Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler; Nov 8, 2019) Movie • Page 16

hmm this was very very bad. pretty obviously made for kids and just kids though

 

The grown adults who are getting offended that some people don't like a formulaic children's film are super weird to me. Went and saw this stoned (as many of you did) and it was clearly just made for people 10 and under and that's ok but people are defending it like it was a genuinely great movie and any person that wanted it to be better is a jaded idiot.

 

There’s definitely better kids movies but I saw a lot of stuff to like. My only complaint was the story didn’t seem to flow that well. But my 5 year old just wants to run outside all day long and say he’s Sonic. That’s a win in my book.

 

It's a kids movie for sure, but I actually dug this. Outside of the jokes aimed at kids I found it a lot more heartfelt than I was expecting it to be. Also Schwartz brings a lot to the role I think and straight up 90's Jim Carrey was a blast to watch.

 

I just hope this and detective pikachu were able to kick start studios giving video game adaptions a proper chance

 

Jim Carrey was very fun. He made the movie for sure.

 

Carey and Schwartz ruled. Just didn’t like the product placement

 

Let’s see what happens with the Mario movie

 

When you're here, you're family.

 

Product placement never bothers me. It’s more distracting seeing an item that’s been altered to not say Coca-Cola or whatever. That takes my mind out of it more than if someone is just enjoying a Coke.

 

But how do you feel about Olive Garden?

 

Have you heard about the never ending Pasta Bowls? They never end.

 

It’s animated so I don’t think we’ll see it merge with Sonic. I’d like to be wrong.

 

Oh I was just saying let’s see if that’s a successful adaptation

 

Unless it’s Stranger Things 3 where a character launches into an entire monologue about New Coke out of nowhere.

 

Sure but at least that was a real product

 

Maybe the Olive Garden product placement helped cover the re-design

 

Do you really think kids their age wouldn't have been talking about New Coke and debating whether or not it was better than OG Coke that summer? Like I never understood the complaints about this, it was a huge controversy when New Coke came out and replaced the original flavor.

I'm no fan of product placement but this one actually made a lot of sense.

 

But what about

 

pointless thing but in my English class we had to spend a class session watching all these product placement ads in tv/movies and write our thoughts on it. It was fun because some of those ads were shameless.

 

I mean, it's a minute of the show. But it doesn't come off so much as an argument as it does something out of the product placement scene in "Wayne's World." And "Stranger Things" already had a ton of more natural product placement. To have it be that blatant was weird.

 

The Olive Garden one was so blatant, it almost distracts from when one character says “come look at this beautiful apartment I found for rent on Zillow” followed by a full 3 second hold on a Zillow page.

 

I thought they were going to gasp at the $4000 monthly rent but nope lol