Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Sly Cooper and Rachet and Clank

So a few weeks ago we had talked about in class about video games.  I decided to cover a blog about two video games that are close to my heart.  Sly cooper and Ratchet and Clank came out with two trailers for feature length films that they were going to come out with.  Sly cooper is due to come out in 2016 and from the long list of comments on the trailer on youtube, there a lot of complaints about the movie that i've noticed.
link to the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbXEKZVonko

The biggest problem with this film that most people have a problem with it the models themselves, while a lot of the camera angles and cinematic sequences have been throughly thought out, the character models to not seem to fit the original dream of the sly cooper series.  Most of the comments go a long the lines of "If you ruin this for me, you're ruining my childhood."  In other words its very clear from the trailer that the creators of this movie are doing something the original fan already have a problem with.  While I am extremely excited for this film because like a lot of the other commenters on youtube, this video is also apart of my childhood and I don't want to see it ruined myself.  On the other hand, I also believe that this sort of thing is happening with a lot of new animated films.  It's kind of like how the new stars wars films were for the old stars wars fans.  Animation and effects always seem to disappoint for some reason.

On the other hand from what I have seen of the rachet and clank movie teaser and E3 trailer, the rachet model has a little bit too childish model for people however all in all, I think insomniac is doing a much better job.
links to trailer and E3 trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx1oyMUxmkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_cY_miDxo

With the release of the new E3 trailer I am extremely excited for the Ratchet and Clank series.  It looks really well done and even if the story in this film is not based off of the stories told within the video games themselves, I do no think I will be disappointed.

I hope that one day that all video game related films and animated films can remember to truly bring to light the emphasis of the original story.  It is a hard thing to accomplish i'm sure, but we have the technology to do so.




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