What do ya guys think about this one? I'm really hoping for some cool action sequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ZYdhBm-Kw
It being PG perplexes me given the source material. I guess that's the only way they thought to make money
>>81274497
I'll probably go see it but I'm definitely getting the game, it's 40 bucks so I'm slightly worried. But if the movie and game are good I'll look forward to sequels
Isn't sly Cooper getting a movie too?
>>81274497
>Main VA's don't even get a mention
Makes me sad
>>81274799
>it's 40 bucks so I'm slightly worried
It's a remake of the first game IIRC. Insomniac aren't jews either.
And yeah Sly is getting a movie. I dislike his new design, but it might grow on me.
>>81274497
Didnt realize it was coming out so soon but I saw the trailer yesterday. Definitely going to go see it.
Definitely seeing it. Huge R&C fan. I was a little worried about it at first, but After seeing a few clips, I'm pretty hyped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaX8VSf4wo
Definitely getting the remake, too. Started replaying the first game again the other day.
>No Kevin Michael Richardson as Drek
>Paul Giamatti playng Drek instead
Paul is great and all, but why replace Kevin at all? Paul probably costs more to get and he's not exactly a name draw. No little kid or parent is gonna drag the other to see this for Paul Giamatti.
Never played R&C ever wasJ&Dfan
The movie looks decent game looks gooddidn't know the ps4 version was a remake
As muchas I love me some Up Your Arsenal, I can't help but feel like they missed the boat with this one. If this had come out around the time of Tools of Destruction, maybe. But Ratchet and clanks heyday is far gone at this point. But hey, at least it makes more sense than the Sly Cooper movie. Better to use a has been then a never was.
>>81275340
That bothers me too.
But yeah, I'm definitely going to see this. I love Ratchet and Clank.
>>81275439
that need to bring it back
This might become the first good movie based on a video game.
>>81275340
Kevin accidentally got Giamatti's check in the mail for the role.
He mailed it back to him and didn't even get a thank you.
It bothers me that they're shoehorning Nefarious into the first game's story. Sequel baiting I guess.
>>81275554
I thought the first mortal kombat movie was decent and same withMario bros.course I realize how bad it is now but I saw that movie in theaters and thought it was awesome when I was a kid
>>81275661
I don't get why everybody dumps over the Mario Bros. movie.
It's really not that bad and it's not like the source material is a wealth of lore to pull from.
>>81275739
If you really think about it they had Mario 1 through world
And the cartoons nothing else really draw from
>Ratchet gets a movie.
>No movie for Jak
Bullshit!
>>81276315
it hurts
>>81274497
Cautiously optimistic from all the clips I've seen. I played the fuck out of that game when I was younger so it's got a lot of nostalgia to burn through.
>>81275739
I saw the movie a few years ago and enjoyed it a lot, but mostly because I didn't expect anything at all from it. Loved the different takes it had on various Mario concepts, and all the little references to the franchise scattered around the movie shows they really tried to make it familiar.
One of my favorite movies.
>>81274622
Ratchet & Clank have been relatively tamer (barring some exceptions) since the PS3 era. Back in the PS2 era there wasn't an E10 rating for a while so the games were rated T by default, so by the second game they decided to push and take advantage of that rating more and more. But they switched gears for the Future series to be a little more kid friendly and haven't switched back since.
>>81276315
I'm not wasting my money on a fucking Rachet and Clank movie. I want my J&D waifus on the silver screen, goddammit.
Saw the trailer for it when I went to see Zootopia. Gotta be honest, it wasn't pulling many laughs from me, which is what they seemed to be going for. I much prefer a decent story and action to the generic comedy style that's smothering the animation genre, but so far I'm not getting the impression this'll be different.
>>81279536
honestly, the trailers do suck a lot. But the actual clips being shown online are a bit better.
>>81275540
Naughty Dog is done with J&D and Crash.
Whatever happened to the Sly Cooper film?
![zootopia_judy_and_nick_steam_be_me_by_kazerxestelaris-d9mdq41[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/oHOPdD9.png "zootopia_judy_and_nick_steam_be_me_by_kazerxestelaris-d9mdq41[1].png")
It looks kind of cheap and dodgy in the animation which is a shame because I was looking forward to it.
I just don't really have high hopes, sony are making all these videogame movies because they think it's a bankable IP and a "sure thing" (and all their movies have been failing lately) so you can McFucking forget about them taking any risks with the formula and making it unique, it'll be the definition of safe filmmaking.
>>81275572
That sounds awful, Kevin Michael Richardson is one of my favorite voice actors and from the handful of interviews with him I've seen and read he seems like one of the nicest guys in the world.
>>81279895
>Ratchet and Clank adn Sly Cooper
>no Fat Princess
It hurts
>>81274497
I'm intrigued and want it to do well but I'm struggling to force my optimism. Sony is really good at losing money so regardless of the movie's quality it's up in the air.
>>81275152
That's possibly the most violent thing ever shown in Ratchet media. Organic Nefarious having a bloody cut and bleeding nose for his mugshot.
>>81276315
Jak is in a weird place where it looks kiddie but is not really for kids at all. Maybe the first game, but ND's mission to ape GTA threw the series out of the "safe for kids movie adaptation". This rustles the soccer moms who won't let their kids see it, and because it looks super cartoony, normal adults will avoid it too. What might work is a live action adaptation. Live action isn't connoted with "just for kids" so the soccer moms get rustled less despite the rampant adult themes and normal adults are more willing to see it. It's the Transformers Formula.
>>81279895
>>81280274
>The movie was given a lower budget than many films but the production is possible due to the collaboration between several organizations
Fuck I want to see this so video game movies don't die but I don't want to support shit.
>>81276315
Jak can't get a movie because the plot is TOO fucktardedly written to the point it's a guaranteed box office FLOP. Time Travel, Jak is Mar, yeesh. Plus too many characters are outright unlikable. Don't tell me Daxter is likable. 2 years partying and drinking at bars instead of saving Jak who was being tortured in prison.
>Releasing R&C and Angry Birds movie just one month apart
what the fuck sony
>>81280640
He wasn't partying, he was working as a metalhead exterminator and looking for clues on where Jak was.
>>81280639
Don't worry, guy, Ratchet and clank is in GOOD hands.
>>81280703
In their defense, R&C looks much better than pretty much all of those.
>>81279363
I haven't played R&C since the PS2 era. Are the newer games any good or did the series jump the shark?
>>81280763
no way, barbie in a mermaid tale 2 was a masterpiece
>>81280788
Tools of Destruction, Quest For Booty, A Crack in Time, and Into the Nexus are all good (just keep in mind that QFB and ITN are not full games though). You can avoid All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault though.
>>81280703
FUCK I JUST WANT IT TO BE GOOD
>>81280676
>SINK OR SWIM BITCHES. WHICHEVER MAKES THE MONEY DOESN'T GO BEHIND THE SHED.
>>81280788
I love the PS3 series, myself. Especially Crack in Time. Favorite Ratchet game. They're definitely different from the PS2 games, but not alienatingly so, it's not a Jak and Daxter to Jak 2 deal or anything.
>>81280703
Why couldn't Sony just use their own damn animation studio?
>>81280703
>they're still making open season movies
how do you make fucking 57 movies after your first one was just "ok"
>>81280933
I'm guessing Sony doesn't have much faith in it. I mean it's an animated sci fi movie (have those EVER done well?) and it's based on a video game. It's pretty much a guaranteed flop, as much as I HOPE to be proven wrong.
But at least they're releasing it in April instead of pushing it out in January, where animated movies go to die.
>>81280973
Ask Fox, it's the same thing with them and Ice Age.
I want it to succeed because I want Sony to lecerage their IPs more.
![20160229_surfsup_1920x1080--53a1fcf133961a0a678a5bb95b23d527.0.0[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/78Q3nmP.jpg "20160229_surfsup_1920x1080--53a1fcf133961a0a678a5bb95b23d527.0.0[1].jpg")
>>81280933
They'll be too busy making this masterpiece.
Like I said, these movies aren't even gonna be movies, they're meant to be a cheap cash injection to bank off IP's people know, I'd be surprised if sony spent more than 30 million dollars on any of them, even the marketing has just been shit so far.
They're not movies, they're like corporate turds, you will walk out of the cinema wondering if you watched anything at all.
>>81281016
At least Ice Age brings in the european money
>>81280973
And the best part is, the cast gets more obscure each time.
From veritable A/B-list actors Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher in the first one to literally some guy who works in the office getting the role as Elliot in the newest movie.
>>81280995
>animated sci fi
Wall E is the only one that comes to mind.
>>81281035
But what about Angry Birds? They outsourced that one too and that at least has the potential to be a minor hit.
>>81280995
Monsters vs. Aliens
Megamind
They've done "okay"
>>81281175
The Angry Birds movie is a guaranteed success. It hurts me knowing that will be the case while the possibility of Ratchet & Clank flopping is all too real. The only way i could possibly be more upset is if Angry Birds actually ended up being a good movie, it doesn't deserve to be a good movie.
>>81280856
Full Frontal Assault has Richard Horvitz as the villain though! Richard Horviiiiiitz!
>End gags like puking and pissing
why are modern trailers so goddamn shitty
>>81275152
I totally just realized that Quark has three fingers.
>>81280933
>>81281035
They are also making literal food porn.
>>81281453
Richard Horvitz has done voices for all the better PS3 R&C games as the Zoni and most of the Terachnoids. Also the idea of the Qwark fanboy from Going Commando becoming an antagonist is an amusing idea but not good enough material to be a main antagonist (even in a game as short as FFA was).
>>81281697
nah, that's outsourced to some canadian studio
>>81279895
Eh, for a medium budget animated movie I think it looks fine. There was no way it was going to match Zootopia on a technical level, because 1) this movie probably had about 20% of the budget Zootopia has, and 2) it was supposed to come out last year but got delayed. Of course a medium-budget movie originally set for 2015 is going to be visually outclassed by a big budget movie from Disney in 2016.
Where the movie can potentially win people over is if the story and characters are good, and if it has fun action sequences. I think it might surprise a lot of people.
>>81281591
They showed it before Zootopia, because
>kids like Disney, right?
>what else do kids like?
>uhh, farts, pissing, and barfing?
>fund it! (but not too much)
Worst part of seeing Zootopia was the trailers. Most formulaic "kids love that stuff" humor/setups I've ever seen. The difference is immediately noticeable when the movie starts.
>>81282908
It appeals to the kids, trailers weren't meant for us. Critic reviews are.
>>81279730
Rainmaker developed it as test footage and released online to garner interest
Sony isn't going to green light it until after they see how Ratchet and Clank preforms in theaters
>>81282908
For some reason I saw Zootopia 3 times and they never had the R&C trailer attached to it. They did have it in front of BVS, though.
How long after R&C comes out I wonder, before we see fan art of Nick and Judy as galactic rangers?
>>81280933
Different branches of Sony are so disparate they should be treated as different companies for all intents and purposes.
Plus, SPA is busy making movies that make money and fucking Tartakovsky over.
I'm not sure how the movie will turn out but the game looks really fun
I wonder if it's true that Sony has Sly Cooper on hold to see if R&C does well. I'm guessing they have pretty low expectations since they outsourced both production and distribution, but could it be they are gauging to decide if they should put a bigger portion of money and resources towards Sly Cooper? Zootopia is going to make a billion dollars which means that now's a great time to put out anthro movies. Sly Cooper would definitely be riding on Zootopia's coat tails in a lot of ways.
>>81274497
I'll watch it, actually looks pretty good and I'm a sucker for animated movies anyway. The remake looks pretty cool too.
I dunno, R&C has almost almost always delivered quality, so I'm not surprised.
>>81287531
>almost
when they fuck up, they fuck up. This doesn't look like one those times though. It looks pretty damn good actually.
>>81288060
Those fuckups are pretty few and far between compared to other franchises of similar size, though.
I mean you've got All 4 One and Full Frontal Assault, that's mainly it isn't it? There's also a sentiment that the first game's not so hot especially these days, but the remake looks like it'll fix that.
Everyone likes to argue about which is the best mainline game but they're all at least good when you get down to it.
>>81288254
I actually don't mind All 4 One. Or at least, I WOULDN'T mind, if I didn't keep getting disconnected when trying to play online with my friends.
But I thought it played fine for a 4 player Ratchet game and looked gorgeous. Love the designs for the Ratchet and Clank games.
Anyone else like Creaturebox? Done by the guys who do concept art for the Ratchet games, awesome stuff.
http://creaturebox.deviantart.com/
>>81288624
I always thought that 2D with Wyatt based on the Creature Box style would be the perfect way to do a R&C cartoon.
>>81274979
>Insomniac aren't jews either.
>>81290678
Prove it then
>>81290783
All 4 One
Full Frontal Assault
Into the Nexus
All made yearly at budget pricepoints. Because their main studio was busy on new AAA games because they want to keep their IPs. Fun fact back around 08, a good portion of Ratchet devs leave the studio because Insomniac wanted to shit towards shooter games exclusively.
Not to mention the other games they made were bad. Fuse sucked, and Susnet Overdrive was a R&C reskin.
>>81290850
Fuse and Sunset were because of the shitty handling going on with EA and Microsoft wanting them to make the titles "their" way. Hence why the latter was like someone took Infamous and jammed Saints Row humor in without any of the actual charm.
The whole thing feels weird. Like this was made for tax treason instead of it potentially being a financially solvent venture of its own.
>>81274622
It would be better off being a 12A.
Absolutely the same age restriction limits as a PG and you can get away with more
Deadlocked was underrated as fuck and funny as hell.
>WHAT is that SSSSNNNEAKY Lombax doing BEHIND the ARENA? This could BEEEEEEE nothing. It's nothing. He's getting ammo.
>>81274622
Doesn't surprise me. These days, animated movies only have one of two extremes: PG or South Park without the class.
>>81291604
Deadlocked was very funny, but it was just too different tonally to truly connect with people.
>>81275452
I assume this is more for a potential new generation of fans since the movie and game are just retellings of the first game.All the old fans are grown up now so they needed to do something to bring in new kids.
>>81275661
MK holds up fine as a cheesy action movie, only real bad part is the terrible Reptile CGI. Other than that the only other vidya movie I'd really consider passable is Silent Hill because of the visuals.
>>81281383
I'm not sure about that. A few years ago sure but Angry Birds doesn't seem as popular as it used to be.
>>81290850
Ratchet 1, 2, 3 and deadlocked were all made yearly.
>>81290850
>and Susnet Overdrive was a R&C reskin.
Did you actually play it? There are similarities to ratchet on a superficial level (zany guns on a weapon wheel) but gameplay wise it's actually fairly different
there's no concept of maintaining speed and parkour traversal in ratchet and it's a significant part of SO gameplay. If you try and play it like ratchet by strafing on the ground while shooting at enemies you will get killed very quickly
>>81293382
Not only that but Insomniac has damned near always made near games on a yearly basis. Since the release of Disuptor in 1996 (their first game) the only years Insomniac has not put out any new games on were 1997, 2001, and 2010.
>>81293553
Has Insomniac had a hit since 2010?
>>81293612
Sunset overdrive met expectations, it did modestly for an exclusive new IP on the less successful console plus it was critically praised (IGN currently rank it the best xbone exclusive)
Insomniac have been relatively dormant for a while besides that, all of the ratchets in the last 5 years have been smaller games that sony all but refuses to even market. They're still getting funded so the games must be successful enough from a business standpoint even though ratchet is no longer the household name he was in the PS2 days
>>81293655
>all of the ratchets in the last 5 years have been smaller games that sony all but refuses to even market.
Not just the R&C games, Resistance 3 also was also lacking in adverts, about the only major piece of marketing for this game was this live action trailer thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai6YvsB_K3o
Even there you can see the view count is pretty low.
>>81280551
If there's one IP I want Transformers Formula'd it'd beBionicle.
But I don't think it's ever gonna happen
>>81276315
Jak was for edgy tweens who wanted to be seen as mature
ratchet was for kids who enjoyed fun
sly was for furries
>>81293320
Silent hill visually was well done
And I forgot the first 2 resident evil movies are good
>>81296818
where in the FUCK is dallas's hair
>>81296818
Giving her eyes was a mistake.
>>81297030
My dick doesn't seem to think so.
>>81297039
She was cooler looking without them.
>>81297183
Most of the ratchet characters they changed were - the solid color no pupil eyes were much more unnatural in a good way that suited robots and blarg
however because muh kids movie and muh expressive characters they had to give them normal eyes
>I am defeated, I have no choice but to THROOOOW myself! At your mercy...
>SUCKERS!
UYA was so on point with the comedy. Especially Qwark, I don't like what they've done with him in the newer games though.
Here's hoping he actually gets to do something in the movie, despite everything Qwark can be a hero.
>>81274943
to be fair, their names aren't as big pulls for casuals who don't know what R&C is
Still sucks though
>>81297343
The games were definitely funnier when they had cynical programmers and animators writing them instead of a professionally trained writer
Naughty has something to do with the movie?
>>81297686
Naughty Dog*
As someone who likes Sly and R&C games, I hope the R&C movie does well and the Sly movie bombs to hell
>>81274497
More furshit. At least Zootopia had a brain.
>>81280933
Sony's divisions used to be entirely seperate. SCEA licenced the IP's out to a number of film companies a long time ago including Ratchet, Sly, Resistance, Gran Turismo and God Of War (Which is being done by Paramount). And the hacked emails showed pictures and the other divisions barely got along.
Everyone act surprised that Sony is still a complete clusterfuck of a company.
>>81297686
>>81297752
I assume you mean Insomniac, and yes -
The writer of the PS3 ratchets is the writer of the movie, plus Insomniac helped a lot with the art direction by providing art assets from the games as samples and resources like that. It wouldn't surprise me if they had even more input, they've been fairly posessive of it
>>81298000
>Resistance, Gran Turismo, God Of War (Which is being done by Paramount
Where did you get these? I remember a post from years ago where a guy said movies from Ratchet, Sly, Jak, ModNation Racers, and LittleBigPlanet were going to be made by Blockade, but that's it.
>>81293553
The PS2 games were yearly, but after that there was always a gap.
Once they started a new studio, they basically churned out the small games because it was all they could make in a year. And none of them were particularly good, especially not A4O or FFA.
>>81297438
They got professional writers half way through UYA though, that and deadlocked had great comedy. I remember ToD being pretty good in that regard too but it's been a while.
