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maybe i need to smoke less weed lol, i only watched wizards for the first time like a month ago but somehow i got the storyline completely scrambled in my head. doing an lp at least means i will remember it in detail forever, to be passed down to my children and grandchildren and become a strange piece of folklore over many centuries
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Captain Invictus posted:Not the dumb blue sonic-sized metal sonic, but the giant bare metal, covered in rivets one That ones Silver Sonic. I like in the comics where Sonic uses it as makeshift armour to fight an amped up Robotnik. Thought the movie was actually pretty good- unambitious, sure, but probably better for it. Also the closest thing to an origin story Sonic has ever gotten. As expected, Robotnik is the best part.
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Feb 18, 2020 11:33
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The next film better be Shadow the Edgehog
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A giant ring opens above the White House, tons of mechs come flying out piloted by Echidnas (robots piloted by animals, duh) that have allied themselves with Robotnik. Then finally, as the Egg Carrier comes looming forth, this music plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbhX7XKgkDU
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Barudak posted:The next film better be Shadow the Edgehog Rated R for gun use.
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Feb 18, 2020 12:56
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rated r for radical
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BioEnchanted posted:A giant ring opens above the White House, tons of mechs come flying out piloted by Echidnas (robots piloted by animals, duh) that have allied themselves with Robotnik. Then finally, as the Egg Carrier comes looming forth, this music plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbhX7XKgkDU lol just lol if you don't think that mushroom planet is gonna be roboticized and he's shoving small helpless forest critters into robot animals as power sources by the time part 2 rolls around while googling "roboticized" to make sure that was a word from sonic and not something I dreamed up, this was the first image result and lmfao I COMPLETELY forgot they made a 12-part Megaman/Sonic crossover comic where Dr. Wily and Robotnik are M'EGGA MAN. brilliant  this comic book cover is SO GOOD 
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Feb 18, 2020 13:37
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Funny thing is that the whole alliance predictably falls apart, because it's Eggman who is the proper sociopath of the duo.
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Feb 18, 2020 13:43
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Not surprising, Wily wants world domination, a relatively sensible goal. Eggman's always had ridiculous bullshit that he tries to do like awakening lovecraftian monsters to use their power to build a murderous theme park to kill a magic hedgehog. Wily wants something he can have and rule over, Eggman wants something dead. Wily's evil is constructive and in some ways occasionally subtle (like that one game where he frames Dr Light for building the evil robots) Eggman is purely destructive.
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Feb 18, 2020 13:49
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hallelujah posted:there's so much great fanfic out there to provide narrative inspiration that they had no excuse for a boring plot I'm looking forward to the sequel with such characters as sonic but with heterochromia, sonic but green, sonic but with a sword, and sonic but turqouise. Also, they are all friends with Gary Smith from Ohio, and think he is the coolest person in the world.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:sonic but green To be fair, Scourge was one of the few unfortunate casualties after the post-Penders reboot
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https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG/status/1229613622411878400?s=19
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BioEnchanted posted:Not surprising, Wily wants world domination, a relatively sensible goal. Eggman's always had ridiculous bullshit that he tries to do like awakening lovecraftian monsters to use their power to build a murderous theme park to kill a magic hedgehog. Wily wants something he can have and rule over, Eggman wants something dead. Wily's evil is constructive and in some ways occasionally subtle (like that one game where he frames Dr Light for building the evil robots) Eggman is purely destructive. In that specific case, it's also that the comics take on Wily is basically him wanting to prove himself superior to Dr Light and still having a twisted sort of friendship with him, just he considers world domination to be the stakes of their game, while Eggman just legit doesn't care what anyone thinks of him- in that they have any ability to think at all- and him trying to toss a captive Dr Light out the airlock is the last straw for Wily.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:16
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No-one wants to mention that the Sonic script is just the Bumblebee movie with the serial numbers filed off, even down to the ending in SF. 
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Feb 18, 2020 14:45
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Also, Sonic is basically just Dewey Duck.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:50
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"CGI ends up in the Real World and needs our help" is the kind of script that basically relies on execution because of how generic of a template it is. The fact that so many people think Sonic pulled it off feels like a solid endorsement of the movie's charm IMO. I think using an excitable, naive Sonic was absolutely the right call for it, too. Someone already mature and confident would feel odd being suddenly shackled to a cop.
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Feb 18, 2020 14:54
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Yeah, Sonic being impulsive and immature feels like a workable and natural take on the character. Whenever he's allowed to have a personality he's generally an entertaining jerk, and sometimes basically Bugs Bunny (plus Road Runner) but they actually lean into how he's canonically supposed to be a teenager. You can kinda see this take on Sonic growing into the carefree wanderer who makes friends wherever he goes and has a sense of responsibility even though he usually avoids it whenever possible. Interestingly they seem to be leaning into an occasionally implied idea in some material that humans in the Sonic-verse are technologically advanced but almost entirely lacking in magic, which other species take for granted (like the rings they use as portals) and Robotnik is uniquely talented but working off probably the most advanced active technological base in the setting. Sonic the Comic has a full on alien invasion where the aliens are humans.
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hallelujah posted:i was really worried! I'm transitioning away but it's important that people have to confront that sonic, bad. Like the most telegraphed, cliche, boring pandering mess of a film. Jim Carey did his best though, that guys committed.
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When are we going to get Hank the Chog?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRr7PzdxvIs
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Feb 18, 2020 19:08
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honestly i thought carrey kinda sucked in the beginning but he grew into the role and was definitely trying to sound like some of eggman's voice actors at points
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Feb 18, 2020 19:59
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Looper posted:honestly i thought carrey kinda sucked in the beginning but he grew into the role and was definitely trying to sound like some of eggman's voice actors at points Carrey underwent a slow descent from Jim Carrey to Dr. Eggman and it was beautiful.
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Feb 18, 2020 20:00
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Do you think Alf will ever make a comeback?
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Feb 18, 2020 20:00
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Do you think Alf will ever make a comeback? I doubt it, he's kind of a punchline for 'Weird 80s pop culture', and from all accounts it seems like his creator was kind of a nutball. Looks like they did consider rebooting ALF in 2018 but decide to cancel it.
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Robindaybird posted:I doubt it, he's kind of a punchline for 'Weird 80s pop culture', and from all accounts it seems like his creator was kind of a nutball. Looks like they did consider rebooting ALF in 2018 but decide to cancel it. Plus the guy who operates the ALF puppet is loving insane and no one will work with him.
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Feb 18, 2020 20:33
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I don't think an alien who eats cats would be met very positively these days.
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Feb 18, 2020 20:35
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ImpAtom posted:I don't think an alien who eats cats would be met very positively these days. I didn't like it in the 80s when I was a kid, either.
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ImpAtom posted:I don't think an alien who eats cats would be met very positively these days. Just change that to an alien who eats rear end and you'll be rolling in cash. I also mostly wanted to make this post to put the idea of Alf eating rear end in people's heads. You're welcome.
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The_Doctor posted:I didn't like it in the 80s when I was a kid, either. I loving hated Alf. He's loving gross and a jerk. If you told me Alf was a rapist I'd just be confused because he was a puppet. I despise him.
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Feb 18, 2020 20:41
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I never liked alf. gently caress alf, and his stupid rear end creature design. Who even design that poo poo?
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Feb 18, 2020 22:29
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Do you think Alf will ever make a comeback? Yes. In pog form.
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some guy created a duplicate wizards lp in gbs, he hasn't provided any content and it's just full of the most miserable goons imaginable talking about how much bakshi sucks  i hate gbs! they repulse me!e: oh good, he just started posting content. now we have duelling wizards threads, and everything is as it should be hallelujah fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Feb 18, 2020 |
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The Sonic movie's weird in that it's actually a relatively new thing for the franchise, out of long-forgotten non-canon comics: an origin story for both Sonic and Robotnik. Even the fairly cursory details about their childhood and backgrounds are a lot more than pretty much any previous material, and inform their characterisation startlingly well. Sonic is a very social being who's been heavily isolated, and Robotnik a near-sociopathic genius with a terminal case of Smartest Person In The Room syndrome who is barely tolerated as a US government asset because anything you point him at tends to stop being a problem very quickly.
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Robotnik's also interesting because of his anecdote. His initial outburst was a result of being beaten up as a child and reacting very strongly. He always claims to not need anybody, but clearly loves Agent Stone as a colleague and even has an analog for him on the Mushroom Planet as a coping mechanism, implying that he misses him. He's probably going to return to Earth and be really happy to see the real Stone again after years of taking him for granted, like he never realised how much he actually needed other people until they were no longer around.
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I wonder how many sequels they'll try for. one? two? thirty? they're completely hamstrung by how many Jim Carrey wants to do, though. He's clearly in it for the next one, but I wonder if he'll drop out past that. The movie's made nearly 60 million on its opening weekend which is, well, that's a lot more than I expected honestly, and the showing I went to was a sold out sunday afternoon, with the following showing also sold out. They've gotta try to milk this thing for all its worth, but I really wonder where they go from here. I really hope they go way harder in the direction of the sonic bullshit. turn the fungal world into a variety of the robotnik zones. have the animals from sonic's world generate energy and thus robotnik wants to stuff'em in ladybug and fish robots as power sources to take over the world. throw in Scratch and Grounder as lackeys, I don't know. There's a bunch of bullshit they could pull from, hell they could even go the route of the saturday morning cartoon instead of big the cat and amy. actually, I'd prefer that, over having big the cat and amy appear in any sonic movie
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Amusingly in my showing the thing that got the biggest audience reaction was Robotnik shaving his head with a sharp rock, the whole audience audibly winced at that.
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Captain Invictus posted:actually, I'd prefer that, over having big the cat and amy appear in any sonic movie congratulations, your opinion has been disqualified
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Feb 19, 2020 14:52
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Hear me out - it's Big the Cat, still John St John, but he's doing the Duke Nukem voice.
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Feb 19, 2020 15:00
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Looper posted:congratulations, your opinion has been disqualified
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BioEnchanted posted:Hear me out - it's Big the Cat, still John St John, but he's doing the Duke Nukem voice. Lets compromise, Big the Cat but he says "Trans Rights"
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