Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, especially when it comes to the film business. With such a wide range of entertainment, certain people are felled, which others do not do, and vice versa.
To form an opinion on a film, you would usually have to see it first, right? This is true, but there are certain factors that choose such things in advance – something of personal preferences, supporters and marketing or even something that is as little as the timing of the publication.
Having an emotional reaction to something before it even comes out is incredibly common. Who was not enthusiastic about a trailer or has the perfect casting for his favorite figure in mind? But it can also go in the other direction, since the potential audience not only feels underwhelmed by the prospect of an upcoming publication, but is actually angry.
The trailers have let the fans down, character designs are no longer before the expected, and creative decisions have angered people before the films came close to the cinema. Some of these films were able to overcome the mountain that they had to climb directly from the goal, others were not so lucky.
Whenever there is a film adaptation of a popular source material, a novel, a comic book or a video game, regardless of the medium with certain expectations of the existing fan base. Especially when the property in question is as iconic and popular as Sonic the Igel.
The little blue speedster is one of the immediately recognizable characters in the history of the video games, and this aesthetics is incredibly important. If that was not obvious to the filmmakers before they released the first look at their cinematic Sonic in 2019, it was certainly afterwards.
In a poorly advised offer to make a speaking blue anthropomorphic hedgehog that can move more realistically at the speed of light, Sonics Designer gave him what seemed to be almost more human eyes and teeth. To say that potential audience was disgusted would be an understatement.
The counter -reaction, which Sony had no choice but to react and change the design of Sonic, was so relentless. Now the Sonice Movie Trilogy has just said goodbye to 1 billion US dollars at the box office with a fourth picture on the way, and you could argue that nothing would have happened if the public had not repelled such a bad initial design.