Re: My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): The Thread: The Discus


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SlateSlabrock wrote:I took a peek at the critics' reviews, since I noticed MetaCritic has the film sitting at 41/100, which seems a little harsh, my own complaints notwithstanding. The negative reviews seem to be divided between, "Ugh, why do I have to go watch this kiddy film?" (RogerEbert.com) and, "But Discord! What about the Tree of Harmony?!" (IGN)
I have an eight-year-old son who is definitely NOT a Brony. He attended a recent screening with me under vocal protest, despite my encouragement that he keep an open mind heading into the film, as is always our goal. (“Sorry, kid,” I told him. “Not everything can be ‘Dunkirk.’”)
Fizzbuzz wrote:Maybe it really should have been about the Mane Six coming to New York City where their goofy shenanigans are just the thing to help a dingus and his dream girl fall in love.
Wayoshi wrote:I think my biggest complaint, more than the story which struggles to get to mediocre status, is that the movie did a poor job at introducing G4. This movie was made because FiM was such a success. But we're just dumped into Canterlot, whiz by who the Mane 6 are in two minutes, not much explanation on what alicorns are and what pony society is, etc. You would think a goal of a theatrical release would be to draw in some new people.
The Doctor wrote:Weekend estimates are in....
$8.8 million. Sounds like the first day rush didn't carry into the weekend.
Kadjule wrote:What a cute movie! I saw this yesterday and absolutely adored it. The new characters were all quite endearing in their own way and I was pretty stoked to see a bunch of weird looking mutants inhabiting that crime city.
I was overall pretty pleased with the musical numbers. I imagine the song featuring Tempest will likely end up in my regular playlist even.
I was completely unfamiliar with Hanazuki going into the theater and was pretty happily surprised by what I saw with the short.
Soft Snow wrote:There is a key difference separating the two. Alpha and Omega had all their original assets tied into their first movie. So when they made the sequel on a smaller budget they had to pretty much remake cheaper versions of them. Contrary to ponies, they have a cheaper set of assets available to them that don't require a movie budget to look as good. Ponies can easily switch over to their TV format if they decide to make direct-to-video movie sequels and they will still look pretty good.
Headless Horse wrote:Though I do have to say I was still kind of "eehhh" about the MLP movie right up to the point of the big gigantic fuck-up by Twilight and the argument that ensued. I was like holy goddamn shit. And to have a line like "I just can't talk to you right now" delivered completely straight and from the soul by Pinkie of all people... wow. Something about the gray drab backgrounds with the ponies still as colorful as they've always been, and yet completely bedraggled and beat down by what has just happened... it's never been that real before, and somehow that made it all the more wrenching. I'm still reeling from it a day later.
Mr. Big wrote:Another scene from the movie that made me go "oh my god" was when Capper tricked a guy into thinking he has a disease that will make his body parts fall apart, and guy immediately grabbed his crotch
I guess the movie earned a PG rating for a reason.
Headless Horse wrote:But in this case the song isn't a radio-ified version of a showtune, it's a human-world pop song that fits in pony world just fine. But the somber tone of it playing over the triumphant end of the movie gives that whole aspect of the movie a level of ... I don't know. Seriousness that I wasn't at all expecting. It's a genre that plays against type, bringing the mood down for the evening (the Art Of book mentioned that they wanted to end the movie at twilight, consciously, for the symbolism of it— this was all intentional), rather than a Menken-style grand triumphant bell-ringing orchestral finale.
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The song in this movie does almost exactly the same kind of thing, mood-wise and texture-wise. The only thing it's missing is a little bit of lyrical applicability, to Twilight perhaps, but I don't think every piece needs to fit in order for the song to do the job it's signed on to do. It's as effective as that song that leads us into the credits at the end of Prince Caspian, which is the last time I remember this being done so well.
theGECK wrote:This movie set my new headcanon of how ponies would look!![]()
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It was pony, bigieized. All of the shiny parts made shinier, all of the flaws were flawyer, and the ponies were ponieser. And the theatre had custom cups which I think I might need to go back and get one of them. Why? Because Ponies in the theatre are fun! And I had fun. Was it an amazing movie? No. Was it pony? Oh very much yes, and I watched the credits with a smile on my face and ain my heart.
Aramek wrote:I like that Spike had the largest body count.
Headless Horse wrote:watch I'm totally wrong and all these songwriters are huge pony fans
Big Boss wrote:Always great to see you back.
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