Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24299835-20150220105227/@comment-24658561-20150905195232

I'm probably gonna watch the movie, but I'm really, really worried.

First, I have no idea what to think of it. A new Sonic the Hedgehog movie? Yeah, I liked the anime movie, but I have no idea what this will be like. The anime movie had a lot to do with Metal Sonic because he was a big thing back then. But today? The movie won't be about Sonic Boom, will it? Of course not, these characters can't keep a plot going for longer than 11 minutes. I have no idea what to expect from it, but I want to see a movie with some effort being put into it. Well, that's nothing special, everybody wants to see a movie with effort being put into it rather than some lifeless, boring movie. I have low expectations but I want it to have action, the characters should be at least recognizable and it should have something to do with the games.

What also makes me worried are past movie adaptations. The Smurfs is not even that much about the Smurfs, it's about some random guy from New York City learning what being a father is like and has basically nothing to do with the original. The Lorax is another example. The original story is a two sided conflict with a lot of heart and soul put into it, the 2012 movie just tried to be as hip as possible.

And then there's the fact that a lot of video game movies suck. Not all of them, but a lot. Why? They're mostly made by people who don't really know the games and just want to make money out of other people's nostalgia. They just look up the information on Wikipedia, but have no idea what the characters are like in action. (Reminds me of a certain spin-off, but we're not talking about it here.) And most people would watch a Sonic movie rather than something completely original. So the movie doesn't need to be good to make money.

For the 13 rating, I just hope they don't use it for DAMN fart jokes, but for a more complex story or some action scenes.

I will ignore my feelings for Sonic and the other characters and take a very close and critical look at it. I won't love this movie just because it's Sonic. It has to show me that it's worth being called part of the Sonic franchise. Some things succeeded doing so, others failed. We'll see.