No? Well, we can wait.
[pause]
Great! Now that we’re done recovering from hearing about the looming nightmare fuel that promises to be the live-action Pokemon movie, I have a question: has there been a live-action flick of this sort that wasn’t godawful? I’m not talking about stop-motion movies, like the ones that Blessed Harryhausen did; or even… ET, I suppose, or Short Circuit. Neither of those were close enough to human to trigger the Uncanny Valley effect.
I’m thinking of, say, something like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies, only it wasn’t bad.
Moe Lane
PS: Gremlins comes close, sure, but the puppets didn’t really have much dialogue. And Small Soldiers… OK, I’d have accepted that one. But the roster is still pretty dang sparse.
Oh, this is going to be .. well ..
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Mew
Probably execrable (Pokemon not really being a property renowned for the depth and complexity of its writing), but the writing talent seems promising. (At least, Guardians of the Galaxy was A-OK, and Gravity Falls really was very good.)
Will it be directed by M. Night Shamalamadingdong?
I’ll be cautiously optimistic here. If the Pokemon remain animated, ala Roger Rabbit or the Looney Tunes/Space Jam movies, it’ll work fine. If they go with making the Pokemon look realistic, yeah, that’s nightmare fuel.
And more news a day later- Variety is saying that the folks in negotiation to write the Pokemon movie are someone from Guardians of the Galaxy and Alex Hirsch, whose last project was a little show called Gravity Falls. That’s a lot more promising news, even if they’re still insisting that the movie will be based on Detective Pikachu.