'Sonic the Hedgehog' Movie is Getting Delayed To Redesign the Title Character (techcrunch.com) 114
Director Jeff Fowler has announced that Paramount had delayed the release of 'Sonic the Hedgehog' by three months, to allow the visual effects team some more time to work on the central character's redesign. A report adds: To say that reaction to the first 'Sonic the Hedgehog' trailer was mixed would be overly diplomatic. But at least fans were able to look beyond the thin premise and bizarre Jim Carrey turn for long enough to focus on what was really important: the weird-ass Sonic design.
Reminds me (Score:1)
Anyone else seen Howard the Duck? That was definitely a case of weird title character design.
Re: Reminds me (Score:1)
Howard wasn't creepy like a cgi sonic that looks nothing like every single artist rendition of the character throughout every single version of the video game to date. A more apt reference would be the horrible TMNT remake where they decided the turtles needed retarded nostrils.
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Name a video game movie that didn't suck (Score:2)
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Pokemon :)
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The first Mortal Kombat movie was fun.
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Loved that movie. Liked it better than the games.
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Re:Name a video game movie that didn't suck (Score:4, Insightful)
That's nostalgia and fandom speaking. As a movie, Doom totally sucked. But worth remembering is that while critical consensus and audience rating agree quite a lot, they are not at 0% and 0% which means that there were still people out there who were generally positively entertained. I am one of those people. I liked the movie, but it was an incredibly bad movie.
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That's nostalgia and fandom speaking. As a movie, Doom totally sucked.
I remember when I was a teenager hearing talk of s DooM film, me and my brother vowed we'd go and see it together. That must have been in about 1995. So when it eventually came out we did go and see it together.
I am one of those people. I liked the movie, but it was an incredibly bad movie.
Yep it was a really pretty terrible movie. We both enjoyed it too.
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Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
Super Mario Bros
Resident Evil
Silent Hill
All of these movies were all a lot of fun to watch.
Do want academy award winning video game movies? If so, then you're probably retarded.
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Re:Name a video game movie that didn't suck (Score:5, Funny)
Tron
And its sequel Troff. Though those were some lame videogames to begin with.
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Dredd
Eh, that's based off a comic book, 2000 AD. [wikipedia.org]
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Name a video game movie that didn't suck
Detective Pikachu. Heck, the animated Pokemon movies were mostly fine given their target audience.
Resident Evil, at least the first few. Perfectly acceptable action schlock.
And of course Mortal Kombat. This one is divisive, but a lot of people liked it - as a fan of cheesy martial arts movies, I though it was good. Awesome soundtrack.
Arguably the Doom movie. It wasn't good, but I'd say it was a solid "meh". I'd also give Warcraft a "meh": it had some good scenes here and there. I think if had been a low-budget B-movie fantasy (with correspondingly lowered expectations) I'd have liked it.
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Street Fighter wasn't a good movie by any stretch, but I think that Raul Julia's performance put it into enjoyable camp territory.
I haven't seen it, but I've heard there's a Detective Pikachu movie that just came out and the reviews seem generally favorable.
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Being trippy as hell doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
Super Mario Bro's is objectively horrible...
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The original Mortal Kombat. I never played the game, but I enjoyed the movie anyway. It had an interesting and cool atmosphere.
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Postal? Also the only decent Uwe Boll movie.
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I agree with your basic point though. Even the best aren't must-see movies.
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(Regardless of graphics used.) I'll be waiting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Look, I mean the trailer had The Rock + giant Gorilla fighting a giant crocodile. Which basically summarizes the film. If you see the trailer and thing "coooool" then the film 100% delivers on what it promises. If you see that trailer and think that kind of thing sucks then the film will suck for you. Basically the film 100% delivers a good solid version of exactly what is promised which I think is an important thing for a film n
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Movies that spun off games have currently the same problem that games made after movies had in the 80s and 90s. They're done as an afterthought, usually with little to no budget, trying to ride the coattail of the franchise they rip off. It's taken the movie industry a long time before they realized that simply handing the rights to make a game to whomever handed them the most money is hurting their franchise because, yes, people DO care and remember.
It's a learning process. Movie studios had to learn that
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Nice (Score:1)
A well welcomed delay.
Maybe they will take some visual pointers from the pokemon movie and keep it at least somewhat accurate.
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Maybe they will take some visual pointers from the pokemon movie and keep it at least somewhat accurate.
Or maybe the dozens of people who have put together good-looking models for Sonic since the trailer. There are some that really captured the original look.
People don't want a Sonic that looks like he could actually exist, they wan't a Sonic with overlapping eyeballs.
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To be honest, I can't remember anyone saying that they want a Sonic movie in the first place...
Bunny for Easter, hedgehog for 2 Feb? (Score:2)
That and some of the scenes looked too reminiscent of Hop (2011) [wikipedia.org].
Too bad they won't be getting it out in time for Hedgehog Day (2 February 2020).
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I don't know, there were some weird aspects about it.
The character is naked, and he has the body proportions of like.. an 11-year-old boy. Just.. so damned weird.
But really, the biggest problem, which didn't really bother the critics that much but I thought was overly noticeable, was the rushed/poor quality face animation. It's like they did motion capture of a face, and very little clean-up afterwards. That was the biggest sin. So when I heard that they were going to redesign the character, but the movie r
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Well, the internet seems to magnify all of peoples problems and phobias.
There is a slew of stuff that we see and really don't care either way. Look a 3D Sonic. For most of us, we would be like that's nice if we have kids they might want to see it. But now, a few people go "look at the teeth on this CGI it is creepy", Then they take a screenshot at the most creepy frame, even if it out of context. Now like it or not, we are affected by the media, and trolling. So we no longer see it as an innocent at best
Him being part of a cult probably. (Score:1)
(Implying "crazy" as part of the definition of superstition/cult/religion/schizophrenia.)
He's one of those who believe you can force happiness by acting like you are, and hence doomed to always feel sad in actuality.
Even though his sad films made his viewers *actually* happy.
(It takes a safe space of comfort to give you strength to be able to cry and feel better afterwards. Trust me, I know. *Crying* is weakness, leaving the body!)
E.g. Eternal Sunshine is one of my favorite movies, and his acting in there i
The Dental Consultant was sacked (Score:5, Funny)
Also, a moose bit my sister.
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And you were bit by a flying squirrel
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Now Rocky, that's no way to treat our friends!
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I just can't help it sometimes.....
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[...] who won't be happy until they see the 3D model ripped straight from the game files and used in the film as is.
Heck, make a deal with Disney and use the version from the Wreck It Ralph movies. Done.
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Got them for my grandchildren, but I think I enjoyed them more than they did.
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This is an attempt to build a cinematic universe? I thought it was just a shameless cash grab.
Same difference. People take this crap too seriously.
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Well, Sonic is a cartoon character. Mostly used in video games, but in the end, he has pretty much all features that you will otherwise find in western cartoons. And that's also probably what people want to see. Let's face it, who'd want to watch a Sonic the Hedgehog movie? I give you 4 possible answers as to what's probably going to be your main demographic:
a) Action movie fans
b) French problem movie enthusiasts (who insist in subtitles instead of dubs)
c) Diversity obsessed people who bitch about the lack
The Power (Score:2)
Redesign details (Score:5, Funny)
They're planning on making Sonic yellow (with a little black on his ears and back), and having him wear a Deerstalker.
Also, they're trying to recruit Ryan Reynolds to do his voice.
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Also, they're trying to recruit Ryan Reynolds to do his voice.
That's a weird way to type "Danny DeVito"
That's a weird way to type "Wallace Shawn".
All about the teeth (Score:2)
This is why you don't change a major component of character design when you do a movie.
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No not at all. This is about the whole package. It's about the height, it's about sonic having legs and body in ... sonic proportions rather than human proportions. It's about the eyes not being human eyes but actually looking like the video game
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I like anime googly eyes. Makes him look like a harmless ball of fluff high on caffeine ..
Oh, wait, that's pikachu
Meh, whatever. (Score:2)
As long as the redesign still has blue arms, I'll be happy.
Gutless (Score:3, Funny)
They should have gone full fanfiction from day 1 and have Sonic fuck Ron from Harry Potter or something.
Make both available on the Blu-ray collectors rely (Score:1)
Say what you will about SMB (Score:2)
At least people remember it.
I would've remembered a movie with a freakish manhog Sonic.
look beyond ... Jim Carry (Score:2)
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Missed the game (Score:2)
When I saw the trailer I wondered if the film producers had even seen the game? Sonic in the trailer looked more like badly done sports mascot, than the character we remember in Sega games.
I was hoping for (Score:2)
Nazi faggots. You can't make the inbreds happy! (Score:1, Insightful)
They whine about the botox'ed white elitists in Hollywood, about Jews in Hollywood, about diversified movies targeting wider audiences... unless it's a movie about inbred uneducated nazi faggots from red states, it's all tears.
Wah. #The real white male victims of society
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Because we just want to see movies of privileged white men.
Oh no our main character got pulled over by a policeman, and he politely gave him a ticket, oh no, he was going to use the money that ticket cost him, for a dinner at an upper medium tear box chain restaurant, with his girlfriend and get a drink.
Oh look there is a problem at work, all the people look up to him and listen to him and carefully consider his advice.
But wait it isn't racist because he is best friends with the Black Guy in the movie. The
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Adding diversity for the sake of diversity distracts from the story, it does not help it in any way. By the time we have introduced all of th 100 diversity characters (and you can't just have them, you have to showcase them and give them ample time in the limelight or else it's racist, misogynist or whateverelseist) nobody gives half a fuck about the story anymore, not the audience and certainly not the author.