#just watched the trailer and

[galacticsabc]

Amaterasu, now is the time. We have never needed your power more.

[jadenvargen]

SEPppphtictanc yaoi

[beif0ngs]

Pokémon Concierge

A close-up look at some of the Pokémon in Pokémon Concierge

[ladybeug]

thinking delinquent thoughts on the delinquent bench with her delinquent superpowers. incredible

[achingly-shy]

okay wait maybe loki s2 won’t be as insufferable as i thought it would be

[beartitled]

Joy had enough 💥

[theo-grayson]

it doesn't even make sense from a business perspective. animated minecraft music videos were one of the hugest internet phenomenons. why wouldnt they take inspiration from those???? you could cash in on the nostalgia AND make a movie that doesn't hurt to look at

[expelliarmus]

[beaft]

my policy is i will watch and enjoy a bad movie if it's bad in a fun and interesting way. what i cannot abide is a bad movie that feels soulless. for a bad movie to truly be good, there needs to be a beating heart underneath a solid layer of shlock and tat. so ends my sermon

[rileyclaw]

turn on the lights, this cannot last forever

watching and dreaming promo

[bananafire11]

I am. The normalest ever about the trailer i swear

[deeneedsaname]

Is this anything

[degenerateshinji]

crazy gay crossover

side by sides w the refs

[aduckwithears]

Oops my hand slipped

[foryouwereinmysong]

jolly english actually

[httyd-art-requests]

So the teaser for the live action How To Train Your Dragon film has dropped. Have you seen it? Any thoughts on it?

I just saw it, and BOY do I have some thoughts about it lmao

Live action remakes already annoy me for several reasons, and as much as I want to be excited for "new" HTTYD media, it really misses the mark for me

The movie doesn't look original to me. It's so obviously a remake of something else that it loses any personality it could otherwise have. If the original HTTYD movie had been a live action movie from the start, it would have looked nothing like this, because the creators would have tried to create something that stood out from other movies. This one just feels like a checklist being completed in front of me: "right so we'll have this scene, and then we'll have this scene, and the dragon does this, and the boy does this, and then this is the part the fans like so we're going to recreate it 1:1", but no real understanding of what made the original as beloved as it is.

This trailer just looks soulless to me, but I'm holding out hope that the other trailers will show us more and hopefully prove me wrong

Toothless's design is... fine I guess? They made his hind legs digitegrade for some reason, which just looks very jarring to me. Idk why they felt the need to change it, it's one of the details that made his design feel unique to me. Like dragons' legs are almost always depicted as dinosaur-like and digitegrade, and HTTYD having dragons that have plantigrade legs feels really cool. The wings are comically oversized and he lost a lot of his personality based on the scene recreations shown in the trailer (like the silly People Sit he does in the original, now he just sits like a dog lmao) but it really, really could have been worse.

I slowed it down to catch some of the other dragon species' designs and eeeeeehhhh... They're recognizable, I'll say that. They also lost a lot of the personality that the original models had, they look a lot more uniform in their proportions. I really don't see why making them look "realistic" has to mean that they look more boring, when we have so many animals irl that look fake and made up because of how absurd they look. They could have had more fun with it is what I'm saying

Casting Gerard Butler as Stoick feels like the only actually good decision, his voice as Stoick just can't be recreated. Hiccup's actor is... also fine I guess, no strong feelings whatsoever.

The thing that bothers me the most is the lighting. The original HTTYD movie paid special attention to making the lighting look as realistic and believable as possible. It's atmospheric and helps you get sucked into the world while you watch. "Subdued" is probably a good word to describe it. It very intentionally doesn't go overboard. The lighting in the trailer looks fake as hell. They could be using real actual lighting conditions on set and I still wouldn't believe it's real.

Overall, I have mixed feelings despite all the negative things I just listed. I'm sharing in the excitement of all the people who want to watch it, but I'm still disappointed that it, like, exists at all. No matter what this movie ends up looking like, I'm always going to prefer the original animated movies. I'm open to being proved wrong though, I really hope this movie is going to be better than anything we're imagining rn