The New Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Trailer is a Giant Relief (theguardian.com) 75
You can almost hear the sigh of relief from the global Sega fan community. The new Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer, which Paramount released this morning, is a giant improvement. From a report: Our spiky hero no longer looks like a nightmarish experiment in avant garde taxidermy. The human teeth have been extracted. He has big doe eyes, not the sinister mini-peepers of the original trailer. The new design genuinely captures a lot of what original character designer Naoto Ohshima set out to achieve -- a cool but cuddly mascot, infusing Japanese kawaii sensibilities with American attitude. His fur is bright, mimicking the famed Sega blue of the company's classic arcade games. He is no longer absolutely terrifying, an important achievement for a family film.
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What the fuck does Donald Trump's preferred pimp have to do with "News for nerds"?
Yeah, you're right. We shouldn't disrupt this newsworthy story about a fucking cartoon hedgehog...
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Yeah, you're right. We shouldn't disrupt this newsworthy story about a fucking cartoon hedgehog...
If you want that crap, then go to Washington Post, or the Drudge Report, or NY Times, foxnews.com, etcetc. It's bad enough that Slashdot runs these stupid political stories from time to time, but for God's sake, stop encouraging them. Let it be a tech news site like it was in the distant past.
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What the fuck does Darph Bobo's preferred pimp have to do with "News for nerds"?
That depends, where is Six in this story?
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Umm... because nobody gives a fuck about him either way?
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A lot of people care. We're just not as stupid as you who believe what is spoon fed to you by the corporate media.
Bill Clinton raping dozens of young girls = buried.
Bidens taking money from Ukraine = buried
Trump trying to unbury Bidens' corruption = impeachment
Mainstream media prostitution. Sad.
Laughing at people with Trump Derangement Syndrome = priceless.
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Ironically, Epstein is actually relevant to any discussion of Sonic the Hedgehog on account the fact that most of the fans of Sonic are pedophiles and/or other assorted varieties of sexual deviant.
Much as "The Joker (2019)" was a siren song for the violent and misogynist Incels, so to will this movie attract the pedophiles, furries, furry pedophiles, autistics, and so on.
The Joker was, ultimately, a disappointment due to the utter lack of violence and mayhem. Unfortunately, it is not likely that the sorts
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Sonic doesn't approve of pedophiles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Thankfully (Score:2)
there are plenty of genuinely good movies from the past on the cheap.
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there are plenty of genuinely good movies from the past on the cheap.
Well, that's true, but lets be positive for a change and look on the shitty side of this.
Oscars will soon be awarded for movies that are almost as bad as the political grandstanding spewing from the professional liars (read: actors) starring in them.
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Wait are they giving Sean Hannity the lifetime achievement award for âoemost transparent political mouthpiece on a mainstream Tv news networkâ ?
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Nah. They've already given one to Michael Moore for being the most transparent political mouthpiece in Hollywood, though (Bowling for Columbine, but let's be honest, he got the Oscar for being Michael Moore). They won't give awards to people like Hannity. He'll have to get one from Trump.
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there are plenty of genuinely good movies from the past on the cheap.
But if you only see one high-speed spinning ring-collecting cartoon hedgehog movie this year, it's going to have to be this one.
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How to move a deadline by six months (Score:3)
and getting worshipped for it.
Re:How to move a deadline by six months (Score:5, Insightful)
I sure as hell wish some movies had been pushed back 6 months instead of barfing them onto the screen in the sorry state they were.
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They would be getting worshipped for it. It's what all of us have been calling for from shitty companies and we should encourage this behaviour by congratulating a company for doing it for a change.
I don't see it (Score:3)
I don't see those as being huge changes. I really doubt that kids - the target audience - would have thought them to be either.
Re:I don't see it (Score:5, Informative)
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It's not so much looking like the game as looking like some kind of hedgehog/human hybrid abomination. The original design was like taxidermy gone wrong.
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If you think the target audience is kids (kids in 2019), no wonder.
It's marketing. (Score:3)
Bunch of "It's so much better now" paid reviews, a pile of "2019 bad - 2020 good" bought in bulk comments from Indian accounts, some paid articles...
Then the useful idiots will pick up the slack, tripping over themselves to show their "intelligence", "skills" and "expertise" - comparing trailers for views.
Invest a bit in "review" marketing, then ride the wave of free publicity.
It's still a piece of shit no one asked for.
Re:It's marketing. (Score:4, Interesting)
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Bunch of "It's so much better now" paid reviews
Huh? Why would anyone need to pay reviewers? I mean the original hit the internet for a frigging huge backlash and this change here is basically what everyone was asking for, a character that looked like Sonic.
No need to pay anyone. Although the conspiracy theory in me believes the infinitely more likely scenario that the original trailer was a dud on purpose to drum up viral marketing.
It's still a piece of shit no one asked for.
Indeed. But you know what, some people like watching pieces of shit. I thought the same thing about Pikachu. To be clear I
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Posting a dud trailer is a VERY risky marketing move.
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Many marketing moves are.
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Sure, but dud trailers have a pretty long history of reducing a movie's chances for success. It's one of those things where they'd look brilliant if by some wild chance it actually succeeds, but the reality is they weren't brilliant, it was a dud, and it was going to hurt the movie's chances.
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Bunch of "It's so much better now" paid reviews, a pile of "2019 bad - 2020 good" bought in bulk comments from Indian accounts, some paid articles...
I mean, sure, there could be paid publicity. It's a thing that happens. But most of those sighs of relief were genuine. No one needed to tell them to write that, they were happy to do it. I think you're greatly inflating the amount of paid publicity happening here because you can't imagine anyone being excited about the movie.
It's still a piece of shit no one asked for.
Sure, you don't like it, but plenty of people want their adaptations. Not your taste, not mine, but plenty of people have fond memories of Sonic and were interested in a fun adaptation
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There are many changes that you're missing.
- lack of human lips ... um ... hair
- lack of fur on lower face
- reduced chin
- smaller, more button-like nose
- larger
- eyes closer together, in addition to being substantially larger (not sure how you can call that "little bit bigger")
- larger face
- ears brought forward, larger
In short, the new Sonic looks much less like a rodent/human hybrid and a whole heapload more like a blue Mickey Mouse.
Anyone think that's a coincidence?
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We're still getting a shitty v
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It still has fur on the lower face, it is just smoother, maybe shorter.
The difference there is just the shape of the lighter color fur is more like a human face now. The old shape made his blue fur look like Wolverine-cut sideburns.
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They aren't huge changes. But they are the differences between uncanny valley nightmare which makes you wonder if an animator has ever played any of the Sonic games, and an instantly recognisable and potentially lovable character.
For all 3D animation the devil is in the details. If we made your eyes even a slight bit bigger (not 3x the size as they are in this film), and your mouth double the size, we'd all be understandably freaked out and probably not able to stand the sight of you for 2 hours straight, d
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They aren't huge changes. But they are the differences between uncanny valley nightmare....
As someone who has no dog in this fight (Played Sonic once on my nephew's console back when it first came out, have no intention of seeing this movie in any event) this is exactly it.
The first one just looks ... creepy. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck rise.
The second one looks like your basic cartoon/video game character. Which is, I suppose, what is required for the cartoon characters for the audience they're aiming for.
(Still can't help but think "Don't hedgehogs have spines? And they aren't exa
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Everyone (even your average depraved Sonic fan) knows this movie is going to be absolute garbage. I can't understand how anyone (sex crazed furry pedophile or not) could, even for a second, harbor the slightest of a hope that this film will be anything other than the worst kind of tone deaf, pandering Hollywood trash.
The fact that people are actually contemplating spending money to see this abomination fills me with a childlike wonder at the absolute fucking state of Humanity.
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That said, my own children haven't asked to see it, so I
As planned. (Score:2)
They could not possibly have not known this.
They obviously created a fake trailer to get he reaction and "change" it to what they planned all along.
It's modern marketing.
Re:As planned. (Score:5, Insightful)
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So they "planned" to delay the movie by several months and "planned" to get rid of the movie billboards they had advertising the original design and "planned" to hire Tyson Hesse to redesign the character right after the first trailer got such a bad reception? Why do so many people assume it's all some sort of crazy marketing ploy rather than the simple explanation that Hollywood got it wrong, as it so often does, only this time they actually tried to fix their mistake. Maybe they think a convoluted marketing ploy is more believable than a Hollywood production expressing humility.
They did not try and fix their mistake here.
How do I know this? Simple. They're still going to make this shitty movie.
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And why not? Just look at all the rubes lining up to watch this... movie.
They need to offer complementary sterilization along with a ticket to this film.
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I am a little out of the loop and haven't even seen either the first trailer nor this. Nor do I know what the plot is and so on. I know they are making a Sonic the Hedgehog movie; period, full stop.
What about it is so objectively shitty? Is it gonna be worse than the Super Mario Bros movie?
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Relief isn't the word for it (Score:2)
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/Oblg. It broke new ground!
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um... "giant"? (Score:1)
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Re: ah yes the best way to ensure relief. (Score:1)
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2. so many jump cuts and editing mixers in the trailer suggest there isnt a lot of substance to the writing for this film at all.
That's am embarrassing jump to make.
What happens someday when you see a clip of what the video game looked like and understand the joke?
You guys have the original Sonic wrong. (Score:2)
What I see in this article is in conflict with the original Sonic character designer Naoto Ohshima set out to achieve. The original Sonic had fangs, carried an electric guitar and had a female sidekick with a bust size that belonged in Japanese adult anime. All of that got toned down by the US division of Sega, as they knew that it would not communicate well. These changes were opposed by Sega
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This doesn't seem to be true as stated. What you call "original" was a game concept that was never made. And the female character Madonna that was never made wasn't intended as a sidekick, but the love interest sonic would have been rescuing.
Whenever a company is looking over the fence at another company's success and trying to find something to compete, you'll find this sort of story of trying out different concepts before deciding on one. The work product of that process is not actually the original thing
Ugh, intellectual property well past its prime. (Score:2)
This movie is as backwards as another Mario movie would be. Shoot, it's even worse than a Mario movie because at least people still play Mario games. Sonic is not the icon he was a quarter century ago
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Well the qualities of the trailer aren't what my post was about at all but in regards to what you just brought up, a trailer is typically prime moments in a film edited down into a short montage. I think there's something to be said for the fact that if a trailer makes a movie look bad that's not a good sign for the movie. Add onto that Hollywood's record of dredging up long dead intellectual properties to base movies around only to churn out mediocre films at best and I don't have high hopes for this movie
Problematic Trailer (Score:2)
Sonic hasn't been good for a while (Score:2)
That was the last good game before they all went downhill.
new sonic (Score:1)