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Sonic the Hedgehog |OT| The Fast and the Furriest
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Really fun movie. Sonic was awesome and looked great and the rest of the cast was great too.
I read on Twitter that people were walking out because it was racist and homophobic... And instead watched birds of prey with their families.
WHAT? It's scary how social media tries to destroy people and now fun family movies.
I read on Twitter that people were walking out because it was racist and homophobic... And instead watched birds of prey with their families.
WHAT? It's scary how social media tries to destroy people and now fun family movies.
I was seeing it was all a bunch of whiny DC fanboys who were somehow blaming Sonic for how bad the Harley Quinn movie bombed...even though Sonic wasn't out when it bombed so badly. XD
SEGA's been spitballing video game movie adaptations for about half a decade now
Sega Begins To Develop Video Game Adaptations For Film And TV - SlashFilm
Sega just realized that it has a bunch of video game properties that could potentially be adapted to film, TV, and digital series. OK, maybe the company didn't just realize this, but it is just putting plans in motion to exploit titles such as Shinobi and Altered Beast. At this point we don't...
www.slashfilm.com
Sega classics 'Altered Beast' and 'Streets of Rage' to get film adaptations
Sega's Mega Drive classics could be headed to cinema and TV soon
So I wouldn't be surprised if they come to fruition following the success of this movie.
I wanna take my wife to see it because she's a huge Sonic fan. My question for you:
How drunk do we need to be to get even remote enjoyment out of it?
If you're a Sonic fan you'll be beaming from ear to ear before movie even actually starts.
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I forgot to mention my favorite joke in the movie:
It's a meme started by Birds of Prey fans.
When Robotnik randomly stops and says "Interesting" in Japanese complete with a subtitle for absolutely no reason and never speaks in Japanese again I just fucking died. It's not really funny out of context but it was so stupid that it actually wrapped around to become brilliant.
It's a meme started by Birds of Prey fans.
It was super meh.
Surprisingly funny lines here and there and I like the slow motion scenes, but the movie takes forever to get going and the action set pieces were kinda weak. Carrey was great but some of his scenes felt crowbarred in to give him something to do.
It felt kinda 'small', like the production values and settings don't match the ridiculous budget the movie has. And my big gripe...
Surprisingly funny lines here and there and I like the slow motion scenes, but the movie takes forever to get going and the action set pieces were kinda weak. Carrey was great but some of his scenes felt crowbarred in to give him something to do.
It felt kinda 'small', like the production values and settings don't match the ridiculous budget the movie has. And my big gripe...
I can tell they know the movie they should have made; Eggman at the end looks and acts and even sounds like Pollock's version, and Tails appearing makes it clear to me that this movie's sequel is probably going to be what this movie should have been. The credits sequence was also godtier
Well, my wife is the Sonic fan.
So how drunk do I need to be?
I don't know. I can't imagine what it's like to not be a Sonic fan. My condolences.
This was a lot of goofy fun. The plot is nonsense and the product placement was cringe, but it really *got* Sonic as a character and the tone of the whole piece was pretty much spot-on for the assorted Sonic media.
Not gonna lie, I teared up a bit with the piano arrangement of Green Hill Zone theme near the end.
Not gonna lie, I teared up a bit with the piano arrangement of Green Hill Zone theme near the end.
I mean, how drunk would you need to be in order to see a kids movie? That's a pretty good indicator.
I have three kids, so I'm pretty used to it AND a Sonic fan, so I rather enjoyed it sober...I'm trying to think if there's anything that anything that would've landed very differently if I were not though and I cannot think of anything. So, it might not actually make you enjoy it, but would at least dull the pain I guess. XD
Yeah, that was super bad.
I'm happy for all the Sonic fans out there having their own first live-action of Sonic on the big screen though
In regards to video game movie adaptations I enjoyed Detective Pikachu far more than this.
Also, it was nice seeing Jim Carrey in a movie again.
I'm happy for all the Sonic fans out there having their own first live-action of Sonic on the big screen though
In regards to video game movie adaptations I enjoyed Detective Pikachu far more than this.
Also, it was nice seeing Jim Carrey in a movie again.
Sorta. It's clearly an origin story though, so it's certainly acceptable. He's not really the hero, but this is his journey to become that hero. I liked that part of it.
I'm glad someone else thought Carrey sounded like Pollock in that sequence. At the time I didn't know if the costume was playing tricks on my brain or what. Carrey was amazing in that scene.
I had 4 beers and a flask of Jim Beam.
It also helped to drown out the children.
I think that was my takeaway too. They had plenty of chances to toss in some familiar jingles, without taking over the score.
Was that a joke about Hillary's e-mails I heard? When Marsden's sister in law asks him what's under the blanket did she say, "Is that emails?"
To be this bitter...
this is the Sega version of marvel event movies.
SEGA's been spitballing video game movie adaptations for about half a decade now
Sega Begins To Develop Video Game Adaptations For Film And TV - SlashFilm
Sega just realized that it has a bunch of video game properties that could potentially be adapted to film, TV, and digital series. OK, maybe the company didn't just realize this, but it is just putting plans in motion to exploit titles such as Shinobi and Altered Beast. At this point we don't...Sega classics 'Altered Beast' and 'Streets of Rage' to get film adaptations
Sega's Mega Drive classics could be headed to cinema and TV soonwww.wired.co.uk
So I wouldn't be surprised if they come to fruition following the success of this movie.
Hopefully this means a return of Segata Sanshiro but to the silver screen.
A liter bottle of sake in the cup holder should do it. Regressed me into a 10 year old Sonic comic fan.
One part that did melt my heart in the movie
Thought that moment was pretty cool.
Was when they were at Rachel's house and her daughter gave her the classic Sonic red sneakers.
I'm hoping the sequel will be more creative with the design of Robotnik's robots.
I like that there was a badniks section in Robotnik's vehicle. I want to see actual badniks in the sequel, and captured animals being a part of his robots. He uses a piece of Sonic to improve his machines so he can move at Sonic's speed. I want to see Robotnik take that for other species on other worlds and have unique badniks based on different creatures abilities.
The original score for this movie sucks. Junkie XL is a hack. Outside of the use of Green Hill Zone and Hyper Potions, the score actively made the movie worse.
I wish we had gotten Alan Silvestri or something, especially since he also did the fantastic score to the Mario movie.
The vast majority of the appeal would be lost.
I wish we had gotten Alan Silvestri or something, especially since he also did the fantastic score to the Mario movie.
The vast majority of the appeal would be lost.
I completely agree with your spoilers and I want a sequel to this very badly for those reasons. Hopefully this does well enough where we'll get one!
I do have to say nothing about the sound in this movie stood out outside of the nods here and there.
It's one of those "Your mileage may vary" situations. I dunno if I'd call it great but it certainly wasn't awful.
Of course, I have a bad habit of overanalyzing film special effects. All I can think about the whole time watching the film is James Marsden talking to a roughly Sonic the Hedgehog-shaped rubber facsimile in practically every scene they're in together. I can't let my brain go enough to just take things at face value.
SEGA's been spitballing video game movie adaptations for about half a decade now
Sega Begins To Develop Video Game Adaptations For Film And TV - SlashFilm
Sega just realized that it has a bunch of video game properties that could potentially be adapted to film, TV, and digital series. OK, maybe the company didn't just realize this, but it is just putting plans in motion to exploit titles such as Shinobi and Altered Beast. At this point we don't...Sega classics 'Altered Beast' and 'Streets of Rage' to get film adaptations
Sega's Mega Drive classics could be headed to cinema and TV soon
So I wouldn't be surprised if they come to fruition following the success of this movie.
I tend to find movies that are made bad on purpose in order to become cult hits to be excruciating, but there's a tiny part of me that needs an adaptation of the GG Shinobi games that is styled after old Godfrey Ho movies.
So this was certainly done at the last minute and not part of the script or sequel plans if they got the same voice actress from Boom.
Got D-box seats (the ones that move with the movie) for this afternoon for $4 with the T-Mobile Tuesdays offer. Surprised it worked. Saved $20. I was originally planning to watch it in the theater in my town but tickets are always $6.50 so I thought it would be a waste to use the offer to only save $2.50.
Very excited. Never done D-box before and a Sonic movie from the Fast and Furious producers sounds perfect.
Very excited. Never done D-box before and a Sonic movie from the Fast and Furious producers sounds perfect.
Question for ya'll that have seen it:
How do you feel about the whole road trip aspect of the movie?
I'm seeing it Sunday but like... doesn't that seem like kind of a waste? It seems like a lot of the movie may be Sonic sitting down and quipping with Marsden, despite the main draw of the character being his immense speed.
How do you feel about the whole road trip aspect of the movie?
I'm seeing it Sunday but like... doesn't that seem like kind of a waste? It seems like a lot of the movie may be Sonic sitting down and quipping with Marsden, despite the main draw of the character being his immense speed.
They have really good chemistry together and tbh it didn't even feel like they were in the car for very long in the first place.
One of the scenes that got the one of the biggest laughs from my viewing was
when the little girl runs around in a circle shouting gotta go fas gotta go fast gotta go fast. I loved that.
I can't even imagine a potential Mecha Sonic with this Robotnik Design line. It would look amazing.
I thought this was pretty incredible. Way better than it had any right to be. The buddy road trip angle was great, the mixed live action looked great, and I thought it was going to be so terrible when I first heard about it.
Carrey was an inspired choice but I got way more from Sonic and Marsden. The kids in the cinema found him hilarious though which took me back to watching The Mask as a kid.
I would have preferred more adult jokes snuck in there but the thoughtful nostalgia made up for it.
Carrey was an inspired choice but I got way more from Sonic and Marsden. The kids in the cinema found him hilarious though which took me back to watching The Mask as a kid.
I would have preferred more adult jokes snuck in there but the thoughtful nostalgia made up for it.
I know the quill at the end Robotnik has is just a simple "he has power to work with to build more robots and shit" mechanic, but man it would be awesome to essentially retread the OVA and have Sonic/Tails/Knuckles fight Metal Sonic and Robotnik. His "obsession" with Sonic would be on another level at this point.
