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
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/PM8TDB/studio-publicity-still-from-heavens-gate-christopher-walken-1980-united-artists-all-rights-reserved-file-reference-31715204tha-for-editorial-use-only-PM8TDB.jpg
― 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
idk I prefer all this to the horrorshow that is woke carrey tweeting his dumb pictures at the president, as though writer and activist russell brand weren’t already crucified for our sins
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
I begrudgingly went with friends to see Ace Ventura 2, which is still the only time I've ever fallen asleep in a movie theater. Although I woke up for the part where he erupted from the rhino's anus and I'll admit that that was p funny.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
(Although tbf emerging from a rhino's anus has been a reliable gag since time immemorial.)
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
exiting the vampire's castle 2: when hyoerstition calls
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
funnier w/o the typo i admit
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
Ace Ventura is funny but also viciously transphobic and racist so I have to get my “guy makes his bum talk” fix elsewhere sadly
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/buff-sonic.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 3 May 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
and you get that fix now from donald trump press conferences amirite xp #resist #itsmuellertime #orangemanbad
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
I get it from my upcoming novel about le petomane
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
I still don't see how Danny DeVito didn't get the Dr. Robotnik role
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Probably had something to do with the state of intense inebriation which led to him stumbling into the audition in the first place against the slurred advice of his drinking buddies as they implored him to think about his career.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
Now I want to see a Sonic movie with a constantly-drunk DeVito. Preferably starring in all of the major roles.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
i like jim carrey and thinks he's funny.
alrighty then
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
I'm sure he's a total douche irl - see anti-vax stuff and his "i do not exist" schtick
It's all subjective but I find that I only really tend to like comedians who act like they've never witnessed actual human behavior when there isn't a patina of self-satisfaction slathered across every exaggerated expression and odd turn of phrase.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
I sort of liked zany 90s Jim Carrey, and genuinely liked him when he did The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine, and this is a lot worse than a step backwards from that. Also it doesn't help that he has the worst script of all time to work with and is compensating for the lack of jokes with extra gurning. His drawings are horrible, it was good that they annoyed Mussolini's granddaughter, but that's about it.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:31 (five years ago) link
Jim's "Dark Crimes" era didn't pay off well
https://www.slantmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/darkcrimes-2.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 3 May 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
That film is so bad
― milkshake chuk (wins), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
this was the nadir
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/8/11/1376223731535/Jim-Carrey-in-The-Number--010.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3a0241aa940b6ab61ea22b16d273511b
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:34 (five years ago) link
First look at revamped Sonic is promising
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VkrHEYKSirg/hqdefault.jpg
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
this was the nadir🖼
― maura, Friday, 3 May 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
Is it possible that an exec on the UglyDolls movie plays golf with some higher-up at Paramount and was all like 'yeah bro this thing is gonna be huge, better look out Sonic!' knowing full well that it was 80 minutes of dumpster runoff but still spooking the other dude into pushing out the Sonic trailer this week in hopes of dominating the shitty CG conversation? Because if so, it was totally successful. I had no idea a goddamn unnecessary UglyDolls movie was even in the works let alone being released, uh, today.
― Ce Ce Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 May 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
just ducking in to say that I was listening to Fun House while browsing this thread and "L.A. Blues" came on just as I hit play on that youtube vid of the "you all ruined sonic" kid and those two things playing simultaneously matched up just... perfectly. Mashup of the year, I highly recommend it.
― One Eye Open, Friday, 3 May 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/LloVK8V3B7— James Urbaniak (@JamesUrbaniak) May 3, 2019
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 3 May 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
I'm so sorry pic.twitter.com/wGP0B6jNN2— Fred Delicious (@Fred_Delicious) May 3, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 3 May 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
improves both
― Lars Ulriac Quintet (Leee), Friday, 3 May 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link