Twelve Batmans posted:

Nintendo also owns Sega.

Biohazard posted:

I feel bad for james marsden. He seems like a pretty legitimately good actor that should have made it really big, but instead does a lot of crap like this. I suppose it pays the bills though. He was perfect on westworld, I really hope he's not legit gone next season.

EDIT: Google does say he's worth 8 million though, so meh, I suppose he doesn't really give a poo poo.

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

The best/worst thing James Marsen has ever done is The Box. That alone karmically earns him a couple easy paychecks

Ivan Shitskin posted:

BUT WHERES TAILS????!!!

Cockmaster posted:

My money's on either "post-credits sequel bait" or "movie never acknowledges his existence in any context".

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

The best/worst thing James Marsen has ever done is The Box. That alone karmically earns him a couple easy paychecks

Twelve Batmans posted:

It looks like Sonic uses rings to make portals. So maybe we'll see him somehow using those.

razamataza posted:

lmao alex would like to have a word with you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umD4dhqLjC4&t=182s

Mnoba posted:

did sonic start out with the weird furry fandom or did that start when tails was introduced?

Biohazard posted:

EDIT: yeah it was him. And he hasn't made a movie since The Box. What gives, did he get metoo'ed at some point or something?

Agent Escalus posted:

^ Furries will latch onto ANYTHING that catches their attention, though. (Even Five Nights at Freddy's.) If you're a creator your options are to either ignore them or scrub your ideas free from anything that might appeal to them. But even the latter is no guarantee of success.

I couldn't stop saying aloud how miscast Jim Carrey was. The shot at the end was the only part where it looked like it could work.

I think the ugliness of Sonic's design is secondary to the fact that the plot is a fish-out-of-water story. Most of the time that sort of thing is so formulaic that it gets boring far too fast, with Into the Spider-Verse being a big exception because that wasn't the main aspect of the plot, plus the rest of the Spider-crew were interesting characters and it did something unique with its adaptation of the essence of Spider-Man. I don't think anyone could have imagined that the Sonic Boom cartoon would have wound up being one of the best Sonic adaptations, but it was, because it had decent writing and remembered to be true to what Sonic as a franchise is supposed to be: cartoon characters in an action-adventure setting (that aren't taken in a direction that's too serious or too stupid). That's the essence of what Sonic is. This movie is a whole lot of "Hey, I don't belong here. I'm weird to you, you're weird to me. P.S. must stay hidden" And we all know how THAT goes.

If they really want this to stand as its own thing in the Sonic franchise it can't have even a whiff of being boring to it, and the trailer really gives off a formulaic feeling to the whole thing. Even if they used a decent Sonic model there's just not much there that's interesting or exciting, and setting it in our world doesn't help at all. I'm not hopeful that there's going to be a second trailer that indicates at some legit-neat adventure hijinks in store with the final cut being full of Spider-Verse level fun.

At least Ben Schwarz sounds fine as Sonic, I guess?


I think he's had stuff in the works that got caught up in their respective development hells. And every aspect of Southland Tales imploding on itself probably didn't help much either. (If you didn't read the multiple tie-in graphic novels you wouldn't know what was going on, which led to disastrous reviews and total commercial failure.)

Agent Escalus posted:

Agent Escalus posted:

^ Furries will latch onto ANYTHING that catches their attention, though. (Even Five Nights at Freddy's.) If you're a creator your options are to either ignore them or scrub your ideas free from anything that might appeal to them. But even the latter is no guarantee of success.

I couldn't stop saying aloud how miscast Jim Carrey was. The shot at the end was the only part where it looked like it could work.

I think the ugliness of Sonic's design is secondary to the fact that the plot is a fish-out-of-water story. Most of the time that sort of thing is so formulaic that it gets boring far too fast, with Into the Spider-Verse being a big exception because that wasn't the main aspect of the plot, plus the rest of the Spider-crew were interesting characters and it did something unique with its adaptation of the essence of Spider-Man. I don't think anyone could have imagined that the Sonic Boom cartoon would have wound up being one of the best Sonic adaptations, but it was, because it had decent writing and remembered to be true to what Sonic as a franchise is supposed to be: cartoon characters in an action-adventure setting (that aren't taken in a direction that's too serious or too stupid). That's the essence of what Sonic is. This movie is a whole lot of "Hey, I don't belong here. I'm weird to you, you're weird to me. P.S. must stay hidden" And we all know how THAT goes.

If they really want this to stand as its own thing in the Sonic franchise it can't have even a whiff of being boring to it, and the trailer really gives off a formulaic feeling to the whole thing. Even if they used a decent Sonic model there's just not much there that's interesting or exciting, and setting it in our world doesn't help at all. I'm not hopeful that there's going to be a second trailer that indicates at some legit-neat adventure hijinks in store with the final cut being full of Spider-Verse level fun.

At least Ben Schwarz sounds fine as Sonic, I guess?


I think he's had stuff in the works that got caught up in their respective development hells. And every aspect of Southland Tales imploding on itself probably didn't help much either. (If you didn't read the multiple tie-in graphic novels you wouldn't know what was going on, which led to disastrous reviews and total commercial failure.)

dracky posted:

The day that live action movies with nightmarishly ugly cgi creatures become unprofitable can't come fast enough

Agent Escalus posted:

^ Furries will latch onto ANYTHING that catches their attention, though. (Even Five Nights at Freddy's.) If you're a creator your options are to either ignore them or scrub your ideas free from anything that might appeal to them. But even the latter is no guarantee of success.

I couldn't stop saying aloud how miscast Jim Carrey was. The shot at the end was the only part where it looked like it could work.

I think the ugliness of Sonic's design is secondary to the fact that the plot is a fish-out-of-water story. Most of the time that sort of thing is so formulaic that it gets boring far too fast, with Into the Spider-Verse being a big exception because that wasn't the main aspect of the plot, plus the rest of the Spider-crew were interesting characters and it did something unique with its adaptation of the essence of Spider-Man. I don't think anyone could have imagined that the Sonic Boom cartoon would have wound up being one of the best Sonic adaptations, but it was, because it had decent writing and remembered to be true to what Sonic as a franchise is supposed to be: cartoon characters in an action-adventure setting (that aren't taken in a direction that's too serious or too stupid). That's the essence of what Sonic is. This movie is a whole lot of "Hey, I don't belong here. I'm weird to you, you're weird to me. P.S. must stay hidden" And we all know how THAT goes.

If they really want this to stand as its own thing in the Sonic franchise it can't have even a whiff of being boring to it, and the trailer really gives off a formulaic feeling to the whole thing. Even if they used a decent Sonic model there's just not much there that's interesting or exciting, and setting it in our world doesn't help at all. I'm not hopeful that there's going to be a second trailer that indicates at some legit-neat adventure hijinks in store with the final cut being full of Spider-Verse level fun.

At least Ben Schwarz sounds fine as Sonic, I guess?


I think he's had stuff in the works that got caught up in their respective development hells. And every aspect of Southland Tales imploding on itself probably didn't help much either. (If you didn't read the multiple tie-in graphic novels you wouldn't know what was going on, which led to disastrous reviews and total commercial failure.)

The Fattest PI posted:

Gamers (tm) are really mad that their childhood is being ruined, as well as the legacy of Really Good Sonic Games, because a children's movie trying to appeal to a younger generation isn't exactly how they wanted it.

The Fattest PI posted:

Gamers (tm) are really mad that their childhood is being ruined, as well as the legacy of Really Good Sonic Games, because a children's movie trying to appeal to a younger generation isn't exactly how they wanted it.

Agent Escalus posted:

^ Furries will latch onto ANYTHING that catches their attention, though. (Even Five Nights at Freddy's.) If you're a creator your options are to either ignore them or scrub your ideas free from anything that might appeal to them. But even the latter is no guarantee of success.

I couldn't stop saying aloud how miscast Jim Carrey was. The shot at the end was the only part where it looked like it could work.

I think the ugliness of Sonic's design is secondary to the fact that the plot is a fish-out-of-water story. Most of the time that sort of thing is so formulaic that it gets boring far too fast, with Into the Spider-Verse being a big exception because that wasn't the main aspect of the plot, plus the rest of the Spider-crew were interesting characters and it did something unique with its adaptation of the essence of Spider-Man. I don't think anyone could have imagined that the Sonic Boom cartoon would have wound up being one of the best Sonic adaptations, but it was, because it had decent writing and remembered to be true to what Sonic as a franchise is supposed to be: cartoon characters in an action-adventure setting (that aren't taken in a direction that's too serious or too stupid). That's the essence of what Sonic is. This movie is a whole lot of "Hey, I don't belong here. I'm weird to you, you're weird to me. P.S. must stay hidden" And we all know how THAT goes.

If they really want this to stand as its own thing in the Sonic franchise it can't have even a whiff of being boring to it, and the trailer really gives off a formulaic feeling to the whole thing. Even if they used a decent Sonic model there's just not much there that's interesting or exciting, and setting it in our world doesn't help at all. I'm not hopeful that there's going to be a second trailer that indicates at some legit-neat adventure hijinks in store with the final cut being full of Spider-Verse level fun.

At least Ben Schwarz sounds fine as Sonic, I guess?


I think he's had stuff in the works that got caught up in their respective development hells. And every aspect of Southland Tales imploding on itself probably didn't help much either. (If you didn't read the multiple tie-in graphic novels you wouldn't know what was going on, which led to disastrous reviews and total commercial failure.)

GashouseGorilla posted:

https://twitter.com/cinemalistings_/status/1123362823113850880?s=19

Stick Figure Mafia posted: