> May 9th 2019 >"One week after its highly anticipated preimer, Warner Brothers Pictures is pulling 'Detective Pikachu' from threaters. 'Unfortunately, due to the disappointing box office performance, we simply cannot justify continued screening and exposure of Detective Pikachu' a representative of Warner Brother said."
>"Although Pokemon is one of the best selling video game series ever produced, its live action debut has been less than impressive, with some screening reportedly being completely empty"
>"Warner Brothers did not comment on how they would handle the 600 million dollar loss."
Why did it fail so badly, both commercial and critically, Yea Forums?
You know, shitting on this movie isn't nearly as funny as as you think it is.
Ayden Long
I literally can't fathom being this obsessed with pikashit in your 20s, unbelievable
Robert Bennett
Dude, just have sex
Zachary Ward
While this is bait and didn't happen, I don't see this flick making more than $500 million. Pokemon is something you remember fondly and go "aww, I used to play this game when I was a kid, now they made a movie? Cool", and not really something people will actually go and watch a movie about, hence why it was sold as a Ryan Reynolds buddy cop vehicle. They also needed an established actor for the human lead.
Owen Ross
Have sex, this movie will glide to 400m from kids alone, adults taking it to 600+
Because they like their performance acting? Are you retarded?
John Nelson
Shitty marketing. Also, know your demographic. This looks like it's supposed to appeal to people who grew up watching it in the 90s but is straight aimed at kids today.
Michael Reyes
It really won't, kids don't care about pokemon. If this was a Fortnite movie then yeah, but I really don't see this movie having the same cross-generational appeal as Avengers or w/e and making big bucks. But I could be wrong
Daniel Rivera
1 billion PoGo downloads and 60 million active players, highest grossing media franchise ever
Youre an idiot, have some sex
Dylan Garcia
i was at the 10:40 EST screening last night and the theatre was full
Dominic Green
are those players willing to pay to watch a pokemon movie?
Michael Brown
Many will be and it's already off to a great China start. $500m is locked
William Clark
lol, pokemon go died the summer of 2016, nobody plays it anymore, kids play fortnite on the PS4 and only weeb redditors own ds or switch to play pokemon
>have sex you first, incel
Asher Fisher
So how about we talk about shit we didn't like about the movie?
>The pokémon voices for the most part were bad >The Greninja were knocked out by a psychic attack, despite being immune to psychic type moves >Almost no backstory given to Mewtwo (though I guess it makes sense, they said they wanted to make an entire movie about Mewtwo, so that's where they'll explain its background) >Pokémon battles were ass >The same pokémon over and over and over again. The obvious limitation of 3D because nobody wants to make a gorillion high detail pokémon models that will appear for a few seconds
i know you guys are all talking shit about ryan reynolds but to be brutally honest i was really looking forward to seeing this film. and i would have done if they hadn't cast ryan reynolds in it. i just don't like him.
Adam Young
Something something, absolute nobody lead actor, something something, what did you actually spend 600 million in because it certainly wasn't the CGI
Luis Perry
>Pokemon Go Literally no one gives a shit anymore
Blake Edwards
No
Ayden Allen
They targeted 90s gamers.
It would’ve worked with gen X. It would’ve worked with zoomers. But 90s gamers? Good luck jews!
Daniel Ross
It came out just after the Avengers finale, people are going to to wait a bit before going to the movies again. Pokemon is less mainstream than Marvel comics again less people going. At the same time people are focused on other cinematic events at the moment, namely, GoT. My point is that at this moment in the movie/show season it is a crowded field and it just doesn't stand out for the general public.
though detective pikachu was so full of anime references that they'll probably change mewtwo's in-game backstory to make it more similar to the anime
Oliver Scott
>tracking to make like 150 mil worldwide
basically 1/10 of endgame. way to go guys!
William Hughes
Nobody wanted this movie.
Noah Foster
but she said the pokemon movie was her favorite as a kid
Colton Cook
Kek fuck pikachu
Noah Cook
the romantic subplot really made the movie
Daniel Garcia
Is Yea Forums ever tired of being wrong?
Colton Campbell
Vaguely remembers it. She was born 2 years after its release
Matthew Nelson
If this had been a traditionally animated piece it would have sold millions.
Jaxson Torres
pisses me off how she talks, is this how all zoomers speak now?
Benjamin Lee
Yes... Everyone goes to the cinema to see shit they've never heard of. Every single parent will take their kids to see the talking animal Pokémon movie because there's no competition. Is this bait?
Colton Lee
they make animated pokemon movies all the time and no one gives a shit
Nicholas Gonzalez
You're so retardedly out of touch that it's funny
Jace Jones
Source on these quotes
Brayden Davis
Should've had a human human lead. t. /pol/
Kayden Williams
>Why did it fail both critically and commercially? Because a grown man voiced pikachu. Stupid "subverts expectations" gimmick. "If we're completely upfront about taking a shit on the basic elements of the franchise it'll be like a joke and you'll laugh and love it." also because of niggers
Yikes marvelshills are pure cringe, when will they make a good movie? Endgame was embarrassing if I'm honest
Jayden Edwards
>Comparing the anime movies with a Live Action movie done by Hollywood with Reynolds as the leads. >Forgetting that the movies stopped being in theaters after OS outside of Japan except for the AU and they still earned more than your average anime movie. Kinda unfair to compare them when one used 150 millions and the other didn't.
Wyatt Diaz
It decided to release 2 weeks after the biggest movie of the decade and biggest movie of the century to date.
Any movie coming out within a month of Endgame is basically suicide.
Brody Hill
Holy shit. Go guzzle down buckets of your boyfriend's cum as you watch endgame for the third time this weekend. Shill harder faggot.
The rest of us will be enjoying detective kino.
Luke Gonzalez
I don't watch any movie that's not made by Disney and i'm sure a lot of people do the same.
Sebastian Sanchez
>He shills for Disney unironically and for free
Jayden Harris
>Why did it fail black ash and reynoldschu
Juan Turner
It’s just a cute movie for kids that’s tolerable for adults.
Colton Johnson
also, detectives have nothing in common with pokemon
>This may be a bigger Warner Bros./Pokémon Company question, but were there ever any concerns about claiming Pikachu and Psyduck as the main Pokémon of this movie, if the studio ever wanted to do a movie centered on Ash and Misty and that crew?
>That's above my paygrade. I don't know that. But one of the things about the way Pokémon works is Pikachu, Psyduck, they're species. So, Ash's Pikachu is a very different Pikachu than Detective Pikachu.
>Right. Were there conversations about tying this movie more closely to the Kanto region? Or giving any more obvious tips of the hat to the stories of Ash or Misty or Brock?
>Yeah. I mean, we do that in the movie. We do mention Kanto region on purpose. We do a lot of things to tie us into the rest of the Pokémon universe, so it's all one cohesive world. So, we mention Kanto region. Having Mewtwo in the movie, just in and of itself, connects all the dots. Even the battle posters in Tim's bedroom are all nods to the rest of the Pokémon storyline.
>But it never went as far as, Let's get a cameo from Team Rocket in here?
>No, no. The Pokémon Company were pretty specific about wanting to invest in building out Rhyme City as its new region and not undercut Tim Goodwin and Detective Pikachu's storyline.
They literally can't touch Ash, TPC won't allow it since it would be a problem for the anime. If you're lucky, you might get a PokeSpe reference (which I really doubt since the anime is waaay above the manga in popularity and worldwide recognition even if people hate that fact.)
Gavin Wilson
The trailers for the movie were all fucking amazing, I think it was trailer #2? the one with "I need a hero" and also the ryan reynolds "interview" where his wife is like, "he didnt even change his voice for the movie", those two trailers sold it for me and I'm a 28-yr-old male who never sees movies.
I kind of agree with that one poster saying that kids are only interested in fortnite, I cant imagine the detective pikachu movie has the same broad appeal as Avengers... Do you imagine teen boys (~12-18) are going to be interested in DP like they are Avengers? Probably not.
That said, I'd imagine the movie hits a sweet spot with parents 20-30 and their kids (< 8). Think of all the 20-somethings who grew up with pokemon and currently have little kids wanting to see cute pikachu. With respect to that demographic alone, this movie could approach Avengers.
Whether the movie does well would then depend on how big that demographic is. Given what we know about millenial finances, delaying the decision to have children, and that the avengers movie was so recent, my totally uneducated guess is that the movie will do OK & be well-received but underperform its expectations.
Brody Ortiz
She sounds like the dork/accused from American Vandal
Easton Taylor
I'd see a movie just for an actor. Not Ryan Reynolds, though.
Nolan Gonzalez
I legitimately can't understand the fucking obsession people have with Pokemon. I was a kid when this shit was at it's peak and I always thought it was gay as fuck. There's no good story line, the gameplay is ass, the characters are moe shit, and all the games are the exact same. There are better exploration games out there and the anime is awful. I don't know a single person under the age of 20 who is a fan of Pokemon. All my friends still play this shit on their Nintendo 3Ds and their phones with that shit Pokemon GO game, setting up events to go catch Pokemon at the park and at the college campus. I doubt the movie will flop because every 20+ year old is going to see it eventually.
>is this how all zoomers speak now? A little bit, she's laying it on thick though. Basically all the young white kids are trying to imitate how black people speak more-- like the slang and shit... "lit" "senpai" "turn up" "squad" etc.
I'm pretty sure since she's like 16 and ultra famous she's faking it and purposefully speaking how she thinks someone in her position would speak, she has that kind of tone of voice people use when they're trying a little too hard to sound cool.
>@1:32 thinking is a bitch, thinking can get you all types of fucked up > thinking can get you all types of fucked up >X can get you Y >get you some This is a good example, it's more "black" to say it like that, I don't think most white kids would phrase it that way. I think she's hamming it up cuz shes trying to look cool but maybe she has a lot of black friends.
Asher Adams
>One week after its highly anticipated preimer Did weeks suddenly get shortened?
Matthew Cooper
>Rhyme City Might as well just call it Rap City USA. God forsaken shithole where the Japs dump undesirables...like the blacks.
Wyatt Sanders
You're fucking based!!! Detective Pikachu>>>>Infinity War
I sat next to a little girl with her parents yesterday at the theater and she wore a pikachu ear headband, pulled out her a 3DS, and after the movie was over, flossed.
Nicholas Fisher
the movies been only out for two days?? also I liked it
Gavin Wood
> I was a kid when this shit was at it's peak and I always thought it was gay as fuck. >There are better exploration games out there
Translation: I arrived late to the party and never had a gameboy.
I'm betting you're like 21 and believe that since pokemon was at its "peak" when you were young, you should be the most interested. You are wrong.
I was in first grade when pokemon came out. Everything about pokemon at the time was awesome-- The gameplay was fantastic, the original pokemon games were legitimately some of the best games out on the market at the time. The monsters were new and interesting, the only thing comparable was digimon which didnt have a game and which we only found out about later. There were trading cards, which honestly shouldn't be legal to sell to kids, people got beaten up over that shit.
As I got older they came out with new games, added more pokemon, kept the show going. My group of friends were buying pokemon games up until we graduated high school (2009). Some of my friends from high school STILL buy all the pokemon games, which I might add, are genuinely good games with mechanics more complex than any children's game ought to have.
So sit your salty bitch-ass down, just because you missed the boat doesn't mean the rest of us owe you an apology.
Ryder Turner
we don't redditspace here
Nicholas Richardson
It has collection factor for collectfags,story for kids A LIVE Competitive scene for autists. That's the secret, there's no 1 kind of pokemon faggot, Pokemon popularity doesn't compe from one factor but making a product that attracts different puiblics and knows how to hold them captive.
Wyatt Stewart
Shut up, nigger
Joseph Russell
if's... a kiddie movie a "bad" movie is an understatement it was really, really abysmal
Exactly. I will watch any movie with Jeffery Combs no matter how bad it is.
Joshua Watson
I really don't think have sex applies to people who don't like Pokémon. They're just normal people, it's Pokémon fans that need to have sex cos they're either filthy weebs or too young to do it.
Dominic Rivera
I had a gameboy and a Nintendo 64. Later on I had a GameCube and a PS2. I didn't even read the rest of your Reddit post because I don't care about how many times you ejaculated to Pokemon, nigger. You pokefags are all the same. I was busy playing other games that were actually fun and watching kino. I'm not a fucking furry so I don't care about your pikas and squirtles. And if you're STILL playing Pokemon then have some sex, preferably human.
Ugly ass mutt human main character. Didn't help it was paired with a white girl as romantic interest. Glad this flopped
Chase Phillips
Who said this? Because the writers said it's in the same continuity as the anime just in a different region and there's already a movie about Mewtwos origin. On top of this movie itself actually mentions that Mewtwo came from another region 20 years ago(which is when Mewtwo Strikes Back came out) and was made from Mew's dna.
This is reddit spacing, formatting your post so that it's not a fucking wall of text is just a common courtesy I bet you can't even tell the difference because you're retarded
Wyatt Long
I've been seeing ads on Twitter and Instagram past couple months, it's possible the algos just didnt pick you for advertising.
This past week it got a lot of mentions too cuz of the sonic trailer, people were comparing Pikachu to Sonic.
Samuel Bennett
Easiest billion of my life senpai
Samuel Martin
LMAO This movie cant lose, its a guaranteed money printer. I still remember when i went to watch the first animated movie with my parents. Theater was PACKED, and my parents hated pokemon. Now imagine people like me in their 30s taking their kids to see this movie.
I dont have kids, obviously, but i suppose someone out there who played pokemon made it that far.
Evan Walker
That's a weird looking minion
Joshua Taylor
Too late Black lead
Adam Rodriguez
fucking cancer. would be nice to see a Yea Forums thread where half of the posts aren't spergs telling heave other to have sex
>up against Endgame >actual recognizable star power is behind a cgi character >literal who actor as one of two protagonist It wasn't looking good from the get go.
Grayson Martinez
I thought this was a larp.
According to Wikipedia:
>Budget $150 million >Box office $20.7 million
Oh no no no no no no no no no noooooooo
Sebastian Allen
Because it's a fucking stupid idea. Some yellow cgi rat voiced by unfunny wisecracking meme man interacting with token negroid #005 for two hours or whatever. What the fuck does any of that have to do with a glorified videogame version of rock paper scissors anyway? When the fuck did kids start caring about detective stories, and when did having literal vermin as a lead in one of those stories start seeming like a good idea? If I could, I'd kick one of those pikachu fucks, just catch one of them under the chin with my steel toe capped boots.
midge
Ayden Bailey
Just an obsessed disney shill.
Nathan Turner
Is this the biggest ever flop in film history?
Josiah Harris
those movies came out like 20 years ago and are tv show continuations
Lucas Evans
Look at this faggot
Jack Turner
AHAHAHAHA...
Benjamin Gray
Reality: >Yea Forums BTFO after weeks of calling an early death to The Greatest video game movie adaptation of all time.
Asher Foster
>>"Warner Brothers did not comment on how they would handle the 600 million dollar loss." kekerekek
Because the new avengers made us tired of kids films
Noah Sullivan
I felt the same way, the immediate reaction to the Sonic trailer here was to compare it to Pikachu, and most people could see that Pikachu looked much better, but among normalfags it probably just ruined the whole thing for them. Even when the first Detective Pikachu trailer came out it was met with derision over the look of some of the Pokemon, even Pikachu himself, so when something as objectively awful as Sonic appeared everyone thought better of this vidyashit. Honestly, genius move on Sega's part. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a game-like Sonic model already done but released the creepy one in the trailer to kill buzz for this movie a week ahead of its release.
Matthew Perez
WHOOO the fuck would watch this??? legit doesn't make sense to me. the "realistic pokemon" just looks creepy
Kayden Carter
Lmao you retards were claiming it'd be huge in China
Benjamin Torres
Damn, Sonic killed the hype for this one. Wonder how this bodes for the Mario movie?
Hunter Peterson
Not even Japan cares about it.
Ryder Young
have seks
Eli Roberts
Huh? It made 53 million dollars in its opening weekend....
Christopher Flores
Too many moments where people point out the obvious for the sake of viewers who don't know about Pokemon. >Oh, that's right, Mr. Mime has the ability to make invisible walls! Imagine watching a movie where someone walks into a spider web, and another character says "Oh, that's right, spiders have the ability to spin webs!"
Nicholas Brooks
Disney shills seething at yellow rat that will dsb on their endgame.
Eli Bell
Nah, were laughing because it's bombing like Shazam.
In France, in the biggest Paris cinema, I went to see it. There were one out of 36 theaters that was playing this one. Even the new "dramedy" had 2. This one is doomed lads. Endgame still has 3, and Captain Marvel has 2.
Easton Jones
>DANK MEME 2019-05-10 um 16.24.16.png Wtf
Kayden Roberts
Pokemon died in 2016.
Landon Ortiz
Japan is too busy producing the actually good pokemon content like the games, anime and anime movies. They don't have time for soulless am*rican knockoffs
Thomas Evans
based
Brody Rivera
>Making up shit to shit on a Pokemkn movie Have sex
Joshua Russell
Incel
Jeremiah Martin
Does anyone genuinely care about this movie? or is it just an excuse to shitpost?
Brody Clark
>There were one out of 36 theaters that was playing this one I went to Gaumont Champs Elysées to see it, and the vast majority of Pathé/Gaumont and UGC in Paris screen it. What are you smoking, faggot?
Oliver Brown
Holy fuck. I hate how life and time works.
Isaiah Diaz
low quality bait
Brayden Brown
this webm is not cute at all and actually makes me angry.
Hudson Jackson
Remember when Pokémon fans were bragging about it having more views than the first toy story 4 trailer.
Both. Some were comparing to the anime movies saying that it was going to be better than all of them (no shit, it was done by Hollywood with Reynolds as the face), and others are shitting on it for not beating Endgame or because Tim is black and Memepool is the voice.
It won't flop, but thinking that it was going to beat MCU was beyond stupid.
Justin Rodriguez
>It won't flop, but thinking that it was going to beat MCU was beyond stupid. Anyone who thinks WB can beat the most monopolized company in the world is a fucking retard.
fucking hell the disney shills arent even subtle anymore, practically spitting in our faces
Landon Wright
I really don't understand why there's so much hate for this movie around here. I would have thought reactions would range from mild interest to apathy. Why are you this bitter? What went wrong in your life that you get this bent out of shape over a talking yellow squirrel?
Jason White
Remember when Pokefags were claiming this would be huge, especially in China?
Caleb Young
what an ugly abomination
John Baker
They're mad that something not Disney is getting even a whiff of attention.
Grayson Clark
>fucking hell the disney shills arent even subtle anymore, practically spitting in our faces The fuck do you mean 'our'? You sound so pathetic
>Constantly brag that this flick will make billions of dollars because it's the most popular franchise in the world >Makes medicore numbers everywhere This is literally just another case of Yea Forums being wrong and getting laughed at for it
Jacob Parker
I'm not going to see it because Ryan Reynolds was possibly the single worst pick for voicing pikachu that they could ever make
Hudson Lewis
Yeah, they should have picked Danny DeVito ecs dee
Ethan Perry
please God no. if the Mouse gets its hands on Pokemon we're fucked.
Brandon Sanders
They couldn't even if they tried as Pokemon as a whole is owned by three separate entities that they would have to acquire and one of them is nintendo. So good luck with that one, Mickey.
Charles Ramirez
Literally everyone and their moms shit on the anime movies, what's the difference when both are part of Pokémon?
Pic related got a lot of praise and hate, like everything in this franchise including the games, so the same will happen to Detective Pikachu.
Small breasts and thicc thighs are perfection, you can't prove me wrong.
Besides, the movie doesn't look that bad and is considered as one of the best movies in Pokémon in the last five years (not counting Ryan Reynolds: The movie btw).
Disney did tried to get the pokemon rights. Just as Warner, Sony, and Fox. Think about it for one minute the japs sold the rights to pokemon to the chinese. They just didn't want jews controlling everything
William Cook
I specifically won’t go see this movie because it had a nigger lead, fuck niggers.
Nathan Watson
I enjoyed your pic related. And I always liked the art style and colors in that poster as well.
Jeremiah Jackson
God, we need more cute Pokegyarus girls in our Pokemon. Risa was perfection.
UGC Cine Cite les Halles for me. 1 showing for Pikachu, 2 for Nous Resterons Ensemble, and the rest as previously mentioned. And my showing (around 8pm, on a Friday night) was half full. When the new french "dramedy" has more showings than the new blockbuster in store, something's not right.
Cameron Morgan
critical Haven't watched the movie and dont plan to, but if it's anything like the rape of the games the last two gens, it likely went too hard on pandering to nostalgia. Jokes and refrences in the movie are probably the same gen 1 callbacks you'd see on any fanwork that people are either tired of seeing or dont give a shit about because it's not their nostalgia. There is probably an additional layer of unnecessary Apokelypse level edginess that turns many away from fully enjoying the movie. Also the movie is probably less about the overall charm and amazement of HOLY SHIT LIVE ACTION POKEMON and more so the Mad Magazine level surrealism of Ryan Reynolds being a pikachu.
It doesnt help at all that the models look like absolute shit.
>Commercial It retardedly decided to come out 2 weeks after the single biggest movie of the decade and probably the biggest movie of the century thus far. Any movie coming out within a month of Endgame is dooming itself to failure.
