idk, we could have had that abomination, so i’d rather have a Sonic 3 movie playing it safe after Part Deux, instead of the trainwreckish alternate universum variant we didn’t get?
I mean, sure, trash flicks have their guilty pleasure gems waiting to be found, but Cats did remind everyone that critically acclaimed trainwrecks can fail to live up to the hype and be just… bad in a way that’s not even fun anymore.
And I’ve suffered through Glitter, so i can take some schlock in stride
n.b. read that as a canon Sonic post, makes it 100% better if you think about Sonic watching Glitter. 06 is canon!
Yeah I have to go against the general tenor of the last few posts and say my kids and all their friends love the Sonic movie and me and all the normie adults I know don’t give a shit about it.
That isn’t to say it isn’t also for funko sapiens but yeah it’s filled with triggers to set off preadolescent brains.
yeah. i mean i don’t mean that they are exclusively for adults? that would be insane. but they are definitely designed around the philosophy of resurrecting millennial shit for the sake of the olds. like i know sonic the hedgehog is still popular, but you can’t honestly tell me that this isn’t nostalgia pandering:
i honestly thought i would like the movie enough but i couldnt watch more then 20 minutes, which is weird to me. like i was expecting it to be at least watchable? but i got such whiplash from sonic losing his owl mom to dropping a bunch of pop culture refs within what felt like 30 seconds and it just kept doing that, i had to stop
Can definitely say my kid super loved the first sonic, and detective Pikachu, so eh. I didn’t hate either of them, which I’m sure makes me some kind of bad taste haver or something.
I will say that the normie gamers in work chat hated the first one a lot, so who even knows?
The strange thing about all of this is that kids watch so much YouTube that they wind up developing the affectations of nostalgic millenial essayists. It might seem like they would not pick up references like that cover art, but they’ve already ingested enough explainers to catch Easter eggs you’ve never heard of.
