Could've been one of the best movies of 2017

>Could've been one of the best movies of 2017.
>Emojis.
Good job Sony.

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Hell no. People keep praising this film to no end while ignoring the Popeye they were selling us was so watered down as to be embarrassing. Olive going "But who's gonna save You?" like Popeye the fucking Sailor was your typical comical failure...Yeah we dodged a bullet. And don't come to me saying "Well it's an origin story, we were gonna see how Popeye came to be the character we know and love", because why the hell would you make a movie about a character who doesn't resemble the personality that made him beloved in the first place until the climax of the film? Might as well make a Bugs Bunny film where he's bullied until the last ten minutes.

What're you talking about? The whole idea of Popeye is that he's a jobber until he eats spinach. Him getting his ass whooped is par for the course.

Sure if you hold the Famous and latter Fleischer cartoons as bible maybe. But in the original comics and early run of the cartoons Popeye had inhuman strength by default; the spinach was used only when he wanted to Really finish the job, but was more than capable of putting his adversaries in their place from sheer in-built force alone.

Later cartoons, especially Famous', cemented the vile idea that he was nothing without the spinach, and thus he goes from a badass tough skinned sailor who eats the stuff to deliver a climax with extra panache, to some wimp you'd never imagine passing the basic Navy tests who is Bluto's bitch unless he gets ahold of the greens.

Suffice to say I think the latter is a slap in the face of the character and seeing that version sold to the mainstream would have been disgusting.

No it wouldn't have. Just because of the sole purpose that Sony would have produced it.

Name literally one (1) reason YouTube popeye isn't objectively better than that in every way

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Is anyone else gettings tons of Popeye cartoons recommend to them on youtube.

>Beardless Bluto
>No pipe
>Outlines without any weight

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Nothing without spinach?

Popeye took numerous bullets to the head, fought a giant fucking roc and defeated it instantly, *turned a horse inside out and reversed it while riding on its back* and always takes a substantial amount of abuse and still kept on kicking.

The shorts *did* codify that Bluto is basically an omega level threat to him, or at least capable of forcing him to resort to spinach on the regular, but the OG shorts held Popeye up as a fucking tank before Paramount weakened him (and the value of the shorts) considerably...

May have been a mixed blessing. Modern take is too friendly, Popeye needs to be more callous and swarthy. Removing his pipe is a great example of how he was neutered. The animation, voice acting, and slapstick all land perfectly, but the characters themselves may have changed too much.

Not to be a contrarian, but I legitimately liked the boatswain whistle replacement because I was impressed by the fact they bothered to pick something thematically apropos that could still serve for most of the visual gags that the pipe did.

...Everything else about that however was an utter garbage tire fire that a dinosaur took a meaty shit on, don't get me wrong.

>Amy Pascal

Christ I hate her so much...

That poster seems to agree with you entirely; did you mean to quote the message above his?

So wait, does this mean that the film is basically finished?

It has to happen to get Spiderverse.

did emoji bomb at the box office btw ?

>Could've been
Nah.

...I could have swore he included all the Fliescher AND Famous AND Paramount shorts together in a lump.

My bad, yo.

217m is very low for an animated flick these days but since its budget was only 50m, it won money

They showed a test version, most likely animatics and unfinished animation to get a feel for how it's paced.

Or you could have had both, faggot.

Why?

You're acting like thats a problem. Unless its that shitty webtoon

>boatswain whistle
Don't let any faggot boatswain's mate hear you say that. They get their panties in a bunch when you don't call it a pipe or call.

Thank you for reminding me that that thing exists...

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never seen this before

Well, Tartakovsky now has two promising R-rated animated movies for Sony. And Sony Animation is snagging a lot of top animation directors for their upcoming films, like Rich Moore and Emily Dean. Maybe we'll have that Popeye movie one day (remember when Deadpool seemed like a pipe dream?)

>expecting this to be good

Couldn't you tell from the shit trailers or the godawful art style?

>Amy Pascal
Please die of old Jew bitch disease.

Popeye only jobs to Bluto.

>Popeye with no pipe

Might as well rip Mickey's ears off.

>Dat Eugene render.
My dream of seeing Eugene the Jeep with realistically shaded fur will continue to elude me, it seems.

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You have to factor in marketing (which given how ubiquitous it was, was AT LEAST another 50 mil), plus the fact that the studios only get half the domestic gross and less than half of international.

It's very damning that Sony hasn't mentioned it since, hasn't greenlighted or even announced a sequel and completely changed course. I think it's safe to say they were at least disappointed.

What we got in exchange for Popeye wasn't worth it.

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