Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27370337-20160108053010/@comment-702085-20160113012747

Mystic Monkey wrote: I think the majority of the movies soundtrack would be entirely original. Perhaps Sonic games themes redone or made familiar, but I have a feeling the majority of the music will be entirely original.

The very least we'll get some cringe-worthy pop song to appeal more to a wide young audience.

Also, while I do believe the movie will be popular amongst Sonic fan, let's face it, video game movies rarely get more than a quarter good reviews in total movie critics. Only a handful like Tomb Raider, Resident Evil movies (when they were good), Prince of Persia and Pokémon (the first ones) got in over $25 mil on their first weeks yet most of these movies today have not aged well.

In fact I'm pretty sure 2016 gonna be a small era of video game movies, with Angry Birds, Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper and perhaps a few others, Sega perhaps wanna get in on this.

Another thing that won't help, regardless of Sonic's loyal fans, he still seems to have bad reputation to those who don't understand the fandom. They either see us an unfavoured fandom (such as calling us "autistic" regardless of our conditions) or Sonic games just bad regardless if they played them or not. There are those who are already itching to critisize the movie before we get to see the trailers or promotional images yet. Sonic has such a negative reputation at times I wonder if there are reviewers bribed to make Sonic seem worse than he is. (IGN, a review site, is known for it's shame of taking bribes from game corporates to give their games better reviews and ratings. I really wouldn't be suprised if this is used against other corporates to make have lower scores than they deserve.)

Don't get me wrong, I believe the movie will indeed be great. It's a Sonic movie for Sonic's fans. But I doubt it'll be regarded a box-office hit or have high praise like most Disney movies are these days. But still be a good movie for us fans to enjoy. Those three video game movies will be full CGI. I don't get the reason why Sonic the Hedgehog will be having live action CGI, when full 3D CGI is their best option.