The How to Train Your Dragon live action movie - Black vikings, nuff said

The Nothingness said:
Resurrecting thread since the release date is Friday. They've been advertising the hell out of this movie. Will it do well like the live action Lilo & Stitch?
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Thanks, I've been meaning to do that but I've been lazy. As much as I hope this movie crashes and burns, the original was successful and there's a bunch of nostalgiafags screeching for more content after the third movie's ending made the fanbase implode.
Meanwhile, take a look at these wondrous designs:
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I know the Gronckle is based off of niggerbulls but c'mon now.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
The Hideous Zippleback's redesign is unfortunate, I really loved their doofy swollen faces on skinny serpentine necks and how they were still distinct from each other.
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Yeah, the new design looks like tortoise heads stuffed onto a dinosaur's body, and I know it's later named Barf & Belch, but they didn't have to make the thing actually barf-colored.

The other dragons aren't far behind either. The Monstrous Nightmare looks like a Game of Thrones reject, the Nadder looks like a pachycephalosaurus straight from Jurassic World, Toothless looks like an early 2010's CGI mascot, and the Gronckle looks SMASHED and SLAMMED.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
I mean... it's the most accurate model of the line-up, that's for sure.
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That's true, but he still looks off somehow. His head's bloated and stretched sideways like he chewed on a wasp.
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Tasty Tatty said:
I love how they call this "live action" as if those dragons are real.

The og movie had amazing designs and top music.
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At this point "live action" is just a catch-all term for a realistic art style. The Lion King remake was almost entirely CGI yet it's counted as "live action" anyway.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
"Test Drive" is still one of the single greatest scenes in cinema history, perfectly encapsulates the feeling and look of flying, and the tension is outstanding. Was lightning in a bottle, no fucking way this remake does it just as well.
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Squawking Macaw said:
That's true, but he still looks off somehow. His head's bloated and stretched sideways like he chewed on a wasp.
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He looks like he has Down Syndrome.

Toothless could look goofy in the original because it wasn't realistic. They all look cartoonish, that's the style. He fits well. Now, with the actual humans around, he looks out of place.

The good thing is that he isn't fully "realistic" like Sebastian and Flounder in the Little Mermaid reboot.
 
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People are starting to go see the movie and the consensus seems to be that it's way better than the Disney remakes. I must live in opposite land because this looks exactly like Disney's live action shit. Let's see the first dragon training scene:
The new one's giving me secondhand embarrassment.
  • They've replaced the triumphant music with a barely audible cheery tune, it doesn't really sell this as the moment they've all been waiting for. Unless it plays in the prior scene?
  • Why does the arena look so small?
  • Why do the costumes look like they were bought from Temu?
  • Why does everyone sound like they're reading from a script?
  • Why are the twins middle-aged? They joke about it, but in the words of an autistic cartoon reviewer: "pointing out your problems doesn't make them go away".
  • Why does Tuffnut have troon physiognomy?
  • They're gonna make Hiccup a wisecracking smartass, aren't they? :sighduck:
Overall, not impressed. Is this a major Hollywood production released on the big screen? Because it feels like one of those fantasy flicks you'd find on the bargain bin in the early 2000's
Quick edit to add a few more points.
 
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I went to a Burger King (shaddup, I went there to get the French Toast Sticks) and saw the ads and thought it was for a re-release. I want to say this will bomb but kids movies have been the only consistent thing doing well at the box office for the last year excluding the live action Snow White.
 
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Squawking Macaw said:
People are starting to go see the movie and the consensus seems to be that it's way better than the Disney remakes. I must live in opposite land because this looks exactly like Disney's live action shit. Let's see the first dragon training scene:
The new one's giving me secondhand embarrassment.
  • They've replaced the triumphant music with a barely audible cheery tune, it doesn't really sell this as the moment they've all been waiting for. Unless it plays in the prior scene?
  • Why does the arena look so small?
  • Why do the costumes look like they were bought from Temu?
  • Why does everyone sound like they're reading from a script?
  • Why are the twins middle-aged? They joke about it, but in the words of an autistic cartoon reviewer: "pointing out your problems doesn't make them go away".
  • Why does Tuffnut have troon physiognomy?
  • They're gonna make Hiccup a wisecracking smartass, aren't they? :sighduck:
Overall, not impressed. Is this a major Hollywood production released on the big screen? Because it feels like one of those fantasy flicks you'd find on the bargain bin in the early 2000's
Quick edit to add a few more points.
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They got that fat Kiwi to play Fishlegs?! Oh right, it's a "fantasy setting with dragons, so why obsess over brown Vikings, bro?"
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
He kinda was, it was just something he'd do under his breath and not so much aloud to others.
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Emphasis on under his breath. It seems they're gonna make him more assertive and it's gonna go against the shy socially awkward kid he's meant to be. Here's another scene I took issue with for the same reason (1:24 in the YT video if the timestamp didn't work):

At the risk of coming across as autistically nitpicky, this changes this scene's mood completely. In the original, Hiccup tries to get his point across by raising his voice but he doesn't shout, he still respects and fears his father. Stoick is clearly the one in control.

In the remake Stoick looks like he's on the verge of tears while Hiccup's moving towards him and is shouting at him. Where's the fear? Where's the respect? All I see is anger. If I didn't know any better I'd say this is elder abuse.
 
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Squawking Macaw said:
The Lion King remake was almost entirely CGI yet it's counted as "live action" anyway.
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Because the director of the "live-action" Lion King is also a pompus asshole that sniffs his own farts on the daily.

From day 1, he wanted to make it resemble a "documentary"... something you'd see on National Geographic or Animal Planet, which is why the animals look "realistic". THAT'S why the term "live action" was being trotted around all over the place.
 
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