other The Official Pokémon Thread

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I wonder if there's enough Pokemon fans on Exhale to warrant a whole "Official Pokemon Thread" but nevertheless I'm really excited to go see "Detective Pikachu" today. It came out 2 days ago, today's a sunday which means there might not even be any seats left in the theatre but I'm hoping for the best right now. 

I've been a fan of the Pokemon games for like 7 years but before that I was a huge fan of the Pokemon anime as a kid. To be honest I didn't even know there were Pokemon games until much later in life, I thought the anime is how Pokemon started but obviously that's not even remotely true. I grew up in a PlayStation household as I was too young to experience the GameBoy era which is why I never really got around to playing Pokemon until I discovered emulators later in life. The first game I played was either Ruby or Fire Red on an emulator and I'm pretty sure at that point "Black and White" had already been released but "Black 2 and White 2" had not been released yet. My phone was sh*tty at the time, it couldn't handle a DS emulator which is why I was stuck playing the older games for a few years until I got a tablet that could run the "Drastic DS" emulator, I'm sure you can imagine how excited I was to finally play "Black and White" and "HeartGold and SoulSilver" (edit: oops, forgot about "Diamond, Pearl and Platinum", ouch, the shade ), it was a whole new world and I couldn't have been any happier. Then I got around to buying a 3DS and the rest is history. Can't wait to buy a Switch over the summer in preparation for "Sword and Shield". 

Anyway, sob story aside, leave a review once you get around to watching the movie or if you've seen it already. 

Initially I was skeptical because when animated most Pokemon look really smooth but transformed into live action characters most of them turned out really fuzzy and hairy which was so weird to see. Come to think of it, it makes sense though, I just had to get over the initial shock. These days I'm living for Jiggly-********-puff and after seeing the live action Sonic movie trailer nothing can surprise me anymore which is why I'm super excited for "Detective Pikachu". Cheers! 

[IUSM]

For this thread, I summon @PokemonSpears!

About Detective Pikachu: I haven't watched it yet, but I fear that I would be disappointed.

[PokemonSpears]

 a Pokémon thread that starts with The Detective Pikachu movie 

 

I did watch the movie, and it was entertaining, but I'll never forgive them for that awful hyperrealistic look they give to the Pokémon. Also, I know it kinda works better for a storyline, but that the first live action movie is based on a random spin-off game, is almost offensive.

 

I've been a fan of Pokémon since the first generation. I know in Japan it came out in 1996, but in America and the rest of the world, was until 1998, when BOMT came out   1999 was one of the best years to be alive  

 

Pokémon and Britney Spears have always been magically related, but I'll leave that story for later.

 

And a new announcement for Pokémon Sword / Shield can come at any moment, I'm so stressed between that and Britney  

[ILikeChillinWithYou]

9 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

I've been a fan of Pokémon since the first generation. I know in Japan it came out in 1996, but in America and the rest of the world, was until 1998, when BOMT came out   1999 was one of the best years to be alive  

2019 ***** all over 1999 

[ILikeChillinWithYou]

3 minutes ago, DayvinDazone said:

Why am I not surprised to hear this from someone who hasn't experienced the glorious era of the cassette

Now tell me Grandpa, did they use casettes on board the Titanic back in 1912? I'm eager to hear more about the Vietnam war too

[ILikeChillinWithYou]

16 minutes ago, DayvinDazone said:

These young folks and their blatant disrespect for the elderly!

Geez old people these days are so grumpy  Don't you have to tend to your fake teeth or fix your hearing aid or water your garden or something? Mind if I play the music a bit loud?

[PokemonSpears]

5 hours ago, ILikeChillinWithYou said:

2019 ***** all over 1999 

shitty is a good way to describe 2019 indeed

 

Then:

 

 

Now:

 

 

I mean, there are good things too, Pokémon SwSh coming later this year, the Crash racing game remake, MediEvil, but overall, 1999-2000 was such a good time, videogames-wise, music-wise, tv-wise.

[IUSM]

15 hours ago, PokemonSpears said:

 a Pokémon thread that starts with The Detective Pikachu movie 

Could be worse, this thread could have started with some fanfiction with an Ash/Brock romance.  

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I like how I completely abandoned by own thread but I'm legit too lazy to write my thoughts on the movie.. ugh.. 

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ok, I guess I'll leave my thoughts here after all despite completely abandoning this thread the same day I made it..  the plot was ****, like seriously.. it was pretty gripping, it was entertaining, I can't say I was bored but it was just kinda ridiculous and didn't make much sense..  regarding the actors, umm, I've never been able to tell apart good actors from bad ones so no comments there but the lead male actor is so ******* cute I'd smash him any day of the week..  the humor was pretty **** too, I barely got like 2 laughs out of that movie and even then "laughs" is an overstatement, they were more like "pity-chuckles"..  it's not worth watching if you're not a Pokemon fan, if you are however - it's worth watching just for the Pokemon alone (ignoring everything else about that hot mess).. I smiled like an idiot throughout the whole movie because it was so awesome seeing all the Pokemon..  I was hoping to see Skitty but at least Purrloin was there.. 

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On 5/17/2019 at 4:51 AM, PokemonSpears said:

I did watch the movie, and it was entertaining, but I'll never forgive them for that awful hyperrealistic look they give to the Pokémon. Also, I know it kinda works better for a storyline, but that the first live action movie is based on a random spin-off game, is almost offensive.

too bad they're already working on a sequel.. 

[PokemonSpears]

4 hours ago, I Always Sing Live said:

too bad they're already working on a sequel.. 

they're planning an entire universe of movies of that kind

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15 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

they're planning an entire universe of movies of that kind

that's not good.. 

[Hope]

6 hours ago, I Always Sing Live said:

ok, I guess I'll leave my thoughts here after all despite completely abandoning this thread the same day I made it..  the plot was ****, like seriously.. it was pretty gripping, it was entertaining, I can't say I was bored but it was just kinda ridiculous and didn't make much sense..  regarding the actors, umm, I've never been able to tell apart good actors from bad ones so no comments there but the lead male actor is so ******* cute I'd smash him any day of the week..  the humor was pretty **** too, I barely got like 2 laughs out of that movie and even then "laughs" is an overstatement, they were more like "pity-chuckles"..  it's not worth watching if you're not a Pokemon fan, if you are however - it's worth watching just for the Pokemon alone (ignoring everything else about that hot mess).. I smiled like an idiot throughout the whole movie because it was so awesome seeing all the Pokemon..  I was hoping to see Skitty but at least Purrloin was there.. 

I watched it the day of the premiere (05/10) and honestly... I should have studied for finals that day instead.  I went to the theater with high expectations, which was a terrible mistake. It wasn't that bad but it wasn't amazing either, it was just... an okay film. The beginning and last parts of the movie were pretty good, but everything in between was a mess and like you said, some scenes did not make sense at all. In my opinion, Ryan Reynolds saved this film with his voice acting and facial expressions for Pikachu, although Justice Smith also did a good job as the male lead actor.  On the other hand, the girl that played the Lucy character... needs to take some acting classes ASAP! Irrelevant to this thread, but she knows nothing about Pokémon IRL... yet she keeps on bragging about being a big Pokémon fan on their press tour. 

 

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2 hours ago, DayvinDazone said:

"It just doesn't work"

WHY.. I had successfully erased that nightmare from my memory already.. 

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6 minutes ago, DayvinDazone said:

It's so grotesque 

"It" looks like there were two teams of people - one that wanted to go full realistic and another that just wanted to convert the original cartoon design to CGI. So they decided to combine both  

And thus the CGI Sonic cosplayer was born!

The Nike shoes

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thank god they're redesigning him but I have a slight hunch that perhaps it was a publicity stunt.. idk.. 

[ILikeChillinWithYou]

2 hours ago, DayvinDazone said:

First of all, I'm tired of Japanese franchises getting the American / Hollywood treatment which automatically results in pure ?

Americans ruin their own creations sometimes too. Let me remind you:

[ILikeChillinWithYou]

2 minutes ago, DayvinDazone said:

I hate the whole cheap """Disney""" CGI look all American half-animated half-CGI fantasy/action movies have. It's so ugly

And the tragicness of it all given the fact that America used to be known for stunning high quality animation

 

[ILikeChillinWithYou]

Well, perks of not being an American I guess 

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Animation in my country be like 

 

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ok y'all, it's time to name your favorite Pokemon!! no holding back, if you have a 100 favorites then you better name all of them.. after that we can judge each other based on how tasteful / tasteless we are.. peace.. 

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@PokemonSpears, tag all of the Exhale members that are Pokemon fans, I can't recall any because my brain is rotten from playing video games too much..