. P.S. Apparently there's also a point in the film where it's implied that Egyptian Hieroglyphs were the first emojis... Look, I get that society for fifty plus years has raised a portion of stupid kids... I get that, but this is inexcusably bad.