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Re: MLP Movie - airing October 6, 2017

Postby Kronos (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:44 am

Honestly this film is looking far, FAR better than I could have possibly imagined. Sadly I think I'll be unable to see it in theaters as I'll have work related stuff (like being in a new city temporarily) among other reasons, which is a shame because if the film is good, then I'll want to see it.

Tempest doing that kick on the fish was REDICULOUSLY fluid, which gives me high hopes she'll be utilized well.

I'll also laugh my ass off if this film does better opening week than the Transformers film.
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:07 am

Auuugh it's gonna ruuuuuule!
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Postby Kronos (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:12 am

Aramek wrote:Auuugh it's gonna ruuuuuule!


You don't sound confident in this film. I'm surprised, I thought it would have gotten at least one :ponydrugs: from you.





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Postby Durandal (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:17 am

*Watches movie trailer*

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Feels a lot like G1 ponies, maybe it's the shading style not feeling as "clean" as the show vectors

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Now it's Treasure Planet

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I"M A BURD

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Treasure Planet plus the opening cutscene of Jak & Daxter

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Jax & Daxter

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Name: Tempest
Race: unicorn
Appearance:she is black with a purple and red mane, she has green eyes and usually wears a cape with a long hood, she has lots of weapons and things stored under this. She also always has golden bangles on her legs,tail, neck and mane. She also has golden hoop earings.
Age: 23
Cutie mark.: a rose with a knife stabbing through it
Specialty: she is skilled with weapons and can parkour, she is able to get into places very easily with her alluring looks .
Weaknesses: None that are known
Occupation: assassin


Back to G1 ponies

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Treasure Planet and also probably about 100 fanfics every second

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Treasure Pla- SERIOUSLY THAT'S JUST CAPTAIN AMELIA STANDING THERE

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AND JOHN SILVER COMPLETE WITH CYBORG ARM

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I"M A BUUUUUUUURD
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:49 am

This all looked cool although I'm kind of boggling the Mane cast doesn't get any visible billing in it.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:55 am

Dexanth wrote:This all looked cool although I'm kind of boggling the Mane cast doesn't get any visible billing in it.


I get the business reason for it. None of the main cast is well known to the general public. Tara Strong would probably be the most well known and even she wouldn't be that well known to most people.

Does suck that they aren't getting more exposure for their work though.
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Postby adiwan (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:58 am

The full frame animation and the change of style is killing my artistic senses. It's uncannily bad.
The heads are more squished and the mouth animations creeped me out a bit.
Apart from that I sense that the story will be extremely fractured in a "live-action Avatar The Last Airbender"-way.

The only way the movie can turn me over if they have the balls to kill all the seaponies but I highly doubt that.
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:38 am

Huh. Yeah I'm not feeling the animation. It's like some Hasbro executive decided they had to make it grander and more detailed because they have a big budget... And they went overboard. The shading alone is just too much. There's some good stuff there (that sonic rainboom was great) but at some point it delves into the uncanny valley. Specially that super smooth animation when the ponies turn.

That said, it's not like the show's gonna change. Hopefully the movie will be good regardless. I'll let you know when I watch it months after it comes out :v: (even if I dared watch it in cinemas, there's no way I'm watching it dubbed)

Also yay, Starlight is in there somewhere!
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:32 am

I mean, you have to figure someone will actually record it decently on a phone and upload it. Because bronies. Or it will get leaked in decent quality some other way.

Will be fun to monitor that as the spoiler guy...
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:47 am

Oh yeah. It'll be a shame to watch it in screener quality (specially since I still don't know how to feel about this new animation) but I totally will :v:
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:47 am

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Lol

And I guess to balance a negative thing with a positive thing

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This was one of my favorite shots from trailer. That looks really cool, which makes the PS2 airship even more jarring
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:34 pm

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It literally just hit me that Sky Star looks like she becomes a hippogriph in the movie... except when her character was first revealed a lot of people noted Sky Star is an odd name for a seapony. So maybe she's actually a hippogriph that was with the seaponies for whatever reason
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:44 pm

DerFurShur wrote:Yeah a lot of the shading looks as weird as it did in the teaser so I guess that's just how's it'll be.

Yeah at this point it's probably a case of the team just not being used to doing shading like this so they didn't really nail it


I agree with the sentiment that something's off about the animation. It's trying to look nice and smooth but somehow it feels almost robotic at times. Definite uncanny valley look going on there. Couple that with how you can basically predict the story from here and it's not looking like it'll be a new frontier for the franchise exactly, but then again it was never gonna be that so eh
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Postby Applepie (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:29 pm

This was so many weeks wait worth for.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:39 pm

All the new characters are so tall. Makes the ponies look like hobbits...
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Postby Doctor Wheeze (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:49 pm

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I get the business reason for it. None of the main cast is well known to the general public. Tara Strong would probably be the most well known and even she wouldn't be that well known to most people.

Does suck that they aren't getting more exposure for their work though.

I really hope that the celebrity guest voices are less prominent in the movie than they are in the trailer. It's cool that they're there and all, I guess, but they're not really the part of the movie's cast that I care about.
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It's possible that these models will look better in the actual movie. I know sometimes effects and shaders and stuff aren't really finished by the time they make the trailer.

Mostly I liked the style though. It looks really cute! :awesomedash:
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Postby Kronos (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:49 pm

The Doctor wrote:All the new characters are so tall. Makes the ponies look like hobbits...


Does that make Spike the Gollum? :eep:
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 1:55 pm

Eh aside from Grubber, Celano and Tempest the guest stars were pretty absent. The Storm King got one scene, and it's looking more and more likely he'll only show up for the climax with Tempest being Darth Vader to his Emperor.

Most of the lines and screentime went to the merchandising 3 and honestly I'm most worried about how much of an impact Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack will actually have.
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Postby Durandal (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 2:38 pm

DerFurShur wrote:Image

This was one of my favorite shots from trailer. That looks really cool, which makes the PS2 airship even more jarring


I like how Rainbow Dash was enlisted as their engine and Fluttershy is not even helping :fluttershrug:
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Postby RudeCyrus (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 3:39 pm

I thought the animation looked great, though the shading is definitely off. I'm frustrated the regulars VAs don't get top billing. My biggest worries are: A. the celebrities take up too much running time and B. there's going to be so many references to background ponies and the like that it will kill the momentum.

Still, whatever happens, we still have the TV show.
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Postby marshmallow (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 4:17 pm

I like how the movie pokes fun at itself with the Storm King's sarcastic lines about friendship. The show does a lot of self aware gags like that too, which is a good antidote for when things get a little too corny.

Airship to airship combat with grappling hooks! :v:

The detailed ears still look weird to me.

I ain't no fancy graphics artist, but there's something odd going on visually. Something about the lighting, maybe? Some of the backgrounds look great, but in others it seems like the ponies are pasted on top, instead of being inside the world. I dunno.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 4:22 pm

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Movie will be 99 minutes long. So almost the length of five episodes.
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Postby marshmallow (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 5:15 pm

I counted five scenes with hugging.
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Postby Octavia (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:01 pm

I hope there's a midnight showing of this movie near me. :scootatrue:

The only thing that bugs me is Tempest's design. The broken horn just screams bad OC. :bluh:
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Postby Highbrow Dash (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 6:09 pm

I think it's not just the lighting, honestly:

-The animation feels kind of slow. It's not just that it's smooth, but it seems like they make it a point to go through all those middle frames very slowly so you can see how smooth it is. Look at the crowd turn around when the airship arrives, they're moving like molasses. The show feels way snappier.
-Some facial expressions try too hard to be cutesy and delve into the uncanny valley. See: Twilight looking shocked when Spike falls off the blackboard. Or the way it takes her forever to react and get mad when Storm King does his thing. Or her rather tame reaction when Pinkie buries her in cake (compare)... Actually, all 3 of those are Twi trying to look cute when she should look annoyed, aren't they? :smirk:

These and the lighting just make it feel like there's something off. Hopefully they're aware of this stuff and it'll get better before it's released. I'll probably enjoy it regardless though :pinkieshrug:
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Postby Aramek (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:13 pm

Octavia wrote:I hope there's a midnight showing of this movie near me. :scootatrue:

The only thing that bugs me is Tempest's design. The broken horn just screams bad OC. :bluh:

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Postby marshmallow (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:25 pm

I'm curious what's up with the anthro village. All sorts of different animal people there. It's the aftermath of a genetic mutation apocalypse.

In the character montage at the end, the way the Storm King poses with his staff reminded me of Rafiki from Lion King.

Is it just me, or in some shots do the ponies seem chubbier and squatter? Especially about 30 seconds in when the yellow mare looks up at the bad guy's ship. In others their proportions seem normal. Tempest seems thinner and has a longer, more horsey muzzle.
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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:26 pm

Well Tempest is a hardened battle commander so I guess it makes sense she'd look fitter than ponies that spend the majority of their time eating sweets and having a new festival every other week.
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Postby marshmallow (?) » Thu Jun 29, 2017 9:39 pm

Random detail: their tongues are red, instead of orange like in the show. :byopinkie:
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Postby Ruflux (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:40 am

marshmallow wrote:Random detail: their tongues are red, instead of orange like in the show. :byopinkie:

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Postby Juju&Lulu (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 2:41 pm

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So the German trailer has been released and aside from a scene not shown in the English trailer, the look of some of the scenes is a little different.

As for the different scene it just shows the mane 6 and spike (minus Twilight) getting shot out of Pinkie's party cannon by the pirates. It's looks like they're in the ruins of Canterlot, so probably they're breaking into Canterlot Castle where Twilight is with the villains for the climax
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Postby Bumble-B (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 4:42 pm

Good. Better shading and the characters seem to pop out a tad more :allears:
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Postby Strangepony (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 5:20 pm

Lionsgate's promo site is pretty shitty.

Broken images everywhere. :seethe:

Hasbro's movie site is worlds better. Step up your game, Lionsgate!
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:07 pm

DerFurShur wrote:As for the different scene it just shows the mane 6 and spike (minus Twilight) getting shot out of Pinkie's party cannon by the pirates. It's looks like they're in the ruins of Canterlot, so probably they're breaking into Canterlot Castle where Twilight is with the villains for the climax

It looks like there are a bunch of little new clips -- Rainbow Dash flying around, etc.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 8:08 pm

Strangepony wrote:Lionsgate's promo site is pretty shitty.




:smirk: oh. PROMO site.
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Postby Kronos (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 10:37 pm

The reduced shading really does look so much better.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Jun 30, 2017 11:01 pm

The Doctor wrote:All the new characters are so tall. Makes the ponies look like hobbits...

Well they are supposed to be little ponies.

marshmallow wrote:I'm curious what's up with the anthro village. All sorts of different animal people there. It's the aftermath of a genetic mutation apocalypse.

Maybe that's where the diamond dogs came from.
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Postby Durandal (?) » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:18 am

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I'm gonna be honest; I think she's a pretty cool villain all things considered
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Postby Soft Snow (?) » Sat Jul 01, 2017 2:57 am

Wait, so the second prequel movie comic isn't even out yet?
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I was really looking forward to reading it tonight.
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I love how in the end of the first comic they did a little prequel to the first comic.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Sat Jul 01, 2017 3:16 am

Another thing they changed in the German trailer....

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