I'm no film expert but their use of color in those ads is actually incredible at capturing the feeling of the animated ones
Fun fact: The reason she has so many knives is because they ARE 1 use. In game every tool is a one use item. Use a rake once and it disintegrates.
I love how Danny didn’t notice she baked a file into the pie, implying that she was preparing for prison, and her granddaughter brought the pie to her.
The fact that someone actually had to make the grandma decoy for the ads is impressive, and terrifying
also how did they get Kathy Bates to play the grandma? literally an A-list actress.
The Merge Mansion team just realized that they're better at making films than they are at games. I expect Lilly's Garden full length live action film by next month.
kathy bates won an oscar for misery in which she portrayed one of the most terrifying film villains to date and now she's the grandma in merge mansion
"Grandma wait!" "No." Idk why, but I absolutely lost it at that exchange.
Honestly I'm just happy for Kathy Bates, she looks like she's having so much fun in these ads
I feel like if they turned into a movie studio they'd do 10x better
Everybody asks what’s grandma hiding? But no one ever asks why’s grandma hiding?
Lights, color, art department and casting are on point. The girl’s silhouette looks like the typical character from these games
danny’s recreation to how raunchy the secret passageways could get genuinely killed me
At some point I caved in and downloaded the app and the knives thing is actually kind of a clever joke. In the game you have to merge low value objects to make better ones, and as far as I remember the knives are one of the low value ones. So you begin the game with a whole buch of knives that you have to pair up until you end up with a rake or something more useful.
Danny I hate you for missing the fact she PUT A FILE IN THE BOWL WHILE SHE WAS BAKING so when she was brought the pie she could use it to break out of jail. It's genius
Grandma isn’t a murderer, she’s just a master chef Those papers she was burning was her secret recipe. She wasn’t burying a body, just planting… spices? That wasn’t blood on her, just jam.
The second live action ad is such a great concept for a parody horror movie oh my god. Where no matter where you go, it's always a hand-knitted replica, and you're like "Grandma, I can see you right there" but as soon as you get there, bam, it's a hand knitted replica. I'd watch that go on for, like, 2 hours but the actress just gets less and less afraid and more and more irritated. Edit: Wait oh my god the twist could be at the end that SHE was the hand knitted replica all along! When she finally finds grandma, grandma is beside a mirror, and then the camera pans to the mirror, which then shows the replica of the actress, and then it like falls over or something idfk
huge props to them tbh. 99% of ads with real people are incredibly cringe, uncreative, and they use the worst actors on this planet. These ads are genuinely good.
What really surprised me was the fact that I saw one of the live-action ads on the actual TV, like not a social media site. They had the budget to get this as a real television commercial. Then I saw another animated one on social media after the live-action ones came out, and the animation quality dropped extensively. Probably because they blew their budget on the live-action.
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