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Pokemon Live-Action Film Lands 'Gravity Falls', 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Writers
Boy, this one completely flew under the radar for me. Initial announcement article.
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Right after Pokemon Go blew up, I had an odd feeling talk of a live-action movie would start. This seems like it's been in the making for a while though, especially given Alex Hirsch tweeted about "hypothetically" making a live-action video game movie a few months back.
I'm so unsure of how to feel. I love Alex Hirsch, everything that man touches (so far) is gold, and GotG was fantastic - I'm just not sure either of their particular skill sets lend themselves to Pokemon, even if Detective Pikachu is intended to wind up being a dramedy. I'm mostly, uh, concerned with how a 'live-action Pokemon' would look. What sort of aesthetic do they go with? How do you make CGI Pokemon without going down the pseudo-realistic route? |
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"Film adaptation of a video game." You could stop right there and know how to feel about this, unfortunately. But hey, let's say that's not a good enough reason to doubt the film'll be good (nor to knock attempts at making the first great film adaptation of a video game). I'd still say I'm pessimistic about this one. Pokémon movies aren't known for their good original stories. Neither of the two writers on board are known to be as big into Pokémon as someone on UPN is. (In other words, this isn't another J.J. Abrams does Episode VII or Simon Pegg does New Star Trek 3.) People have loaded expectations from the ShoPro anime and the Game Freak games. I just don't see it working well. It's gonna take a miracle to pull off a great live-action Pokémon movie that comes first in line. Maybe if we ever get to a point where there's a second or a third things'll be ironed out, but being an 8/10 or better first out of the gate ... that's a tall order.
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08-17-2016, 12:00 PM | #5 |
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This gunna be awful
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The only thing missing in this to really reflect my expectations of a Live-Action Pokémon movie is the involvement of Uwe Boll.
And even then, after the tremendous "success" of Dragonball Evolution and The Last Airbender I wouldn't be surprised if my already low expectations won't be met.
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08-17-2016, 02:05 PM | #8 |
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No, thankfully not, but it would reflect my expectation.
Some things just aren't meant to be "Live-Action", we've seen that with ATLA and Dragon Ball. And in my opinion Pokémon belongs to that group too. The way it's likely going to be is just how Talon describes it, and I don't see it working either. I'd still go see it though, I absolutely love the Dragon Ball franchise and despite the critics I went to see Evolution anyways. Terrible movie from a continuity/canon perspective, and it annoyed the crap out of me, but even if the Pokémon movie would go that way, as a fan you have to take the bad with good. Speaking for myself I enjoyed the quality of the anime even more after Evolution so there's always that if this Pokémovie goes that direction too.
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Tbh, as hard as I try, I can't come up with something more constructive than "LOL."
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The problem is that Detective Pikachu was a fairly limited story wise. I'm not sure how they could expand on it or if they will at all
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Well of course it's going to be awful. But then so was Mega Evolution and look where we are now. Pokémon will continue.
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Ryan Reynolds cast as Pikachu.
I'm a little less cynical about the film now than I was a year and a half ago, though I still doubt it'll be a great film. I at least hope it'll be passable, decent. Guess we'll just have to wait and see. What little I have seen of the source material does not inspire me with confidence, but then again, I haven't seen much of the source material.
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I expect the movie to be a modest box office success. Not going to smash any records or be the highest grossing film of whichever month it releases in, but will certainly cover costs and make a decent profit. I think the rabbit-like, life-like Pikachu is pretty adorable ... but is also in an uncanny valley of unrecognizability in some senses. Like ... I know what I'm looking at is supposed to be a Pikachu. Clearly. But often times I look at Reynalds' CGI avatar and I don't think it looks like a Pikachu at all. It looks like a knock-off imitation. I guess this is just the fundamental problem of trying to translate the anime / manga-style creature designs over into the real world.
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I was so against the idea of a live action Pokemon movie. We all know how big of a train wreck the attempts to turn Dragon Ball and Avatar into live action were. But Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Detective Pikachu? Sign me the hell up! The trailer actually made me want to see the movie, if not just for more Ryan Reynolds as a Pokemon. The idea to go comedy is bang on, you were always going to struggle to pull a serious movie unless you sunk a tonne of money into decent CGI for the Pokemon. |
11-12-2018, 02:34 PM | #15 |
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That Pikachu look would be fine on an Eevee, especially Ash's. It doesn't look right on Pikachu and makes it look fat/prepared for winter.
A short-haired Pikachu would have been more fitting I feel. It's up to the artists to strike a balance between yellow skin and shaggy yellow fur.
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11-12-2018, 07:18 PM | #16 |
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The creative talent behind the
https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/955654634873344000 If you look at the art (plastered wallpaper on that twitter account), I think you'll instantly recognize the art style. He's responsible for the hyper-realistic Pokemon fan pieces that have been circulating for years, and originated from DeviantArt.
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11-13-2018, 07:47 PM | #17 |
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I think this look like it's gonna be fun as hell, even if the designs are a little different than what people expected.
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11-13-2018, 08:22 PM | #18 |
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i find it amusing how many people were losing their shit over the electric mouse Pokemon having, you know, fur
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I think I expected it to have hairless cheeks.
The number of people freaking out about Mr. Mime's hair is astonishing, because it was clearly never meant to be hair lol.
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