Speaking of which, I'd like to see a CGI reconstruction of Christ's Passion in the style of the Ecce homo from the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
can’t believe they went with that musical choice when there’s a completely cromulent ear worm that exists https://youtu.be/yXmonb23VUU
― mh, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
i think it's time we addressed the elephant in the room here thothe sonic games are all bad games― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:00 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the sonic games are all bad games
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, May 2, 2019 10:00 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:18 (five years ago) link
man I was just thinking how great it would be if the movie used that ridiculous "GOTTA FOLLOW THAT RAINBOW" song instead of Gangster's Paradise
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
Tonight, the investors will sleep soundly, safe in the knowledge that they've put the fate of this film in the hands of someone who's demonstrated both consistently sound judgment and steadfast courage in his convictions.
Thank you for the support. And the criticism. The message is loud and clear... you aren't happy with the design & you want changes. It's going to happen. Everyone at Paramount & Sega are fully committed to making this character the BEST he can be... #sonicmovie #gottafixfast 🔧✌️— Jeff Fowler (@fowltown) May 2, 2019
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Everything_Is_Going_to_Work_Out_Fine.jpg
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:03 (five years ago) link
Like okay, if you start inadvisably installing a toilet on your own with zero plumbing knowledge, there are plenty of steps in the process where you can sober up and acknowledge that you're in way over your head and should never have even begun such a clearly disastrous undertaking in the first place. You absolutely do not and should not plow through regardless of your intense misgivings. But...what do you even do if you've been deeply involved in making a Sonic the Hedgehog movie and you eventually realize how deeply fucked you are? You can't just...run away and hide, can you?
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
At any rate, hope you enjoyed those nights and weekends while you had them, hundreds of people who will be redoing a ton of work that they probably already felt kind of sick about having done the first time.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
i think it's time we addressed the elephant in the room here tho
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, May 2, 2019 2:00 PM (yesterday)
i can't really get behind this, the early sonic games are stone cold classics w/ mostly great soundtracks
that said i wouldn't disagree if someone argued that sonic himself is kind of a bad character, he's pretty much the poochie of his era
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 3 May 2019 05:49 (five years ago) link
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― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link
fowler: "we've had the feedback. it's… not good news folks" everyone at paramount & sega: *sighs, stays silent* fowler: "they… they… they REALLY want to fuck the hedgehog"
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 07:49 (five years ago) link
that’s the thing, tho - we’re living in perhaps the most polymorphously perverse period in human history, where people take to twitter to express their longing to fuck pretty much anything imaginable, and NO-ONE wants to fuck this hedgehog despite there being a colossal pre-existing base of desperately horny deviantart posters whose desire for all kinds of sonic-based sex knows no bounds
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 08:44 (five years ago) link
That's making me start to like this Sonic and his new theme music U Can't Fuck This
― nashwan, Friday, 3 May 2019 08:49 (five years ago) link
the ivo in dr ivo "eggman" robotnik is short for "i, volcel"
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 08:55 (five years ago) link
Just watching this trailer again, the worst thing isn't Sonic, it's the scene with Jim Carrey and the general, how can you have such an unfunny comedy scene which obviously doesn't work and drags so much, played in full, in the trailer?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 May 2019 09:13 (five years ago) link
one has to assume it's because it's one of the best scenes in the movie
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
which is... troubling
Also those were probably the highlights of the full 25-minute scene.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
Lol yep
Seems a waste to fix the character design, that's the main reason this is getting so much attention. Makes me want to see it less, anyway. IMO should just go full-on Super Mario Bros. movie and release this weird trainwreck. They've clearly had no input from the fans thus far, why start now
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
tbfttl, if they'd had input from the fans this would be 90 minutes of pregnant sonic having his toes sucked by tails, while in the background a fetishwear-clad dr robotnik bursts balloons with his spike heels
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 09:51 (five years ago) link
the only good film
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 09:53 (five years ago) link
i'm not gonna lie, i'd prefer that to what it looks like we're getting
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link
You’d have to recast eggman in that case...right?
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 09:55 (five years ago) link
why, is jim carrey allergic to rubber?
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 10:05 (five years ago) link
Yes that’s why it was so cruel that the uk press constantly referred to him as “rubber-faced funnyman jim carrey”
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 10:06 (five years ago) link
the cruellest of ironies when u think abt it
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
this would be 90 minutes of pregnant sonic having his toes sucked by tails, while in the background a fetishwear-clad dr robotnik bursts balloons with his spike heels
they haven't released the red band trailer for the movie yet, so I still have hope
― Vinnie, Friday, 3 May 2019 10:27 (five years ago) link
*unzips*
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 10:32 (five years ago) link
Message Bookmarked
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 12:33 (five years ago) link
Seriously though, if the director wasn't a clearly desperate man who will entertain any advice which might serve to quell the endless flop sweat and nervous diarrhea, I'd be concerned with the precedent this sets re: suggesting to fans that petty bitching might actually be an efficacious superpower.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
this movie's reported budget is a trim $90m
i wonder how much extra it'll cost to fix ('fix') sonic's design
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
What if
Now hang with me here for a sec
These folks who created the Sonic we saw in the trailer and thought 'yes, perfect, that looks ready for public consumption'? Presumably the same folks now tasked with 'fixing' Sonic in a fever pitch based on the thoughts and opinions of random Twitter users?
What if they somehow make Sonic even worse.
What if that.
What if.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
We can only hope so
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
not just re-rendering it for the movie bug also presumably changing a ton of planned marketing materials for all regions....can't be cheap, I'd guess it tacks on another 10-15mil maybe
― Simon H., Friday, 3 May 2019 13:20 (five years ago) link
*but
What if this is the film that destroys Paramount?
So many tantalizing what ifs.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:21 (five years ago) link
Seriously pity the CG people working on this thing.
― circa1916, Friday, 3 May 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
the Mouth Squad has to be pretty demoralized right now
― Simon H., Friday, 3 May 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
speaking of the mouth squad, here's an exclusive peek at the redesigned movie sonic
https://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sonic-toilet.jpg
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
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― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
I'm just endlessly fascinated by these instances wherein someone pays a lot of money for the rights to adapt a well-known intellectual property with an established fanbase where there's a pretty clear path for making something that at least a portion of that fanbase and general audiences will enjoy but they instead decide to just say 'nah' and do their own barely-related thing that nobody asked for and few people will enjoy. Over and over and over this happens.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
Why is everyone assuming they are just going to redo the CGI on the Sonic design? I assume they will go and redo all the ugly CGI characters in the entire film. Like that unfunny character that looks a little like Jim Carrey? Totally unconvincing CGI, do it again.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 May 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
Did one of the execs have a weird kid who's mutually obsessed with Sonic and James Marsden and decide based on that evidence that that was a pairing the world was clamoring for?
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
Seriously, that Carrey routine in the trailer was a carbon copy of the shit he did in his prime 20+ years ago when I was a dumb teenager with no taste who still was all like 'ugh, this shit again' every time he got started on his 'ALLLLLLRIGHTYTHEN!' trip. You're inching up on 'Jerry Lewis in Hardly Working' territory here, Jim.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
RIYL Kangaroo Jack
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
I guess it's kind of admirable that studios are willing to make movies for people with traumatic brain injuries. They certainly deserve entertainment, too.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
I'm with OL
Jim Carrey doing the looking-aside, fast-talking monologue in that tone of voice followed by a pause and some ridiculous catchphrase or non-sequitur was this shtick he trotted out too many times, but apparently the director's entire concept here is "play this genius Doctor like he's Ace Ventura, evil scientist"
― mh, Friday, 3 May 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
Thankfully he's displayed a broader and more appealing range over time, but I was frankly over his 'Carrey cranked to eleven!!!' shtick by halfway through the first season of In Living Color (by which point I was only barely of a double-digit age) and will never understand why the rest of the world kept hungrily scarfing it down and asking for seconds.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
it was a very different timethen 9/11 happened and of course everything changed
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
ace ventura is funny you are all cancelled, also the new sonic is good now
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link