Movie Thoughts/Reviews Thread

[melancholy]

Spoilers ahead: My biggest critique is that they killed off Robotnic, but not before making him good... WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? YOU CAN'T KILL OFF ROBOTNIC, HE'S THE FUCKING BAD GUY OF SONIC! If Carrey doesn't want to do more, you recast the bad guy, not kill them.

Also the mid credits sting... Metal sonic and Amy... They can have more than 1 new protagonist per film, but I suppose the success of this will lead to another 16 movies and they can drip feed in one at a time.

I was so SO happy to hear the Traveling Wilburys and Robotnics dance to galvanize by the Chemical Brothers.
2 of my favourite songs of all time were just the icing on the cake of a great soundtrack.

I was also delighted to see Wade was in the movie, I hadn't seen him announced, and was saddened going in to think he was the star of Knuckles and wouldn't be in this at all, but his scene was a perfect call back.

The joke about looking like a pokemon was a great touch.

My son aptly pointed something out when we left the theater that could be used to solve that dilemma: Gerald Robotnik is the grandfather, but we never hear anything about who Eggman’s actual father is. This may be on purpose because if Jim won’t come back for Sonic 4, they could easily recast someone and have them be Eggman’s father. That would set up a Robotnik villain for several movies to come, and give them a pretty strong motive to kill Sonic (who basically had a hand in killing both his son and dad).

[ian]

Spoilers ahead: My biggest critique is that they killed off Robotnic, but not before making him good... WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? YOU CAN'T KILL OFF ROBOTNIC, HE'S THE FUCKING BAD GUY OF SONIC! If Carrey doesn't want to do more, you recast the bad guy, not kill them.

Also the mid credits sting... Metal sonic and Amy... They can have more than 1 new protagonist per film, but I suppose the success of this will lead to another 16 movies and they can drip feed in one at a time.

I was so SO happy to hear the Traveling Wilburys and Robotnics dance to galvanize by the Chemical Brothers.
2 of my favourite songs of all time were just the icing on the cake of a great soundtrack.

I was also delighted to see Wade was in the movie, I hadn't seen him announced, and was saddened going in to think he was the star of Knuckles and wouldn't be in this at all, but his scene was a perfect call back.

The joke about looking like a pokemon was a great touch.

My son aptly pointed something out when we left the theater that could be used to solve that dilemma: Gerald Robotnik is the grandfather, but we never hear anything about who Eggman’s actual father is. This may be on purpose because if Jim won’t come back for Sonic 4, they could easily recast someone and have them be Eggman’s father. That would set up a Robotnik villain for several movies to come, and give them a pretty strong motive to kill Sonic (who basically had a hand in killing both his son and dad).

Hmm, yeah, I'm sure that would leave them a window to work around any casting issues. There's numerous ways they could as long as they don't go with "And Eggman survived" which would be a cop out. He's dead now, they wrote themselves into this corner and writing a way out could prove lazy or stupid.

It's been too long since I've played the games to remember exactly what happened, but Gerald getting killed made total sense, as that always happened albeit in a different setting, as I recall. As did Sonic and Ivo teaming up albeit temporarily, I recall that has also happened so it made sense as well.

I should probably brush up on the Sonic Adventure games again, but I just can't play the newer ones to know what to expect going forward in the story. I simply cannot play anything from Shadow to roughly Forces in the 3D games and rush to boom in the 2D games. I've tried and I just can't so there's probably a whole shitload I'm missing and from this point on I suspect I'll be getting a LOT less out of more movies. I do still want to see all the movies recut with the trainwreck eyes. They took a lot from us long time sonic fans when they changed the eyes.
God damn it, from 2002 till 2017 we'd gotten used to sonic being shit, and just as we were excited to see the absolute peak of trainwrecks they change it and make it something good! It's confusing seeing sonic being good again.

We had 15 odd years of trainwrecks, and the one time I actually wanted and expected it, they went and made it bloody good!