Wreck-It Ralph

[Lakov_Sanite]

For half the movie I was confused why "Going Turbo" was a bad thing.  Probably because Zangief brought it up first so I kept thinking "Street Fighter: Turbo?  That's a horrible thing in this world? Why?"

Bison brought it up and yeah I didn't quite get it either but I figured turbo edition was pretty shitty in itself so I didn't think much about it.

[sickrubik]

I thought it was more like Crazy Climber-


Although Ralph himself was a Donkey Kong surrogate for sure.

I was a little disappointed that there weren't more classic arcade game references. Or maybe I just missed the ones that were there.

There were many in the sequences in that big general area between games. Paperboy, Dig Dug, etc etc.

[Lantyssa]

Rampage.

[Khaldun]

Holy crow, if you didn't see that Fix-It Felix was more or less Rampage except for the fixing-it part, turn in your retro gaming credentials.

Great movie, by the way--a lot of fun, the usual Disney notes are delivered with grace and some degree of intelligence, and the visuals are smart throughout. (I loved the way that the apartment people moved, for example.)

[Khaldun]

I thought it was more like Crazy Climber-


Although Ralph himself was a Donkey Kong surrogate for sure.

I was a little disappointed that there weren't more classic arcade game references. Or maybe I just missed the ones that were there.

There were a metric asston of classic characters in the Game Central scenes, but you see them so fast that it's hard to catch them all. I didn't see any characters that were just console, however. (Hero's Duty is sort of Starcraft + Call of Duty + Halo put into an arcade shoot-em-up, I suppose, plus Sugar Rush is Mario Kart put in an arcade format). I think they were wise in terms of the plot to not have Ralph game-jumping into too many different settings just for the nostalgic fun of it.

I still see Asteroids and QBert in arcades now and again...Actually if they were to make a sequel it makes an interesting point, in the movie set-up, the characters clearly don't know about the status of their games outside of a particular arcade--Game Central is only local. Be kind of fun to have Ralph either meet another Ralph from another arcade or travel into a console "Game Central". Kind of like Toy Story 2, where the characters started to get a sense of themselves in the larger culture of toys.

[Merusk]

Holy crow, if you didn't see that Fix-It Felix was more or less Rampage except for the fixing-it part, turn in your retro gaming credentials.

Great movie, by the way--a lot of fun, the usual Disney notes are delivered with grace and some degree of intelligence, and the visuals are smart throughout. (I loved the way that the apartment people moved, for example.)

Yeah Fix-It-Felix was a combo of games but Ralph was totally Rampage.   I agree that the apartment people were one of the best subtle touches to the movie.  I just try not to think too hard about the rules of the world because then things really break-down for me.

Fix it Felix Jr is a complete homage on donkey kong, hell Ralph even looks like DK.  I don't think it's a matter of Disney being unable to get Nintendo licenses as Bowser is in the movie, it's that they didn't want it to be a movie ABOUT Nintendo.  Having Ralph be DK or having sugar rush be mario cart would have tied their hands in a creative way, it's not a matter of them just making knock-off games.

Oh, totally, that's not what I was getting at.  It was the "Oh that looks like it'd be fun to play!" comments.  It's Mario Kart.. you CAN play it!!  Unless Surly and Way meant they wanted the cutsey anime-like characters, which, yeah ok you can't play that game... yet.  (C'mon, it's Disney. I fully expect Sugar Rush to be a mini game in whatever game gets spun-out down the line.)

[Surlyboi]

I meant the Sugar Rush characters, etc. Too bad you can't mod Mario Kart.

[Lantyssa]

Holy crow, if you didn't see that Fix-It Felix was more or less Rampage except for the fixing-it part, turn in your retro gaming credentials.

I haven't even seen the movie or more than a few previews.  What do I win for knowing?

[Polysorbate80]

Holy crow, if you didn't see that Fix-It Felix was more or less Rampage except for the fixing-it part, turn in your retro gaming credentials.

I haven't even seen the movie or more than a few previews.  What do I win for knowing?

A 2-liter of diet coke and a pack of mentos

[Lakov_Sanite]

Fix it Felix Jr is really more a weird amalgam of the genre back in the day. Ralph jumping on the building and breaking it is very much a DK reference but he also climbs the side and grabs a guy like in rampage.  The actual gameplay isn't breaking stuff at all though, it's platforming from window to window and fixing things while Ralph throws shit at you, also collecting pies. It's not really any one thing but the parallels to DK and Mario are strongest I think.

[WayAbvPar]

I knew there was another game it reminded me of, but couldn't drag Rampage out of my decrepit brain. Also, I have never played Mario Kart- I worked at Nintendo in the early 90s and have a positive allergy to anything related to it.

[SurfD]

I keep catching bits of this at work, and have now started to notice some great things hidden around in the world that i missed the first time through.

My favourite so far: The graffiti on the walls of the plug station for Sugar Rush, of which I noticed "Shen Long Was Here", one that looked suspiciously like "Jenkins", and another one that I am positive said "Aerith Lives".

[Ironwood]

Also, I have never played Mario Kart-

What is this I don't even.

Seriously ?  It's actually quite fun, especially when drunk and playing for BJ points.  Wife is so much better at Kart it never panned out for me tho.

[UnSub]

Also, I have never played Mario Kart-

What is this I don't even.

Seriously ?  It's actually quite fun, especially when drunk and playing for BJ points.  Wife is so much better at Kart it never panned out for me tho.

Hopefully your wife ended the races a satisfied woman. 

(I did spend a while trying to come up with Kart-related euphemisms, but they were all insultingly inappropriate. Calling someone's genitals Rainbow Road is never going to be a complement.  )

[Ironwood]

I have enormously thick skin.  There's few people on this board who will manage to offend me outside of Politics.

 

[UnSub]

I have enormously thick skin.  There's few people on this board who will manage to offend me outside of Politics.

 

I'd be more worried about your wife's reaction. 

[Merusk]

I keep catching bits of this at work, and have now started to notice some great things hidden around in the world that i missed the first time through.

My favourite so far: The graffiti on the walls of the plug station for Sugar Rush, of which I noticed "Shen Long Was Here", one that looked suspiciously like "Jenkins", and another one that I am positive said "Aerith Lives".

I missed Shen Long but can verify Jenkins because my daughter and I had a chuckle at it. Aerith Lives is verified via a Google search, while also adding "All your base are belong to us."
http://s8.zetaboards.com/Cloud_x_Aerith/topic/8382775/1/

[luckton]

I keep catching bits of this at work, and have now started to notice some great things hidden around in the world that i missed the first time through.

My favourite so far: The graffiti on the walls of the plug station for Sugar Rush, of which I noticed "Shen Long Was Here", one that looked suspiciously like "Jenkins", and another one that I am positive said "Aerith Lives".

I missed Shen Long but can verify Jenkins because my daughter and I had a chuckle at it. Aerith Lives is verified via a Google search, while also adding "All your base are belong to us."
http://s8.zetaboards.com/Cloud_x_Aerith/topic/8382775/1/

You now owe me 5 internets for exposing me to a FF fan board.  The avatars... 

[RhyssaFireheart]

I keep catching bits of this at work, and have now started to notice some great things hidden around in the world that i missed the first time through.

My favourite so far: The graffiti on the walls of the plug station for Sugar Rush, of which I noticed "Shen Long Was Here", one that looked suspiciously like "Jenkins", and another one that I am positive said "Aerith Lives".

I missed Shen Long but can verify Jenkins because my daughter and I had a chuckle at it. Aerith Lives is verified via a Google search, while also adding "All your base are belong to us."
http://s8.zetaboards.com/Cloud_x_Aerith/topic/8382775/1/

You now owe me 5 internets for exposing me to a FF fan board.  The avatars... 

Not to mention that it's OBVIOUSLY Cloud x Tifa because Aerith totally belongs with Zack. Duh. 

(Yes, I went through a long phase reading FFVII fanfic.  Some of it was rather good).

[Thrawn]

Saw this with the wife and enjoyed it.  One geek question bugged me though, in the group therapy sessions, who is the girl in the bottom left of the circle with the red dress, blue skin, long ears?  She was the only character I couldn't place in the scene and it bothered me!

[Lantyssa]

According to what I've been able to find, it's Mishaela from Shining Force.  Not a game I've played or am familiar with, so I don't know.

Source

[Merusk]

See, I didn't know who the entire left half of the room was. Nor did I get that "Sateen" was supposed to be Diablo.. I figured, "Generic Devil character"

[Thrawn]

See, I didn't know who the entire left half of the room was. Nor did I get that "Sateen" was supposed to be Diablo.. I figured, "Generic Devil character"

I actually thought it was supposed to be the Dungeon Keeper guy, guess I was wrong.  Probably off on a few others than too. 

[luckton]

Saw this tonight with the Mrs.  Was not disappointed.   

[Hoax]

Am I wrong in not wanting to pay money to see this because I'm pretty sure Jane Lynch is going to ruin it for me? I absolutely can not fucking stand that woman in the slightest and having her be the drill instructor SC:Ghost/Halo chick just annoys me a hundred different ways.

[Ironwood]

Are you wrong not to go to a movie you'll sure you'll hate and rant about on some website ?

No.

Are you actually quite strange about the whole thing and probably need to take a step back and stop being so attached to things you like and things you don't ?

Yeah.

[Lantyssa]

If the movie were about her character, sure.  Since it's not, yes.

[UnSub]

Am I wrong in not wanting to pay money to see this because I'm pretty sure Jane Lynch is going to ruin it for me?

Outside of "Glee"*, I like what Jane Lynch does.

* I saw parts of the first season and quickly grew to dislike every character. STOP JUDGING ME.

[Raging Turtle]

Just saw this, great movie.  The first half made me think it was going to be a fairly straightforward Disney movie aimed right at the kids, but the second half made it worth it.  And the animation in the Sugar Rush part was astonishing. 

Jane Lynch has a pretty minor role, and she does fine in it.  Like a few others here, I thought Sarah Silverman was going to be annoying, but she was outstanding. 

[Abagadro]

Ya. Think about it. Sarah Silverman created pathos rather than snark. That is a pretty astonishing feat.

[Yegolev]

Liked.

[Kitsune]

Ya. Think about it. Sarah Silverman created pathos rather than snark. That is a pretty astonishing feat.

Credit the writers; I'm certain that if she'd had free rein the number of lines in the movie about vaginas and black people would have quadrupled.  Not that I don't love transgressive comedy, but she's s bit of a one trick pony when left to her own devices.

[UnSub]

Saw this too (where I live is going through a high 30C / low 40C heat wave that has lasted a week, so cinemas are a good place to hide). It started slow and I thought some of the film's tone was unbalanced (very juvenile at some points and also very dark at others), but once things moved to Sugar Rush the narrative picked up pace.

John C. Reilly does an excellent job (yet again) as a loser looking for redemption and his second affirmation at the end really sold the character for me. Didn't pick Alan Tudyk as King Candy at all.

[Lantyssa]

Didn't pick Alan Tudyk as King Candy at all.

I saw the credits and exclaimed to my friends, "Wash was King Candy!?!"  and they were surprised, too.  But it makes sense.  He's actually pretty good at voices.

[Venkman]

Saw this with my youngest (7) and we both loved it. I liked the twist with the King (not what he did but who he ended up really being), and Glitch and her reveal were excellent. It was kinda slow at first with a bit too much woe-is-me. But once they got past that, it was very fun.

I just wish they showed Fit-it fixing things. Besides his name and his low-res form, there weren't any examples of him fixing anything. Like, it woulda been nice to show him fix the spaceship so they didn't need to show him fixing her car. Very minor quibble though.