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Sonic Takes Domestic Opening Weekend Record From Detective Pikachu with $70M 4-Day OW.
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I like Mania, and it might be the most overrated game that I've ever played that I also actually like.
I'm glad people love it, but it's not even as good as Sonic 2 or 3+K. Or particularly close to those two games.
Sonic has mobile games, he has/had? a cartoon show very recently, he's been a mainstay in Smash Bros for awhile now. Also kids are not likely to care as much about the quality of Sonic games as 20-30 year old gamers do. Whether it's Lost World, Boom or Forces, I'm not sure if most kids are going to play it and be like "The Sonic brand is so inconsistent in quality. Sonic was never good."
Aside from the avatar bet, the whole Sonic vs. Detective Pikachu thing here is very strange to me given that they're going to end up very close to each other in the end. Sonic will probably have a smaller international gross.
It absolutely stands along those two games. Saying it's not even "close" to them is insane.
If flossing was a thing in the 90's, Sonic would have done it back then.
If they don't call the sequel that it's a crime.
if they don't have a small cameo from Dante, from the devil mat cry series
But an after credits scene with a certain bat confirms confirms a "ultimate lifeform project".
It'll draw I swear.
I'd never heard of "the floss" before this movie. People kept talking about Sonic flossing and I assumed it was actual flossing so I was surprised and confused when there was no such scene in the movie. Eventually I realised people are talking about some dance. Further examination of YouTube comments leads me to believe this is some sort of Fortnite thing?
To sum up: I'm old
It's tied directly to certain crowds' needs to have video games taken seriously. The fact that every video game adaptation ranks somewhere between inoffensively mediocre and outright garbage bruises them.
Nah, it has really poor high-middle-low level layout, IMO, especially in the stuff that's not remixed. Press Garden, for example, feels unstructured, like there aren't defined paths that you can switch between.
BTW, saying that it's not close to 2 or 3+K isn't meant as an insult because I think 2 and 3+K are G.O.A.T. level and Mania is merely quite good. I'd put Mania at Sonic 1 level myself, and that's not a bad thing. Sonic 1 is a really good game!
Games are already so very mainstream/taken seriously. Same with live action anime adaptations where i don't need my interests validated by box office success, nor is that indicative of quality itself or the likelihood of a better sequel.
People who hate the dance will also love the fact that it wasn't originally there, and was apparently added after the trailer showing Sonic's redesign.
To be fair, Underground came and went very quickly. The fact that it still rocked the classic Sonic aesthetic (complete with the DiC Robotnik design that Sega of America kept pushing inexplicably since he never looked like that in any of the video games) when the rest of the franchise was moving towards the Adventure look probably made it easy enough to let it slip into the background.
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog on the other hand stuck around for years, Toon Disney was still playing reruns of it in the early '00s, and then Sonic X kind of took up the mantle as a Saturday morning staple. Years after they stopped producing new episodes it still regularly earned the highest ratings on whatever cartoon block was hosting it at the time (admittedly a dying enterprise), streaming had high engagement, etc.
As for the comic books... yeah, the Penders lawsuit was a black eye, but it managed to survive for several years in spite of that, and then when it finally was canceled they moved over to IDW almost immediately with essentially the same crew. Even with the Archieverse dead and buried, the Freedom Fighters are still fan favorite characters who the creators are trying to bring back, and I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually succeed. The fact that you had a licensed comic go on for 24 years and still have that legacy will never not be impressive.
I understand a lot of this flies under peoples' radar, Sonic is a kid-focused series and that's who this stuff is marketed to, but the series has never really been in danger of fading into obscurity, it's pretty much always had some kind of media keeping interest levels high. I wish Sega would give it another shot as an AAA franchise with that level of budget, maybe the movie will give it a boost.
Exactly. His character design simply resonates better with kids. Also, success in video games does not automatically translate to success at the box office. They are two totally different forms of entertainment.
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Wtf is he even saying in that scene? he has a big tank zero?
either way that's a downgrade. Its like a committee decision based on whats trending with the youth.
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I took my sons and really enjoyed it, it was a ton of fun. Will be happy to go see the sequel as soon as it comes out because of how well it's setup at the end of this one.
It was always there, the leaked plot synopsis from before even the first trailer came out said flossing was in the movie. That trailer scene is just the dance he does when he gets his shoes transplanted into a different enviroment. See also: the shots of Teen Sonic running in the desert that were put into Green Hill Zone just for the trailer.
Some people here thought that Detective Pikachu would reach 1 fucking billion because of the Pokémon ip, but the thing is: that wasn't Pokémon - The Live Action Movie. It was Detective Pikachu.
Still, super impressive performance for Sonic. Shows just how evergreen that desing is. Also how many teenagers would like to see Shadow having sex with Shrek.
Still, super impressive performance for Sonic. Shows just how evergreen that desing is. Also how many teenagers would like to see Shadow having sex with Shrek.
He does it more than once too, lol. The kids seemed to laugh at it.
I'm a huge Pokémon fan, and I did like Detective Pikachu's story overall, but I'll never forgive them for making such horrible representation of the Pokémon with that hyper-realistic look. Seriously, the way people felt about the original Sonic design, that's exactly how I felt and still feel about the Pokémon in the Detective Pikachu movie.
But anyways, since I'm apparently the only one that feels like this about the Pokémon in Detective Pikachu, I think Sonic earning more money it's a combination of the first live action Pokémon movied being based on an obscure spin off game rather than the mainline games or at least the anime, and that Sonic became a story of success everyone wanted to be part of, or at least to witness the final product of such story with a happy ending (except for that studio that had to shut down :s )
Heck, if the Pokémon movie was based on Pokémon Go instead, I bet more people would've gone to see it lol
But anyways, since I'm apparently the only one that feels like this about the Pokémon in Detective Pikachu, I think Sonic earning more money it's a combination of the first live action Pokémon movied being based on an obscure spin off game rather than the mainline games or at least the anime, and that Sonic became a story of success everyone wanted to be part of, or at least to witness the final product of such story with a happy ending (except for that studio that had to shut down :s )
Heck, if the Pokémon movie was based on Pokémon Go instead, I bet more people would've gone to see it lol
We go tomorrow because of Nostalgia.
And Sonic has been in a lot of trash, but keeps appearing everywhere. He's one of the most recognizable faces in gaming. People old and young know about Sonic. What he and Sega need is a good game. Ofcourse Mania 2 would be excellent, but also a good so called Triple A game. Perhaps one day if a competent team gets to work on it.
And Sonic has been in a lot of trash, but keeps appearing everywhere. He's one of the most recognizable faces in gaming. People old and young know about Sonic. What he and Sega need is a good game. Ofcourse Mania 2 would be excellent, but also a good so called Triple A game. Perhaps one day if a competent team gets to work on it.
Hell has literally frozen over. A video game movie....that's good? Honestly it's really good that Jeff Fowler who listened to feedback and acted upon it by making that decision to change sonic's design for the better gets rewarded for it by the critical and financial success of the movie. That literally made the movie for me especially considering how much screen time he got. This could've been yet another horrible video game adapted movie to sweep under the rug, but that change really made this movie great. Huge bravo to Jeff Fowler for making that critical decision to make the movie better. A great and fun movie I thought.
It's no even remotely crazy. Sonic has a classic design that appeals to children. It's got an animated main character with a lot of personality that communicated well in trailers. Sonic also has appeal and curiosity from older generations / parents going out to see the movie. Literally nothing about this movie doing decently is crazy, lol.
Sonic as a character is far from past his heyday, unless you're speaking specifically (and exclusively) to the quality of the video games. His design and appeal though? Still very healthy and alive.
I took mine. He's four next month. He got a little restless and there is some mild slapstick violence, but I don't think there's anything terribly inappropriate.
I think Sonic is the third best according to RT+MC which is still surprising.
It's very possible. They set up a story and setting that features the following:
- Eggman stuck in on a mushroom planet
- Tails existing and searching for Sonic
I thought the movie was really good. Yeah, it could have been better and a bit longer, but I was pretty damn impressed with how good it was. Theatre I went to was also packed to the brim with families. They just did a great job with it. I remember the other threads where people were saying this was going to be a train wreck, but as it turns out it is actually pretty good and it doing 70m is short of amazing for a Sonic or any game related movie.
A new Sonic Adventure game needs to be made...take your time with it Sega, perhaps have it ready for the sequel of the Movie.
A new Sonic Adventure game needs to be made...take your time with it Sega, perhaps have it ready for the sequel of the Movie.
I think more than just being a movie that stays true to its roots compared to Pikachu, Sonic just has an infinitely easier to translate premise. The basic gist of Sonic being a super powered individual who fights a technocratic mad scientist is ostensibly a super hero plot, and for the last decade we've been inundated with those, making the timing absolutely perfect for a Sonic film. Even if you made Pokémon's first live action outing more similar to the games, it still wouldn't have had that advantage.
I think that's why WB/Nintendo/etc. went with the Detective Pikachu premise and why, despite alienating some fans who wanted something more true to the core games, it was the right call; it's much easier to turn Detective Pikachu into a film than "catch Pokémon, fight eight gym leaders, tussle with an evil organization along the way". The movie has the benefit of organically telling a story within the framework of a movie and sink people into the world of Pokémon even if you don't know the details, although even that wouldn't have been able to compare to how easy Sonic has it and how there's a whole lot of subtle lore elements that people take for granted.
this guy set up a great sonic youth joke and everyone dropped the ball
Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Speeds Past $100 Million at Global Box Office
The Blue Blur saw a busy weekend with Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog movie pulling $100 million internationally in its opening weekend.
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Sonic's surpassed 100 million global in the box office on its opening few days.