Dr. Robotnik instead of Eggman way to ruin it lol.

I thought both were legit names, just region/translation differences...

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April... Newest Trailer came out today (November)

I seem to forgoten that bit actually it was more of a joke from me, that why i wrote lol.

Another thread back from the dead. Not that I mind, but it's curious.
Movie so far seems eh and I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it. A redesign ain't fixing any deep issues with the final product.


You do have a point. It was a homage to arcade video games, much in the same way as Toy Story. It made a believable plot and had a good moral to top it all off, whereas some movie adaptations just exist. Not that any of what I said determine a movie to be bad or good, but more that I'm saying it put a high bar for adaptations.

The entire second movie was like that. Rather than focus more on the stories that could be told with the arcade machines or the games, they plugged to the internet. Then we spend a whole movie solving a problem the protagonists created, discovering not!YouTube, and gazing at the giant Google tower. A much better idea would've been to talk about how characters in video games are ultimately at the player's whims and the possible consequences of not abiding to our controlling them, which is how WIR2 started before shifting focus to the internet's whimsical nature. The foundation was there, but wasn't used well.

Maybe, maybe not...we will see I guess.

Ok then, but as for me: I don't care about bars....I mostly care if a movie is fun to watch. :)

Haven't seen it much except for bits of it, but I hear they also went back on the "be yourself and accept it" thing in the first one to "change at all costs to feel better" in the second.

By bar, I do mean if it's fun or an obvious cynical cash grab.

Ah, in which case then I've seen both movies to tell you that...probably. Although I'm not sure when the boundaries of "be yourself and accept it" ends and when "change at all costs to feel better" begins. Because in my opinion, change can stem from yourself. That said, the shift in message is just the tip of the iceberg.

That said, Ralph wasn't OK with what's Vanellope doing. Well, until the end.

Or maybe go with the first movie's original premise.

I get the feeling from deleted scenes and original sketches available, that Felix was more a self-centered asshole which prompted Ralph looking for somewhere else to be, but in the end is jumping from game to game to game in the arcade trying to get back home. The girl Moppet playing realizes he's in the wrong game and is trying to help him get out. At some point Ralph getting stuck in a mobile game where it's always raining coins and happiness forever (as there's no fail state/gameover); Felix finds him and convinces him to go back where he finds his original game is best suited for him... Basically...

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Visually displaying the internet is nearly impossible as it's nothing but packets going back and forth (IP from/to, TTL, blob of Binary data, etc), while WIR2 seemed to go more the Emoji Movie Route. And the plot.... i wasn't impressed with, especially introducing the Disney princesses (some of which are NOT princesses, and the ending of 'girls save Ralph' was right at the line).

I'd've been more interested with Ralph and them in a theater like Mystery Science Theater 3000 and them just talking about the history of video games, problems and solutions (not too unlike Once Upon Atari documentary), limitations and arcade time before it died out in the 90's and only a handful really exist anymore, going semi-documentary and possibly them entering the game(s) and seeing how they'd look/interact with the world. Though maybe that doesn't make for a good movie, it would make for a nice Youtube series and wouldn't take a lot of work to make with just programmers and gamers shooting off stuff with gameplay visuals going on, possibly with additional characters like Sonic/Tails/knuckles entering when their game is on display and talking about problems on the original genesis or how good/bad the game went for Sega.

Heck, even for cahs grabs if they are good i'll enjoy em. :)


Then he gave in, though.