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Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Orange Fluffy Sheep (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:01 pm

where ribombee, i wanna see fuzzy ribombee the size of a person's hand
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:19 pm

This movie looks like it's going to be both worse and better than all those live action cartoon adaptation movies it resembles. The game it's based on was already a really silly concept for a game, even by Nintendo standards, set in what was already a weird universe even by video game standards. And now to try to get people to buy into all of it in a live-action movie, PLUS the "animal that can talk but only the protagonist can understand them" cliché?

But the Mr. Mime scene was funny. The old "mime pretends to do something and it happens for real" gag will never not get a laugh out of me. Honestly, I would love to see some comedy film or video game really dig into the idea of mimes having Ork-like reality-warping powers. Maybe as a playable class in the same RPG that lets you play as a Disney princess that can command woodland creatures.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Highbrow Dash (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:21 pm

It makes me wonder about the alternate universe where that "ponies but in the real world" movie pitch worked out.

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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Pocket (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:30 pm

Like, I'm getting a sort of Wreck-It Ralph/Scott Pilgrim vibe from some of the scenes, where if you're actually into Pokemon and get all the references, you'll be going through it going "Hey, I recognize that thing! Ha, they actually did something with it instead of just having it be a reference for reference's sake" but everyone else is just going to be left feeling like they're missing a lot of the appeal. The question is whether the movie has any other tricks up its sleeve to fill the rest of the run time, or if it's just going to be like watching the Smurfs movies.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:32 pm

First, why make a movie based on Detective Pikachu

Second, why is nintendo allowing them to pronounce it "poke-a-mon" in the movie
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Post by Aramek (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:14 pm

Movie is gonna own. RR is so cool and handsome and good at everything.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by The Doctor (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:55 pm

Day 1.

And people are getting legit mad about Jigglypuff having fur.

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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:15 pm

pikachu should have a gravely voice like in the game darn it
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:21 pm

The Doctor wrote:
Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:55 pm
Day 1.

And people are getting legit mad about Jigglypuff having fur.
I would be in this camp if it wasn't for the fact that this is extremely a spinoff and there's no way they're keeping these designs as the 'canon' ones :-I
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:22 pm

Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:
Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:01 pm
where ribombee, i wanna see fuzzy ribombee the size of a person's hand
I do want this though too
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Octavia (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:50 pm

I hope they strictly follow the Pokedex with regards to height and weight.

Did you know Charizard is only 5' 7"? Not as imposing as the anime would have you believe.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:41 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote:
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Second, why is nintendo allowing them to pronounce it "poke-a-mon" in the movie
I think this is the pronunciation that Nintendo and TPC have favored for a few years now. At least, that's how Reggie and Bill have pronounced it in various Nintendo Directs, and I think that's how the Smash Bros. announcer pronounced it in Brawl when anyone picked Pokemon Trainer.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon Nov 12, 2018 11:00 pm

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I think this is the pronunciation that Nintendo and TPC have favored for a few years now. At least, that's how Reggie and Bill have pronounced it in various Nintendo Directs, and I think that's how the Smash Bros. announcer pronounced it in Brawl when anyone picked Pokemon Trainer.
is this like how Hyundai cars have all their ads pronounce it "Hun-day" or Subaru pronounces it "Soobuh-roo"? :-I
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Pocket (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:40 am

Wait, is that not the correct way to pronounce Subaru? Is the emphasis supposed to be on the second syllable or something?

Anyway, I object to that pronunciation of Pokémon. They put an accent mark over the E specifically as a pronunciation aid, even though Japanese doesn't use accent marks, because Americans generally assume (from French) that it means "pronounce it like a long A".
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

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Pocket wrote:
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Wait, is that not the correct way to pronounce Subaru? Is the emphasis supposed to be on the second syllable or something?
It would be more correct to say "Soo-Baa-Roo" (The 'buh' in the middle the advertisers use instead of baa is a sound that doesn't exist in Japanese)
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Post by Aramek (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:59 am

Also Mario is Mary-o.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:38 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
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It would be more correct to say "Soo-Baa-Roo" (The 'buh' in the middle the advertisers use instead of baa is a sound that doesn't exist in Japanese)
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Pocket (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:18 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:31 am
It would be more correct to say "Soo-Baa-Roo" (The 'buh' in the middle the advertisers use instead of baa is a sound that doesn't exist in Japanese)
Eh, that's getting into NPR territory, where you're basically putting on an accent for one word.
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:41 pm

Hyundai is a better example


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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 4:49 pm

Pocket wrote:
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Eh, that's getting into NPR territory, where you're basically putting on an accent for one word.
Pronouncing words right for the language it comes from isn't an accent, that's silly. That'd be like saying that if you don't pronounce "Menage a trois" as men-age, then long a, then troy-s that that means you're 'putting on an accent'. :-I
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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:59 pm

Pronunciations of words vary depending on where you are. The word "amarillo" in Spanish is pronounced completely differently than the city in Texas. Words get localized and they stick. :pinkieshrug:
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Pocket (?) » Tue Nov 13, 2018 9:03 pm

There's got to be a threshold where it's close enough. If the middle A in "Subaru" is a sticking point, what about the R? Do I have to do that halfway-between-R-and-L thing?
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Re: Nintendo's done it: furry Pokemon.

Post by Pocket (?) » Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:10 am

The Doctor wrote:
Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:55 pm
Day 1.

And people are getting legit mad about Jigglypuff having fur.
I guess I never really thought about it, but they have a tuft of hair coming out of their heads that's the same color as their body; what else are we to make of that?
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