Wreck-It Ralph
I probably shouldn't be starting a new thread over a movie trailer, but it's such a freakin' awesome trailer, I couldn't help myself. This movie is going to be SO awesome.
Watch and squee.
Watch and squee.
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Its like it was the film made for me.
Very droll.
Not Pixar! Regular ole Disney Animation studios.
Then I refuse to watch this filth
Nah, I must've been a bit too giddy to take it all in (I swear Deku Link's in the background in that massive sequence)
Frigging Disney thinks it can put out any BS it wants and still make money... there is absolutely now frigging wa-
(After Trailer)
Disney...
You have regained my respect. You may take my money.
It certainly looks fun, what with the video-game references and all. However, Disney Animation Studios are hardly in the same caliber as their subsidiary company; Pixar. That's not to say that the film will be bad by any means, far from it but it does mean that I'm not quite ready to get to hyped for this movie just yet.
One and a half hours of nostalgic video-game references and little else, a good film does not make. The trailer really didn't show much in the way of actual story or characterisation (aside from the basic overall premise). Only the final film will show how well the characters interact with each other and whether the film has real heart.
The references within the trailer did make me laugh; however not because the "jokes" were intrinsically funny in of themselves but rather because I "got" the reference. A genuinely funny film should allow everybody in the audience to understand the joke without having to have an intrinsic knowledge of popular culture. Otherwise you just end up with 'Family Guy'.
As an aside, I thought that it was interesting that Disney were clearly unable to license the characters of Kano ('Mortal Kombat') and Samus (Metroid); due to their lawsuit avoiding "likenesses". It seems a shame to have so many actual classic video-game characters mixed in with "inspired by" characters, when the geeks in the audience will clearly know who they should have been, sans legal issues. I fear that it might take me out of the movie by reminding me that the real world is ruled by lawyers!
I shall continue to keep this on my radar and hope for the best. It's looking promising so far but it still has everything to prove at this point.
Overall opinion = A great concept, which hopefully has the script required to fulfill it's potential.
Not up to Pixar's calibur but not too far off.
Gives me hope that this film will be pretty good.
With the heads of Pixar in charge of Disney Animation after Disney's purchase of Pixar, Walt Disney Feature Animation is actually making entertaining films again.
I'm amused, amazed and confused all at the same time with this.
Seriously though... yeah I'm watching this just to see if I get all the references.
Now tell me the truth: Who else is expecting to see Guybrush here? It would be a perfect cameo. Or LeChuck, to keep the bad guy thing going
Not a chance in hell. Lucasarts would have to license the use of the characters to Disney. If they aren't even willing to earn a risk-free profit by allowing TellTale to develop a second season of 'Tales of Monkey Island' then I doubt that you'll be seeing Guybrush and co. in 'Wreck-It Ralph'.
These days, Lucasarts' business strategy seems to revolve around making a 'Star Wars' rip-off of 'Uncharted' and sitting on their old I.P.'s as they gather dust; refusing to let anybody else near them. Lucasarts hates money, unless it's derived from a 'Star Wars' based product. Fact.
I agree with all of your post except this. If they wanted to make money off their Star Wars products, they'd have made Battlefront 3, Rogue Squadron 4, The Force Unleashed 3, ad infinitum and ad nauseum. They have best selling series in their library that they've ignored despite fans clamoring for more.
Okay; Lucasarts is run by a three headed monkey, with not a single brain cell contained within any of the three heads! Fact.
Better?
Much!
I didn't forget, they're part of the ad infinitum.
When we get beyond the awesome rendition of all those classic videogame characters, the actual protagonist and supporting cast and kind of the entire storyline looks pretty weak and makes me kind of uninterested.
But dayum I'll go see it for the split second of Chun-Li cameo anyway o^o
Plus, Epic Mickey and Kingdom Hearts miss the cutoff date for this movie's subject matter by at least two decades.
This is my very first impression from that one trailer they have released yet and future reveals might make me eat my own words; but I don't think this Ralph character is as interesting as Eddie Valiant.
Agreed. But then, who is? Eddie's just a fun character....you know, for a great big stick in the mud.
Even though their biggest triumph has been video games, I wouldn't consider Sam and Max video game characters in the same way as Mario, Robotnik, and co.
Wasn't there a Halo-ish area shown?
We have major video game characters from actual games that Disney managed to get the rights to rather than creating parodies of them. And this film pays tribute to classic video games during the acrade...So...Shut up and take my money Disney!!