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Bandicootfan63 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Tailsman67 wrote: I'mma give my 2 cents.....

The movie is going to get extremely low ratings, and fan backlash. why? Because this is the Sonic fandom, they won't accept anything that is not what they want, and because a US adaption of anything Japanese never gets good scores....except All You Need Is Kill....

But if the movie is about Sonic's orgin, they are mostlikely gonna use that sonic Bible crap......Cause we all know Sonic ALWAYS had his speed...

And for all you guys know, Sonic and Tails will be the only characters in the movie, hell Tails might not do anything.... I think you're half right.

I believe that the reason why the movie will have low rating is purely because it's a Sonic movie.

Movies based on games, especially for theatres, rarely get high ratings. They are often critisized for inaccuracies or simply not being up to par in compared to it's original games. It's why they go direct to video/DVD because the producers know only the fans will appreciate it so might as well cut out the middle man.

The only acception is Wreck-It Ralph where genuine game series were mere side characters and cameos and the new Ratchet and Clank movie coming out would perhaps appeal more to the younger audience who know little of the games series.

But there will always be harsh critism for Sonic, not just by fans but by gamers in general and "professional" reviewers as well, IGNorant ones who trash Sonic so bad you'd suspect they're paid to give bad reviews. Also Sonic has a generally low reputation to gamers who tihnk themselves mature or pro and care little of Sonic fan that they just take word for bad reviews and shrug off Sonic.

I only believe the Sonic fandom itself is partially to blame, both those who are keen to critisize the movie and those who, regardless of love or not, still give somewhat of an awkward impression of the Sonic fandom to bring about such critisism from others.

At least thats how I see it. I believe that even if the movie will score terrible, it will still be loved by the Sonic fans and that is whats improtant. Not about high praise, possitive reviews and award ceromonies, it would be nice sure but if the Sonic fan leaves the cinema very much happy and just as eager to buy it for DVD then that is all that matters. So they shouldn't care about literally the base of releasing any movie based on a game ever, which is to attract a wider audience. Very nice wisdom from the Sonic fandom. Most movies based on games I see are usually DtV and quality less than cinematic. In fact I think the only ones who ever got it right were Pokémon and Tomb Raider which were successful in the box office but bad in reviews and those producer sjust kept on trying like a magikarp outta water.

All in all while the first Sonic Movie only had so much to do with the games, still a beautiful piece of anime even if the dubbing was albeit poorly done.