39 Gedanken zu „The Heroes Who Fixed the Sonic Movie“
  1. Jim is correct. But art is subjective and the topic of sonic crappy design was the subject on everybody's mind. I could have looked passed the design, as I am am artists myself. But a design like the one in the original clip can be explained by an artist whos ego is so huge they believe a character concept such as sonic is Soo simple that they can quickly sketch some concepts over animate it with a hole lotta fur like texture and have yourself a finished product. As an artist and a fan I would've taken it as a challenge to get the character looking as close to the original game model as possible. Simply because we have the technology to bring picschu to life (through computerized animation)

  2. I can see Jim Carrey's point in that if you weren't remaking a beloved character, and you were just coming out with your own thing, and there was backlash about it and people had opinions as to what you should do, you should not cave to them and sacrifice your originality in favor of people's opinions. Whoever made abomination-Sonic must have put in work on him, regardless of how uncanny the design was. But the thing with remaking an already beloved and popular character is, if you don't honor the original design over your unique tastes and style, your remake will not be successful because the fans of the character, who have been fans of the character for years or even decades, will make up the majority of who sees your movie, and not appreciate your original tastes sullying a character who already has an expected image, personality, etc, thus dooming the film. If you are taking a character and making a movie with them, the least you can do is make it as close to the original as possible.

  3. I think if they released the movie the way it originally was, they would have made less money since the first trailer was so bad and nobody liked Sonic's design. By actually redesigning Sonic and releasing a far superior trailer, people actually wanted to go see. It ended up doing quite well at the box office and I think also the underperformance by Birds of Prey probably helped as well. Of course the film may have had more success if it wasn't for this pandemic. Oh well. At least we got Onward on Disney Plus early thanks to theaters being closed.

  4. I understand artists need to be allowed their creativity in order to get things done, however when you're marketing to the audience you need to take their opinion into account. If the fans (and I mean the actual fans, not the twitter parrots who say they're fans just so they could force change and hypocritically not support said change) don't like something, listen to what they have to say first before jumping gun. Look for what's complained about the most, fix it, and try to make your way down the list of problems that you're capable of fixing that doesn't directly dissonate the work's cohesion.

  5. Jim Carrey's rant is really misplaced in this situation. If they would have just done a good job with Sonic's design to begin with, they would have never had to "cave" to the millions of sane voices, aka the fandom. Loved the movie and am thankful for how they handled the mistake though. Probably my top 3 movie of the past few years.

  6. When you think about it, Sonic’s old design was always similar to the new design. Fans knew this and that is why they were outraged at first, because the film did not originally go with how Sonic was originally designed but decided to make him look like a monster instead with a new design. When the Felix was redesigned, they just went back to Sonic’s original look, and that is what pleased fans. What I mean is, Sonic was originally designed with big eyes and to look cartoony in the first place. The film completely changed his original design by making him look like a monster. When fans did not like the new design, the film went back to the old cartoony design, which made fans feel better. The problem was probably not exactly the new design. It was that the new design was not Sonic. If the design had been a completely new character then fans might have accepted it more, but it was not. When Sonic was created, he was finalized to look the way that he did 30 years ago, so the thing is, when something is created, if you make to many changes to it, especially the wrong ones, they can be catastrophic to it.

  7. Cut the nonsense. Just because these uncultured buffoons "changed" Sonic's underwhelming appearance doesn't change the overall quality of the actual film. Without any references and imagery related to Sonic's franchise, this is nothing but another half-witted and boring buddy movie with talking animals. There's legitimately nothing else this crap offers than abusing nostalgia and noteworthy celebrities forcing themselves to phone their performances as if their livelihoods were bargained at gunpoint. They didn't care about the source material even after the meaningless change and more idiots allowed themselves to be manipulated. It's time to open your eyes and realize this was a terrible film made for exploitation!

  8. Jim Carrey isn’t wrong, this was a great first step to allowing fans have immense impact towards a movie, but if this gets out of hand, which the internet is bound to do, it’s not gonna be good for upcoming movies. Wishing for people to use great influence for non-selfish reasons is like looking at Twitter and saying “My, what a humble community.”

  9. Jim Carrey, I love you, but that has to be the worst take I have ever heard. Movies are already a Frankenstein monster of different people working together. The director, the actors, the writers, the editors- why draw the line at the fans? Especially when the whole point is to profit off the nostalgia for the character. If you aren't making it for the audience, who are you making it for?
    Not to mention that Sonic is a pre-existing character- what about the original artists vision? How is changing his design making it more artistic?

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