It's bad, but I didn't expect it to be so confusingly bad yet blown up at the same time. How does a 70 minute movie feel like it's most comprised of filler? How can this scenario follow so many tropes so inconsistently and without even finishing subplots? I was groaning constantly while watching this, particularly because it focuses on what's bad about following a high school plot without having any tooth or any real ambition. And by expanding this to movie size, it makes all the messages about show and friendship feel more forced and saccharine. In fact, I think the Flash/Pastel style is what makes all the human characters look so jarring and almost cut from a Children's Magazine. Not to mention, it takes hints from Bratz and Winx Club during particularly cringeworthy moments. It didn't even have any good songs or memorable visual moments.
At most I liked 10% of this movie, with the occasional visual gag, the occasional callback, and Flash Sentry. Hasbro, just feel lucky you've been having good business quarters...
I didn't mind Equestria Girls. I saw it in a theater with 200+ people. They had fun. I saw it again recently. It was short and clearly made-for-TV, but I didn't mind it. Maybe my expectations and needs were just lower.
Equestria Girls is so far below my bar that it effectively doesn't exist. It fell below my even low expectations. There was zero joy to be had from it. I'd rather watch He-Man.
I basically watched that movie for the first 5 minutes of pony, skimmed through the entire plotline in a few minutes, and watched the last few minutes of pony.
I would not be the first to give the entire team flak since well, if Hasbro ordered a bloody high school girl teen drama, they gotta make lemonade from lemons somehow. I'm pretty sure that standard plotline was something they really had little chance of deviating form, unlike in the actual TV series where the writers all pitch and brainstorm out the main plot of each episode to begin with.
Also, I just found the whole twilight needs to become prom queen to win the crown back so absurdly dull. If there was one thing that show did to irk me the most, that was it.
Also props to Rym for watching it. How much did you get through?
This already has over 17000 dollars pledged when it only asked for 3800. I'm thinking of supporting it because the concept sounds pretty neat but I've never played Plathfinder.
I'm sure Rym and Scott has though, is it similar to DnD since it's basically a mod?
I've actually been following the progress of this board game since last year, and I'm glad someone finally made a digital game version. Think Checkers, but set to a more thematic pony style with variants on different rule types found in say Chess and Go.
I suggest anyone interested give it a go, it is interesting despite its flaws, and the fact something like this was even made really stands to the variance in talent available in the community
Personally I'm hoping the number of people that want Equestria Girls related merch is good. We've also got some people buying ears and tails already to match the ones they give out in the song portion where they are handed out. It is this friend's first merch table.
I imagine he'll sell. A big enough portion of the fandom likes the movie and it sounds like all the items didn't cost too much to assemble.
I'm only surprised that the fans have nit-picked and ranted about so many episodes of the show, even ones that are good and somehow Equestria Girls get a pass. Every episode is better than that movie...
He'll turn a profit on the buttons at least, those things are mad cheap to make.
Seriously who REALLY buys buttons anymore? Those are things you get for free when you kick start something artsy or pay money for a person in artist ally.
Equestria Girls gets a pass from the people who are desperate for the magic to not end. They're not talking about it because they don't want to call further attention to it.
We had 2.25 good seasons of My Little Pony. It's likely we won't get any more. For people with taste, it's our Firefly. For the rest, it's Firefly and a mediocre Firefly spinoff with look-alike actors and different writers.
He'll turn a profit on the buttons at least, those things are mad cheap to make.
Seriously who REALLY buys buttons anymore? Those are things you get for free when you kick start something artsy or pay money for a person in artist ally.
Or sell them in packs of six with different designs, or sell them for a low enough price to make them an impulse buy. They're actually pretty easy to sell, all told.
Equestria Girls gets a pass from the people who are desperate for the magic to not end. They're not talking about it because they don't want to call further attention to it.
We had 2.25 good seasons of My Little Pony. It's likely we won't get any more. For people with taste, it's our Firefly. For the rest, it's Firefly and a mediocre Firefly spinoff with look-alike actors and different writers.
At least the comics are still decent most of the time. I don't pick up all of them, but I do still at least skim them all at work and I buy the good ones.
Also on the subject of the comics: this week's micro-series issue had Sailor Moon ponies in it. I has a happy.
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pony or something...goooooo Rarity deck!
It's bad, but I didn't expect it to be so confusingly bad yet blown up at the same time. How does a 70 minute movie feel like it's most comprised of filler? How can this scenario follow so many tropes so inconsistently and without even finishing subplots? I was groaning constantly while watching this, particularly because it focuses on what's bad about following a high school plot without having any tooth or any real ambition. And by expanding this to movie size, it makes all the messages about show and friendship feel more forced and saccharine. In fact, I think the Flash/Pastel style is what makes all the human characters look so jarring and almost cut from a Children's Magazine. Not to mention, it takes hints from Bratz and Winx Club during particularly cringeworthy moments. It didn't even have any good songs or memorable visual moments.
At most I liked 10% of this movie, with the occasional visual gag, the occasional callback, and Flash Sentry. Hasbro, just feel lucky you've been having good business quarters...
I'm not joking.
I would not be the first to give the entire team flak since well, if Hasbro ordered a bloody high school girl teen drama, they gotta make lemonade from lemons somehow. I'm pretty sure that standard plotline was something they really had little chance of deviating form, unlike in the actual TV series where the writers all pitch and brainstorm out the main plot of each episode to begin with.
Also, I just found the whole twilight needs to become prom queen to win the crown back so absurdly dull. If there was one thing that show did to irk me the most, that was it.
Also props to Rym for watching it. How much did you get through?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224492525/ponies-for-pathfinder-setting-handbook/
This already has over 17000 dollars pledged when it only asked for 3800. I'm thinking of supporting it because the concept sounds pretty neat but I've never played Plathfinder.
I'm sure Rym and Scott has though, is it similar to DnD since it's basically a mod?
I've actually been following the progress of this board game since last year, and I'm glad someone finally made a digital game version. Think Checkers, but set to a more thematic pony style with variants on different rule types found in say Chess and Go.
I suggest anyone interested give it a go, it is interesting despite its flaws, and the fact something like this was even made really stands to the variance in talent available in the community
I'll give seven year olds a pass. That's it.
I'm only surprised that the fans have nit-picked and ranted about so many episodes of the show, even ones that are good and somehow Equestria Girls get a pass. Every episode is better than that movie...
We had 2.25 good seasons of My Little Pony. It's likely we won't get any more. For people with taste, it's our Firefly. For the rest, it's Firefly and a mediocre Firefly spinoff with look-alike actors and different writers.
Also on the subject of the comics: this week's micro-series issue had Sailor Moon ponies in it. I has a happy.