Looking at the Hasbro Movies
Apr 25, 2013 5:33:22 GMT -8
Post by Al1701 on Apr 25, 2013 5:33:22 GMT -8
I was thinking of how they could make a My Little Pony feature film like they've done for Transformers, G.I. Joe and Battleship and it got me thinking about how these three movie franchises were handled. I was particularly thinking of where they went wrong as Transformers is the only one to really be successful and that success is built on the Bad Car Accident Effect.
I think G.I. Joe and Battleship's problems is they're forgettable. I hardly remember the first G.I. Joe movie as nothing stood out. The second one was entertaining but still nothing to really write home about except that three of Cobra's top agents died. Battleship was also a rather lackluster movie with lots of special effects but the story wasn't all that engaging.
However, My Little Pony and the Transformers are perhaps the most alike. They're about creatures from another world that while based on things familiar to us (ponies and vehicles) are presented in a very different way from reality. The same traps the Transformers movies have fallen into pose a threat to any My Little Pony movie. However, one really stands out as it's where the Transformers movies went wrong but the original series got right.
When he wrote the pilots to Transformers and My Little Pony, George Arthur Bloom made the decision to concentrate on the transformers and ponies first. He made the statement that their world is reality. They, the setting surrounding them, and the struggles they face are all real and the core of the story. Then he introduced the human characters, but they entered the transformers and ponies' worlds.
The Transformers movies went the opposite route. The first movie concentrated on establishing Sam and his setting and struggles (which aren't the least bit entertaining) first and the transformers enter his world. From that point forward it was the humans really driving the plot with transformers just along for the right until the big climatic fights at the end of the movies.
If they were to make a My Little Pony movie, particularly if they're having them come to Earth, they should take a page from the Transformers pilot. Start in the ponies' world and establish the characters, their struggles, and their reason for leaving their world (if they are.) If you bring them to Earth, keep the concentration on them and trying to deal being in this new alien world. If you introduce human characters (whether the ponies come here or the humans go there) they must enter the ponies' plot and not drag the ponies into theirs.
Anyway, those are my thought if they ever wanted to bring ponies to the big screen. Any comments or thoughts of your own?
I think G.I. Joe and Battleship's problems is they're forgettable. I hardly remember the first G.I. Joe movie as nothing stood out. The second one was entertaining but still nothing to really write home about except that three of Cobra's top agents died. Battleship was also a rather lackluster movie with lots of special effects but the story wasn't all that engaging.
However, My Little Pony and the Transformers are perhaps the most alike. They're about creatures from another world that while based on things familiar to us (ponies and vehicles) are presented in a very different way from reality. The same traps the Transformers movies have fallen into pose a threat to any My Little Pony movie. However, one really stands out as it's where the Transformers movies went wrong but the original series got right.
When he wrote the pilots to Transformers and My Little Pony, George Arthur Bloom made the decision to concentrate on the transformers and ponies first. He made the statement that their world is reality. They, the setting surrounding them, and the struggles they face are all real and the core of the story. Then he introduced the human characters, but they entered the transformers and ponies' worlds.
The Transformers movies went the opposite route. The first movie concentrated on establishing Sam and his setting and struggles (which aren't the least bit entertaining) first and the transformers enter his world. From that point forward it was the humans really driving the plot with transformers just along for the right until the big climatic fights at the end of the movies.
If they were to make a My Little Pony movie, particularly if they're having them come to Earth, they should take a page from the Transformers pilot. Start in the ponies' world and establish the characters, their struggles, and their reason for leaving their world (if they are.) If you bring them to Earth, keep the concentration on them and trying to deal being in this new alien world. If you introduce human characters (whether the ponies come here or the humans go there) they must enter the ponies' plot and not drag the ponies into theirs.
Anyway, those are my thought if they ever wanted to bring ponies to the big screen. Any comments or thoughts of your own?
