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Re: MLP Movie - airing October 6, 2017

Postby Wayoshi (?) » Sat Sep 30, 2017 4:31 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:The idea is that, like with new episodes, once the movie is out I or someone else would post a thread and we'd post our discussion of the movie there, and we'd keep our movie discussion in that thread until the moratorium was up (which for episodes is until midnight PST the day it airs). The point of the DPC thread is to decide how long it should be for the movie.

I was thinking of making the movie thread early next week... maybe this Monday.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:56 am

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We need all of these. :allears:
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:54 pm

I wonder if two different people drew and animated these stickers. The skinny, sharp-angled look that a bunch of them have could work on its own, and the huge degree of squash-and-stretch animation they're using (most evident with the image of Twilight Sparkle waving) could work on its own too, but I feel like they don't quite work together.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:15 pm

I am reminded of Artrix's pony cartoons.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 1:40 am

I watched the Behind the Scenes special on Disco Fam and it was about what you expect.

Though one interesting thing was that they decided that for the movie everything (environments, buildings, and other species) were made to intentionally be much bigger than the ponies to go with the transition to the big screen.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 1:58 am

DerFurShur wrote:I watched the Behind the Scenes special on Disco Fam and it was about what you expect.

Though one interesting thing was that they decided that for the movie everything (environments, buildings, and other species) were made to intentionally be much bigger than the ponies to go with the transition to the big screen.

Weird aesthetic choice give other bipedal species we've seen in the show. I mean, Capper would be as tall as Iron Will.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 2:02 am

Looks like there's a low-res copy on Dailymotion.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 4:29 am

I think my initial $50 million guess might have been a bit ambitious, I'm going to lower it to $15 million instead.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 4:04 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote:Looks like there's a low-res copy on Dailymotion.


I'm more hype than ever. I loved the weren't you about to toss us overboard? moment :v:
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 6:14 pm

Well the review embargo is lifted so the earliest reviews are trickling in now.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sun Oct 01, 2017 11:14 pm

Here is a better version of that video.



Is it just me or does it seem like the pony's words don't match their mouths? Maybe it is because of the new animation software they are using? I mean watching ponies talk for nearly 7 years, my brain associates certain sounds with certain mouth movements. This kinda feels like it was dubbed in English from another language.

I hope this isn't accurate of the movie otherwise the uncanny valley effect will drive nails into my brain for the length of the film.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:09 am

Some of the lines seem mistimed in that video. Hopefully only a problem in that video instead of the movie.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:42 pm

So apparently an HD RIP of the movie has been leaked so be careful our there in the wild.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Mon Oct 02, 2017 10:43 pm

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Postby The Doctor (?) » Mon Oct 02, 2017 11:41 pm

How the hell does an HD rip of a movie leak before it even comes out?

Did they put it on Netflix in some regions like with "The Hitman's Bodyguard"?


:lol: Totally didn't know "The Hitman's Bodyguard" was released by Lionsgate. Someone check netflix Japan.







Edit: Yeah, leak is legit. Someone dun fucked up.
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:49 am

Yeah, I was going to say Lionsgate just made this exact same mistake. Someone there is either doing this deliberately, or else they’re the most incompetent digital media distro employee in the industry
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:51 am

Stone Cold Jane Austen wrote:Yeah, I was going to say Lionsgate just made this exact same mistake. Someone there is either doing this deliberately, or else they’re the most incompetent digital media distro employee in the industry


I was under the impression that The Hitman's Bodyguard was intentionally put on Netflix in Japan. I have no clue why they would do that, but it's there. That's how they chose to release it in that country.


As for MLP, I can't imagine it's on Netflix anywhere already. This is someone who deliberately leaked it unintentionally I think.
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 3:43 am

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I was under the impression that The Hitman's Bodyguard was intentionally put on Netflix in Japan. I have no clue why they would do that, but it's there. That's how they chose to release it in that country.


As for MLP, I can't imagine it's on Netflix anywhere already. This is someone who deliberately leaked it unintentionally I think.


I didn’t know Hitman’s Bodyguard was on Netflix Japan intentionally. You’d think they would have pretty clear rules on what gets uploaded and when. but things get leaked all the time for all sorts of reasons, so who knows?
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Postby Pocket (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:37 am

All it takes is for one person in the supply chain who gets one of the countless distribution copies of the movie to decide to be a wise guy. And no one will ever know which one, so they've got nothing to lose. It's not like in the old days when you would have had to at least steal the film canisters and take them to be digitized.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:43 am

Regardless of how it happened, this kinda sucks. They could've waited 2-3 weeks and it would've helped everyone who can't watch it on theatres but it wouldn't have hurt the movie's revenue that much. As it is, this is a pretty big fuck you to everyone that worked on the movie.

At least kids and their parents will probably go to the theatre regardless.
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:45 am

I'm waiting to see it in theaters myself. Hopefully people will still go see it in theaters to support the movie.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:06 am

Eh most kids/families aren't patrolling 4chan, so they'll go see it in theaters still. Mostly the people that watch the leak either weren't going to pay to see it in theaters, will still go see it in theaters, or have an undesirable distribution situatiom in their home country.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 9:45 am

Every single movie leaks these days. There are high-quality digital screeners that get deliberately released to reviewers in advance of the theatrical opening.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 1:23 pm

Headless Horse wrote:Every single movie leaks these days. There are high-quality digital screeners that get deliberately released to reviewers in advance of the theatrical opening.

When I get advanced copies of films for scoring, there is often my name watermarked over the copy to make it really easy to find out where the leak came from. It would be professional suicide so I'm not sure why anyone does it
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 4:49 pm

DerFurShur wrote:Mostly the people that watch the leak either weren't going to pay to see it in theaters, will still go see it in theaters, or have an undesirable distribution situatiom in their home country.

I was thinking the same thing myself. Even if they waited several weeks after the movie is out to watch the leak, they still wouldn't have gone because they knew they could eventually see it for free.

4chan mods themselves seem to be trying to contain the leak themselves. Putting any links to the movie on there spam filter list. Not that I'm trying to watch the leak, mind you. I already bought my tickets in advance.
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Postby Pocket (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 5:40 pm

Oh yeah 4chan still has a pony board. Howzat workin' out, by the way? Is it completely overrun with alt-right shitheads posting Nazi ponies yet?
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 11:01 pm

Pocket wrote:Oh yeah 4chan still has a pony board. Howzat workin' out, by the way? Is it completely overrun with alt-right shitheads posting Nazi ponies yet?

Surprisingly, no, but I didn't venture too deep.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 11:03 pm

This was amazing, and that's all I'm gonna say about it until there's a spoiler thread about it.

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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Oct 03, 2017 11:11 pm

Highbrow Dash wrote:This was amazing, and that's all I'm gonna say about it until there's a spoiler thread about it.

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You can post about it in the global thread once the first showings start, which it seems will be on Thursday evening (American times).
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed Oct 04, 2017 12:12 am

I don't think this was leaked by the reviewers. I imagine it was the same source that leaked Equestria Girls. One of the projector operators at a theater could have just uploaded it from the DVD to his computer.
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Wed Oct 04, 2017 2:22 am

Soft Snow wrote:I don't think this was leaked by the reviewers. I imagine it was the same source that leaked Equestria Girls. One of the projector operators at a theater could have just uploaded it from the DVD to his computer.
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They don't use normal DVDs for movie projection. At the very least, they would have to re-encode it.

https://www.quora.com/How-are-movies-sent-to-movie-theaters-across-the-world
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Wed Oct 04, 2017 7:27 pm

Oh my gosh! I just watched a Sia music video!
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She is like a discount Lady Gaga with 20% more interpretive dance.
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I don't understand, are little girls really into Sia or something?
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 12:08 pm

The dancer you saw wasn't Sia since she never appears in her videos

Also she's made some of the biggest pop hits of the last five years so I imagine some girls must like her.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 12:12 pm

https://www.awn.com/animationworld/lights-camera-action-cinematography-my-little-pony-movie

Interview with the cinematographer about working on the movie. Minor spoiler warning since he does describe a couple scenes he worked on and one of them is one of the more important scenes in the movie (the other is just the opening)
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Postby Pocket (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 1:31 pm

Animated films have a "director of photography"?
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 2:34 pm

Pocket wrote:Animated films have a "director of photography"?

Only the ponies ones.
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:41 pm

Pocket wrote:Animated films have a "director of photography"?

They tend to, yeah. When you go big screen you kinda need a professional cinematographer if you don't want your film to look like amateur hour. Plus there's probably some obscure union rules about that stuff too
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 6:51 pm

Ruflux wrote:They tend to, yeah. When you go big screen you kinda need a professional cinematographer if you don't want your film to look like amateur hour. Plus there's probably some obscure union rules about that stuff too


Yeah, there’s got to be someone who decides where and when to pan, zoom in or out, camera angles, and so on. Even if it’s all specified on the storyboards, even if the animators are moving the characters into the background or foreground and changing their perspective, someone’s still got to make the actual shots. The backgrounds still have to move in sync with the animation. Same as in live action, really—someone’s got to be behind the camera, even if the camera is virtual and none of the animation ever passes in front of a physical lens

You wouldn’t want to shoot a live action scene from one unchanging perspective if you want it to look polished & professional, unless the scene is very brief or it’s to make some kind of comic or dramatic point or reveal. The same goes here
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:12 pm

This was amazing, and that's all I'm gonna say


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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Fri Oct 06, 2017 1:36 am

Looks like Director of Photography was his title
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