Ratchet & Clank

That's what they get for rehashing the first game again.

>Caring about reviews
Holy shit just watch the movie and see if you like it yourself

>>82290674
B-buh-but muh Rotten Tomatoes..:!!

>>82290674
Fuck you.

>>82290674
Review embargoes are never a sign of positivity.

>>82290674
stupid logic

>>82290614
to be fair it looks really pretty

>>82290601
>The reviews that are being posted are resoundingly negative
Well, can't say I'm that surprised.

>>82290674
>reviews are negative
>don't read reviews
>pay money to see it
>complain you had a bad time
FUCKING WINDOWS 98

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>>82290601
I guess they released the game first hoping to drum up hype for a movie they knew would suck...

Good video game movies will never be a thing.

>>82290847
scott pilgrim and wreck it ralph are honest-to-goodness decent video game movies

>>82290847
At least we have wakfu and crush-it chris

>>82290847
>he didn't like the Super Mario movie

anyway what about anime? I'm no weaboo but.... pokémon.

>>82290863
>Scott Pilgrim.

A movie based on a graphic novel.

>Wreck It Ralph.
A movie about fake video game characters that had cameos from actual video game characters.

Got anymore?

>>82290919
fuck off with your pedantry. they both incorporate video game logic, motifs, and elements in their core design.

>>82290601
At first when I heard about the ame releasing with the movie , I thought "Well , They have just released a game to cash in with the movie"

Having played the game now and seeing the trailers again, it feels like the exact opposite:Creating a movie so can it can cash in with the game.

Being a nostalgiafag who loves the saga, its so fucking sad we get something of this caliber

>>82290601
You have any links to those reviews, by any chance ?

>>82290966

That's still not a video game movie. We're talking about movies based on existing video games or video game franchises.

>>82291080
Unbreakable is not based on a comic-book.

It is still the best comic-book movie ever made.

>>82291120
unbreakable is not a good movie

shamalalien is a hack

>>82290905
>He liked the Super Mario movie

>>82291120
Call it a superhero movie, not a comic book movie.

Is Qwark still evil in this one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_video_games

this list is pretty pathetic

spirits within, uwe boll, and the resident evil movies are the most notable. also they can't ever get hitman right.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/28/ratchet-and-clank-gives-video-game-cut-scenes-a-bad-name---revie/ jesus christ, that's a shitty review. Are people really taking this movie seriously to review it? They seem like just comparing it to other animated movies and throwing it aside

>>82291255
what else are critics supposed to do?

>>82290601
What could possibly go wrong!?

>>82291149
One day you'll have to stop sucking dick anon. Why not today?

>>82291173
The movie references comic books extensively and almost all of the foreshadowing is based on comic imagery.

Shyamalan also eschewed his "Discount Spielberg" sensibilities and framed all shots like comic panels. What else does it have to do to be a comic book movie?

>>82291203
Horror Fans like the first Silent Hill, but your average horror fan is like you average heavy metal and capeshit fan. Filthy formalists is the most polite way to describe them.

>>82290863
Hardcore Henry and Crank 2 are the best video game movies.

>Surprisingly
Anon, I love Ratchet and Clank too but the writing never rose above being more than Saturday morning quality.

It's for the fans of the games and no one else

>>82291624
i'm sorry i don't like your shit movie :-(

>>82291863
True that and Sony didn't seem to have way too much confidence in it, hell I forgot this movie was coming out.

Most platformer characters are more cartoon material than movies. I guess they are just testing the waters to see what can make a boat load of money next. Lets face it when the superhero movie pool dries up then video games are probably going to be the next one. All it will take is one video game movie actually makes a shitload of money for hollywood to jump on that bandwagon.

>>82290847
>Good video game movies will never be a thing.

>he says while posting screenshot from an amazing and highly-rated show that plays on video game tropes and iconagraphy.

Face it, the problem isn't that video game movies are bad. It's that developers won't stop signing over movie rights to incompetent idiots.

>>82292130

Movies and TV shows aren't the same thing

>>82290847
>>82292130
...This was made and written by the game's developers

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>>82290812
Don't pay for it then faggot.

Be patient and download it like the rest of us.

>>82292660
you aren't addressing my argument.

reviews are useful when making purchasing decisions.

>>82292709
Except when they're not. Did you like the games? If so, see the movie. If not, don't.

Simple as that

>>82290863
wreck it ralph was bad tho and scott pilgrim was funny but in no way a good movie

>>82291255
Wow, that review was genuinely awful. While I'm sure some points are valid (That running gag sounds pretty bad), the emphasis on "second hand cringe" was in itself cringeworthy. Who comes up with this crap?

>>82292628

>written by game developers

Well there's your problem

>>82292792
I liked Ratchet and Clank as a toy. As a game. Not once did I enjoy it for its narrative content.

Also: How is the opinion of someone who SAW THE MOVIE not useful, whether it be by taking their points into consideration or seeing how they could be incorrect in their assessments?

It's literally free data.

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>>82290601
Eh I dunno, some of the more scathing reviews come from people that sound like they have no idea what the source material is

>Two further team-mates, Elaris (Rosario Dawson) and Cora (Bella Thorne), are token "strong women" whose creepily nubile physiques are jarringly at odds with the cartoonish design elsewhere. (There’s no word in English for the kind of second-hand cringe this stuff sends rippling across your shoulder blades, but in German, it’s fremdscham: vicarious shame.)

>>82292858
That's the one thing we haven't tried. If that turns to shit, well then I guess there is no good way to adapt games to film.

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>>82291255
>Are people really taking this movie seriously to review it? They seem like just comparing it to other animated movies and throwing it aside

The reviews I'm reading aren't really comparing it to animated movies, they're more or less throwing in any visual references they can think of from movies and comic books, even if said comparisons are from source material that doesn't pre-date the Ratchet and Clank franchise. Much of them don't even fit at all:
http://www.timeout.com/london/film/ratchet-clank

This guy not only compares Ratchet to Rocket Raccoon (his 2008 reboot because "Huuurrrr fuzzy character with a gun") and Captain Quark to Leela from Futurama......because 'loud space captain' I guess.

Oh yeah, and I guess we were bound to run into one SJW along the lines. This woman is deeply offended at Ratchet's lack of vagina as he tries to build himself from the ground up to being an intergalactic hero. Also, Ratchet and Clank is reminiscent of Sonic The Hedgehog, who would've thought.
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/2016/04/ratchet-clank-movie-review-wretched-and-junk.html

Still, even reading more lenient reviews suggest that this movie is just 'okay' at being a relatively fun family film. Of course the humor from the games is going to be pretty dry at this point and much of the movie itself was really peeled off as 'extra content' from the game that was released weeks ago. Its definitely not going to impress anyone looking for a high-grade movie of Disney/Dreamworks fare.

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Deep down, I knew it would be shit. I just didn't want to believe that one of my favorite game series would flop on the big screen.

>>82292957
Or maybe you just never liked Ratchet and Clank

Pretty sad of Nintendo to bribe no-name reviewers to give Ratchet & Clank bad reviews

>>82293159
Nintendo bias! Mario movie to get 100% on RT

>>82293101
You know damn well that this was supposed to be the 'groundhog' test. If the first one does fine, others may try. But since it probably won't, no studio will even come close to making movie adaptations of their games. They'll point to Ratchet and Clank and say
>That's why we should never make an Overwatch movie. Well just give it to someone else to fuck up.
>Assassin's Creed movie? nah
>Fuck, just make Dark Souls IV: Why Aren't You Dead Yet edition. No point in sticking our necks out to get it chopped off.

>>82290712
No u, you fucking ape.

>>82290601
It lacks the soul of what made R&C R&C. This movie is some streamlined inoffensive mass-marketed crap and unlike the game it doesn't have some fun gameplay to carry it.

>>82293076
Blame Sony for going cheap on the budget and hiring a director who was more interested in creating a Norm of the North-like movie.
Read https://tjfixman.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/a-farewell-to-lombaxes/ , after working with the director, the writer of the video game has done his best to cut as many ties with the movie as he can. I feel bad for the guy.

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>>82292930
Yeah I'm gonna just go with the critics don't know what they're talking about

>Sure, there have been a handful of nine-figure blockbusters, most notably the “Tomb Raider” and “Resident Evil” franchises

>>82291863
I know. But the first three games had a dry cynacism to it (Dr. Nefarious, the first game being about a guy collecting plants because his was polluted). I think when humor evolved past-Futurama tier in the post-10's, it was harder to find the game funny or clever.

>>82290601
I never had any hope whatsoever that this movie was going to be good. I could already tell from the trailer that it was going to suck ass.

>>82292930
I have no idea who Elaris and Cora are. How are they token "strong women"? Is it something stupid where they would make the same claim towards Angela or Talwyn?

>>82293218
>He doesn't know about the Assassin's Creed movie already made and due for December
>He doesn't know about Angry Birds
>He doesn't know abou Warcraft.
Ratchet is the throw away movie, nobody had any faith in it. That's why they were pushing the game.

If any movie is gonna prove their salt for vg movies it's going to be Warcraft. Hell, it's outright been said if it does well that might open the gate for a Half Life movie

>>82293407
Some reboot characters, that filled the same role as Sasha, and Talwyn.

Really not much has changed from those characters aside from getting a reskin.

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If you ask me, the writing of the Ratchet and Clank games never evolved past the PS2 era. Sure, things got more serious in the PS3 era, but the dramatic writing in the Future trilogy was as good as the comedic writing in the rest of the franchise-- it was mediocre. The dramatic arc of the Future trilogy was, for lack of a better term, trope-heavy and generic. Even titles like Killzone pulled off a better story.

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>>82293418
Except those are vg movies given to a movie studio rather than being done by the developers. And that has already been shown in the past to get you processed dog shit.
>Read about A.C film. Gonna be shit
>Angry Birds movie. Trailer was utter shit
>Warcraft movie. Expensive rehashed generic shit

the problem with game movies is that games are already so cinematic these days, why even bother watching a movie when you'd probably be doing the same thing while playing a game anyway.

Odd, I haven't seen bad reviews except French ones (apparently the french dub is beyond awful) and the few I have seen have been pretty positive.

Nobody is claiming is fantastic, but say its okay and still fun; Which is all i was asking.

>>82293589
>that most recent warcraft trailer with wubstep
it's gonna fall flat on its face

>>82290674

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYKeQczkFfM

>>82293589
>Thinking a movie based a property normies know and love won't make money regardless of score
>Shitting on based Duncan Jones
Your casual is showing

>>82293699
Pretty much this. I'm not expecting an amazing movie, I'm just expecting to have a good time in a world with characters I like.

Though I'm more excited to start the game, I've been waiting until I see the movie to play it.

>>82293719
See what I mean. It was clear long ago that when game devs hand their IP to some bigwig in Hollywood, it's gonna fall flat on its face because no one knows what the hell they are working with

>Writers don't know the game, so they'll just drops names and characters, and shoehorn in generic plot #183 for a script.
>Directors don't know the game, so they make changes that any gamer would tell them is utterly stupid but there is no one around to tell them to stop.

The current line of vg films is no better. Main difference is that those are going to fail on a bigger budget.

>>82293796
no courtney gears no ticket

>>82293589
Blizzard's heavily involved with the Warcraft movie

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>>82293765
>Thinking just because a game has a 'normie' following will make it good
>Thinking Duncan can save Warcraft when it was clear by trailer 2 it was going to shit
How quick we forget the past.

>>82293808
One of the main writers is from Blizzard

>>82293848
blizzard also shut down nostralius and released pandaria

>>82290966
What an idiot you are. They are not videogame movies.
That's like calling Darkman a comic adaption.

>>82292130
>that plays on video game tropes and iconagraphy.
No, it plays on anime cliches.

>>82293848
That isn't a point in their favor at this point.

>>82293878
And writers of Ratchet and Clank were from Insomniac, you're point?

>>82290601
This really saddens me. I have always loved Ratchet & Clank.

>>82293907
sure. they aren't video game movies.

but they're a whole lot better than the pig shit slop that currently fall under that umbrella

>>82293931
It was one writer who's been mediocre forever

>>82293877
1. I Was referring to Angry Birds when talking about normie loved games and I still mean it. Fucking Minions made over 1billion dollars
2.Trailers don't mean shit. Or just bacsue BvS had a good trailer it's suddenly a great movie
3. RE was always made by incompetent retards. Games included

>>82293977
That's more the fault of the crappy videogame adaptions, not an accomplishment on their behalf.

So how is the movie anyway? Is it good?

>>82293931
That the games always had medicore writing and that shouldn't dictate how you feel about them?
What the hell do you want from a vg movie anyway?

Haven't seen any kind of marketing of this movie at all besides the trailer that was released almost 2 years ago.
If they aren't marketing it, people won't watch it. Just look at all the marketing Disney did before Zootopia with several trailers, posters, movie spoofs/parodies and whatnot. Everyone knew about the movie before they saw it.
This one one the other hand, i haven't even seen a single ad.

That being said, i will watch it. I like the games and that one trailer was enough for me to consider.

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>>82294008
And the writer for Warcraft is coming from Blizzard. The same company that had its head up its ass since Mists of Panderia.

>>82294014
>Fucking Minions made over 1billion dollars
And it's still reviled.
>Trailers don't mean shit
It's still a first impression. And the impression I get is total garbage
>RE was always made by incompetent retards. Games included
Yet everyone was pissing themselves with glee when it was announced.

We need to face facts, that a medium where a story can go for 5+ hours and goes at the pace of the consumer, will not translate well to a medium where 2 hours is starting to overreach and no pauses in between.

>>82294128
To be made by the developers. Always including a 3rd party in the creation of anything complicates thing and hampers the end result. Not just in film, but in games as well.


Instead of passing the IP around like a cheap whore, hold onto the damn thing and make it in house.

>>82293836
Definitely needs more fan art.

...as well as the Valkyries.

would this have been better as a tv show rather than a movie?

>>82294205
>And it's still reviled.
I did't say it wasn't. I'm saying Angry Birds might be shit, but still be the most successful vg movie ever.

As for Warcraft, Duncan is writing and directing. Who is by far the highest pedigree any vg movie has ever gotten.

>>82294328
dustin pls draw us some robobooty

fart/belly inflation optional, i'm into it but i know not everyone is

>>82294239
Then go see the fucking Ratcht and Clank movie and stop bitching. RC is exactly that

What happened? You faggots were shilling for this studio hardcore, and they even had the original voice actors.

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>>82290674
Shit up, Max Landis. Just because RT never gave your shitty movies good scores doesn't mean it isn't wrong. Try making good movies next time, you ugly looking fruit.

Also your dad is a child-killer

>>82293317
Oh man. I had no idea...I feel a little better knowing this was the fault of the shitty director instead of the actual writer(s) from the games. I enjoyed the writing in the Future trilogy for what it was, and while generic, it wasn't straight up bad like the movie apparently is.
I hope the Sly movie never sees the light of day because Kevin Munroe will only ruin that one too and I don't think my heart could take it.

>Norm of the North
>Sausage Party*
>Now R&C.
Is 2016 the year of JUST animated cinema?
*The SP script script and it's Foodfight tier horrible.

The AV Club published a review but the page is gone now. They actually made them take down a bad review, what the hell?

>>82294512
Max "up to my knees in dead Vietnamese" Landis is like 4chan. He only cares about reviews when the numbers on his side.

>>82291187
He still betrays everyone and you even get a boss fight against him in the game, but he shows more remorse and eventually patches things up with Ratchet.

>>82294668
What the fuck? This is some GamerGate bullshit

>>82293551
I thought Crack in Time was the best written one. It had some genuinely touching parts, some strong humor that almost felt as good as the PS2 one, and I liked how Azimuth and Orvus were foils to each other without being heavy handed.

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Apparently it's awful. A lot of the reviews are ripping on it for having kiddie humor/not having the humor of the OT

>>82294205
>>Fucking Minions made over 1billion dollars
>And it's still reviled.
I hate to say this but normies absolutely love that shit

>>82293274
did you see it?

>>82290905
Pokemon movies are never anything impressive for anyone other then fans of Pokemon.
Their really just extensions of the anime

>>82290966
this isn't pedantry, pedantry would be saying movie X is based on game Y but didn't include princess buttfuck

this is fucking stating obvious facts

I'm curious as to what the jokes are like.

At least the game turned out well.

>>82295608
forgive me for considering movies with 1-ups, continues, cash drops on enemies, glitches, and a fucking hub world with sonic pacman burger time zangief and qbert in the NOT VIDEO GAMES camp

>>82295095
It has Ratchet & Clank humor, it's not going to be Dreamworks or Pixar or anything. I'm going in as a R&C fan, not I HOPE THIS MOVIE IS GOOD.

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>>82295737
>Yeah, video game movies. You know, like Pixels and Scott Pilgrim.

>>82295628
I fear toned down even more so than PS3 era.

>>82295795
i'm sorry movies with video games in them are better than video game movies :-(

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>>82290674
>There are people bashing this idea

>>82295763
so... lowering expectations for the sake of fan loyalty?

>>82290674
when 90% of reviews say "oh god it's shit" the chances are it's probably shit. Reviews are helpful for deciding how to spend your time and money, and being contrarian on this topic isn't going to change that.

>>82290601

I want to fuck Ratchet's tight alien boypussy

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>>82290601
>There will never be a movie based off of a video game to surpass pic related.

>>82290601
The biggest problem is it looks like Ratchet and Clank, but waaayyy more typical Hollywood animated movie level. Kind of kills the entire bizarre and fun nature of R&C.

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>>82295878
No. What he's saying is go in with the RIGHT expectations

You don't Spongebob expecting Game of Thrones do you?

>>82290601
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSWj5_-F9Q4

>>82290601
>Movie Coming out tomorrow
>Going against Civil War in some countries
Holy fuck, this thing is dead on arrival

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>>82293877
>>82294205
Here's what he's done.

If the movie still ends up being shit, I'm sorry it's not the directors or studios fault, maybe, just maybe the source material was mediocre at best, and garbage at worst anyway.

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>captain quark fell for the technicool meme

>>82290601
>Movie based off a video game sucks.
Who would have thought?

>>82296417
I don't get the big deal about Source Code. The plot was pretty generic, desu. And did it end with Jake living in the body of a History teacher without having a clue how to teach History?

>>82296559
In our defense, Insomniac was rather involved on this one, so we had some reason to hope it'd be good.

Im hoping all of these reviewers are SJWs and there was one good anti-SJW joke in the film. Is the fat trainer robot in the first one in it as a feminest?

>>82297137
>Is the fat trainer robot in the first one in it as a feminest?

Nope, she isn't even in the PS4 game.

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>>82296287
>If it's a remake of a classic, rent the classic!

>Just saw the trailer for the Magnificent Seven remake

There are no words in any language that can adequately describe this feeling.

>>82290847
that new final fantasy movie looks pretty good

>>82297137
Helga isn't even in the remake, so don't expect her to be in the movie.

>>82290674
If a movie comes out and I think it looks really cool no matter what the critics say, of course I'm going to go see it and decide for myself.

But if a movie is coming out that I could completely see turning out badly, yeah, I'm going to trust the critics and not waste my money. I wanted Ratchet and Clank to be good but I was well-aware that there was a significant chance it cold turn out shitty.

I feel the need to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSonz-GfgHs

>>82290847
not really relevant but i know of a funny opposite example; the peter jackson king kong video game is an absolute fucking masterpiece while the film is a CGI mess that people only remember for Jack Black

>>82292709
>reviews are useful when making purchasing decisions

Ahhh yes. Just like how Supergirl the TV series has a higher critic score than Daredevil and Age of Ultron. Surely critics are never wrong.
>IT'S BECAUSE SHE'S A GIRL ISN'T IT?!!

>>82295932
What if 90% of reviewers are saying Supergirl and SWTFA are good? Do you believe them?

>>82297235
FFXV is SUPPOSED to be a video game, though.

>>82293317
Man, fuck Kevin Munroe

>>82297237
>fat robot waifu isn't in the game

O-okay...

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Well, at least the game is fantastic. For $40 getting one of the best and brightest games of the year was a bargain for me. I hadn't played an R&C since Up Your Arsenal so this was a hoot.

>>82290674
>movie with mostly negative reviews turns out to be good
never happened to me

>>82298384
type home alone in rotton tomatoes

>>82298401
home alone has way more positive reviews than ratchet and clank and I never liked that movie: I'm too young and it doesn't have nostalgic value for me, just a dumb comedy with ridiculous premise

>Reviews says it awful
>Haven't seen one single review that goes lower than "It was okay"

None seem to say it's fantastic, and does have issues, but beyond reviews from other countries (apparently the dubs suck) I have't heard anything disastrous about it. I I see is 3 out of fives and 7-5 that, honestly, was right about the scale I expected from this movie. (Animation giants just have the bar too high for anyone with low budget to win)

Can I see some of these reviews that claim it's awful? I just feel people in this thread seem to be jumping way too early for a OP post that doesn't even have a source, that's all.

>>82298677
Saw the movie early screening. It ain't as bad as people make it out to be but it ain't a 8 or 9 out of ten either. It is a bit of a run-in-the-mill in some areas; And the celebrity voices doesn't bring a lot to the table and you can tell their budget was lower than other animated flicks (also my main gripe was how few guns ratchet actually uses) but as something i went to see because i watched civil war already too and decided to just have a short nice fun I ended up enjoying it. Overall, It isn't spectacular but I feel any kinks could be ironed in a sequel specially if getting a higher budget.

That credits theme tho is way too try-hard rap for something like this

>>82294668
Or they might've just broken a review embargo. Hopefully it'll be back up tommorow.

>>82298677
So far, the only one we have in english is this one >>82291255 and even then it seems like that one wasn't written very well.

>>82298789
How was Civil War?

>>82298338
Take out the CONSTANT TALKING and handholding, as well as mediocre in-game cinematics, and you will get a fantastic something.

As it is, it is a mediocre game with good graphics and gameplay lifted from better titles.

>>82298856
I enjoyed it a lot. They should have called this Avengers 2 rather than what they did with Age of Ultron

>>82298866
>constant talking

The only people who never shut up is the Gagetron Vendor and Mr. Zurkon. People really exaggerate the chattyness in the game.

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The first Silent Hill movie wasn't so bad.

>>82298897
Who were your top 3 characters?

Was the CGI as bad as it was in the trailers?

did the trailers really spoil the whole movie?

>>82298924
I agree. You can tell someone in the production had some love from the franchise, but was hindered by Hollywod-type choices

The second movie is complete shit tho

>>82298981
>Go to a Ratchet & Clank thread
>Ask for Civil War spoilers

this is trurly /co/

>>82298982
True that. The second movie has literally no redeeming value, while the first one at least had SOME.

>>82298669
but it didn't get many positive reviews on its release did it?

>>82298907
Some very very nice person made a handy compilation to use as evidence of my point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BV95D-0aO4

>>82298789
does it have drama and does is it funny?
how does it compare to a mediocre film like monsters U

>>82298924
Whoever thinks they didn't nailed that atmosphere can go suck a enormous dick.

>>82290601
Is no one going to comment on how "Rachet" is ebonics for a ghetto girl who is loud and obnoxious and constantly causing drama and usually trashy.

>>82299053
I saw this video, and it's fucking retarded. I expected it to be just one clip where no body ever shut up but it's just a bunch of cuts of where the person was unlucky enough to have tons of chatter happen on their screen (I never had any of those issues and I played the game three times)

>>82299042
The Supergirl tv show did. As did Gotham.

>>82299103
Fuck off retard, that niggerspeak is younger than Ratchet being named after a wrench.

>>82299148
i was talking about home alone

>>82299084
I did have chuckles but then again I'm an easy to laugh guy. it's not laugh out loud funny (I feel the original trilogy still has some of the funniest shit in the whole franchise) but very chuckle worthy. As for drama, not many; A downside is that they do play a little safe with some themes (Like ratchet being the only Lombax is very low key, but I assumed that was because possible sequels) however I do feel it had it's twists and heart compared to the original game (Sadly, if you played the entire PS4 game you have been spoiled rotten with the exception of the stinger and more depths inside certain scenes. The celebrity cast is a bit meh (mostly Paul Giamatti and Bella Thorne, but Rosario Dawson does bring as much energy as she can) but the top quality or Ratchet and Clank's voice actors really nailed it even if they didn't go into much depth with their friendship; You can just feel JAT and David Kaye have the personalities of these two down to a tee.

>>82299103
Ratchet is a name that comes from Murder on the Orient Express. In that book, nobody believes it is a real name.

>>82296137

All nostalgia aside, this movie is good for camp value and nothing else. Besides Bob Hoskins, it's literally just making Mario Dark and Edgy. They even gave them guns and put the Mushroom Kingdom in a dark dystopian future.

>>82299103
I thought it was slang for BDSM.

Why bother trying to capitalize on a dead series?

>>82299423
>Ratchet and Clank
>Dead series

hello retard

>>82299423
>nostalgia autism

sames goes for sly cooper

>yfw no rachet and clank memes

Also how is this not in /vidya/

>>82299239
And I'm talking about the Citizen Kane of television.

>>82299329
how does it compare to a movie like rio or monsters university or hotel transilvainia

>>82299477
It beats Hotel Transylvannia and Rio for me by not having annoying pop culture songs in the middle of the movie (It does have, in my opinion, a crappy rap in the credits, but it's not sung by the cast and the movie is already over) but I will say visually those three do have a bit more, but mostly because they had a budget three sizes R&C's. It also pays that main characters weren't really the "obnoxious or annoying" type (except for a Qwark fanboy that, well, is an extra and it was the whole point of it). IT may be because its a small movie by a small company but I feel overall i got my money back more than those other three because they had way bigger production but the result was still mediocre

I do have a small soft spot for the first Rio but less for the movie and more for the recreation of Brazil

>>82299329
What's the stinger?

>>82297345
>Doug Walker

I think I know why he would dislike critics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfaGm6XlpGQ

>>82299815
It shows the destroyed Deplanetizer, as a hand starts to claw out of the wreckage, followed by a glass dome and red eyes. Then a full shot of now robot Dr. Nefarious with his B-movie Theremin lemitrof playing and everything.

>>82299591
is this a home alone, were the initial reviews were terrible but the film turned out to be quite good? is it just that the initial critics didn't get it?

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>>82298866
>handholding
Did you ever watch the developer commentaries? The two dudes from that (who were apparently back to work on the new game) talk shit about literally every part of the game where anything is even the slightest bit remotely difficult and they talk fondly about how, if they were doing it today, they'd make sure to make it ten times easier by holding the player's hand through the whole process because that would have made it much better.

The problem was focus testing- they did a shitton of it, and they had the valve problem of hiring absolute retards to do it. For instance, apparently a lot of them had serious trouble figuring out this real brain tickler of a sliding block puzzle. Watching retards fumble to make even the most rudimentary decisions day in and day out would cause anybody to break and start demanding everything be handhold central.

>>82299998
Excellent.

>>82297345
>how weird is it when a bad movie is liked by critics?
Bad according to who? To you?

>>82299120
Is this the casual version of "WORKS ON MY COMPUTER"

Dr. Nefarious used to be a husbando.

But that time has passed...

>>82300492
critics liked phantom menace when it first came out

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>>82290674
>just gamble away $15

>>82300606
Wasn't talking about a particular example. Was raising the question "bad according to who?"

>>82299591
If i thought the story in the ps3 games were good would i like this?

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>>82294470
>James Arnold Taylor didn't get top billing despite being the main character and having 2 decades of experience as a veteran voice actor
>No Kevin
Fuck 'em

Good thing Keanu comes out tomorrow
gives me something to actually watch

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>>82297345
And I feel the need to remind you of the kind of people in Doug Walker's fanbase.

>>82290707
why is metacritic reviled as a gatekeeper for video games but rotten tomatoes is generally accepted as a litmus test for movies?

>>82290601
who here cautiously optimistic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0KO-jIrvtM

>>82299998
How big is Nefarious's role, and is Lawrence in it in any way?

>>82300511
No, that video was a clear exaggeration of the talking.

It makes it look Sonic Heroes tier when it really isn't.

>>82300708
Yes. It actually feels more like the Future series more than the original three.

>>82300219
I couldn't say. The way I see it, is more that the bar on animated movies has been set to high. This movie sets what it tries to be: A faithful adaptation visually of the games with a fun but simple plot. Nothing more, nothing less. But now every movie has to be deep an insightful like the Disney or Pixar flicks. It could have been better? YES. Is it awful and a waste of a nice afternoon where you have nothing to watch? NO

>>82290614
Isn't that the logical thing to do? I mean it has fans but it would seem pretty odd to just have a brand new adventure with a new villian making it harder to bring in new fans

>>82298119
You go in with the expectation of liking something but it doesn't mean you will. But a lot of times knowing what a few others thought of something helps you have a guess where you will stand on it. It isn't saying live or die by what others tell you and don't use your brain or anything, if you still want to see something after hearing lots of bad things then there is a good chance you will enjoy it and vice versa in a case where like 2 or 3 friends you normally trust say something is great but you still aren't feeling it you may end up feeling like you wasted your time for nothing. Bottom line, your opinion ultimately is all that matters but there isn't a harm in seeing what a general consensus on a movie, game, or any other product is. It doesn't hurt anything.

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>>82292858
>>82292628

Actually the writer for the games quit due to creative differences with the director. Director turned this into vapid kiddyshit.

>>82301117
Nefarious' role seem to be a big point of fight among fans. I didn't play the PS4 game (cause I don't own one) but my friend that came to the screening did and as we both learned, a lot of people seem mad as other seem to not mind.

Nefarious work for Drek, in his organic self before becoming a robot, and is the designer behind the Deplanetizer as well as the Warbot factory in Quartu. Quick into the movie we learn, just like in the games, Qwark stopped him from destroying Metropolis (Aleero City as it's named in here, but is basically Metropolis from R&C1) in the past as apparently died in a prison riot (which Qwark comment later into the flick when he meets him).

The major spoilers here:

However the twist is, and what people are so mad about, is that near the last act of the movie Nefarious uses the Sheepinator on DREK (The random Blarg in the trailers which is turned into a sheep was just editing to hide it) and turns him into a sheep before putting him inside a shuttle and launches him into the wreck of the now destroyed Novalis (Yes, in the movie Drek actually blows up Novalis). Nefarious then takes main villain spot from that moment on as, while Drek wanted to deplanetize and build new planets for cash, Nefarious wants to blow up a planet with an unstable core (Umbris) right in the middle of a planet alignment event that is foreshadowed earlier in the movie to cause a chain reaction and blow up the entire Solanna Galaxy.

>>82297389

the wolverine movie game is pretty cool too

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>>82301584
Sauce or fuck off

>>82301584
>people inmediatly assume this

I read the article where he says it and just says creative diferences and never says anything bad about the director or the vision for the movie, just that some of it wasn't his cup of tea. (He also states he did enough and a lot of the movie still has enough of him to have him in the credits)

But of course the internet has to go and see the glass half empty first.

>>82291624
>What else does it have to do to be a comic book movie?
Be based on a comic book?

I've already platinumed Ratchet & Clank 2016, and despite how much I enjoyed the game itself my expectations for the movie are that it will be "okay", at best. And that's just judging from like the ten minutes of cinematics ripped straight from the movie.

>>82301613
So no Lawrence then?

Fucking dropped.

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>>82298384
Fucking this. Movies that get universally panned are almost invariably shit. If anything, don't trust POSITIVE reviews, standards are way too low.

>>82295763
Seems like the humour is even more childish in the movie.

Man, they should have stuck with the humour of Deadlocked. Dallas and Juanita's banter was great, and Gleeman Vox is one of the funniest villains they've ever had.

>>82301844
>Blowing your load early
>Wanting Lawrence with a organic nefarious he can't slap.

>>82301661

Here you go.

>https://tjfixman.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/a-farewell-to-lombaxes/

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I'm going to be seeing it in a few hours. If this thread is still alive by the time I get back I will post my completely biased opinion as a hardcore R&C fan.

>>82302045
If there ends up being a sequel, I'll agree it would be a better fit for him there. But having Nefarious without Lawrence to bounce off of is a waste of the best duo in the series.

>>82302059

As >>82301685 says people exaggerate on what that article says

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>>82301918
>Seems like the humour is even more childish in the movie.
How? It just seems like the game's humor to me and the games were filled with just as many cringy jokes as decent ones.

>>82300511
hello retard

>>82301841
Choic screen cap

>movie isn't from Qwark's perspective
>4 planets
>hardly any fights or weapons
>galactic rangers suck and are kind of pointless
>no Helga, Darla, or skid
>Nefarious steals Drek's thunder
>awkward editing
>robots have pupils now

>>82299094

I still surprises me how they managed to even get the shitty camera angles in.

>>82301041
Movie critics are significantly less unprofessional than video game journalists are. VGJ's honestly have no idea how journalism or criticism actually works, they're essentially random people who've never gone into schooling for it who treat their reviews and articles like their personal blog, without need for insight or critical thinking or research of any kind. Also, although they make an honest point that they don't accept bribes, they're not quite smart enough to realize that accepting swag/signing up for exclusive contests with only other journalists and thus significantly lower stakes/plastering paid ads for a game all over the website around the review for the game is really questionable stuff, even if it's not actual cash-in-bag cartoonish bribing.

I don't care how bad this is

I'm going to see my fucking robo shota man because I'm fucking pathetic

>>82301685
Anon, when you're in a creative industry, and you're not such a big name that you can stand up for yourself, you don't badmouth anything. Because the pool of jobs is small and all of your potential bosses are connected. Writers especially have essentially zero leeway to say anything.

http://www.nichollsvickers.com/valuable_lessons_edit.pdf

This guy's a writer who made several million dollars writing for hollywood for decades, and he made it by being a punching bag and passively accepting whatever insane shit his executives and directors and principal actors threw at him. Near the end, for the first and last time he confronts them directly and calls them out for the retarded shit they're asking him to do. His job opportunies dried up immediately and he ended up writing canadian cartoons.

Basically if you're a writer, even if you think something's the shittiest thing in the world you have to be constantly diplomatic about it.

>>82303554
>galactic rangers suck and are kind of pointless
To be fair, in Up Your Arsenal the Galactic Rangers were incompetent cowards up until the end of the game when they finally man up and help you during the fight with Nefarious. But if the game tie-in is any indication for its respective movie, the Rangers are a completely different animal this time around and them being useless is probably not intentional like the original UYA Rangers were.

>>82296261
But comparing R&C to a Dreamworks movie and saying, "Go in with lower expectations" is worrying.

>>82297889
You're never going to agree with critics 100% and are still going to blow money or time on movies you hate, but at least RT scores can help steer you in the right direction considering how much shit is released in a single year.

>>82305683
best girl

>>82306075
This, and she had the best chemistry with Ratchet as well.

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>>82306075
Nope

>>82306193
Relationships in which one partner has prejudice towards the other's race rarely work out

I literally just saw this one not 30 minutes ago.

The animation and voice acting is great, and the pacing was decent for the most part. The story and plot are really cliched, though. The whole scene with Ratchet talking Qwark into seeing THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS and coming back to THE GOOD SIDE was just ugh. This is coming from somebody who's never played the games, only one of the three friends I saw this with played the games.

I really don't think it deserves the SERIOUSLY negative reviews it's getting right now. I've never seen a video-game movie stay so true to it's source material; and it's at least entertaining. I couldn't even finish the Mario Bros. movie because it was so boring.

But yeah, about a 6/10, although it could change.

>>82306113
>>82306075
Agreed.

>>82306542
If this is true, then I'm ok with it. I'm watching Civil War tomorrow and I wanted to have something to pass the afternoon next week so I'll go see it.

>>82306075
>>82306113
That's not Angela.

>>82306665
Angela was shite m8

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Just an fi if you're outside of australia we dont get it until July 28.... THANKS AMERICA.

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>>82306841
fucked up my post, meant to say if you live in australia we dont get it until 28th of july.

>>82306865
Wow that sucks, enjoy the wait Ausbro

has anyone seen this movie?

>>82307304

>>82306542
>>82298789

>>82306542
In the original game Clank was more interested in Qwark's redemption. After he played them for a fool once Ratchet gave up on him, and nearly Clank. Obviously this means little now considering the story has been retold with the new game and movie, neither of which I have seen/played.

>>82290601
I'm still holding a marginal bit of hope for hope's sake, but looking at a couple of reviews it's exactly what I'd feared. Bland and heavily reliant on kiddie humor. Not that kiddie humor is a bad thing for a movie to have (provided kids actually think it's funny), but it's not for me.

I'm more troubled by the bland part, though. It reminds me of what Disney did to Mickey Mouse up until recently, ie making him a bland, inoffensive mascot to the point where people 1000% prefer his sidekicks over him. And the same people are making the Sly movie, which I'm half looking forward to and half dreading because I see the same thing happening.

>>82301468
The series doesn't have a very intricate plot.
Fuzzy guy and his robot pal save the universe from INSERT BAD GUY

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>>82290601
I think it might be safe to say the movie's kinda screwed at this point, if this is any indication.

>>82290674
Good advice if movies were free

>>82295876
because why the fuck would you want to support studios that do stupid shit and put out bad content?

BvS would be a resounding flop if people didn't "just go see it" and then maybe Snyder would be taken off the other projects but instead it's just a solid meh

>>82292628
The series writer quit the production due to creative differences with the director.

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>A SONY exclusive video game series gets a SONY distributed movie that is NOT animated by SONY animation

What genius thought getting the guys who did Escape from Planet Earth to make this was a good idea?

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>>82292824
>Smash-It Sam was bad
>In no way was SP a good movie
your opinion is wrong please leave

>>82291624
The whole point isn't about whether or not it uses video game/comic imagery, it's about taking an existing medium and adapting it to a movie successfully.
Video games movies are largely bad because the people who make them often don't respect the video game, either saying "As long as we have the characters who gives a fuck" or "This story is shit, i'll make my own story". Which is why we usually get garbage. Things like Wreck-it-Ralph don't count because they're pretty much their own thing but in the same subject, they have simmilar motivations going into them as other movies do. Being based on an existing medium matters because it's also about how well they treat something both well and not their own.
It's the difference between the garbage DC's been spilling out and something like Deadpool where Raynolds went "No, I really want to make a DEADPOOL movie, not just a movie with deadpool in it".

That said, I thought the prince of persia movie was decent.

>>82295932
>Hotel Transylvania

>>82308726
Welcome to 4chan, home of intense irrational eceleb hate. Right down to saying you should just throw hollywood money instead of hearing out what someone on the internet thinks. Last Airbender? BvS? MoS? Just go see them.

>>82295737
It's clearly not an adaptation of a previously existing video-game, it's a film with elements of a video-game incorporated into it's fictional setting.

>Topic=/=genre or media

Hmmm are there reviews of reviewers who review reviewers who review other reviewers yet?

>>82309324
There is no reason now to see BvS. How else can one experience the awfulness?

The reason why video game adaptations suck? Your potential source material either has too little story to make a good movie, or the source material is already a movie.

>>82291624
First Silent Hill movie was underrated. I thought it was a decent film by itself.

Went to see it with a relative who's a big fan of the series. I only know of the characters. I also didn't follow up on trailers or read any reviews prior to watching it.

And it was not good. Plot was run-of-the-mill, and resolved too easily. No tension. Couldn't relate to the characters, or care about them.

I liked most of the comedy, though! The ones that weren't referencing things from the game made me laugh. For someone who isn't a fan, that's the only enjoyable thing from the movie.

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Only good video game movie is Ace Attorney. Prove me wrong famalams.

>>82309907
I think there's a greater issue at play here.

Video games are tied to their gameplay, ripping that out of the product and porting the plot to the big screen is essentially lobotomizing the experience people are going to have.

What I loved about PS2-era Ratchet and Clank was not only the story but also the experience of blowing things away, collecting bolts, upgrading weapons, etc. How can the film convey that component of the experience if it is not interactive in the same way as a video-game?

It's always risky to mention counterfactuals, because there are so many ways the final product could have turned out differently, but this is why I think video-game film adaptations should probably try telling an original story rather than attempt to re-interpret or adapt one already explored in-game.

>>82290674
I see no fault in this, infact I'm inclined to believe you faggots that disagree with this are the reason video game journalism is still a thing

you give it attention, and thus faggots an opportunity to slither by doing the bare minimum. complaining about shit, shouldn't be a fucking job. fixing it should be

>>82310364
It's a review, you complain about shit and you praise good movies. That's what I mean about the irrational eceleb hatred thing, you only care about bad reviewers or ones you don't like.
The point of reviews at the base level is to get a general feel for a movie if you want one, before seeing it.
With Man of Steel for example if quality's out of the equation a review will tell you it's a much more serious and brooding type of movie that talks about Superman's repercussions on the world rather than his ideology as a nice guy and you can say you're either up for that or not.
An anon here just posted that they thought the plot was way too thin but the comedy was good and you could say "i'm interested in a laugh" and see it.
Again, what's the alternative if there are no reviewers? You don't want to complain about shit but want to fix it then what do you do without them because the only solution someone said was pirating which has it's own issues.

>>82308726
Snyder's wife is a movie producer and is the core reason why he keeps getting these roles. He was going to continue directing Justice League even if it flopped.

>>82308845
Sony Pictures is fucking retarded. More news at 11.

>>82310364
>complaining about shit, shouldn't be a fucking job. fixing it should be
It's not random critics jobs to fix a screenplay. They only go over what's there and talk about what does and doesn't work.

If I don't like a dish at a restaurant, I'm not going to instruct the chef how he should prepare it, I'm just going to say I didn't like it, it was too spicy or some shit.

There's a separate group of people whose job it is to oversee a film and fix any problems the story may have and a lot of the times, those people are really bad at their job.

>>82310364
You of course realize that while saying complaining shouldn't be a job, fixing it should, you just judged the entire notion of "Can someone tell me about a movie before I see it" as terrible, want to get rid of it, and offered no actual solution as to how to tell if you might like or dislike a movie before it comes out?

>>82310364
Why do you single out video game journalism when this could be said about all reviewing journalism across all mediums?

>>82308845
I'm not sure but from what I understand is Rainmaker WANTED to make a Ratchet and Clank film, so maybe their want had something to do with it.

>>82294205
>RE was always made by incompetent retards. Games included
1 through 4, sans Code Veronica, were awesome. Don't know what you're talking about. 2 is the GOAT for Survival Horror.

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Okay, I just got back from a 7:00 pm showing of this movie. First, I have to say that the theater was empty as fuck aside from a few other people, and I am almost certain there were no children there whatsoever (granted this is a school/work night for a movie that's not really been all that hyped.

As for the movie itself, I have to say that I am a diehard Ratchet & Clank fan, and have been since the first game came out when I was 12. But I think this movie is going to have a hard time to find an audience from both the general populace and many fans of the series. There isn't enough good action and comedy to appeal to many R&C fans, while the pacing and character development (while in someways stronger than how awkwardly the plot was paced in the game), is not strong enough to be particularly memorable to non-fans. The movie had its moments (and there were even a handful of good jokes like Victor's funeral scene), but overall I was not impressed. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer.

Also Elaris>>>>>>>>>Cora. Cora a shit, but even Elaris I feel is surpassed by Angela, Sasha, and Talwyn.

>>82311331
What did you think about the whole Qwark betrayal plot line? I liked it.

>>82311331
All the girls are pretty shit.

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>>82311331
>That second paragraph.

I was afraid of that, but I'll probably end up seeing it tomorrow after work.

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>>82311599
Same, fuck me.

Oh well.

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>>82301841
Imma draw this threesome.

>>82311889
Removes Qwark and Ratchet. All I need is the Elaris porn

>>82311331
But did you have fun watching it or no? I'm a diehard R&C fan, I liked the Future trilogy, and I just wanna know if it's worth my money at least.

>>82311908

How about remarking Qwark and Ratchet, but adding Cora?

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>>82311541
It was alright. I do admit that the scene where Nefarious was trying to make Qwark feel like a piece of shit about his betrayal probably was Armin Shimerman's best delivery in the movie, so that was good at least. But again, I feel like the pacing was a problem there since there should've been a more effective build-up.

Like, how I would've done it is after Ratchet's weapon training I would've put in a montage of the Galactic Rangers doing hero work from planet to planet. Like imagine a sequence of like ten second scenes where Ratchet is blasting apart Drek's warbots on Batalia, burning through amoeboids in Blackwater City, shooting down hydro harvesters on Pokitaru, with scenes spliced in between of the rest of the rangers cheering him on and congratulating his success while Qwark is visibly upset at being upstaged. Not only would that have conveyed Qwark's jealousy better, but it also would've been a nice and fun way to implement some of the other planets from the game without eating up too much screentime.

>>82311889
DO IT FAGET

>>82311916
I don't regret seeing it, so there's that, and it had it's moments here and there. But if you're anything like me, while watching it there's probably going to be more than a few moments where you're sitting there and thinking "Not only could that been better, but I have several ideas on how".

>>82311993

That's what happens when they try to squeeze things into 90 or so minutes. Something like this really should have been like two full hours, maybe even two-and-a-half to allow more time for shit to build up and the adventure to play out more naturally. At least the game helps the pacing feel better in a lot of areas.

>>82312071
That's true, going from Kerwan and straight to Quartu was pretty damned jarring in this movie.

Oh, and by the way, for those who noticed Orxon was omitted in the game and the role Quartu plays in the story now, the fact that Drek's new planet was called "New Quartu" in this movie solidifies that in this reboot universe Quartu IS basically the homeworld of the Blarg now. I wish we had gotten Orxon in the new game as well, but that's just how it is.

>>82312162

It is weird they didn't just include all the worlds and just let the ones not visited in the movie act like extensions. The game is basically treated as the "real story" after all, so they could have included more worlds to flesh out bits the movie only manages to glance over.

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R&C has never been strong in the story department- I mean, the second game is about a fucking tribble invasion. Replaying the series again recently, the humor's not nearly as strong as I thought it was as a kid, although there are some jokes that are still smile-worthy. It's a series that's entirely dependent on gameplay and only barely has any attention given to the story at all. Again, in the second game, they're stranded on a desolate desert planet, and there's a fucking TV screen randomly set into a cliff wall in the middle of nowhere so that they can watch a video on it. They didn't even pretend to give a fuck. Making a movie about this series is about as good of an idea as making a movie of, say, Super Mario Bros or Street Fighter.

What I don't understand is why nobody ever tries to make movies of RPGs. Those actually are heavily story-oriented and gameplay-deficient and the best of them, like Planescape: Torment, could potentially make pretty decent movies. Hell, even Skyrim would have made a better movie and more solid choice then R&C.

>>82312400

Something like Torment would be fairly tricky since that was heavy on the philosophical stuff, and probably would bore more "casual" RPG buffs (especially the western ones) who want wizards and orcs and big grand fights.

As for R&C, the story was pretty much an afterthought for the PS2 games, it wasn't until the Future games they started to make the plot an actual guiding point of the game as opposed to just the excuse for why Ratchet is bumming around a jungle planet with a factory in it.

>>82312400
I think Torment could be compressed down to a 100 minute movie because what's important about Torment isn't the bit by bit plot, it's the themes and tone of the story. I think that's what a lot of filmmakers miss when they try to adapt not just video games but also television shows in that they don't know how to take the general idea of a longer piece of entertainment and summarize it.

>>82312558

Only thing is, Torment has a lot of great exposition, and boiling it down to just what the NO did would kind of cheapen the impact from hearing/seeing all the things he did throughout his lives. The novelization was more or less straightforward, and by consequence kind of felt rushed as it went from bit to bit, sadly even skipping some key moments from the game. Though I think they did make a second novelization, or some kind of revised book that added more.

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>tfw you wanted to like Torment but the combat was so horrible

>>82312752

Eh, it worked enough to get through. The game was all about the story, they pretty much didn't care about making the combat anything noteworthy.

>>82312506
i do feel like the Future games slightly suffered more humor wise. I admire those games for being more story focused, but the humor was more hit and miss for me, definitely when they decided to be more kid friendly and snarkier. the PS2 games werent always laugh out loud funny, but i still think 2, 3, and 4 are consistently humorous.

the first one isnt that funny honestly, though.

>>82292032
Hopefully I'll finally sell my political thriller version of Tetris

emojee: the movie

>>82312859

Hard to say. Humor was pretty much the same, just not as many mean jokes like the implied deaths of the robot reporter, or people being mauled by the gadgets. Yet you still had jokes about names, and little tidbits about the worlds that were strange and silly.

>>82292032

But video games to movies has already been a thing, and a majority of them were crap.

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>Likes the movie
>Felt it was a good ground to grow a fundation
>I actually thought it conveyed the universe great visually.
>Reviews rip it apart.
>"W-well, i expected it wouldn't be amazing but t least visually should-"
>reviews bash the visuals as well.
>mfw I feel like crap less because it failed, and more because it failed even when you saw it and found it good.

It wasn't like BvS where I ended up annoyed, I left out the theater pretty satisfied. It makes me feel I saw something that wasn't there or something.

I'm now bummed because maybe I just have shit tastes, and i like shit movies.

>>82313041
kek

>>82313041

Give some time, once more reviews crop up the score ought to improve. Hell, if you can write one yourself, do so. Long as you're able to criticize what you know was lacking and not just suck the film's dick, it'll help things in the long run.

>>82313041
I felt the same way when I kind of enjoyed Sucker Punch.

I won't be seeing BvS though. I watched the Red Letter Media thing on it and listened to the We Hate Movies podcast on it so I think I got the most enjoyment I could out of it.

Wait it's coming out tomorrow? Fuck me it doesn't even release in Australia until July.

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>>82313162
It has a full release tomorrow, but some theaters have screened it early (like I mentioned earlier I saw a 7:00pm showing just a few hours ago).

>>82312921
GC had it's fair share of dark humor, especially jokes revolving around how Megacorp does business and frequently jeopardizes it's own employees and innocent civilians (even outside of Qwark's Protopet plot).

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>>82313322

Goddamn. Lucky for you guys I suppose. Looks I gotta wait the next two months before I can see it.

Gonna be a long wait.

>>82313322

That's what I meant, the darker jokes like maiming and gadget malfunctions weren't nearly as common in the newer games. Most times now it's just a mention like the GadgeTron CEO braking a hip on a hoverboard or the HydroDisplacer being used to unclog toilets.

Also, pic reminds me that we seriously porn of Starlene, Cora, and Elaris. Hell, even the reboot version of the reporter-bot chick.

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>>82301841

>>82313445
That's certainly true, and that's why the scene in the movie where Drek opens the airlock during Victor Von Ion's funeral was one of the few moments in the movie that made me laugh because it was just a taste of that brand of dark humor that used to be more common.

>>82308845
It isn't even distributed by Sony. Blockade funded the movie and then found a distributor after it was finished. The development tried to be experimental but ended up disjointed.

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When's that animation/live-action hybrid Sonic movie come out? I feel like I'm needlessly building up expectations for the tsunami of autism it will cause. I really, really want it to be a glorious trainwreck spiral the likes of which mankind has never seen, but I feel like I'm jinxing myself and that it'll pass under the radar and only be a mediocre footnote in internet history because of my overestimation.

>>82313592

Elaris does have a nice looking butt, if that scene in the game where she's gaming online is anything to go by. Would scramble harder than a Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler.

>>82313693
I did like that it was clear she was playing UYA's multiplayer.

>>82290601
Already saw it, its good, not great but still pretty fun.

>>82313693
Elaris was the only GR with personality in the game. And now that I notice it, Clank and Elaris, the thinking members of the team have the most fleshed out personality. While Ratchet is generic hero, Brax is generic strongman, Cora is generic heroine, and Qwark was a mild version of himself.

Just saw the movie at the theater. I thought it was pretty funny and it looked really good

>>82313785

Cora seemed ok, nothing standout, but not a total jughead like Brax or Qwark. Shame that they pretty much only made the three because whoever was in charge of the casting wanted some big names and probably didn't want to cast them as known characters like Skidd, Helga, and Sasha.

Having seen the movie in advance (I work at a movie theater), I will say it's a perfectly serviceable kids movie. There are quite a few easter eggs for fans of both the franchise and Sony.


Is this movie amazing? Nah. It's pretty average, all things considered. But horrible? Nah. I've seen plenty of worse garbage roll in. If anything, this movie made me laugh quite a few times, and I've never touched a Ratchet and Clank game.
I say give it a chance. Either I'm a gigantic asshole or waaaaaaay to merciful a movie critic. I suppose both could be true.

>>82313041
I've always found movie reviews to be sort of iffy for videogame movies.

Agent: 47 bombed like the fucking Fat Man on Rotten Tomatoes. It got an 8%. I walked in expecting it to be comically terrible schlock at best.

It was honestly a decent movie. I have no fucking idea how close it was to the actual games (and I doubt any of the reviews care), but Agent was competent, the bad guys could fucking aim, and I enjoyed the fight choreography. Solid 6/10.

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>>82313860

You should try out the R&C game if you have any of the PlayStations. If you ever played Spyro, the series has always been a pretty worthy successor to it.

>Universal will never give/lend the rights to a competent developer so Spyro can have a glorious return

>>82313875

Seems like any kids movie that isn't Disney or DreamWorks gets raped in the review department, especially if it's something that managed to sneak into theaters and not just land on the DVD shelf right out of the gate.

>>82313900
>Activision will never give/lend the rights to a competent developer so Spyro can have a glorious return.

Fixed that for you.

And don't forget that we dodged a s bullet with Spyro, there was going to be a movie based of The Legend of Spyro series but it was cancelled after going through development hell for years.

>>82313938

Actually, didn't they simply change the characters and release it as some cheap as fuck looking DVD trash?

>Helga's not even in the game

I might need to draw her to make up for this travesty.

>>82298338
>30fps

>>82314021

They do have her model in the museum. Though it was probably just a nod to her existence than a "She would have been in the game/film"

>>82314046
I fucking love the Insomniac Museum. I'm a sucker for behind the scenes stuff. I must've spent hours in the one in ACIT.

>>82314040

Big whoop, it plays just as fine as the other games.

>>82314083

Just be warned, the museum is really just kind of that this time, a museum. You walk around looking at things. Still, it's nice that they did include one since things like the skill points and custom weapon mods (like scatter blasts, acid rounds, etc.) are absent.

>>82314021
I found that especially weird, considering she was one of the original members of Q-Force along with Skidd and Al. Makes me wonder if they make a remake of UYA if they'd replace her with Starlene.

>>82314083
I normally love the Insomniac Museums of each game, but the one in R&C 2016 was pretty underwhelming. There was no interactivity beyond the room where you watch the cutscenes of the game (and those two Japanese R&C1 commercials). You don't learn about cut content, you don't play unfinished levels and minigames, you don't play around with tools like the customizable explosion or the DIY Hacker puzzles.

As >>82314132 said, this it's a Museum in the sense that this time around it shows off old assets from just about every R&C game prior. That's about it.

>>82314181
I have a special fondness for the sexond game's Insomniac Museum. for me none of the others top it.

And yeah the new Museum sucks. it feels like they just threw around random items and art from the other games, no context, and just called it a day. really disappointing.

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>>82313860
>There are quite a few easter eggs

>tfw Daxter, Sly and Dan Johnson cameos

>>82314222

To be fair, as a tribute to the series' legacy, it is pretty sweet. Would have loved some cut assets to play with and other little things, but better than nothing at all.

>>82300315
Those Developer Commentaries are pretty enlightening stuff, been rewatching them lately. There is a certain satisfaction of finally knowing the name of the man responsible for the snowbeasts in Going Commando, and even greater satisfaction of watching him play his own level and die from constant gang rape from said snowbeasts.

>>82314255
i guess. i get what they were going for, but why not just have different rooms be focused on each entry i the series? i mean, its ok, but I definitely wouldve loved some shit to play with.

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>>82314265
>R&C 2 Snowbeasts


Oh god, i'm getting ptsd from remembering that damn section. Never ending waves of tanky fuckers and an ever decreasing supply of ammunition and nanotech. Still it was exhilarating in a way.

You happen to got a link to those commentaries by any chance?

>>82314236
It's nice that Insomniac's tradition of putting Dan Johnson cameos (ever since his face first appeared on that coin in Spyro 2) in all of their games has continued to the present day, even after his untimely death in 2007. That area in the outer area of ACiT's Insomniac Museum where the music stops and you see Dan standing there is actually a pretty somber little moment.

>>82314295

Some of the rooms kind of are. One clearly focuses on the PS2 games, while another is more about the PS3 entries. Then they sort of bleed together as you go the rooms by the monitors with the original game.

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>>82314265
>snowbeasts
>mfw trying to get the skill point for getting all the moonstones

>>82314355
Here is a playlist of the R&C2 developer commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE216F8E761D085C

And here's one for R&C3:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7D649DF9B66678B7

And for those who immediately want to jump to their commentary for the Snowbeast level and learn about the beginning of Insomniac's "Snowbeast Award for Worst Feature to Make it into a Finished Game", watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB-iWq0IhH4

>>82290601

It's one of the things i've always liked about Insomniac, it's very touching. Their friendly rivalry with Naughty Dog was also pretty fun.

>>82314442
>>82314366
Whoops

>>82314442

Shame we'll never see them cooperate on a game, even after so many years. Granted, ND has lost a lot of their luster after Uncharted became their bread and butter.

>>82314132
>>82314181
That's too bad, but at least I know it going in.

I really loved the commentary in ACIT, that one about character silhouettes was an inspiration to me for character design.

I mean, I know that sort of thing is common sense, but at the time, I hadn't really thought about it.

>>82314502
I'll always be platinum mad that they only crossover those two (and Sly) have had is in a shitty Playstation move games and the failed Smash clone.

>>82314540

Hopefully the next game will have a better museum. I still hope it'll be a sequel to the Future games, but include the return of non-linear level progression. If there's one thing everyone has to agree on with this game, it brought a sense of adventure as opposed to just being set-piece levels like the last few games.

>>82314441
My favorite thing about this is that Tony fucking sounds like Jontron

>>82314572

I heard the crossover with Jak and Sly was kind of ok, just nothing to write home about. Not-Smash was definitely a trainwreck, though. They could have easily filled in the roster with more Sony-owned characters, and made the combat more fleshed out. Instead it just feels like an imitation of the recent MK games with a Smash vibe and SF tier "rival" bullshit that makes no sense.

>>82314579
>Hopefully the next game

That is an interesting point, while I'm not too keen on the movies chances of success the game on the other hand has been doing well in sales and reviews.

>>82290847
>>82290919
>What is Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva?

>>82314617
The one saving grace of Allstars is that it did use Sir Daniel Fortesque thus i can maintain the delusion of a future MediEvil project,

>>82314222
I loved the Chainblade cameo in the third one, but nothing tops Commando's museum for me. I don't know why.

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>>82314658

>they were going to do a movie every year (or every other year)

And now we're just gonna get some shitty looking card game or whatever.