MLP 2017 Movie Thread (Spoilers Inside)

[Fiction]

It's better than going alone. i'm definately gonna go. This is the one time I literally couldn't care what people think.

I agree with what Whobawhats said. This really isn't the time to give a crap about it. I saw Rainbow Rocks in theaters and everything was fine. People see kids movies like this all the time. If you are really concerned with what people may think, my recommendation is go to a matinee showing on a school day. No one is going to be around then.

You guys are right. Probably my one and only chance to see MLP in theaters, so can't miss it!

[Pacifist]

I'm curious how this whole thing will play out, in terms of how well the movie will sell. I see three main factors:

1) Animation. This movie will be visually distinct due to its heavy use of 2D elements in an age where theatrical movies have long since abandoned it for full 3D Computer Generated animation. However, the actual CG elements in MLP:TM, while appealing in some areas, is fairly mediocre in others. It's a bit of a tossup whether the movie will look cheap as a result. This results in whether the movie will draw people in due to its unique style or push them away due to some rough CG elements. While elements of the 2D animation is downright beautiful, I do not think it can carry the movie itself.

2) Feel. Overall, the trailer has a fairly typical kid-movie tone. Fortunately, the kind of crass humor that I find grating is entirely absent, and most of the humor it has I feel is fairly on-point (Hopefully that comic relief villain won't interfere too much, he could easily become obnoxious if overused). It goes a bit for a grand feel, but doesn't quite achieve it yet. It does get close, though. I'll need to see more before I can make the call on that. But, what I can say is that the tone overall isn't too different from most other kids movies these days. Perhaps if they expanded a little bit on the serious angle (Tempest Shadow definitely seems to be a very serious character, perhaps focus on her, or maybe the peril the ponies are in) in the next trailer, it'll give the movie a touch more weight. Granted, I won't know any of this until the movie actually releases, but what I do know for certain is this: The movie is going to live and die on its story. As long as the characters are fleshed out and well written, with good interactions throughout, this movie will work quite well and have more heart than the majority of generic kids fare these days.

3) Timing. This is going to be a bit brief. It releases a week after the Lego Ninjago movie, and the same day as Blade Runner 2049. If this were any other kind of movie, the latter would be a massive problem. But, it's My Little Pony. As seriously as the Brony fandom can take it, in the eyes of the general public it's going to be seen as a very, very different kind of movie than BR2049. Most likely, the audiences that would go see BR2049 first-day and the audiences that would see MLP:TM first-day have little overlap. As such, it shouldn't hurt the movie too badly. But, then there's the movie I mentioned previously, the Lego one. That film franchise has seen massive success so far, so it could potentially could eat into Pony's profits. At the same time, though, It's marketing a very specific Lego-only brand. I just am not nearly as interested in seeing it as I was in seeing the first Lego movie or Lego Batman. If enough people feel the same way, then perhaps the effect on Pony won't be too bad. Overall, it's not the best week to release the movie, but it's not the worst, either.

Overall, I think it should do pretty well critically and financially. I doubt it's going to be seen as the next great animated classic unless they seriously polish the CG elements and make sure to bring their A+++ game with the writing and story. I do expect at least one song to get an Oscar nomination, of course. Perhaps a nom for Best Animated Picture, but I doubt it will win. Probably Lego Batman will, unless the Oscars decide that Pixar needs another oscar for some reason.

[Rares]

Ninjago is actually 2 weeks ahead of the MLP movie. Normally not worth mentioning a correction, but in film releases 2 weeks is a much bigger difference compared to a week. I also would believe that despite them both being children movies they both have very different audiences.

[Rares]

Getting closer to the movie, nearly two months away! It's now officially PG too! For "Mild Action".

[whobawhats]

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2017/08/b...-more.html

This really makes me hope that there will be more.

[Rares]

I doubt MLP the Movie is the last one, this just has to prove to make money and they'll do more for sure. They said they want to do one new animated movie a year now, and 2019 is all but confirmed to be Transformers, 2018 is a mystery probably to be revealed at Hascon, I'm sure we'll see Pony 2 in 2020. Especially since it took 3 years to get this one out the door considering the announcement was in, what, 2014ish?

[Rares]

Figured I'd liven some things up here with some new pics




Still got to say, I am loving this animation look, it looks awesome.

[Rares]

There is a 0 tolerance policy in leaked content that is in effect. This refers to any screencaps or gifs stolen from the film as well as any distribution and discussion of the leak itself.

[CPsSecretLover]

Well everypony, going to see it at 9:45 tonight! SO MUCH HYPE!!!!

[Cruuuubs]

saw it today, at a small theatre I found that is specialised on showing english movies. It's not big and doesn't show many movies, but it has a certain charm to it, was really comfy.
Only two people other than me were present, and those kinda seemed like casual fans that only know a bit about the show. Not that I really expected anything else considering where I am.

Movie was nice, definitely better than I expected after reading the comic anyway. A few things did not fully convince me, but the animation and the songs were very neat in any case, I'd say it was worth the little 7 hour journey I had to make.