Equestria Girls 2: RAINBOW ROCKS (shorts + movie, Fall 2014)

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Re: Equestria Girls 2: RAINBOW ROCKS (shorts + movie, Fall 2

Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:53 am

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Oh my goodness, I can actually go to this! :awesomedash:



Yeah, I was glad there was one in Oklahoma that's only about a 70 minute drive from where I live, so I might just be able to see this one!! :gotcha: Prob pre-order my ticket tommorow! :allears:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Jul 19, 2014 1:34 am

I'm probably not going to preorder just because I'm feeling like there's not going to be all that much demand to see this. Unless from past experiences with the previous film, someone thinks otherwise. :pinkieshrug:
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Postby londonarbuckle (?) » Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:38 am

Didn't come to my state last time, and this time is no different! :whatsup:
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:47 am

Meh, another round of waiting for the DVD (or a shaky recording) for me, not that I would want to see this in a theater in my country anyway, since that would be the italian adaptation. :roll:
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Postby Grue (?) » Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:07 am

Oh wow, Sunset Shimmer is even mentioned in the synopsis. They should've totally made her the singer instead of Princess Twilight. Maybe she is bad at singing, which is why they have to summon Twilight. It's funny, because the same VA. :shh:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:17 pm

At least she's mentioned, I guess that shows she'll have some role, and not just a cameo.
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Postby Marimo (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:32 am

First look at the movie, including a song.

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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:53 am

So they're basically Evil Sirens. :gotcha:
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Postby Sailor Yue (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:22 am

Interesting. Very INteresting :allears:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:33 am

These villians are so anime it hurts...I love it! :amazing:


Also that teaser trailer is funny.

*pretend Luna's Sunny*

Sunset: A Demon I turned into a raging She-Demon.
:amazing: and tried to turn all the students here into your teenage zombie army.
:unenthused: ... Buck you Pinkie Pie.
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Postby Rarietty (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:48 am

Did I just get chills? From the opening verse of a villain's song in Equestria Girls of all things? :twonk:

So...pony sirens. I guess they could be seaponies, which would make me way more excited. :smirk:
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:54 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:These villians are so anime it hurts...I love it! :amazing:


:starity: The Equestria Girl 2 villains are Nanami and her Entourage from Utena.

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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:11 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:So they're basically Evil Sirens. :gotcha:


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Postby ponygals (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:25 am

It looks GOOD. I love the Villains in this one but come on necklaces hold their powers? You can cut those off and poof no longer controlling bad guys lol.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:02 am

Major Gruegasm

In seriousness: actually decent, except for super generic Sunset Shimmer. How about losing the punk jacket if you've turned or something, or not act like someone actually blander than Cadance. That backtracking line in the first clip was some more lazy writing from Meghan too.

The song was close to legit good and the animation is finally up to snuff
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:09 am

You know, what if these gals are some sort of new variety of Changeling, I mean their magic is green and it manipulates emotion which they feed on, only seemingly negative emotions as opposed to positive ones.

Also from the lyrics of the song seems they hate the idea of being considered as the same and openly want to be acknowledged as different and better given Changelings all look the same save the queen. I imagine a group of rouge changelings might not like that, and the idea of an independent identity is probably nirvana to them.

So yeah. I'm going with changelings as my second guess if it's not sirens.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:11 am

Human changelings would spice up the movie I guess, it desperately needs something for some spice

I mean shit, another big-ass cafeteria mind-changing song. CHS is still a terrible hamstring on the worldbuilding in Pony Dougworld
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:14 am

Cafeteria must have really good acoustics I guess. :gotcha:

:granny: Ahm getting plum tired ah y'all kids using mah cafeteria like its a damn auditorium!


And yeah CHS is a meh back-drop, but even with that this movie is already looking a lot more fun then the first IMO.
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Postby die Fledermaus (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:35 am

So uh, that looked real cool? Those siren type baddies had a great song.
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Postby DaBatGuy (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:40 pm

Kind of interesting how thematically it's the exact opposite of "Twilight win the Crown". Both are in the cafeteria but instead of the heroes rallying the different groups together through the magic of friendship to support Twilight against Sunset, this time it is the villains breaking down the unity from the first film, inspiring animosity through their dark magic to oppose the Mane 5 featuring Sunset.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:30 pm

I love how they don't even try to hide the fact they are the villians. :gotcha:


Inappropriately touching your head as I pass bye, cause I'm totally not evil.
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Creepily touching your chin, cause I'm totally not evil!
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Telling students it's OK to hurt each other as long as you win, cause I'm totally not evil!
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Using Dark Magic To Feed on your negative emotions cause we're totally not evil
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Gyrating our hips & making sexy poses cause we totally aren't evil!
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...OK that last one isn't evil but it is kind of silly! :-P


Yes, these will be ridiculous yet fun villains. :excellent:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:35 pm

I wonder how they're going to be defeated, I doubt they'll be redeemed with that kind of hair. Rarity is too horrified by that alone. :gonkity:
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:39 pm

While I think this looks pretty fantastic in terms of execution, I can't help but be a little miffed at the thematic elements they seem to want to keep playing on.

EqG1 felt like some kind of 90s throwback with it's drumbeat of "Deep down we're all the same". I guess it was a ballsy statement to make in the middle of the Civil Rights era or something, but our generation got sick of being talked down to with such a flagrant oversimplification of real life that we grew up to make movies like The Incredibles, with themes that directly countered it. "You know what? Some of us are better than others. Don't brag about it, but celebrate it! Use your gifts to do good in the world!"

Funny that we all just rewatched Boast Busters, which has the exact same theme. "Yeah... I guess I am the best unicorn in town. :flattered: "

And now with EqG it's like stepping back in time. Let's all sing about how alike we all are—not how we all bring unique gifts to the table and get along despite our differences, but rather how we aren't different at all except in superficial ways. As someone who found the Incredibles style of theme to be an intense breath of cool fresh air after the dreck that I grew up with, this feels like a slap in the face not only to me and the audience, but to the premise of FiM itself (more so than making them humans does).

I get that the theme is pretty much a macguffin, just an excuse to create a conflict and allow them to keep exercising the novelty motif of ponies in High School Musical human world. But I legitimately find myself wanting to relate to the evil team here, because they're at least acknowledging reality. I feel like the Humane 6 are going to end up trying to make us sympathize with Syndrome.



Also could they please stop making everyone do this friggin' hand gesture? It's driving me up the goddamn wall.

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It's like the CalArts freshman model sheet equivalent of :dreamworks:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 1:44 pm

Sad to say I have to agree, although perhaps the Villians will teach the hu-mane six a thing or two, maybe the moral for this one will be yes we're different but we're still equals, and should try to live in Harmony and celebrate our differences instead of despising each other for them. instead of the stereotypical deep down were all the same.

Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic.
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Postby Dexanth (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:28 pm

Well - EQG1 wasn't 'we're all the same' so much as 'We may be different in meaningful ways, and celebrate that, but deeper down we have an indelible connection to one another' - the Cafeteria song kinda spells that message out fairly explicitly. The whole 'Seem as different as the night is from the day, but look at little deeper and you will see that I'm just like you & you're just like me' aka 'The surface stuff looks radically different, but it's merely shades of the whole universe we're a part of.'

This on the other hand is more cutthroat 'If you can get it, take it, and if you have to climb a mountain of corpses along the way, who cares?'

Also, totally going with Changelings or some variant thereof because of the green eye flash and green mist and basically Chrysalis has obviously come to Canterlot High :crack:
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Postby Doctor Wheeze (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:28 pm

You're all missing the important thing.

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A stalk of celery and an apple, and a bowl of rice and a bunch of grapes for lunch? No wonder they're all so skinny.

Also, I wish my high school had giant club sandwiches. Canterlot High is so fancy.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:31 pm

The movie will air on the HUB on October 17th!!
http://bit.ly/1pTFgF5
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:35 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:The movie will air on the HUB on October 17th!!
http://bit.ly/1pTFgF5

Definitely Not looking forward to seeing it on The Hub, the first movie had plenty of scenes cut to fit the time slots.

Though it's going to be the best version available until the DVD is released.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:13 pm

This is fine, we'll all get it out of the way before S5 and just three weeks after theater leaks

Plus, Friday night pony. Hope it doesn't conflict with GFalls
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:12 am

Doctor Wheeze wrote:You're all missing the important thing.

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A stalk of celery and an apple, and a bowl of rice and a bunch of grapes for lunch? No wonder they're all so skinny.


Damn budget cuts... :applejargh:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:16 am

Actually AJ eating all apples makes sense. As does Fluttershy being a vegetarian. *guess that was a veggie burger in the first movie*. And Rarity is a Fashionista after all, she probably obsesses the most about her figure. Dash having the Sandwhich cause she don't care she eat what she want, all these meals make sense...though Pinkie should have had more sweets.

Unless human pinkie can't have sweets because she's diabetic or something.....

....and now I just made myself sad. :fluttersmith:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 2:31 pm

For those that have had Trouble with Yahoo or Dailymotion the video is now up on YouTube as well! :party:
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:09 pm

You know what's funny?
With the confirmation that these gals aren't Changelings, we now have three types of enemies that drain stuff from the good guys. :v:

- Changelings > love
- Tirek > magic
- Dazzlings > hatred?
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:21 pm

Yeah, lots of power hungry creatures out there I guess.


Speaking of Tirek, I wonder if the Dazzlings are also Tartarus escapees!? Would make sense given Sirens haven't been seen/heard of before. And it probably takes pretty strong magic to hack a portal into the human world.
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:22 pm

I don't think they meant that these villains are literally Sirens, just that it was their inspiration for them, music style and all.

i wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be these diaphanous-winged ponies from the toy boxes:

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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 5:44 pm

Diaphanous-Winged Siren Ponies!! :gotcha: :v:
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:49 pm

SoundMonkey44 wrote:Actually AJ eating all apples makes sense. As does Fluttershy being a vegetarian. *guess that was a veggie burger in the first movie*. And Rarity is a Fashionista after all, she probably obsesses the most about her figure. Dash having the Sandwhich cause she don't care she eat what she want, all these meals make sense...though Pinkie should have had more sweets.


Doesn't change the fact that they're still eating next to nothing. :-I
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Sat Jul 26, 2014 8:52 pm

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Doesn't change the fact that they're still eating next to nothing. :-I



I blame Celestia, I bet she hogs all the good food in the principles office and makes all the students & teachers eat scraps!

:unenthused: Share your cake with me sister.

:gotcha: .....NO!
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Postby LardLad3545 (?) » Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:15 am

As silly as the premise of the movie is, guys, that siren song is really really good. :starity: Like, I'm digging it a lot, especially the first half. Still thinking EQG2 will probably be about on par with the first, in that it's pretty alright. Still, damn, that song...
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