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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Chinese poster:

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And an English version of essentially the same poster, but with background changed:

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"Destiny" promo:

 

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Ryan Reynolds and the studio trolling the audience with this viral marketing "full picture" promo:

:lol:

 
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Ryan Reynolds is a studio marketer's dream.

He's just all in on promoting his movies in unconventional ways.
 

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Ryan Reynolds and the studio trolling the audience with this viral marketing "full picture" promo:

:lol:

I watched the whole thing. Kinda dull. Not sure why this movie is getting the buzz it is.

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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu is apparently the first :first: video game adaptation in history with a fresh RottenTomatoes rating: :o :party:

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While Detective Pikachu is for the most part, actually pretty good for the audience it is intended for (Pokemon fans, kids, etc, not movie critics) there is a pretty serious problem that can potentially ruin the movie for some people, however:

Namely, it invokes an old trope of a disabled villain, which the entire plot hinges on motivated to do evil to escape disability, and cure tropes. This villain is shown about 15 minutes into the film. This is rather embarrassing given Pokemon was actually created by an autistic man wishing to share his love for bug collecting with people who did not live in the countryside. This is also not how the game had things, so this was an actual and conscious decision by screenwriters. No real way to sugarcoat it, it's a pretty ableist movie in a universe conceived, originally, by a disabled person.

Some other comments: That was probably the best liveaction of a cartoon just execution wise. Not surprised to see it rate considerably better than other liveaction films that have come before it. Should be some good meme material to come out of this movie, however.
 
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Was watching/listening to a couple reviews and the collective thoughts were the Pokemon are the stars of the show and the human element is pretty boring.

Hopefully the movie kills the box office. I'd be down to see just a regular Pokemon movie adaptation (with a trainer, fighting, etc.). I'm going to assume that will happen if this movie does well.
 

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I judge adults that are into this shit.


Just so you people know.
 

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So I took kids. My oldest works with autistic kids and he told one he would take to the movie if he did good on some shit.

Fucking dumb movie for me but kids ate that shit up. Visuals were good.

I recognized one other character from super smash brothers game. Charzard. The rest I had no clue.
 

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Namely, it invokes an old trope of a disabled villain, which the entire plot hinges on motivated to do evil to escape disability, and cure tropes. This villain is shown about 15 minutes into the film. This is rather embarrassing given Pokemon was actually created by an autistic man wishing to share his love for bug collecting with people who did not live in the countryside. This is also not how the game had things, so this was an actual and conscious decision by screenwriters. No real way to sugarcoat it, it's a pretty ableist movie in a universe conceived, originally, by a disabled person.
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When you say how the games are you referring to the Detective Pikachu game this movie was based on or the original games(red/blue yellow that don’t really have much to do with this movie)? It follows the plot of The Detective Pikachu game pretty well outside of a few changes.

Also while yes we see the villain 15 minutes into the movie we don’t really know he’s the villain until I would say the last 15. The whole movie sets up the son to be the bad guy and the father to be the good guy when it reveals at the end that the son is actually a good person and it’s the dad that’s evil. That’s a pretty good twist considering where they led us up to that point. I don’t think anyone expected the dad to be using a Ditto in place of his son to make it seem like the son was the dickish asshole all along while the father presents himself as a savior to the people.
 
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When you say how the games are you referring to the Detective Pikachu game this movie was based on or the original games(red/blue yellow that don’t really have much to do with this movie)? It follows the plot of The Detective Pikachu game pretty well outside of a few changes.

Also while yes we see the villain 15 minutes into the movie we don’t really know he’s the villain until I would say the last 15. The whole movie sets up the son to be the bad guy and the father to be the good guy when it reveals at the end that the son is actually a good person and it’s the dad that’s evil. That’s a pretty good twist considering where they led us up to that point. I don’t think anyone expected the dad to be using a Ditto in place of his son to make it seem like the son was the dickish asshole all along while the father presents himself as a savior to the people.
The DP game.

My bent was more about who the villain is- his motivations - and how unnecessary it was given it plays into the harmful tropes referred to in the spoiler I posted; and also the irony of it being in a Pokemon movie.
 
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