I disagree with the idea that original horrifying Sonic was a New Coke-esque fakeout to drive up publicity, but that means I have to live in a world where someone involved in this project passionately believed that a lanky, dead-eyed, human-toothed hedgehog man was what the kids of the world should see on their movie…

I’ll cite either Occam’s/Hanlon’s Razor here and say that, while it’s a cute idea, it’s far more effort than it’s worth to make that monstrosity of a thing to garner interest when they’d get plenty of positive reaction along the lines of “Whatever else you say, they nailed the look of Sonic” if they went with this new…

It looks kind of like a retread of The Smurfs, except with one fast blue alien instead of a bunch of small blue aliens. But Jim Carrey gets to ham it up in a villain role, so there’s potential for some fun there.

Have you heard of Corridor Crew on youtube? They all work for a VFX firm and do daily videos on this stuff. They recently mentioned that there was no crunch because the VFX team for the film had a significant amount of time after the movie got pushed back 4 months. I don’t know about pay though.

Props for “The Gate” reference. Stephen Dorff is almost a foot taller now!

And the whole controversy was worth substantially more in free advertising. (I’m not in the “it was intentionally shitty” camp, but if I were one of the execs, I’d be pretty happy with the tradeoff.)

I feel like that’s a pretty safe assumption for every movie.

It’s a dumb idea, and realistically one they wouldn’t do.
Logistically though, it wouldn’t be able to stay secret, especially for an IP that has such intimate ties to it’s fan community. The movie ended up bringing in Tyson Hesse (longtime Sonic fan, who ended up doing a lot of official art for the Comics and Sonic…

No. Stop it. I hate this stupid theory that it was designed shitty on purpose.

you misspelled was

Twitter users spitballed a $35 million figure based on... something, which would have been more than a third of the film’s $125 million budget. But Indiewire reports it took just $5 million to prevent future nightmares about a giant furball with teeth devouring us all.

You should watch Gamers for two episodes just so you aren’t misinforming your readers what it’s about. It’s a slice of life romcom first and foremost and gaming is the connection to them. Sort of like that convenience store anime this season except instead of a convenience store, it’s games. There’s a few big gaming…

So the title should read

This is the part that gets me. “it looks like it’s beginning to rain”

When I watched the first anime run (the one that went off the rails since it surpassed the Manga) I actually stopped watching the anime for 6 months (I was watching it as is aired) due to Hughes death. Brotherhood is by far the superior version, but the only thing the original series had over it was how more…

I actually consider Hughes’s daughter more depressing. The reason is the audience focus.

Nina I am transfixed by how much of a nonstere Tucker is, Tucker is still in that scene, he’s there to hate and Nina shows you how depraved he is and how far he was willing to go just for his own gains.

Hughes however, Envy is not…

Nina was a shock, but Elicia was just unfiltered heart-kicking.

omg yes

Hughes was my favorite character throughout the whole show. Even thinking about that death now still makes me sad. But that funeral scene was simply killer; way for the director to rub salt in the wound. =(

I second the funeral scene.