Sonic Live Action Movie Thread (Read OP for topic rules) "Trailer 2 on Page 482)

[ShadowSJG]

Yeah.........not looking good.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

You got to love how the proportions is still completely off and looks like you slapped Sonic's head on a man's body.

[CaptainRobo]

One of the renders seen on one of these leaked pictures remind me of this.:

[Eurisko]

It could be better , but it could have been a whole lot worse. It could grow on me.

Maybe.

[PeterPancake]

3 minutes ago, Mayor D said:

Just explain to us all what is so edgy about dipping your hands in white paint instead of wearing gloves?

For the same reason why Captain America has a wing decal on his helmet instead of literal pointed wings like he does in the old comics. The same reason why Thor is not wearing bell bottom yellow boots. The same reason why Batman and Superman no longer wear trunks. It's about translating the design to live action in a way that updates it but pays homage 

[Tracker_TD]

1 minute ago, CaptainRobo said:

One of the renders seen on one of these leaked pictures remind me of this.:

All of the art is just bastardised versions of pre-existing Sonic art. In particular

- Sonic's 06 render

- Sonic's Smash 4 render

- Mighty's Mania art (?!?)

[The Tenth Doctor]

5 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

It's not about him lookin like an animal on Earth. Sonic as presented in this movie looks nothing like any animal known on Earth. But there's a reason why ET did not look like a cartoon plastered into the real world. We're talking about the difference between a creature that is believably real and something that looks like it belongs in another plane of existence where everything is animated 

Thats a bad way of looking at the universe. Not everything in the universe looks real. There are photo's of phenomena that many people look at and think "Oh, thats edited" and then find out its not. We humans are so small minded that we think we are the pinacle of evolution, nothing could be above us. We conquered out planet, anything that is successful elsewhere must look like us or I don't believe it is real. Its a pitfall most sci fi falls into that every alien normally looks human and this seems to be going the same way.

[Big-C]

Oh my god, it actually looks worse than I thought it would be.

[Tracker_TD]

Just now, PeterPancake said:

For the same reason why Captain America has a wing decal on his helmet instead of literal pointed wings like he does in the old comics. The same reason why Thor is not wearing bell bottom yellow boots. The same reason why Batman and Superman no longer wear trunks. It's about translating the design to live action in a way that updates it but pays homage 

But there's nothing unrealistic or unusual about gloves like there is having winged helmets or something. He's wearing trainers already. 

[Wraith]

I'm glad Sonic is emulating the creative and inspired realm the last 20 years of mainstream superhero movies. Now I know I'm in for something fresh and exciting

[Ryannumber1gamer]

1 minute ago, PeterPancake said:

For the same reason why Captain America has a wing decal on his helmet instead of literal pointed wings like he does in the old comics. The same reason why Thor is not wearing bell bottom yellow boots. The same reason why Batman and Superman no longer wear trunks. It's about translating the design to live action in a way that updates it but pays homage 

You're arguing human beings wearing ridiculous pieces of clothing to a walking talking hedgehog with red trainers. How is this an accurate comparsion whatsoever? I think if anyone was going to find something to complain about Sonic's design and realism, it'd probably be the - again - walking, talking hedgehog, and not the fact that he wears gloves.

Or are gloves unrealistic too?

[PeterPancake]

9 minutes ago, Heckboy said:

But there's live-action movies with extremely cartoony CGI characters already??? There's no reason you couldn't just... drop a tweaked Modern design in the real world and call him a weird alien experiment or something

Live action movies that are aimed at small children and are completely self-aware. Roger Rabbit is nothing like what this movie will be 

[SaturnWolf]

This movie is coming out after a slew of Marvel movies that got the designs and how they could and should work down. Even if you consider that, after it went to Paramount, things were likely only finalized not THAT long ago, there's absolutely no reason for this movie to be so far beyond they struggle with the very basics of translating a character's design.

[Osmium]

5 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

For the same reason why Captain America has a wing decal on his helmet instead of literal pointed wings like he does in the old comics. The same reason why Thor is not wearing bell bottom yellow boots. The same reason why Batman and Superman no longer wear trunks. It's about translating the design to live action in a way that updates it but pays homage 

Great update, they made him look like a Chinese knock-off plastic figurine. It's genius marketing. 

[Gabz Girl]

Only just realised he’s mimicking some of the CG Sonic poses and it does not look good. It’s not horrible, but it’s still a bad design lol. Can’t imagine what Tails and the others would look like so I’m quite glad they don’t seem to be in this! =D 

[Badnik Mechanic]

5 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

For the same reason why Captain America has a wing decal on his helmet instead of literal pointed wings like he does in the old comics. The same reason why Thor is not wearing bell bottom yellow boots. The same reason why Batman and Superman no longer wear trunks. It's about translating the design to live action in a way that updates it but pays homage 

You just defended a character dipping their hands into paint to make it look like they're wearing gloves...

You just did that.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

3 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

Live action movies that are aimed at small children and are completely self-aware. Roger Rabbit is nothing like what this movie will be 

Really? Roger Rabbit is aimed at small children? 

To be clear - the movie that released with a PG during the time that actually meant something, was based around someone being murdered, his brother going through depression, racism, and alcoholism, and a completely psychopathic cartoon character who actually invoked Uncanny Valley well to become tried and true nightmare fuel, as well as characters who play on a lot of controversial topics, that's your idea of "aimed at small kids"? 

Dude, do you even look at these movies beyond the poster? Because if you really think Roger Rabbit was made to be aimed at solely at children, and not all-ages, as in both age groups, then it's pretty clear you have no idea what you're talking about.

[PeterPancake]

1 minute ago, Ryannumber1gamer said:

You're arguing human beings wearing ridiculous pieces of clothing to a walking talking hedgehog with red trainers. How is this an accurate comparsion whatsoever? I think if anyone was going to find something to complain about Sonic's design and realism, it'd probably be the - again - walking, talking hedgehog, and not the fact that he wears gloves.

Or are gloves unrealistic too?

I'm just trying to look at this from the filmmaker's perspective. Trying to understand and make sense of what they did. You can compare Sonic to Howard the Duck in the MCU who also got a realistic facelift. He's now wearing pants and no longer looks like Donald Duck but like a duck-like alien. 

[Marcello]

5 minutes ago, Tracker_TD said:

All of the art is just bastardised versions of pre-existing Sonic art. In particular

- Sonic's 06 render

- Sonic's Smash 4 render

- Mighty's Mania art (?!?)

 I think the last one is the Generations render:

Arms are different, but the legs are a match.

[Heckboy]

3 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

Live action movies that are aimed at small children and are completely self-aware. 

So this is to make older viewers feel better and more adult when watching a Sonic the Hedgehog movie in 2019?

4 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

Roger Rabbit is nothing like what this movie will be

Shame, maybe this movie would've had a chance of being good then.

[PeterPancake]

1 minute ago, Mayor D said:

You just defended a character dipping their hands into paint to make it look like they're wearing gloves...

You just did that.

He didn't dip his hands. That's likely the natural color of his hand fur. Wherever Sonic comes from, all of his people have it. 

 

That's like saying a black, brown and white Cat dipped himself in white to get that color. It's his natural coat that is the result of genetics 

[SBR2]

He looks...bad but like nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. I hate the white hands and the fact he has a patch of white fur between his eyes to give the feeling of the unieye...and yet it's not like Michael Bay TMNT level horrific. It's just a questionable redesign and I think I can deal with that. 

[Blacklightning]

3 minutes ago, PeterPancake said:

I'm just trying to look at this from the filmmaker's perspective. Trying to understand and make sense of what they did.

The fact that you have to go to these kinds of lengths in order to try and excuse what they're doing, and that even you admit to not fully understanding why, should be pretty telling in of itself.

[Wraith]

This movie would probably be way better if they were aiming squarely at the 'small children'

they don't look at cartoon characters and get scared at what their fellow adult friends might think or start to calculate how his noodle limbs hold his weight with their adult mathematical equations and weep at the bastardization of science before them
 

[Heckboy]

To be honest I do kind of understand the logic of wanting Sonic to be more realistic in this kind of movie. I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to it either. I'd be open to a unique take on Sonic, similar to how I can appreciate what the Mario movie went for.

But this just looks bad and unappealing.